Saturday, September 21, 2024

Onespace Represented Artists - Riverine 24 August – 28 September 2024

Onespace Represented Artists

MAIN GALLERY | riverine

OPEN DAY: 24 August | 10am – 2pm

OPEN EVENT: 24 August | 5pm – 7pm

EXHIBITIONS
Main gallery: riverine | 24 August – 28 September

Onespace now enters its third gallery iteration, all in post code 4101 – from Highgate Hill to West End and now South Brisbane. Today, Onespace is uniquely located adjacent to Maiwar beneath the Spice Apartments near the Go Between Bridge.

The opening of riverine is a gallery-warming opportunity to celebrate Onespace’s beautiful new site at Kurilpa (the Turrbal word for the lands around South Brisbane meaning ‘the place of water rats’) and a chance for audiences to reacquaint themselves with some of the gallery’s represented artists.

Fittingly, water is central to the work of many of these artists—whether through form, process, culture, or concept—and these overlapping undercurrents invite audiences to shift their focus to the aqueous and to consider the metaphorical potential of thinking with water.

Jo Lankester, Anthraquinone Lichen – What bird is that?, 2024, Multi-colour plate intaglio with hand stitching and collage. 99.5 x 225 cm unframed






Statement 

My printmaking practice uses multi-colour plate intaglio printing to achieve intricate details and layers of colour in my prints. While my work celebrates the natural world and its critical role in our lives, it also highlights the impact of climate change on our planet's ecosystem. By drawing attention to tiny organisms and their beauty, I aim to encourage viewers to consider the effects of climate change on the environment subliminally.

Australian Print Workshop - IMPRESSIONS: Land Sea and Sky 24 August - 24 October 2024

 Australian Print Workshop 

IMPRESSIONS: Land Sea and Sky 

Lee Daroch | Chris de Rosa | Kate Gorringe-Smith | Jo Lankester | Melissa Smith

24 August - 12 October 2024

IMPRESSIONS - LAND, SEA and SKY premiere a new suite of original prints by five leading contemporary women artist/printmakers from around Australia:

   Lee Darroch (Raymond Island, VIC)

   Chris de Rosa (Port Elliot, SA)

   Kate Gorringe-Smith (Melbourne, VIC)

   Jo Lankester (Townsville, QLD)

   Melissa Smith (Launceston, TAS)

Connected through their interest in the environment and their engagement with the natural world, each of the artists worked in collaboration with APW printers to produce new work in the print medium. Employing a range of printmaking techniques and mediums, this suite of original prints includes multi-plate intaglios, lithographs and relief prints.

Exhibition continues until 12 October 2024.

Australian Print Workshop Gallery

210 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065

T: (03) 9419 5466  E: contact@australianprintworkshop.com

Gallery hours: 10am-5pm. Tuesday-Saturday.

Monday, April 8, 2024

Commission: Aria Property Group 2023, Facilitated by Onespace Gallery, Brisbane

 Aria Property Group Commission 2023: Jo Lankester. Facilitated by Onespace Gallery, Brisbane

I've been privileged to work with Onespace Gallery since 2019, when I asked to participate in an exhibition titled Pivot, showing artists' work who predominately work in 2D to create an artist book to accompany a framed work on paper. Our relationship has extended to a formal representation arrangement with the showing of two solo shows, 2020 Accression: Mapping the Landscape and 2022 Illiminous Microhabitats. 

The Aria Property Group Precinct Coordinator attended my 2022 exhibition at Onespace Gallery and commissioned two 3 panel unique state prints for the Upper House build.

Photosynthesis – Anthraquinone V, 2023Multi-colour plate intaglio with hand stitching, 99.5 x 223.5 cm



Photosynthesis – Anthraquinone Vl, 2023, Multi-colour plate intaglio with hand stitching, 98.5 x 223 cm

Upper House Art Collection

Megan Cope

Sarah Daly

Emily Devers

Norton Fredericks

Ian Friend

Jo Lankester

Dane Lovett

Dylan Mark Bolger

Julian Meagher

Lara Merrett

TC Overson

Ai Shah

Lisa Sorbie Martin

Tyza Hart

Judy Watson



  

Australian Print Workshop: 1 Week Residency 2024

 Australian Print Workshop: jo Lankester, 1 Week Residency 2024

I feel so privileged to recently be invited by the Director of the Australian Print Workshop to work with a Senior Printer and two apprentices to produce two editions of three colour lithographs printed on the FAG Offset Press over three and half days to arrive at two BAT states by the end of the residency. It was a wild three days of drawing, laying touche washes and making quick decisions. 

I prepared as much as possible for an artist who works spontaneously to mark-making once the first colour is laid on the paper. I had clear ideas about the colours and tones I wanted to achieve. My limited knowledge of colour and lithography resulted in reverting to my reactive method of colour choice and mark-making.

I reacted to bold colours the same way as my first residency, confusing the experienced printer with what direction I was heading in. I realised I was no longer certain of my colour choices and chose a safe colour palate with which I was familiar. We only printed one version of the print, with the second colour being a bold red, and in hindsight, it was a banger. I'll take note of this for the next opportunity that may come my way to work with professional printers to produce my work. 

Working in collaboration with a printer benefits my growth as an artist. On this occasion, I learned what a technically well-printed image looks like and my desire to push it beyond the excellent state of the printer's work to fit my aesthetic of ink sitting heavy on the image rather than beautifully integrated with multitudes of tones and subtlety. It shows my level of skills is much lower than that of the professional printers at APW. *wow, what an experience. I'm really proud of the two editions we produced in collaboration. 

The images I'm showing are the touche washes and line drawings of six plates. I'm not sharing the BAT or trial proofs as the image has not yet been published by the APW.

I worked on the two sets of prints simultaneously. They can be read as single prints or a diptych.