Community Calendar

Fea­tur­ing works from Indige­nous and non-indige­nous artists with a wide diver­si­ty of print­ing techniques.

There are 79 prints in this exhi­bi­tion and a vast major­i­ty these art­works are exhib­it­ed for the first time since they have entered the collection.

It is a great way to dis­cov­er this par­tic­u­lar part of the Aralu­en Collection.

For cen­turies, artists around the world have used print­mak­ing tech­niques to share ideas, tell sto­ries, and make pow­er­ful state­ments. The sub­jects are var­ied, some hold Tjukur­pa, oth­ers tell us some­thing of the artist or their envi­ron­ment, oth­ers are polit­i­cal state­ments. The diverse tech­niques used to cre­ate lim­it­ed edi­tion prints com­bin­ing ink on paper like wood­block, screen­print or lith­o­g­ra­phy, allow for end­less diver­si­ty and innovation. 

The Aralu­en Arts Cen­tre holds a sub­stan­tial body of lim­it­ed-edi­tion prints – some 200 – by cel­e­brat­ed artists work­ing across the coun­try. INKED is a diverse snap­shot of this part of the Aralu­en Col­lec­tion. These art­works are a blend of mul­ti­plic­i­ty and indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, each piece is a unique art­work or state as well as being part of an edi­tion. Sev­er­al of them are part of port­fo­lios com­mis­sioned or cre­at­ed around par­tic­u­lar themes and projects. One such exam­ple is the bicen­ten­ni­al folio: prints by twen­ty-five artists com­mis­sioned by the Nation­al Gallery of Aus­tralia and the Aus­tralian Bicen­ten­ni­al Author­i­ty in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Vic­to­ri­an Print Work­shop (VPW) to con­sid­er the 200 years of Euro­pean set­tle­ment in Aus­tralia in 1988. Some artists were reluc­tant to par­tic­i­pate but even­tu­al­ly embraced the oppor­tu­ni­ty to make a strong polit­i­cal state­ment, a protest against coloni­sa­tion. First Nations artists, like Yolŋu artist Ban­duk Mari­ka, demon­strat­ed ongo­ing con­nec­tion to Coun­try while oth­ers chose to draw from their own diverse prac­tices to cre­ate bold works like Mike Parr as he used this medi­um for the first time, while Bar­bara Han­ra­han har­nessed a print­mak­ing career that start­ed in 1960

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion please vis­it our web­site in exhi­bi­tions www​.aralu​e​narts​cen​tre​.nt​.gov​.au