Tim Maguire and Patricia Piccinini at NGV Australia

NEW AUSTRALIAN PRINTMAKING featuring TIM MAGUIRE and PATRICIA PICCININI
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square
13 May 22 – 11 Sep 22
Open 10am–5pm daily

Featuring groundbreaking prints by Megan Cope, Shaun Gladwell, Tim Maguire and Patricia Piccinini, New Australian Printmaking at NGV Australia launches the work created by these artists during the Australian Print Workshop Artist Fellowship program.

Established by the Australian Print Workshop (APW), this major fellowship program is the most significant of its kind in Australia and was awarded annually between 2017 and 2021. The Fellowship enabled these leading Australian artists to research, develop and create a new body of work in the print medium.

In a series of vibrant colour intaglio prints produced during his fellowship in 2020–21, Tim Maguire has taken his recent body of work Dice Abstracts to new ground. Deriving from six simple charcoal drawings and using only the three primary colours cyan, magenta and yellow, the composition of each print was determined by the roll of dice – resulting in an extraordinary and unexpected range of colour combinations.

Patricia Piccinini, who had never engaged with printmaking before, completed the Fellowship in 2018–19. In collaboration with APW printers she created two suites of colour prints. The first, titled the Weavers’ Suite, used etching and lithography to bring a new inflection to her long-standing investigation of nature, the body and the uncanny. Her second series features her provocative Skywhale family hovering over a variety of brightly coloured landscapes and combines hand-drawn and computer-generated images to create a suite of lithographs.

This exhibition has been organised by the National Gallery of Victoria and the Australian Print Workshop.

Contact Tolarno Galleries for enquiries about available works from Tim Maguire and Patricia Piccinini: mail@tolarnogalleries.com

Images: Portrait of Tim Maguire with his work CMY Dice Abstract 2021 at the Australian Print Workshop. Portrait of Patricia Piccinini and her work Skywhale Suite 2019 at the Australian Print Workshop. Photos by Eugene Hyland.