Artist call: Hazelhurst Art Award (Sydney Australia)

Hazelhurst Art Award (Sydney Australia)

The Hazelhurst Art Award is open to original works on, or made principally
with, paper - 2D or 3D is permissible. Acceptable disciplines in the category of Art on Paper include drawing, painting, watercolours, collage, original prints, computer generated, photography, paper sculpture and installation. Work to have been completed in 2012 or 2013.

$15,000 AUD prize plus several smaller prizes

Entries to be submitted by 17:00 on 6 May 2013.
Successful entrants notified on 31 May 2013. Work has to be delivered to the gallery by 14 June.
Up to three works can be entered. Enter via email or post.

$45 AUD Entry Fee per item.
More info/apply here

Print People Print Exchange

It's a worldwide exchange. $15.00 participation fee. 1 June 2013 deadline.

Money covers the cost of the exchange and future Print People activities.

Requirement is an edition of twelve signed & numbered 6” x 8” prints.

Ten prints are returned to each participant in mid July. More information at this link

Print Exchange 2013

The Print Exchange 2013

500 Printmakers, 12 Prints

We’re calling out to 500 printmakers to become a part of a massive exchange of printed matter that will reach across the globe!

"The Drive Home..." is the theme of this swap - artists will interpret the theme by making an edition of 12 prints to submit to the exchange. In return, they’ll be mailed a bundle of 10 prints to call their own from artists near and far. This project is only open to 500 printmakers across the globe, so get your place while you can and look forward to getting 10 amazing prints in the mail.

Prints will also be entered into an exhibition in NYC at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop for the month of September and a print added to the Brooklyn Art Library permanent collection.

Sign-up deadline: March 30, 2013
Submission deadline: Postmarked April 30, 2013
Fee: $50

Printmaking Calls

We post opportunities for printmakers on the 'Printmaking Calls' page. Just click the tab above. Our list isn't comprehensive, but we we're happy to add to the list. If you know of an exhibit, printmaking exchange, or other opportunity for printmaking artists, do let us know!

Here are the events and opportunities we currently have listed, with upcoming deadline.

• CHHAAP Foundation for Printmaking Artist Residency in Baroda, InidaSubmission deadline: 6 months prior to stay; stays of 1 month available, from October to March, 2013 Eligibility: International 
•  Year of the Snake, 12th International Print Exhibition and Exchange at PROOF Studio Gallery, Toronto, Canada Entry Deadline: January 25, 2013 EXTENDED to February 5, 2013 Eligibility: Open
•  9th Biennial International Miniprint Competition and Exhibition, 2013 (CCP, Norwalk, CT) Entry Deadline: February 25, 2013 Eligibility: Juried

Etching Tutorials

Printsy member Mariann Johansen-Ellis (mariannjohansenellis) makes amazingly thorough and instructive printmaking videos. In her 7 part series, she shows how to make an etching complete with hard ground, soft ground and aquatint. Below are the first two videos showing the hard ground stage.





She goes on to explain soft ground in part 3 and part 4, and aquatint in part 5, part 6 and part 7.

You can also read the Printsy interview with Mariann here.

Linocut Tutorial

Linocut with Simon Ripley from Double Elephant Print Workshop on Vimeo.

This is yet another video from Double Elephant printmaker Simon Ripley in which he shows us how to produce multi-coloured linocuts using two approaches, reduction & multi-block.

Video of the making of Deep Sea Diver by Linocutboy

Deep Sea Diver by Linocutboy. from Hazeleigh Prebble on Vimeo.

This video shows printmaker and Printsy member Nick Morley (a.k.a. Linocutboy),

as he carves and prints a new linocut of a Deep Sea Diver. Inspired by the intrepid explorers of old, Nick's technique borrows from master printmakers like Bewick and Durer but his use of bold colour gives his prints a strong contemporary feel.

Making the linocut involves carefully planning the image, transferring it to the lino block and then carving away the unwanted parts with gouges. What's left behind is inked up and printed on Nick's etching press. This Deep Sea Diver is printed from seven blocks. The colour blocks are inked up in various colour blends and the black 'key' block is printed last. Each layer has to be carefully registered so that everything aligns properly.

(Filming and editing by Hazeleigh Prebble)