Hi everyone
The Hive is absolutely full of lots of new things at the moment; we are popping at the seams. Lots of new jewellery has arrived. We have funky gorgeous reclaimed lino brooches and pendants by Betty Jo. There are stunning pendants by Jordana Archer with little prints on handmade silk paper from her series “Grow”. They feature sketches of old gnarly trees behind glass and soldered to form pendants.
We have the most gorgeous new Cloth runners by designer Julie Patterson, made from hand printed hemp pieced together. They feature her new sketches of Australian native plants. For winter we have a new batch of Maiike scarves in. Aly who makes them has such a great eye for colour and detail. We have a new batch of hand printed tights in lots of great patterns and colours. Miriam Gribble has just sent us a batch of her printed designs on aluminium and silver jewellery.
Julian Laffan has his show of ink prints on woodblocks, “Inside Information” showing until Easter. This show is exhibited as part of the Sixth Australian Print Symposium at the National Gallery of Australia.
Human relations and connections are both a fascination and inspiration to Laffan. In his first solo show for The Hive, Inside Information utilizes the woodcut to investigate the contemporary image. Laffan says of Inside Information, ‘each work is a suggestion to hidden meanings, often assigned to object and artifact. The viewer is asked to navigate the images as objects, traversing their surface to investigate their meaning.
Julian utilizes the woodcut to create a series of graphic sculptures. The surface of each block is intricately drawn and carved by hand. It is then ban sawed out in the shape of a specific image taken from a collected personal archive of images. The internal space of each block also incorporates further information, at times related or disconnected from its original source.
The grouping of these images intends to communicate the complex building of information, which can require inside knowledge or deeper meaning, or Inside Information. The blocks are on layers of ply suggesting the repetition of images experienced in the printed world and currently seen on the digital screen.
We enjoyed an artist talk by Julian at his high tea held after hours on 1 April (see images below)
Hope you enjoyed the update
Jenny
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