Rhonda Stevens Visual Artist

Sunday, 17 January 2016

Exhibitions 2015

Postcards from the North and South 2015
Dec 4--Feb 7 2016

As Curator for Postcards for Press North in conjunction with Edith May from Firestation Print Studio for the last 3 years I have enjoyed a rewarding and challenging experience.

PressNorth Printmakers (Townsville, Queensland) and The Firestation Print Studio
(Armadale, Victoria) are community, printmaking organisations that support and promote the
art of making original prints. Both organisations foster excellence and inspiration, through the exploration of innovative printmaking techniques and transferable skills. They aim to connect people, places, processes and ideas through the interchange of postcard prints to extend the diversity of printmaking and friendship to their collective members.

PressNorth Printmakers and Firestation Print Studio commenced their collaboration
and annual postcard interchange in 2013, with the intention of extending friendships and
connections between their members. They had a collective interest in introducing other
printmaking groups from overseas to participate, and in August 2014, Cork Printmakers
(Cork, Ireland) linked with the groups to form their first international partnership.

This year, Tsubata Town Woodblock Printmakers (Tsubata, Japan) joined the initiative as
the 2015 international interchange exchange partners. Tsubata Printmakers have liaised with Firestation and PressNorth under the auspices of Tsubata Town Board of Education to
connect printmakers in regional Australia and Japan through the mutual exchange of students in the fields of arts and culture.

For this exhibition, the artists have drawn on a variety of printmaking techniques to
communicate and develop their individual concepts and themes. Each artist has drawn
on the themes of place, flora, fauna, people or society when creating their prints. Techniques used include linocut, etching, aquatint, mezzotint, lithography, screen-print, print-release and dry point.

Exhibitions: Tsubata Town Woodblock Printmakers Japan, 25 Sept - 9 Oct 2015
PressNorth Printmakers, Townsville, 4 Dec 2015 - 7 Feb 2016

Firestation Print Studio, Armadale, 20 Jan 2016 - 9 Feb 2016

View 1 Tsubata Town Woodblock Printmakers Exhibition of Postcards from the North and South 2015,at Cygnus Hall Tsubata Town Board of Education,Japan.

View 1 PressNorth Printmakers Exhibition of Postcards from the North and South 2015,at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Townsville, Australia

                                                          Technicolour

                                      6 Nov - 17 Dec 2015

Suspicious Technicolour in Moving Boulders Unique Inked, etched, Aquatint Aluminium Diptych 62 x 31 cm (each) 2015
Contemplating the beauty in earth’s natural wonders and playing with the layers of meaning associated with the constant movements of big changes in nature and humanity.

3 Dec - 16 Jan 2015/16

Glow PressNorth Printmakers and Firestation Print Studio members bringing dynamic Australian Printmaking to London
The Framing Salon
10 Dartmouth Rd, Forest Hill,
London, SE23 3XU

As the coordinator for PressNorth Printmakers it has been a pleasure to have liased with Edith May from Firestation Print Studio for our second London exhibition together called Glow which has been curated and facilitated by Marguerite Brown.
To read more about it please click here:

http://visual.artshub.com.au/news-article/reviews/visual-arts/marguerite-brown/protection-249939

http://www.fps.org.au/blog/archives/12-2015

1/3 Fragile Edges 2015 Multiplate Collograph 15 x 15 cm on Hahnemuhle 300 gsm paper

26 Sept - 22 Nov 2015

Gippsland Print Award Exhibition

Unique, Veiled Moon over Shifting Borders, Diptych 2015 3 Plate Collograph on Kozo paper 60 x 66 cm approx.

10 - 13 September 2015
Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks Sydney

Vicki Salisbury (director Umbrella) minding the shop

16 Jan - 20 Feb 2015 NQCC Postcards, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, .

Biennial: Exhibition and fund raising auction

Monday, 29 December 2014

Memory 2014 Umbrella Members Exhibition 7.11--14.12.14

Floating Warm Memories Mixed Media includes pigments, marble dust, graphite on wood 70 x 67
Artist statement: Memory is a person's real possession in nothing else are you rich, in nothing else are you poor. Alexander. O. Smith.
Most entrants attended a fun end of year exhibition.

Merge Printmaking Exhibition

I was fortunate to be included in Merge, a selected collaborative group print project of Inkmasters Inc with Griffith University Printmakers Club /Queensland college of Art, Brisbane, culminating in
Exhibitions:
Canopy Art Centre, Cairns, 24 Oct—08 Nov 2014
Queensland College of Art early 2015 ( date to be confirmed)

Artist Statement

Title: Merging messages

Our world is filled with a deluge of messages and information in which we merge.

Imagining the future through fragments of the past, a sense of place, and deep resonances in the elements I work towards a dialogue to inform my art.

Sunday, 28 December 2014

Wanderlust: PressNorth Printmakers A travelling Exhibition opened at Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Art Brisbane

The project was a collaboration between PressNorth Printmakers, and Umbrella Studio of Contemporary Arts and presented in Brisbane in association with Flying Arts Alliance and the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, the exhibition demonstrates the exemplary skills and talents of printmakers who are based in the North Queensland region and beyond. Next year it travels further, Townsville and hopefully New York city included
The Wanderlust exhibition comprises of 27 framed prints by 21 members of PressNorth Printmakers.

This exhibition was officially opened by Judy Watson at the Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane, on the evening of Tuesday 21 October 2014

My 2 works Many Paths to the Waterhole 2014 (50x 30 cms) and Each Venture is a New Beginning 2014 (50 x30 cms) feature on the left side of image above.

I am delighted to have sold one of each ( An edition of 5 they may be purchased through Umbrella Studio of Contemporary Arts )

Wanderlust Artist Statement:

My work in Wanderlust relates to my art’s practise in how I feel about life, it’s a journey of discovery and challenge, no matter which path we choose.

I aim to create poetic relationships between heaviness and lightness, between the language of the materials and the forms, and using my intuitive method and interventions in the processes to express the wonders of our wanderings.

Compact Prints 2014

Beginning in 2002, Compact Prints is Umbrella Studio's trademark biennale exhibition showcasing North Queensland's printmaking talent alongside national and international artists. ( 176 artists from 14 different countries were represented )

My entry and Artist statement:

Strategic Edge series ” Caught on the Edge”
Life is full of various predicaments

Postcards from the North and South 2014

A simultaneous exhibition of postcard fine art prints between the PressNorth Printmakers in Townsville, North Queensland, Firestation Print Studio in Armadale, Victoria and Cork Printmakers in Cork, Ireland. (Curator Rhonda Stevens)