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Compact Prints 2024

Compact Prints is a celebration of contemporary print practices, embracing traditional and technological methods. The project provides artists with a forum to exchange artwork and ideas. It also provides an opportunity to exhibit in a contemporary art space while supporting Umbrella through its fundraising auction. Artists each submit an edition of 3 identical prints – 1 for the exhibition, 1 for the auction and 1 for an artwork exchange.

The 2024 auction was held Saturday 20 July 2022 however an archive of the prints can be viewed below. Read more about previous and future iterations of Compact Prints here


1. Wing Hong Leung
Australia
Conversation with Joon
Linocut on paper
It was a rainy spring day in Korea. On 5th of May 2024 I met a Poe at 학림다 방 where he passionately shared stories of Korea, dreams, ambitions and fading memories of theyesteryears.

2. Kerry Wilson
Australia
Turbo Shell
Intaglio Tetra Pak Print on Hahnemuhle Paper
I aim to invoke the spirit and feeling of the natural world. Using mark making on Tetra Paks to create the textures and form of the Turbo shell, I invite the viewer to share the experience and connect with beauty of a simple shellfound on the beach near my home. New to Tetra Pak printing, I enjoy repurposing materials from everyday life.

3. Iris Plešnar
SIovenia
Imaginary
Gicleè print
Imaginary is a digital artwork depicting a magical forest that I consider my sanctuary. Within its borders, I feel childlike, playful, positive, and creative. Whenever I mentally return to this forest, a sense of tranquility washes over me. It’s a place where I can lose myself in a realm of imagination and connect with my inner world.

4. Sabine Carter
Australia
Please stay a little bit longer...
Pochoir stencil and linocut print on cartridge paper
As a German-born artist, I am in awe with the beautiful Australian wildlife. One of my favourite animals is the Leafy sea dragon. Changes to our climate and to our natural environment mean that in future we might lose some of these amazing creatures. I hope that there will still be time for me to see a Leafy sea dragon in the wild.

5. Lorella Masci
Australia
Cat with Poppies
Lino print on Fabriano 200 gsm
On this sunny afternoon Gigi sits at the windowsill in position to watch over the neighbourhood. Poppies sway gently in the light afternoon breeze.

6. Jill O’Sullivan
Australia
Outback- Isa Country
Plate lithograph- Hand coloured
One can leave the Mount Isa Out back Country, but it will always remain part of you and never leave!

7. Rhonda Stevens
Australia
Zen Garden
Collagraph
Thinking of Zen Buddhism which suggests a new way of seeing and a new way of being which leads to what it means to be fully human and alive. I relish the discoveries at each new dawn in my surroundings and seek to portray the beauty in nature’s mark making.

8. BRIZI Brigitte Zimmermann
Australia
Walk a mile in my Shoes
Dry point and handcoloured
Walk a mile in my Shoes is an influence by the poem of Paul Warren. My husband wears these shoes like a second pair of feet. He put them always outside with his knitted socks in there.

9. Karen Landt-Isley
Australia
Helter Shelter
Copper etching on 100% cotton paper
The complexity of dealing with major surgery.

10. Dr. Thomas A. Middlemost
Australia
(-35.0619824, 147.3511749)
Linocut on Awagami paper
The bold, black linocut on thin Awagami washi paper is a particular dead tree overseen by three others. The vulva shapes in the tree evoke the constant birth and rebirth of our Australian landscape by fire. The three trees stand sentinel to its fallen companion. The tripartite nature an explicit reference to the crucifixion, so is Fred Williams.

11. Cherylin Scalia
Australia
Dancing Damselfly
Lino print - hand coloured
The delicate dance of the Damselfly reminds us of the joy and wonder of life, but the fragile balance between humans and the natural environment.

12. Lisa Marshall
Australia
Kimberley beauty
Reduction woodcut
Fragility & resilience emerge from a crevice on the Kimberley Plateau.

13. Jenny Tyack
Australia
Rainbow Warriors
Archival print with poly-cotton thread
Climate change effects everything on the planet.

14. Ann Etchells
Australia
Obsessed
Hand-coloured drypoint print on canson paper.
My three year old grandson is obsessed with diggers! In turn, I am obsessed with his focus and delightful expressions.

15. Debbie Breen
Australia
Rooster
Drypoint etching on paper
A childhood memory of Big Boy who used to chase the children around the yard.

16. Suzanne Shelley
Australia
A distant focus
Digital manipulation from a drawing
Digital manipulation of my drawing created a softness and distance.

17. Jo Stacey
Australia
Conroy in Greece
Linocut print with stencil
This lino print is a part of a series of prints with people I know being something different to their everyday. Hopefully person is inspired by their image. Conroy in Greece has been influenced by a much-anticipated trip to Greece, his curly hair seamlessly transformed in the scroll-like patterns which topped the ionic columns.

18. Helen Ellacott
Australia
Enigma of Music
Print release from original painting - printed on Dutch Etching Paper
From the soothing harmonies of the harp to the dance inspiring beat of African drums - each can salve a heavy heart in its own way. Such is the enigma of music.

19. Larissa MacFarlane
Australia
Chasing the Moon
Linocut on Dutch etching rag paper
I am a proud disabled artist/activist, living on BoonWurrung country (Naarm/Melbourne) working across a printmaking, community and street art practice. This linocut is the most recent in a long series depicting train tracks as a way to understand and embrace life as a disabled/chronically ill person in a world that sees disability as a problem.

20. Jacinta Lisec
Australia
When an opportunity presents
Block print ink and acrylic with gold leaf on gouache paper 160gsm acid free
Thankfully, when a door closes another opens! The abstract door is re-oriented horizontally, because when we see things from different angles we can find positive possibilities. Shining bright and contrasting against shadowed walls, golden light sources surround, including an arrow beaming upwards from the door that is presented to point forwards.

21. Barbara Cheshire
Australia
Paluma - Morning Emotions 24
Digital Print
This image represents a holistic integration of the human's sensorial and emotive response to Paluma during a morning of sketching and spiritual contemplation.

22. Tessa Chudy
Australia
Mornings
Hand coloured Tetrapak print on Fabriano paper
Part of an ongoing series exploring the theme of tea and coffee with bunnies.

23. Trish Fitzgerald
Australia
Home for Tea
300gsm watercolour paper, Derivan Block ink intaglio print on a Tetrapak
This intaglio print reflects the peaceful Australian custom of sharing a cuppa with a loved one on a sunny afternoon, surrounded by the warm and familiar comforts of home. This work aims to evoke a feeling of familiarality and a sense of the peacefulness one feels when sharing a cup of tea and a story or yarn with close friends and family.

24. Julie Milton
Australia
Dusky bells
Hand coloured linocut print
We recently moved to the country and I am embracing native plants, such as the Correas, which inspired this print.

25. Amanda Galea
Australia
Bin Chicken
Polyplate print
The scientific name ‘Threskiornis’ comes from the Greek words threskos (sacred) and ornis (bird).

26. Lynn Scott-Cumming
Australia
Native Bee
Polyplate print on Dutch aquatint
A sketch created on a polyplate to test how well Art Spectrum black ink would work on the plate.

27. mttromi
Australia
Well, what does it look like? Do it!
Ink
I create work that:
- spreads more love in the world.
- helps people to think for themselves.

28. Grant X Wilkes
Australia
Kaleidoscope (Time Stamp)
Oil paint and cyanotype monoprint on Canson Montval watercolour paper
Grant X Wilkes is a collaboration born out of mutual intent. The interaction of sunshine, oil paint, water and the memory of a landscape infuses this ‘cyano-time stamp’ with a rhythmic kaleidoscope of light.

29. Marija Svetieva
North Macedonia
Birds called Years
Linocut on Hahnemuhle paper
The birds I depict are also seen as years in us humans. As birds we are always unsatisfied with our lives spiraling out of control and losing ourselves along with our memories into what was supposed to be tomorrow. After gathering what is left of our lives - wrinkled skin, a mouth full of gold which only creates sour stories.

30. Valentina Stefanescu
Romania
I Hear
Mix technique, inkjet on paper 300dpi
I Hear is a work about filtered and unfiltered news that permanently influences our lives. I often wonder if without knowing certain things my life would have been the same.

31. Vicki Katthagen
Australia
Poppy
Photographic greyscale inkjet print
An Icelandic poppy, originally pink, pressed and dried. By reducing the image to greyscale, the intricate details and textures invite viewers to contemplate the delicate balance between life and decay and the beauty that persists in transformation and simplicity.

32. Ben Tupas
Australia
Looks Like Sounds Like I
Giclee print of hand-woven photograph
In Looks Like Sounds Like I represent the memory of a familiar landscape using different interpretations of still and moving image. Rocky outcrops and blue sky are interspersed with fragments cut from a rainy street scene rendered with gouache. Through the process of weaving, I attempt to reflect and embody ancestral tradition.

33. Tegan Murphy
Australia
Misunderstood Ibis
Lino Block on paper
Misunderstood Ibis is in response to the noble Bin Chicken. Native to Australia, a valued community bird that is a guest at every picnic, lunch and community event.

34. Claire Flavelle
Australia
Blue Refuge
Dry point etching
I met this curious crabby on the reef off Cairns last year. She looked very relaxed on her coral podium as I swam around her.

35. Grace Meldrum
Australia
Between Two Worlds
Lino print
Between Two Worlds captures a whale shark navigating the sky and sea, symbolising the interconnectedness of different realms. The whale shark bridges these worlds, embodying harmony and balance, reminding us of our shared ecosystem and the need for its protection.

36. William Loveday
Australia
Till the sun rose
Linocut and pencil
The tropical hibiscus grows on the side of the road between my house and the beach. Every time I walk past them, I’m reminded how special it is to live in North Queensland. 

37. Robert McKenna
Australia
Bowthorpe oak
Solar plate etching (photopolymer gravure) on BFK Rives.
I photographed this beautiful oak tree at ‘Bowthorpe’ near Longford, Tasmania, some forty years ago on black and white film. I now specialise in solar plate etching - especially continuous tone photogravure which allows me to combine my love of photography with the intaglio printmaking process.

38. Faith Ellis
Australia
Fractured Soul
Layered Cyanotype
Fractured Soul is an ode to women living with, killed as a result of, or survivor of, domestic violence. As a survivor of mental and sexual abuse this is a subject dear to my heart.

39. Ardel Prout
Australia
Cats
Lino print
For the love of “Cats”, what more can I say?

40. Corina Nani
Romania
Borders
Digital print
This contemplative work invites you on a meditative journey, exploring figures delicately defined between manifestation and latency. Symbolic elements populate the forms, providing a key to a deeper psychic texture. The intricate lines, resembling a labyrinth, guide and captivate, offering a diverse experience of the present moment.

41. Ninetta Santoro
Australia
Petals Set Free
Linoprint on hahnemuehle 300gsm
This 2 plate, 2 colour lino print highlights the positive and negative spaces created when the individual petals of a daisy are disassembled.

42. Belinda Curry
Australia
Gorge Country
Relief monoprint using water-soluble oil-based inks on Dutch Etching paper 270gsm
Ribbons of green with glints of blue wend their way through a seemingly arid environment. Unseen depths arise as one descends, unfolding an oasis rich in life and colour. Though apparently at odds with the landscape above, the gorge within is an aspect of the whole. Gorge Country explores not only the physical landscape but interrelationships.

43. Isao Kobayashi
Japan
The proof of the existence No.217
Digital print
My work is based on the theme of where people come from and where they are going.

44. Jennifer Rogers
Australia
Blue faced Honeyeater
Etching, chine colle and watercolour
The bird I chose this year is the Blue Faced Honeyeater, a beautiful and gregarious bird often seen in small flocks. They are not in least intimidated by the Noisy Miners that often dominate the gardens in our region.

45. Sandi hook
Australia
“I will follow her…”
Hand coloured lithograph, Magnani Litho paper
“I will follow her wherever she may lay.”

46. Jimmy Giddings
Australia
Out of the Darkness
Block print ink on 190gsm paper
More struggling than artist.

47. Yvonne Samuel
Australia
Dodge Them
Dry point etching
This was the madness and joy of moving state.

48. Anna Gvozdeva
Turkey
Flying Whale
Digital print
This could be any day from childhood, when fantasy lets you live in the world you desire, even with a whale flying across the sky.

49. Sarah Treadwell
Australia
The Night-Hare
Polyplate
The Night-Hare is a shy creature which dines on moonlight and apple pips. It is glimpsed only on a Harvest Moon.

50. Lesa Hepburn
New Zealand
Eclipse
Muka ink on harakeke paper with marram grass paper backing
This technique is liminal and marginal and in making these prints I reflect on being a speck in the universe at the crescent edge of the light.

51. Marilyn Batty
Australia
Bella Roma
Lino print oil-based Ink
This work was produced after revisiting my holiday travel journals.

52. Jacqui Lane
Australia
Missing you!
monoprint, lino print, and altered digital print
Dedicated to my amazing Mum. Memories fade but I still see you everywhere! Sometimes I am pleasantly surprised by a tiny glimpse of you in my mirror!

53. Zelma Schulten
Australia
Peace
Intaglio
PEACE - this is exactly what our world needs right now.

54. Wendy Francis
Australia
Homecoming
Lino, Sanderson Waterford
As a resident of Bundaberg, the Sea Turtle is an obvious choice for subject matter.

55. Barbara Pierce
Australia
On the move
Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuele
Everyone is going somewhere.

56. Dave Morrissey
Australia
When pigs fly
Hand cut stencil using spray paint on paper
The flying pig is the symbol of hope for the cynical. When you see that pig fly, you know that the unachievable has been achieved.

57. Eduard Jakabhazi
Romania
SYMPHONY LOVE
Digital print
Gestural free form texture.

58. Penelope Le Petit
Australia
Hooked
Lithography
Hooked on Nature.

59. Sandra F Williams
Australia
Pods
Etching
A pod is a group of one or more containers which have the same or similar characteristics. It could be a pod of whales, a pea pod or in this case a plant with seed pods. To be in or part of any sort of pod can mean protection and safety.

60. Kerrie Everett Horrocks
Australia
Spring Tide Play
Drypoint acetate etching on Rosapina cream paper
Spring Tide Play is a moment captured after ting hands have arranged little stones at the shoreline. It's a feeling that is as transient as the artwork, and it becomes a memory of time and place and people.

61. Birã“ ildikã“
Hungary
TRANSIENT ECHOES
Digital print
Mysterious atmosphere.

62. Jenny Bowmer
Australia
Controlled Burn, Monadnocks Park WA
Polyester plate lithography print
This print series is my response to a bush walk through the AMAZING imposing landscape of Monadnocks Conservation Park in WA, following a recent controlled burn.

63. Karoly Balajti
Romania
Make Love Not War
Digital print
Since my brother passed away (2013), I have not been designing. I only deal with small graphics, ex libris, and book illustrations.

64. Ali Mac
Australia
Can I give you a hand?
Lino cut relief print, hand coloured
Bananas! The most popular fruit in Australia. We consume over 5 million every day, but did you know that banana fruits are classified as berries and the plant is actually a giant herb?

65. Prudence Terry
Australia
Hand made
Linocut
Hand Made is my hand that supports and steadies the lino as I carve.

66. Jakabhazi Alexandru
Romania
GESTUAL DYNAMICS
Digital print
Gestural elements mirroring in the water.

67. Robert Douma
Australia
Damnatio Aeterna - Sine Fine Sufferre
Digital illustration
Ripping through flesh, a jagged blade’s cruel bite, endless suffering tears the soul with delight, torment lingers in every tortured breath, as Horror dances gleefully at the impossible death.

68. Charlotte McDonnell
Australia
Coleoptera
Lino print with gold leaf
Coleoptera explores the beauty in critters considered gross or creepy and celebrates impurities. This Lino print is inspired by ancient Egyptians worshiping dung beetles as a symbol of the sun god Khepri, bringing rebirth and regeneration. Gold leaf is utilised to emblem Khepri and emphasise the bewitching glint and curves of the exoskeleton.

69. Elspeth Crosby
Australia
Sentinel
Drypoint on Dutch Aquatint
I have always been fascinated by pelicans.

70. Ann Vardanega
Australia
Zombie walk
Digital photographs & archival inkjet print
The bush, altered by time, neglect, and environmental changes, becomes home to the Zombie Gecko. In this place, there is only death.

71. Lin Schwarzkopf
Australia
Line Dancing
Plastic plate etching on Fabiano Artistico antique white 300 gsm
In the beginning, there was the line. And then we made it dance. It can dance into water, or wind, trees, faces, and buildings, anything. Then, once it is there, it dances back into our imagination. What is it? Whatever you see.

72. Carol Seeger
Australia
K’Gari
Liftground etching with chine colle
This work is an homage to my association with K’Gari and acknowledges the Butchela custodians. I have referenced the landscape in my work over many years however this work is more contemporary in style seeking to combine a simplified beauty with a sense of place using Fauvist use of strong colour and Mondriana’s elements of colour line and form.

73. Sue Cole
Australia
Flutter and twirl, my Sentinel
Polyplate print on Dutch aquatint paper
Each day, I look upon a tree friend outside my window, oft intrigued and mesmerised by delicate dancing movements of the foliage. When all others are motionless, the bat-shaped leaves of Erythrina vespertilio will languorously wave or twirl, or flutter in an unnecessary frenzy, responding to the gentlest movements in airs and signaling change.

74. Anneke Silver
Australia
From the veranda
Digital archival ink on 300gsm archival paper
Traditional Queensland houses with their open verandas and lacey details are so in tune with the textures and forms of the tropical environment and eminently suitable to the tropical climate. I totally love them, live in one and play around with the image in much of my work.

75. Rikaela Rusch
Australia
Lime Pickle
Polyplate print
My childhood summers hold memories of sneaking limes glistening with salt, drying in my auntie’s yard before being marinated in repurposed jars with Birdseye chilies. Lime Pickle is a family recipe, with the label written in my mother’s hand and my grandmothers birthday disguised as the expiry date.

76. Amelia Danger
Australia
Survival of the Skitteriest
Linocut
More than what glitters, is what skitters below the leaf litter...

77. Lillianne Daigle
Canada
Filling with gold
Digital art (no artificial intelligence)
Born and living in Montreal, Canada. Graphics and art education in Montreal and Toronto, Canada. I participate in many national and international juried and non-juried exhibitions in: Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver in Canada; 49 at 74 in New York, USA; International mini print competition in Seacourt, Ireland; Triennale mondiale de Chamali. 

78. Stephen Coutts
Australia
Moonlight Mile
Lino block print on pastel paper
The title here is obviously borrowed from the Rolling Stones. I think the overall feeling is closer to the “Mr Bluebird’s on my shoulder” spirit of the song Zippity Doo Dah. The image reflects positive adolescent memories of camping and fishing in the bed of the Burdekin River. (Not a recommended practice since the last crocodile census.)

79. Erin Ricardo
Australia
Shadows on the coffee table
Tetra Pak intaglio print with hand colouring on 300gsm snowdon cartridge paper
Watching the light change from the veranda is a daily ritual.

80. Amanda Sadler
Australia
The pursuit of happiness
Hand coloured lino print
Not everyone has the resilience to keep moving forward - but I pray that YOU do...

81. Mujurono
Australia
παράλληλο σύμπαν_ (Parallel Universe)
Digital art
Parallel universe/ Where my tiny, cyclopic dog takes me short walks around the block/ My breasts are big/ My face characteristics have left their usual position/ No hair and no legs, just baby blue boots/ Cactus hands sharing my mood shamelessly/ I don’t blush, I talk excessively/ Nobody ever asked me where I come from//

82. Karen Hurford
Australia
“Who am I, really?”
Hand coloured lino print
Who are we, really? Do we see ourselves as others see us? What are we looking for?

83. Violet
Australia
Memories
Ink on white, acid free, cartridge paper
We’ve grown up in a world where we feel the need to take photos of everything. We do this because we have a fear of forgetting, or we feel we need proof of our memories. Our memories are stored on paper and are hung up on the walls. However, these memories we share makes me smile, knowing needed.

84. Traci Lietzke
Australia
Under the Umbrella
Screen print on Fabriano Unica, 250gsm
Before realising the Umbrella fits perfectly into this exchange, I designed and printed this work—Mackay’s proximity to the coast and my joy of seeing people on the beach inspired this print. Influenced by past decades of fashion and travel advertising, I enjoy stencil cut screen printing for its limitations, simplicity, and graphic style.

85. Elaine Harrison
Australia
Hibiscus
Hand coloured lino print on Fabriano
Hibiscus, the wonderful flower of the tropics brightens the environment and the lives of all who embrace them.

86. Stephen Cornwell
Australia
Entwined #1
Digital archival yltrachrome inks print on gallery certified paper
Entwined; In the absence of having another sole to share her darkest experiences with, she creates a doll in her likeness to share the same traumas as herself. The tattooed scar reads “My little Reminder” - written in reverse suggesting she created the tattoo herself using a mirror. A reflection herself.

87. Mhairi Revie 
Australia
A Fish Out of Water
Lino reduction print
This work is a multicolour (6 colours in total) reduction lino print on Arches Hot Press 185gm using Charbonnel Aquawash Ink.

88. Jane Skepper
Australia
Flight
Photopolymer photogravure (double exposure) on Hahnemuhle paper 300gsm, Charbonnel ink.
This photopolymer etching was produced from photographs of a tiny bat skeleton using the photogravure technique. The plate is exposed twice, first to an aquatint screen and then to a transparency.

89. Sam Rundle
Australia
Summer in The City
Dry point etching, using foil faced card
City skyline on a hot summer day. Feeling the pulse and the rhythm of big city vibes.

90. Danish Quapoor
Australia
sorrow stone
Reduction linocut print on Dutch Aquatint paper
The sorrowful stone languishes amongst the reeds.

91. Gisela A. Züchner-Mogall
Australia
Red Fibre
Digital Print on 200 gsm acid free photopaper, Photoshop
Red Fibre, characterised by a strong red and black contrast, explores the dichotomy between industrial and natural elements. I use Photoshop to elevate industrial materials to the realm of fine art and also query traditional printmaking.

92. Laura Castell
Australia
One more magpie
linocut
Australian magpies have been part of my life since I first arrived in Australia many years ago. Their presence and singing has luckily followed me to a new home. This print shows my appreciation for this interesting, intelligent and elegant bird.

93. Justin Bishop
Australia
Townsville Colour
Screenprint on paper
Townsville Colour is a variation on a study for a painting through the lens of the medium of screenprinting. It is fast, spontaneous and eye-catching.

94. Robin Hundt
Australia
Purple possum + green
Drypoint with chine colle on Japanese Kohzo extra light paper
The marsupial squirrel glider/possum is threatened in the NSW area of Newcastle and its hinterland. This nocturnal gliding possum travels through trees by gliding, using a membrane of skin between its limbs. As its environment shrinks so does it.

95. Lynnich
Australia
Trees
Deep etch on aluminium plate printed as a relief. Fabriano Tiepolo 250gsm
I have been experimenting with different ways of etching aluminium with saline sulphate. The plate has been very deeply etched and printed as a relief print using water based etching ink over a thin base of acrylic paint. The plate can also be used to make an embossed print. This print is based on the spotted gum trees in my backyard.

96. Csaba Pal
Hungary
Tattered mask
Digital print
My artwork is a digital print depicting a torn mask, a reference to forgetting negative events and happenings in the past and starting anew.

97. Rhi Johnson
Australia
Objects (Cropped)
Reduction linocut on canson 250gsm cotton rag
Objects (Cropped) deals with everyday object curation, and the time and space that occurs between intention, intervention, and outcome. In this example, I was interested in the neatly arranged bollards in a public space. These are inherently tied to hazards, but with none in sight, they are simply objects composed in a space.

98. Margaret Robertson
Australia
Yard Series 1
Polyplate lithograph with chine colle
This print is part of a series of works created and inspired from working in my own backyard.

99. Jessica Astrid GGG COLLECTIVE
Australia
PROTECT PRIDE PEOPLE
Photographic digital print [manipulated] on rag cotton paper
While researching annual Stonewall/Pride exhibition, discovered, in QAGOMA collection, this fabulous series edition print, by WARHOL, of Marsha P. Johnson, instigator of Stonewall Riots and 1st Pride. Photographed at AGSA’s “Wahol People” exhibit, this image become the centre piece/promo of GGG’s, ‘People Protect Pride’ exhibition, QCA’s PoP Gallery.

100. Cynthia L. Rodday
United States of America
Harmony Among All Things
Digital Artwork, Artic Polar Satin paper
Sixteen photos of mine created this new landscape. Some may wonder why the fountain is so close to the pond or where does the foot bridge in the background lead. I believe this landscape could exist somewhere in time. The peacock symbolizes power, strength, and confidence while the butterfly symbolizes transformation. Each appear three times.

101. Dr Sylvia Ditchburn
Australia
Rainforest
Print release Mokulito
N.Q. rainforests are the inspiration for this work particularly the large circular shapes of Licuala grandis palms. Many clusters of these palms can be found in and around Mossman Gorge NQ.

102. Ann Bartholomeusz
Australia
‘Boo’
Linocut
I have a special place in my heart for jumpers because they remind me of living in a cold climate. There's something comforting and nostalgic about the cosy feeling of being wrapped up in layers.

103. Anne Lord
Australia
Between rushes and prickles
Wood engraving
Native birds use available water and shelter surrounded by fallen bull rush and mimosa prickles. Drawing at this place assisted my development of formative marks for further work such as wood engraving.

104. Lala Zarei
Australia
Vampire girl
Screen print
Exploring the dark and mysterious realm of vampires and flying creatures, I delve into my imagination to craft unique beings of my own creation.

105. Sue Poggioli
Australia
The Red Car, homage Leunig
Hand coloured lino print
Part of an ongoing series paying homage to iconic works of art, this image references the work of cartoonist Michael Leunig.

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Umbrella is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, state and territory governments. | Umbrella is supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and receives funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund. | Townsville City Council is a funding partner of Umbrella's program.