The fine art of printmaking will be on display at the Bunbury Regional Art Gallery with the South West Printmakers opening their twelfth exhibition on October 26.
The group was first formed in 2005 by a team of committed visual arts students from Bunbury TAFE and Edith Cowan University.
A passion for printmaking and learning to expand and share their knowledge and skills quickly became their primary focus.
South West Printmakers member Yvonne Dorricott said it had been a wonderful experience over the last 12 years.
“We share information and help with processes, both old and new,” she said.
Ms Dorricott said Place Interrupted was chosen as this year’s theme at one of their monthly group meetings.
As the group works mostly in isolation their meetings provide an opportunity to re-connect with each other, to discuss ideas, share new techniques and projects.
member Janette Trainer Place said the theme could be interrupted as geological, man made or earth movement.
“In my particular prints I’m quite into natural vegetation and protecting that so I look at how that can be interrupted,” she said.
Member Cynthia Dix said her inspiration for this year’s theme had come mainly from her childhood memories of the catholic church and going on board a first class ship and how much of a privilege it was, but also how other children had a completely different upbringing to her.
“I explore how so many children’s lives have been interrupted from what should’ve been a different course by being sent to a different place,” she said.
The groups first exhibition was held in 2006 in the hallway on the ground floor at the BRAG, which displayed a project where each artist produced a folio of a set number of prints.
Since then the group has exhibited yearly at BRAG and over the years have increased their members and activities.
The South West Printmakers Exhibition – Place Interrupted opens at 6pm Friday, October 26 at BRAG and runs until Saturday, January 5. A free talk and two workshops will also be held.
