Description

Introduction

Akky's background

Yvonne Boag exhibition

Akky's introduction

Archaic art form

Printing comes of age

Printmaking as a collaboration

Major transformations in technology

Establishment of studios

Master printers are technicians

Jennie Gibbs

Sheer talent

Visiting the studios

Reconciling the creative process

Appreciation of printmaking

Acknowledgement of installation team and volunteers

Invitation to three printmakers

The question

Artist before printmaker

McBurnie background

Townsville and Lyrebird Press

Working after Lyrebird Press

Kempson background

Schooling in Orange

An accessible philisophy

Stadia Graphics

Starting Cicada Press

Green and black cicadas

Involving artists into the studio

Hard taskmaster

Informing your practice

Hall background

Working with Jorg Schmeizer

Becoming a school teacher

Working at Canberra School of Art

Orange Hands

Studio One in Canberra

Moving to Darwin

Starting Basil Hall Editions

Imparting our skills to artists

Not converting indigenous artists

Don't want to grill

Selecting artists for the exhibition

Any questions from the floor

Walk around a bit

Drawing trees

Mackay residency

Samuel Palmer and the Ancients

Concrete poetry and the Vietman war

Social justice screen printing

An inspiring presence

Work from Papunya

Work from Yirrkala community

Blocks in a kennel

Eventually printers get paid

Devising a system for working

Basically just sticks

The technician

How printmakers look at work

Colligraphy

Matt board as plate replacement

More trees

Trees as a record

Cardboard, glue brush and knife

Hand coloured dud print

Perspex and Dremel

Mezzotints

The rocker

Artist books

The Crastlecraig house

Reversing the image

The father figure

Conjuring up the image

Prime Ministers of Australia

The real Abbott and Costello

Lithography

Parliament House in Canberra

My first commission

Entering print prizes

Tools for the job

The creative state

Downhill from the first exhibition

Thank you's

Walk through the exhibition

Credits