hi, i'm back ... over the jetlag ... will post some photos soon of america but until that happens here is something else ...
On wednesday night there was a show on ABC called HEAD FIRST an episode titled 'The Lost Boys'
The program was filmed here in Yirrkala and has some of our / mine co-workers and friends in it - DJ and Ruby in particular as well as one of the prints I made with DJ and the printspace and the art centre and it so it is good to see altho maybe a bit sad and revealing too
in anyways YOU SHOULD WATCH IT
heres the link -  ABC iview

M A C H N I K   M A G I C

Here are the photos of the week with Paul and Bess and Tacee at our print space

we had a great week.  Paul got busy getting the artists to try his new (to us) techniques with a white ground and drypoint on aluminium ... Bess got busy taking photos (thank you Bess) and Tacee got to see another print studio and how things can happen in remote areas ... we did take them out on the boat too and for a couple of bbq's and beach time but mostly we made them work,  work,  work ....!

Gunybi made some amazing portraits

Nyapanyapa and Dhapanbal

 keeping an eye on the proceedings ...

Nonggirrnga with the white ground and then looking at the proofs

yes  she likes !

the lovely Dhapanbal

Nyapanyapa 

Iggy gets busy too !

Tacee

Paul talking about it all to Dhapanbal, Tacee and Gayili

working hard 

Nyapsie made two prints - one with her hands and one with her feet 

Nonggirrnga approves her teacup print 

Dhalmula

Nyapsie, me and Tacee

signing

Dhurrmurrwuy got in on the action

pulling a proof and posing

more posing - with Glenn from the MCA

A N D then tomorrow I leave with Djirrirra to America !   We have two weeks at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico learning the fine art of lithography !!!  Truly amazing times - so busy I can hardly keep up but good things,  good things ....  

P A U L    M A C H N I K !

For the last two weeks Dhapanbal and I have been working and learning from the lovely and inspiring Paul Machnik and the gorgeous lady Bess who came all the way from Montreal in Canada for a week workshop in Cairns and then followed us home to Yirrkala for another weeks workshop at the art centre. This is in Cairns - just me and Dhapanbal got to go and sit in the clean tidy BIG printing space that is Djumbunji Press and I even got to make my own art alongside Tacee from the Torres Strait and local printmaker artist Hannah. It was a great week - to be in a new studio and see some new great technique as well as, of course, getting some shopping done ...  I am going to post some photos of the week here too but later ... so for now ... 

Dhapanbal and Paul 

i made her pose

with Bess at the press

in progress - and once printed

done on perspex - very cool

me 

big space and oh-so-clean

peeling up - new technique for sugar lift on aluminium plates

print nerd excitement 

 

so that was that - here we are in mirrors - we had a fun week