Printmaking

Angus Fisher is a practicing artist living and working on the Hawkesbury river just north of Sydney. His art practice investigates nature, ecology and the evolving attitudes and changing philosophical interpretations of the ‘natural’ world. Primarily working with etching and drawing, Angus utilises traditional working techniques, methodologies and aesthetics to place his work in direct connection to historical contexts and traditions. Angus is a graduate of the National Art School and is currently represented by Australian Galleries in Australia and Jonathan Cooper Gallery in the UK. He has worked as an artist and teacher around Australia and previously as an archaeological illustrator in Greece. Angus has been a finalist in several art prizes around Australia including the Waterhouse prize for Natural history and was the 2018 recipient of the National Art School’s Cité des Art Paris studio residency.

PhD, Western Sydney University. BA (Hons), Western Sydney University.

Dr Daniel Mudie Cunningham is an artist, curator and critic renowned for his work with contemporary Australian artists and collections. He was the Director of Programs and Senior Curator at Carriageworks from 2017-2022. Previously, he has held leadership and curatorial roles at Artbank and Hazelhurst Arts Centre, and teaching and research positions at Western Sydney University, where he completed a BA (First Class) Honours in Art History and Criticism in 1997 and a PhD in Cultural Studies in 2004.

Notable recent curatorial work includes solo projects at Carriageworks with Reko Rennie, Mel O’Callaghan, Karla Dickens, Dean Cross and Cherine Fahd; curating The National 2019: New Australian Art; and initiating Suspended Moment: The Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship which partnered Carriageworks with ACCA and Mona by commissioning major new works by Frances Barrett, Sally Rees and Giselle Stanborough. In 2022, Suspended Moment was adapted as an exhibition that will tour to eight venues over two years through Museums and Galleries of NSW.

Since the mid 1990s, his prolific writing has taken the form of artist monographs, catalogue essays, academic papers, articles, and reviews. His editing work includes the publications Artlink (2021), Sturgeon (2013-16), and Runway (2009).

His work as an artist has been widely exhibited and acquired by public collections including Artbank, City of Sydney, Macquarie University, Murray Art Museum Albury, Wollongong Art Gallery, and private collections such as Museum of Old and New Art. In June 2023 Wollongong Art Gallery will stage a mid-career survey exhibition of his practice, curated by James Gatt.

https://danmudcun.com/

Esther Neate pushes traditional boundaries in print to produce objects that bear the impressions of time and process. She holds a Master Degree of Fine Art in Printmaking and has eight years’ experience in arts education. Her prints, woodblocks and porcelain sculptures have been exhibited at Annandale Galleries and Dominik Mersch Gallery in Sydney.

Rebecca is highly skilled in both the technical and artistic aspects of printmaking, managing the studio spaces and being Covid and WHS compliant. Rebecca was previously the Technical Officer in the Printmaking Department at UNSWAD, since 2017. Rebecca is committed to helping students develop their art practices and visual language and highly invested in the student experience. 

Janet Parker-Smith is a Sydney based artist whoes practice incorporates Printmedia, Sculpture, collage and Altered books. She has been exhibiting nationally and internationally for over 25 years. She has had several solo exhibitions and has been chosen as a finalist in many art competitions. Her work has been purchased by the AGNSW and NGV. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections.  Janet works in the Public Programs and is a sessional teacher at the National Art school. She has been teaching across Printmaking and bookmaking for over 25 years.

Jason is a practicing artist working across a wide range of media. His work references personal narratives and poetry, he sometimes uses humour in his work. He is currently based in Gertrude Contemporary as a studio artist. He is represented by STATION Gallery and Chalk Horse gallery.

Brenda Tye was born in Malaysia in 1969. She is a printmaker specialising in the areas of custom and collaborative printmaking with other artists, and teaching art across various mediums, techniques and age groups. In 2009 she established art school and custom printing business named The Art School Studio.

Mirra Whale is a Sydney based painter, drawer and printmaker. Her works explore beauty in the everyday ‘banal and common place’ subjects by presenting them from another angle. She has been a finalist of several art prizes including the Archibald Prize, Kedumba Drawing Award, Still Life Award, Emsla, Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize, Salon Des Refuses, Portia Geach Portrait Prize, Shirley Hannan Portrait Prize, AME Bale Art Prize, Mortimore Art Prize and the Manning Gallery Prize.

In 2019 she was the winner of the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (EMSLA) in Sydney,  2011 was winner of the Royal Art Society North Sydney Drawing Prize.

Mirra works in public programs and is a sessional teacher at the National Art School. She has also taught workshops at the AGNSW, Bundanon Trust, SH Ervin Gallery, PLC, Kings School, Art Est, Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery and run programmes for the Dept of Education. Her works are held in both public and private collections. Currently represented by Mitchell Fine Art Gallery.

Justine Youssef is an artist interested in moments and places that reconfigure authoritative realities. Working with video, scent and processes of auto-ethnography, their projects often create encounters with what is warped through displacement. Recent works have been realised by galleries and institutions including: 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (2018), UNSW Galleries (2019), PHOTO 2020 (2020) the Powerhouse Museum (2022), the Museum of Contemporary Art (2022) and the Hawai’i Triennial (2022).

Stephanie is one-half of the intimately communal artist, nova Milne. nova Milne received a collaboratively credited MFA from UNSW, and an excerpt of their exegesis appears in the anthology TIME: Documents of Contemporary Art (Whitechapel & MIT Press 2013). nova Milne’s installations include screen-based sculpture, sound, experimental choreography, artists books, and their ongoing re-archiving actions.  They have been the recipients of several awards including the NSW Visual Artists Fellowship, a Samstag Scholarship, and the New York Foundation of the Arts Digital Fellowship. Their work is represented in public collections including the AGNSW, AGWA, The Centre Pompidou, Lyon Housemuseum & Deakin University. 

Keg de Souza is an artist of Goan ancestry who lives on unceded Gadigal land in Sydney. Architecturally trained, she creates social and spatial environments, making reference to her lived experiences of squatting and organising with projects that use plant and food politics, temporary architecture, publishing and radical pedagogy. De Souza also draws from personal experiences of colonialism to inform her layered projects that centre voices that are often marginalised, for learning about Place. Themes of displacement – through lenses such as colonialism and gentrification – filter through her work, sharing (often lesser-known) stories of plants, people and Place.

Exhibitions and projects include: Growth in the Shadows (2025) commissioned for Bundanon Art Museum; If a coconut falls (2024), Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts; Shipping Roots (2023), Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; Nganga toornung-nge dharraga Bunjil (2022), Abbotsford Convent co-commissioned with ACCA, Melbourne; Convivial City (2019), Open Plan Commission, South London Gallery; Common Knowledge and Learning Curves (2019), Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane and (2018) Artspace, Sydney; The National: New Australian Art, (2017) AGNSW; 20th Biennale of Sydney and Setouchi Triennale (2016), Japan; Temporary Spaces, Edible Places: Vancouver and Preservation (2015) as part of a multi-year project with Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Temporality in Architecture, Food and Communities (2014), Delfina Foundation, London; Temporary Spaces, Edible Places: Isle of Skye (2014), Atlas Arts and If There’s Something Strange In Your Neighbourhood (2013), Ratmakan Kampung, Yogyakarta; 5th Auckland Triennial, 15th Jakarta Biennale and Vertical Villages (with ruangrupa) at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney.