Inkfest at Cairns Festival 

15 April to 2 Sep 2012 INKMASTERS CAIRNS INC presents 

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Inkfest, a festival of arts in the print media, a new and innovative addition to Cairns Festival. 

Inkfest showcases this fascinating and diverse form of art. Some of Australia's top artists will be here as artists in residence, and delivering workshops. Visitors can make an original print in the studio of a local artist, and kids can learn new art skills while creating the Kid's Longest Print at Muddy's Playground.                                  

Inkfest exhibitions will show the best of our local print media artists alongside Australia's most celebrated printmakers.  So come up and see our etchings (and linocuts, lithographs, silkscreens, digitals, woodcuts, monoprints, aquatints, mezzotints.....)

Programme

Inkfest three prominent Australian printmakers will be Artists-in-Residence for 10 days and each deliver a 3-day workshop:

G.W. Bot

lithography workshop, 21/23 April (pic left)

Michael Kempson etching (artists' book - theme Cairns Bestiary), 23/25 Jun (8.30am-4pm)

Rew Hanks reduction linocut, 30 Jun/2 Jul, (8.30am-4pm)

Inkfest Two Inkmasters Print Exhibitions at the Tanks Art Centre and Canopy Artspace, 27 Jul - 22 Aug.

Work from Artists-in-Residence, prints from the workshops, invited artists from around Australia, and Inkmaster Cairns artists. Entry form may be completed and submitted online or you can print out and snail mail. Please pass the form on to other printmakers. Inkmasters_Entry_Form.docx Indigenous exhibition at Canopy Artspace will show prints from the workshops and other Indigenous Inkmasters works.

Inkfest Public lecture by Roger Butler AM, Senior Curator of Australian Prints, Drawings and Illustrated Books at National Gallery of Australia at 5pm in the exhibition space at Tank 4, and he will also speak at the exhibition launch at 6pm.

During his years at the National Gallery Roger Butler has established the foremost collection of prints, posters and book arts of the Australasian region. The collection now numbers over 37,000 prints from Australia (including Aboriginal Australia), Aotearoa New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands. The Drawing collection now holds over 30,000 works, including watercolours and artists sketchbook

Inkfest Kids Longest Print - 18/19, 25/26 Aug - A great children's print project created at Muddy's Playground on the Esplanade. The finished print will be shown at Carnival on Collins 2 Sep. Materials and Inkfest banner provided by Inkfest Programme Partner Inspirations Paint.

Inkfest  "Pull a Print" Workshop Bus Tours of printmaking studios, commercial and private. Tickets at Ticketlink$30. Get on board, it is designed for those who would like to find out more about original prints and meet the people who make them. Pull a print with the artists and take it home. 22 Aug.

Inkfest Print Projections. See them in the CBD throughout Cairns Festival 17 Aug-2 Sep. New films and photos about printmaking in North Queensland. Spot your local printmaker.

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 For more information or to find out how to get involved - email inkmasters.cairns@hotmail.com

EXHIBITIONS | MEMBERS

Works on Paper - Inkmasters 2012 members exhibition at c.1907, Lake St Cairns City.

All are invited to attend  the launch at C.1907 on Fri 25 May 6 pm - 7 pm after which we will adjourn to HAVANA MUSIC CAFE a few doors away in Lake St.

1-17 Jun  | OFFSHOOTS IV - Mangrovia and the Saltwater Creek Scrolls  | Julie McEnerny  | Tanks Art Centre. All very welcome to the launch Fri 1 Jun 6 pm.

1-26 May│THE BIG WET - kuki au thonar │Gabrielle Pizzi │ Melbourne

Inkmasters Arone Meeks, Billy Missi, Brooke Foster, Glen Mackie, Justin Majid, with Sharon Phinesea

Image: Arone Meeks, Irukanji, 2012, monoprint 

6 Apr - 17 Jun │CREATURES OF THE RAINFOREST: CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK ART BY AUSTRALIA'S LEADING ILLUSTRATORS │Cairns Regional Gallery

A joyous visual celebration of the unique natural heritage of Far North Queensland. The exhibition showcases a selection of enchanting illustrations by ten highly acclaimed Australian artist/illustrators, including Inkmasters Anna Eglitis and Arone Meeks. 

L: Arone Meeks, cover of Sisi and the Cassowary

R: Anna Eglitis and Warren Brim, cover of Creatures of the Rainforest

12 - 22 June | Nest | Rose Rigley | c1907 Gallery, Cairns

Official opening 6pm Friday June 15

Nest is an experimental series of sculptural works, marking Rose Rigley's first exhibition as a solo artist.

5 - 28 Oct 12

Perc Tucker Gallery Townsville

An exhibition of 12 Inkmaster artists which includes a collectors portfolio of 12 prints showcasing the quality of Cairns printmakers at their very best. This standout collection includes etching, lithography, woodcut, archival pigment, silkscreen, collograph and linocut. The exhibition was profiled at Impact7 in Melbourne in Sept showed at Cairns Regional Gallery Dec 11-Feb 12, Tablelands Regional Gallery 9 Mar -1 April, and will travel to Thailand later this year.