Artists from Australia and New Zealand are invited to contribute an original print to the growing Overwintering Print Portfolio. Original prints that are contributed to the Portfolio will be exhibited in all the Core Exhibitions organised by the Project Co-ordinator Kate Gorringe-Smith.
Printmakers are invited to contribute one print created in response to the unique nature of their local migratory shorebird habitat. In pondering how their local habitat is precious to shorebirds, artists are also invited to reveal how it is precious to them. Migratory shorebirds provide the focus for the project, but artists can respond to any aspect that they perceive as rendering the area unique e.g. the geology, prey species, tidal patterns, flora, other local native fauna etc. If artists need help identifying their local migratory shorebird habitat they can contact the project co-ordinator for a list of sites in their vicinity.
Works made as part of the Overwintering Project must be new works created in response to the unique nature of the artist's local environment. In pondering how their local habitat is precious to shorebirds, artists are also invited to reveal how it is precious to them. Migratory shorebirds provide the focus for the project, but artists can respond to any aspect that they perceive as rendering the area unique e.g. the geology, prey species, tidal patterns, flora, other local native fauna etc.
Contributed prints will become part of the Overwintering Print Portfolio, a unique print folio that will provide an in-depth personal response to our unique coast and the sites that our migratory shorebirds depend on in order to survive. At the project's end, the folio will be donated to a state or national collection.
Works made as part of the Overwintering Project must be new works created in response to the unique nature of the artist's local environment. In pondering how their local habitat is precious to shorebirds, artists are also invited to reveal how it is precious to them. Migratory shorebirds provide the focus for the project, but artists can respond to any aspect that they perceive as rendering the area unique e.g. the geology, prey species, tidal patterns, flora, other local native fauna etc.
Contributed prints will become part of the Overwintering Print Portfolio, a unique print folio that will provide an in-depth personal response to our unique coast and the sites that our migratory shorebirds depend on in order to survive. At the project's end, the folio will be donated to a state or national collection.
Shorebirds sighted at Stockton Sandspit during a site visit by artists from Newcastle Printmaking Workshop. Image: Juliana Ford