South Australian Museum - North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000

Northern Impressions: A Celebration of Contemporary Printmaking

Explore this vibrant collection of Australian contemporary fine art prints.

 

EVENT DETAILS
When: 23 March - 6 May 2012
10am - 5pm daily
Where: Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery
Special Exhibition Space
Cost: Free

Northern Impressions takes its audience on a rich visual journey through the Australian landscape and into Aboriginal 'country', where the intrinsic connection that the exhibiting artists have to land is given powerful visual form through the medium of printmaking.

The exhibition celebrates the highlights of recent artistic collaborations between some of Australia's most talented artists and professional printmakers working at Northern Editions at Charles Darwin University.

Showcasing 53 limited edition prints by artists from across the Top End, Central Australia, Mornington and Bentinck Islands and Kimberley regions, Northern Impressions reveals the beauty and diversity of artistic expression in these regions, each with their own distinct visual language.

<i>Yab-yab-gnerni-gnim (Sugarbag Dreaming) 2008</i> by Minnie Lumai
Yab-yab-gnerni-gnim (Sugarbag Dreaming) 2008 by Minnie Lumai

Produced with Northern Editions in Darwin since 2004, this selection of the printmaking studio's finest prints will challenge and delight audience perceptions of the printmaking medium, displaying its limitless potential for collaborative virtuosity, technical excellence and luminous colour.

An iconic Northern Territory art institution, Northern Editions is well known locally and nationally for the limited edition fine art prints it produces. The Northern Editions team of printmakers have been collaborating with Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists to produce fine art prints since 1993, with the printmaking workshops they hold often taking place in remote communities as well as at the Darwin studio. Together, printmakers and artists have collaborated to create prints that celebrate the strength, beauty and diversity of printmaking in northern Australia.

 

 

Northern Impressions is a touring exhibition from Artback NT: Arts Development and Touring in conjunction with the Australia Council for the Arts and Northern Territory Government Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport.
 
Image above: Kulama 2010 by Conrad Tipungwuti
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