damon bird art & etc.

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Art & Object

I will have some works from my ongoing Gunnii Series on display in Art & Object, a Spring group show at Despard Gallery in Hobart opening this Wednesday evening, 11th September, running through til the 6th October.

Monday, July 22, 2013

Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award 2013

Quite a few years back I entered the Fremantle Print Award without success. I've been on the mailing list ever since. Finally got around to entering again this year and lo and behold, was actually selected with this mammoth hand-printed drypoint. I printed this thing with a rock in a tablespoon and a broad-mouthed shovel on the floor of my Franklin Studio (a beaten up old apple shed). It will be on exhibition at the Fremantle Arts Centre from 21 September through to the 17th November this year. It's an honour to be included.. Now in it's 38th year the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award supported by Little Creatures Brewing is a showcase of Australia's best prints.

Damon Bird Gunnii 9 2012

hand-printed (without press) drypoint etching

115 x 178 cm

2 new pieces in Handmark Gallery's annual works on paper show

Damon Bird "Arboreal Ascension" 2013

hand-printed (without press) unique state / woodcut / drypoint / mono-print / oil on paper

115 x 86 cm

Damon Bird "she was a photograph, he was a motion picture" 2013
multi-plate drypoint / mono-print
edition of 3
diptych, each sheet 29 x 28 cm (combined size 29 x 57 cm)

Handmark Gallery's Annual Works on Paper Show runs from the 5th July to the 9th of August in both Hobart and Evandale. Always a great showcase/snapshot/glimpse of work cut from the rich vein of Printmaking in Tasmania.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

New works for Handmark Gallery's Annual Works on Paper Show

Here is a bit of a preview of two new works which will be appearing in Handmark Gallery's annual works on paper show. Part of the ongoing "Gunnii"series of Tasmanian Cider Gum prints.