Winged Images: Print Exchange Exhibition at the Hahndorf Academy
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Fri 27 Feb 2015 - Sun 29 Mar 2015
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Hahndorf Academy is hosting the first of a planned biennial series of international print exchanges during the 2015 Adelaide Fringe Festival.
A print exchange invites printmakers via the internet to send an edition of prints to a central address. Each printmaker then receives a selection of individual prints from all the other printmakers. Exchanges can become a wonderful way of exchanging ideas and forging friendships between printmakers across the globe.
The theme of this exchange, 'Winged Messengers', celebrates the messages of hope that birds often seem to symbolise for us in our darkest moments. Many printmakers have chosen to depict other interpretations of this theme, such as angels, gods and goddesses, insects and even aeroplanes. Next to the images you can read a host of amusing, dramatic and poignant stories related by the printmakers, which provided the driving inspiration for each individual's take on the theme.
Printmakers from all over Australia have contributed, as well as a number from America and one from Singapore. Each artist has produced 12 prints for the exchange: the prints on show are all for sale for just $85, with proceeds after commission to be donated to
Birds SA . Some of the artists have sent extra prints that will also be available for sale, so if your favourite has been sold at the opening, you may still be able to buy another print in the edition.
A group of invited South Australian artists will also be exhibiting work on the same theme. Alison Arnold, Janet Ayliffe, Rita Hall, Louise Johnston, Sophie Langley, Lorelei Medcalf and Francine Sherman have interpreted the theme in ceramics, paintings, drawings, sculpture and hand made prints.
You can get a preview of the Winged Images flock on its
Facebook page . Why not make a day of it by lunching at one of Hahndorf's international restaurants, after taking in the visual delights of this stunning exhibition.
'Winged Images' will open on
Saturday 28 February at 2.00pm. The guest speaker will be
David Paton, President of
Birds SA and Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide's School of Biological Sciences. The exhibition is open daily from
10am to 5pm and will continue from February 27 until
March 29.
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