June 2020
From Day One is a series of works made, one each day, during our Covid-19 lockdown. Day One of Level 4 to Day 75, the last of level 2. They’re a kind of diary, a way to mark the passing of those 75 days. An action marking a time rather than an image of the time. They were deliberately approached without preconceived thought of content but have a consistent size to give coherence to the series.
Each image is 250 x 250 mm, paper size is 340 x 250 mm
Other works in the show are new large format digital prints.
Digital pigment prints 1000 x 800 mm each
Matauri Bay 2020 – digital pigment print 1000 x 800 mm
Mark Graver is an award-winning artist printmaker, tutor and curator based in Kerikeri New Zealand. Originally from the UK he studied at Leeds Polytechnic/now Leeds Beckett University (B.A. Hons Fine Art 1985-88) and Camberwell College of Arts, London (MA Printmaking 1994-95).
Moving to NZ in 2003 he established the Wharepuke Print Studio in 2005 (NZ’s only dedicated Non-Toxic Acrylic Resist Etching workshop) and with partner Tania Booth Art at Wharepuke gallery in 2009, and the Wharepuke Sculpture Park in 2015.
He is author of the printmaking handbook Non-Toxic Printmaking (2011, London, A&C Black), is an editorial board member for the Intellect journal Drawing, Research, Theory, Practice, published by the University of Ulster, has sat on printmaking selection panels in China, Bulgaria and NZ and curated international print projects, exhibitions and symposiums in the UK, NZ and Australia.
In 2019 he was elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, (RE) based in London.
His work is held in many public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia and in China, Thailand, NZ, USA, Mexico, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Africa and Europe.
Mark Graver is an award-winning artist printmaker, tutor and curator based in Kerikeri New Zealand. Originally from the UK he studied at Leeds Polytechnic/now Leeds Beckett University (B.A. Hons Fine Art 1985-88) and Camberwell College of Arts, London (MA Printmaking 1994-95).
Moving to NZ in 2003 he established the Wharepuke Print Studio in 2005 (NZ’s only dedicated Non-Toxic Acrylic Resist Etching workshop) and with partner Tania Booth Art at Wharepuke gallery in 2009, and the Wharepuke Sculpture Park in 2015.
He is author of the printmaking handbook Non-Toxic Printmaking (2011, London, A&C Black), is an editorial board member for the Intellect journal Drawing, Research, Theory, Practice, published by the University of Ulster, has sat on printmaking selection panels in China, Bulgaria and NZ and curated international print projects, exhibitions and symposiums in the UK, NZ and Australia.
In 2019 he was elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, (RE) based in London.
His work is held in many public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia and in China, Thailand, NZ, USA, Mexico, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Africa and Europe.
His work is held in many public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia and in China, Thailand, NZ, USA, Mexico, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Africa and Europe.