Papermade, John Nixon: Screenprints, Woodblocks & Unique Relief Prints
⬤ Papermade, Australian Galleries 26 Feb - 17 Mar 2017 ⬤ John Nixon: Screenprints, Woodblocks & Unique Relief Prints, Negative Press 16 Feb - 9 Mar 2017
Exhibitions are usually talkative. They start off with the artist's or curator's statements and then usually just chat away with their personalised terminology and their free-associations. I intended to review the Australian Galleries group-show Papermade, as the curator Kathleen Coelho has it billed as a significant survey capturing “the history of Australian printmaking today” (even though it also includes drawings and a couple of photographs). I knew that it was a 'stockroom exhibition', and that these are typically cynical affairs in which the drawers are cleared for the purpose of selling old work. Still, few gallery stockrooms are as multifaceted and as pedigreed as Australian Galleries', established as it was in 1956 and existing now across three locations. Australian Galleries is one of Australia's largest commercial galleries and has been for decades.
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Artists: John Nixon
Victoria Perin is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne. Her research concerns printmaking in Melbourne during the 1950s and 60s. In 2013, she was the Gordon Darling Intern in the Australian Prints and Drawings Department at the National Gallery of Australia.
