Spitting and Biting: Ten Contemporary Artists and the Print

About the exhibition
Works by the ten artists in this exhibition shared a commonality: all had been produced in Melbourne’s Viridian Press workshop with master printer John Loane. As such, the exhibition could be seen as a portrait of the collaborative partnerships between the artists and the printmaker. Recognised as one of Australia’s finest master printers, Loane had been working with artists to produce prints since the 1980s, with some of the relationships developing into intensive years-long collaborations and others remaining one-off projects. Catalogue essayist Cathy Leahy noted that translation lies at the heart of the collaboration between artist and printer, where the printer is not simply a technician but acts as an interpreter of the artist’s intentions.

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^{Image: Judith Wright, Silent Memories IV 1994, aquatint and spit bite aquatint on Hahnemühle 350 gsm paper, 44.5 x 44.5 cm (image), 79 x 60 cm (sheet). Collection of Viridian Press}