Wharepuke Editions - Art at Wharepuke

Wharepuke Editions is an on-going printmaking project involving a number of established artists from all over the world.

Wharepuke Editions was initially launched to celebrate 10 years of Art at Wharepuke Gallery which opened in September 2009.

We have invited established New Zealand and international printmakers who we’ve connected with since the gallery opened to make work exclusively for Wharepuke Editions. These works will not be seen anywhere else save for portfolio shows and presentations at printmaking conferences and events to promote the project.

There is no stipulated theme but there is a consistency across the editions.

All the works are on the same size paper (30 x 30 cm), all the works are offered for the same price ($400 unframed) and the edition size is to a maximum of 20 with 2 Artist Proofs which will be kept for archival and presentation purposes.

The Editions will be shown at Wharepuke in the art gallery, at Māha Restaurant and in the on-site accommodation.

The first artists involved are:

CAROLYN MCKENZIE – CRAIG – AUSTRALIA – web site

Carolyn is an interdisciplinary artist examining body gesture and language through performative processes. She is currently a board member for Frontyard ARI, Marrickville, Sydney and teaches at the National Art School, Sydney. She holds a PHD from the Queensland College of Art.

Carolyn was awarded the Wharepuke International Open Print prize in 2016

‘Surveyor’s lines’ examines how demarcation lines (here seen as the surveyor’s marks- land title divisions- and the appropriation of stolen land by colonial forces) can act as a form of violence over the landscape. The western perspectival gaze that divides nature into formal elements for consumption fosters extraction economies that cut space into consumable elements for disposal and disregard

DEBORAH CROWE – NZ – web site

Originally trained at Glasgow School of Art, Deborah Crowe has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since 1986. Her work is in significant public and private collections including Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, The Dowse Art Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Wallace Arts Trust.

Deborah builds complex constructions: images, objects and installations that fuse references from natural and built environments. References to space, place, objects and flora tangle with residue from human occupation. Part field-photography, part proposition, and part representation of her fears and hopes about potential future environments, her work crosses boundaries and asks questions about how and what humans construct – literally and metaphorically

DUNCAN BULLEN – UK – web site

Duncan Bullen is an artist and academic with a primary interest in drawing. He studied at Great Yarmouth College of Art & Design and then Fine Art at Leeds Polytechnic in the mid-1980s (where he and Mark Graver met), before completing his MA in Printmaking at the Royal College of Art in 1991. He was recipient of a Rome Scholarship, spending 1991-‘92 at the British School at Rome. He recently co-authored an article with Jane Fox and Philippa Lyon – ‘Practice-infused drawing research: ‘being present’ and ‘making present’, published by Intellect in their journal Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice Vol 2, Number 1 2017. Duncan is Deputy Head of School: Research & Enterprise at the University of Brighton and has exhibited at Wharepuke since we opened in 2009. His work was included in Wharepuke’s UK/NZ Parallel Prints portfolio project.

FRIEDHARD KIEKEBEN – USA – web site

Friedhard Kiekeben’s works take form as digital wall drawings, etched and printed metal friezes and sculptures, paintings and drawings, and sequences of original prints. His projects often include tailor made and site-specific installations and are exhibited internationally in private and public galleries and museums.

He is Associate Professor Fine Art,Columbia College, Chicago, IL, USA and is one of the pioneers of safer printmaking and painting methodologies. His research is widely and internationally published in magazines (Printmaking Today), in books, and online publications. His research and work are featured in Mark Graver’s book Non-Toxic Printmaking.

JACQUELINE AUST – NZ – web site

Based in Auckland Jacqueline is an award-winning New Zealand printmaker and an active member of the Central Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand (CPCANZ)

JIMMY PASAKOS – AUSTRALIA – web site

James Pasakos is an Australian artist whose core works feature scenes of the Melbourne Docklands and its surrounding industrial sites reflecting a childhood largely spent growing up around these areas.

Jimmy was a major contributor to Wharepuke’s Australia/NZ Parallel Prints project and helped organise the exhibition and portfolio donation at the Art Gallery of Ballarat and the Borders & Crossings exhibition of Goldfields Printmakers at Wharepuke.

He is currently a Fine Arts Lecturer at the Arts Academy, Federation University Australia, Ballarat.

JODI HEFFERNAN – AUSTRALIA – web site

Jodi Heffernan is an award-winning Australian printmaker whose work was included in Wharepuke’s Australia/NZ Parallel Prints portfolio.

Her work has received several awards most notably in 2006 the Silk Cut Acquisition Award, in 2005 the Geelong Print Prize Acquisition Award and the in 1992 the Fremantle Print Prize Acquisition Award.

Jodi’s work is represented in many important Australian collections including The National Gallery of Australia, The Art Gallery of NSW, Arts Victoria, The State Library of Victoria, RMIT University, Monash University, The Australian Print workshop, The Fremantle Arts Centre and numerous corporate collections in France, Poland and the UK.

MARK GRAVER ARE– NZ – web site

Mark Graver is an award-winning artist printmaker, tutor and curator based at Wharepuke. Originally from the UK he studied at Leeds Polytechnic (B.A. Hons Fine Art 1985-88) and Camberwell College of Arts, London (MA Printmaking 1994-95).

He moved to NZ in 2003 and 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), 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, 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, South Africa and Europe.

MELISSA SMITH – AUSTRALIA – web site

Melissa Smith is based in Launceston, Tasmania. She primarily works with print, utilising traditional and new technologies. Her work references aspects of the landscape, including the shifts associated with climatic changes. She is drawn to remote places, which provide quietness and a sense of hope within our ever-changing world that balances on a tipping point.

Melissa has a Bachelor of Education (Secondary Art) from the South Australia College of Advanced Education, Adelaide and a Masters of Cultural Heritage from Deakin University, Melbourne. Her work has been exhibited widely and is represented in private and public collections in Australia and overseas including the National Gallery of Australia and Regional Galleries in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. Melissa balances her art practice with her roles at Arts Tasmania as a Roving Curator and Program Officer for Public Art. She is also currently a committee member of the Print Council of Australia.

STEVE MUMBERSON – UK

Steve’s work was included in Wharepuke’s very first exhibition in 2009 and he has been a regular exhibitor over the last 10 years. His work was also included in Wharepuke’s UK/NZ Parallel Prints portfolio project.

Printmaking is the foundation of his work both in its traditional edition form and within an extended practice which engages with printmaking as a process.

He often creates a singular piece of unique work which is a combination of collaged print and direct relief printed surfaces. This has recently encompassed 3D printed objects and surface image prints.

Steve trained at Brighton University and the Royal College of Art in fine art printmaking. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers and a committee member at the UK Printmaker’s Council.

He is currently an Associate Professor in Fine Art Middlesex University.

Steve Mumberson – The Migrant
mixed media print (v/e)

Prints are $400 each unframed

Free postage NZ or international for unframed works