‘Postcards from the Edges: from Sydney and Cork to Santander ’ presents the printed works of 21 artists I worked with in Australia and Ireland.
Each artist lives and practices printmaking in port cities on geographically distant, yet historically connected islands. The artists’ responses to the theme of ‘encounter when traversing landscapes, oceans, time, and place’, is realised as a collaborative dialogue in the tradition of postcards: of visual reminiscences written about, posted, received, displayed and archived. Their personal reflections on journeying, diaspora, identity, folklore, memory, mapping, transience, and the anthropocene impact, are regaled robustly.... or gently exposed... on the interleaved message-pages.
This postcard-album book narrates seemingly invisible connections. Two other editions (separate to the book editions) were made into actual postcards and posted via traditional postal systems; almost all were received. That some didn’t arrive reflects the concept of ‘encounter’ described within this book: of chance, intention, connection. The book title refers to the original exhibition site in Santander, Spain, where the work was first exhibited for ‘IMPACT 10 Encuentro’, the International Multidisciplinary Printmaking, Artists, Concepts and Techniques conference and exhibition. Journeying seems a distant memory in this current ‘Covid world’, yet journeying ‘within’, and via the ephemera of postcards, enables a re-telling and tracing of our encounters (encuentros ~ Spanish).
Featuring artists;
Douglas Schofield, Michael Kempson, Jo Kelley, Dominic Fee, Ivy Wang, Deirdre McKenna, Angela Wagstaff, Angela Gilmour, Jacqueline Corcoran, Josephine Duffy, Johnny Bugler, Olivia Wilson, Rachel Dooris, Wenhui He, Conall Cary, Stephen Lambeth, Séan Hanrahan, Anna Russell, Peter McMorris, Rebecca O'Shea, Fiona Kelly.
Each artist lives and practices printmaking in port cities on geographically distant, yet historically connected islands. The artists’ responses to the theme of ‘encounter when traversing landscapes, oceans, time, and place’, is realised as a collaborative dialogue in the tradition of postcards: of visual reminiscences written about, posted, received, displayed and archived. Their personal reflections on journeying, diaspora, identity, folklore, memory, mapping, transience, and the anthropocene impact, are regaled robustly.... or gently exposed... on the interleaved message-pages.
This postcard-album book narrates seemingly invisible connections. Two other editions (separate to the book editions) were made into actual postcards and posted via traditional postal systems; almost all were received. That some didn’t arrive reflects the concept of ‘encounter’ described within this book: of chance, intention, connection. The book title refers to the original exhibition site in Santander, Spain, where the work was first exhibited for ‘IMPACT 10 Encuentro’, the International Multidisciplinary Printmaking, Artists, Concepts and Techniques conference and exhibition. Journeying seems a distant memory in this current ‘Covid world’, yet journeying ‘within’, and via the ephemera of postcards, enables a re-telling and tracing of our encounters (encuentros ~ Spanish).
Featuring artists;
Douglas Schofield, Michael Kempson, Jo Kelley, Dominic Fee, Ivy Wang, Deirdre McKenna, Angela Wagstaff, Angela Gilmour, Jacqueline Corcoran, Josephine Duffy, Johnny Bugler, Olivia Wilson, Rachel Dooris, Wenhui He, Conall Cary, Stephen Lambeth, Séan Hanrahan, Anna Russell, Peter McMorris, Rebecca O'Shea, Fiona Kelly.
