Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award 2013

Quite a few years back I entered the Fremantle Print Award without success. I've been on the mailing list ever since. Finally got around to entering again this year and lo and behold, was actually selected with this mammoth hand-printed drypoint. I printed this thing with a rock in a tablespoon and a broad-mouthed shovel on the floor of my Franklin Studio (a beaten up old apple shed). It will be on exhibition  at the Fremantle Arts Centre from 21 September through to the 17th November this year. It's an honour to be included.. Now in it's 38th year the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award supported by Little Creatures Brewing is a showcase of Australia's best prints.

Damon Bird  Gunnii 9  2012

hand-printed (without press) drypoint etching

115 x 178 cm

2 new pieces in Handmark Gallery's annual works on paper show

Damon Bird "Arboreal Ascension" 2013

hand-printed (without press) unique state / woodcut / drypoint / mono-print / oil on paper

115 x 86 cm

                         Damon Bird "she was a photograph, he was a motion picture" 2013
                                                   multi-plate drypoint / mono-print
                                                                   edition of 3
                                         diptych, each sheet 29 x 28 cm (combined size 29 x 57 cm)








Handmark Gallery's Annual Works on Paper Show runs from the 5th July to the 9th of August in both Hobart and Evandale. Always a great showcase/snapshot/glimpse of work cut from the rich vein of Printmaking in Tasmania.