Received this last week. Malaysian printmakers, do contact them directly if you are interested.
Call
for Artists : Flyway Print Exchange.
A
Melbourne-based project seeking to unite artists along the East-Asian
Australasian Flyway and promote shorebird conservation.
I am currently, with the
endorsement BirdLife Australia,
initiating a print exchange around the idea of the East Asian-Australasian
Flyway. Participating artists will be asked to create a print in response to
the stories of Australia’s
migratory shorebirds, then to create an edition with three purposes. Firstly,
every artist will receive one of each print. Secondly, additional copies will
be available for exhibition and sale. Thirdly, I will post one print from each
edition, unprotected, along the flyway and back, to then exhibit alongside its
pristine counterpart. If they find their
way home, the prints will be weathered by the journey. If they don’t, that too
will be significant.
I
am looking for a representative artist from as many Flyway countries as
possible (these are: the USA [Alaska]; Russia [Siberia]; Mongolia; China; North
Korea; South Korea; Japan; the Philippines; Vietnam; Laos; Thailand; Cambodia;
Myanmar; Bangladesh; India; Malaysia; Singapore; Brunei; Indonesia; Timor;
Papua New Guinea and New Zealand). After an initial exhibition in Melbourne I hope to travel
the exhibition to some of the countries of the other participating artists.
If
you would like more information, or if you know any artists living in flyway
countries who might like to be involved, I would love to hear from you.
Kate
Gorringe-Smith
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The Flyway
Print Exchange – Introduction
The Flyway Print Exchange is an
exchange between artists living in various countries along the East-Asian
Australasian Flyway, the flight path travelled by Australia’s migratory
shorebirds twice annually between their breeding and non-breeding grounds.
Aims
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To bring together artists from a wide variety of cultural
and artistic backgrounds
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To publicise the age-old linking of our countries
through the natural phenomenon of bird migration
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To raise awareness of migratory shorebirds.
The Flyway
Artists are invited to
investigate the idea of the Flyway and to use it as the starting point for
their work.
The annual departure and arrival
of migratory birds is a spectacle which has symbolic meaning in numerous
cultures around the world. Many of these birds travel vast distances, crossing
several countries and entire continents during their annual cycle of migration.
The countries that comprise the East-Asian
Australasian Flyway are: the USA (Alaska); Russia (Siberia); Mongolia; China;
North Korea; South Korea; Japan; the Philippines; Vietnam; Laos; Thailand;
Cambodia; Myanmar; Bangladesh; India; Malaysia; Singapore; Brunei; Indonesia;
Timor; Papua New Guinea; Australia and New Zealand.
The Prints
Artists will be invited to
create a limited edition of a print produced in response to the idea of the
flyway and the bird species that frequent it. Finished editions will be posted
to the project co-ordinator in Melbourne,
Australia. The dimensions of the print will also be specified,
and paper and postage will be provided.
- Each artists will receive one
of each print in the exchange.
- Two prints from each edition
will be posted, with no protective cover, along the Flyway to Alaska
and back to Australia
to mirror the journey undertaken by the birds. The weathered print will then be
exhibited, alongside its pristine counterpart. The weathered print will refer
to the physical reality of the birds’ journey.
- The remaining prints (as many
as the artist wants to print in addition to those produced for the above
purposes) will be offered for sale.
A proportion of the money from
sales will be donated to BirdLife Australia to the Shorebirds 2020
Project which is working to conserve migratory shorebirds. BirdLife Australia would
also have limited reproduction rights of the Exchange images for both publicity
and revenue purposes.
Exhibitions
The prints from the exchange,
both weathered and pristine, will first be exhibited in Melbourne, Australia.
The exhibition will be publicised throughout the membership of BirdLife Australia, as
well as through Australian art media.
Our aim is then to seek
galleries along the Flyway to subsequently exhibit in the countries of each
participating artist. We would ask participating artists for their input as to
appropriate venues for the exhibition.
Approximate Timing
September 2013: Participating Artists finalised
March 2014: Editions completed and posted to the
co-ordinator
June 2014: ‘Flyway’ prints
return from posting along the Flyway and back
September 2014: First exhibition
of the Flyway Exchange in Melbourne,
Australia
This document is a preliminary
draft of the details of the exchange. Artists’ who express an interest in
participating will be sent the final conditions of entry, a registration form
and more specific details of the Flyway and the species that traverse it.
Please send expressions of
interest to:
Kate Gorringe-Smith
Flyway Print Exchange
Co-ordinator
Mobile: 0432 322 408
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