Exhibitions
The Print Circle - Room With A View
10 - 26 March, 2011
Room With A View is the 40th anniversary exhibition of The Print Circle, a network and exhibiting group for female printmakers established in 1970. Having toured at regional galleries in 2010, this exhibition by 24 Print Circle members is coming to Sydney for the first time at Hardware Gallery. With a deliberately broad them, the exhibition has allowed the members to not only explore many different approaches to their artwork, but continue to use experimentation and progressive techniques in their printmaking. The Print Circle was formed with, and continued by the belief that printmaking has an important role in cultural expression and that innovation and experimentation is a vital part of this. Its all female membership practice their art in and around the Sydney region.
The feminist wave of the seventies saw a continual revision of Australia's perspectives on the role of women; it was focused on women gaining equality in many different aspects of life and presented a challenge to traditional ideas of women's rights. The Print Circle was born in to this time when women sought to support one another in their endeavours and to enlarge their presence by banding together, in this case as an experimental, exhibiting group of artists. That it still exists in this entity today, may suggest that the need has not altogether vanished; or perhaps it is simply that they like it that way.
A Room With A View opens on Thursday 10th March and as part of Art Month Sydney, will feature a live printmaking demonstration and open discussion at the gallery on Saturday 12th March.
Exhibiting artists: Chebi Badham, Helen Best, Jean Birrell, Olwen Cheung, Mieke Cohen, Christina Cordero, Edith Cowlishaw, Prue Crabbe, Tanya Crothers, Barbara Davidson, Maadi Einfeld, Joanne Gwatkin-Williams, Debra Hannigan, Janette Hanrahan, Jill Harris, Jan Moore, Karin Oom, Carol Shaw, Patti Somerset, Laura Stark, Lisa Stuart, Robyn Waghorn, Deborah Wilkinson, Ann Bewah Wu