Palazzo Ca’ Dario b.1496, (Dorsoduro, Venice) re created as a multi colour plate photogravure etching.
I’ve been working toward this etching for a few months at @baldessinstudio surrounded by talented and supportive artists. The end results are precise and repeatable.
📷 | Venice 2016 | me.
Photogravure Etching | multi plate | April 2026 | me.
420mm x 295mm | Somerset Satin White 300gsm
#photogravure #venice
Prelude is a dynamic curated group exhibition spotlighting emerging artists and offering a glimpse into the future of Australian art. Marking the early, formative stages of their careers, the exhibition situates these artists within the same spaces that have long showcased many of the country’s leading contemporary practitioners.
Through an open call process that helps dismantle some of the barriers facing emerging artists, Prelude opens Australian Galleries’ doors to a new wave of creative voices. In doing so, it celebrates the gallery’s enduring commitment, since 1956, to fostering artist’s careers and offers a new opportunity to support the up-and-coming contemporary artists from across the country.
@australiangalleries
Mar 31 – Apr 18, 2026 • Melbourne
OPENING NIGHT Tuesday 31 March 6pm to 8pm
It’s a free exhibition of around 200 works from emerging artists across Australia. Great location just a stones throw from Collingwood cafes, bars and restaurants. Make it a date! If we don’t support early career artists now they vanish before achieving their best.
All twisted up behind the camera. No matter how much I plan a setup, there’s always a time I get caught out in a tight spot. Yes, the lens’s looks all bent - it’s supposed to - that’s perspective control & the first principles of photography!
Fantastic night to open the show in Melbourne! A great turnout for the gallery and all the artists involved. We literally couldn’t move in there so definitely coming back for a better look at this beautifully curated exhibition.
Prelude - exhibition open until Saturday 18 April, Australian Galleries Collingwood.
All framed and ready to exhibit at @australiangalleries Prelude Group Exhibition.
Gnargijin : Nomans’s Lake Western Australia. The Gnargijin area in the south west of Western Australia is the traditional land of the Noongar Aboriginal people and its name means “place of the pool”. The lake was fresh or brackish up to the 1950s providing abundant food and water for the Noongar tribes, but no evidence of that remains. Today the lake beds are bare or dotted with dead trees and salt tolerant plants.
Photogravure Etching printed at @baldessinstudio on Somerset Satin.
📷 | me.
Photogravure Etching | me.
Invented by Aaron Jones in the 1990s, the Hosemaster, is a sophisticated light painting tool. It produced a romantic look not easily achievable any other way. No photographers imagined the progression of digital cameras, photoshop and “filters”. I first owned a Hosemaster just after the release in Australia. It was really expensive. A completely analogue system, I shot mainly to 4”x5” film, and to see the results I had to wait about 2 hours.
After 30 years the same Hosemaster unit I sold in the Mid 90’s was given back to me by a friend and photographer who was set to throw it away if I didn’t want it back. It cost me a bottle of wine.
Paired with the Phase, this old bit of kit is going to be lot of fun.
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Bird’s nest 1
📷 | me.
#phaseone #hosemaster #shotincamera #nofilter
Lest we forget.
The battle of Ypres, also known as Passchendaele, took place between October and November 1914 in Belgium. The Allies failed to achieve their strategic objectives and suffered immense casualties. They suffered over 220,000 casualties, and the Germans lost another 130,000 men.
After the heavy artillery had churned up the soil, dormant poppy seeds rose to the surface. These seeds, which can lie dormant for years, needed the light to germinate, and the disturbed ground provided the perfect conditions for them to grow.
A vibrant burst of red flowers in the middle of the bleak, scarred landscape became a powerful symbol of life amidst death, captured in John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields” (1915)
In the four years that followed, until the war ended in November 1918, a further 650,000 men would be killed in battles for these fields.
Bathers, a trial four colour photogravure etching made at @baldessinstudio .
Complexities x 4! Problem solving for the full sized print coming soon! Thanks @silvi1766 for guidance and assisting me on the press.
