Artist Neil Emmerson looks at how lithography has remained relevant in the visual arts and still offers artists a range of expressive qualities unique to its principles and process.


SUNDAY 28 JANUARY 2018 2PM 

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Lithography had its day briefly until photography became the dominant feature of pictorial reproduction. However, if not in popular culture, it has remained relevant in the visual arts and still offers artists a range of expressive qualities unique to its principles and process. Practicality has been replaced with particularity and artists who engage in Print seek it out and utilise it for the production of limited edition prints that come out of professional studio workshops.

Neil Emmerson is a Senior Lecturer and coordinates the Print Studio at the Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic. Neil has a Master in Visual Arts from the Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. His research expertise spans a broad range of Printrelated technologies, Identity Politics, Queer Theory, and Gay and Lesbian History. According to Kirsty Grant (Curator, Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Victoria), his subject matter is political, both in terms of the critical focus it directs towards aspects of contemporary social and cultural life, and through its consistent projection of gay experience into the public realm (excerpt from Contemporary Australian Printmaking). He has been selected for numerous print related survey exhibitions at major public galleries in Australia and New Zealand since the 1990s and his work is held in the collections of major public institutions like the Auckland Art Gallery, Australian National Gallery in Canberra, the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. In 2006 he was awarded the Fremantle Print Award. He has been an artist in residence with Cork Printmakers in Ireland in 2013, and at RMIT University in Melbourne in 2016.

 

 


Published on 18 Jan 2018

Orderdate: 18 Jan 2018
Expiry: 28 Jan 2018