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We’re thrilled to announce that Port Jackson Press is moving premises! We’re moving to a beautiful new location at 67 Cambridge Street, right in the heart of the Collingwood arts precinct. While the move will be a big one for us, with our large plan drawers and wealth of prints – the distance is not. Cambridge street is just a couple of streets back from our current Smith Street location, so those who love to have a wander in the area and pop by can still do so without any major changes to your regular art-gallery route!

The gallery will be undertaking the move over the next two weeks.

While we’re moving and settling into our  new space, there will be some adjustments to our usual operation, with the gallery back open and ready to visit as of July 6th. During this time, however, our online gallery will still be open for you to view and purchase prints.

Port Jackson Press has made many beautiful memories and exhibited many incredible exhibitions at our Smith Street location, and we look forward to doing the same at our new location.

We look forward to welcoming you into our new space! And we look forward to our maiden exhibition at the new space – our annual Winter Salon Exhibition. What better way to usher in a new era of Port Jackson Press than with a group show of brand new works by our talented stable of artists!

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As the year is gearing back up, we’ve been receiving more and more new work from our artists, who have been busy in the studio over the summer months. This week we’re thrilled to announce the latest two new linocuts by David Frazer.

Slow Boat (Study II) and Wounded Wood II both exhibit the technical mastery and narrative intrigue for which Frazer is known (and highly collected!). In intricate linocut details, Frazer renders his landscapes and characters. With such meticulous detail given to scenes of the Australian ‘everyday’ these print, Frazer transforms how we perceive the familiar. Objects and landscapes that would ordinarily be given little concern are instead offered at points of contemplation and particular interest – they are ‘characters’ of the landscape, imbued with their own narratives and unknown origins.

We are also excited to announce that Frazer will be debuting a major etching later in the year – so, collectors and fans of Frazer: watch this space!

You can view and purchase these and other prints by David Frazer via his artist page, HERE.

  David Frazer. Slow Boat (Study II), 2017. Linocut. Edition of 50. 48 x 52 cm. $550

David Frazer. Wounded Wood II, 2017. Linocut. Edition of 50. 82 x 69 cm. $1400

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Fresh off the press and here at the gallery are four brand new prints by Kate Hudson. Turning her printmaking gaze momentarily away from a sole botanical focus, these prints give focus to character-filled birds. These new prints are rendered with the same lively use of colour and decorative graphics for which the artist is highly collected.

Drawing influence from Japanese woodblocks, Art Nouveau and the Arts & Crafts movement, each of Hudsons prints provides a decorative take on nature. This approach to nature does not undermine its beauty, or its value, but instead imagines it anew. In her prints, Hudson not only shows nature for its beauty, but true to her decorative influences, articulates this beauty as a structuring and ordering entity. In a contemporary world that often gives focus on synthetic models of ‘order’, this return to nature, and its role in life and imagery, is a refreshing thing.

Each print, like its subject is highly considered and meticulously worked. Hudson prints are created by a two block linocut reduction, with each matrix using 10-12 transparent colours which build upon each other to create the vibrant palettes for which the artist is known. Because of this intricate process it can take Hudson a couple of months to make an edition of a single work. This emphasis on process is attendant to the conceptual inspirations of Hudson’s work, whereby the process of creation itself mimes the patient beauty and order of the natural world.

Each of Kate Hudson’s new prints is available to view and purchase both in the gallery and online via the Hudson’s artist page.

  Kate Hudson. White Winged Wrens, 2017. Reduction linocut. Edition of 30. 27 x 19 cm.

Kate Hudson. Rose Robins, 2017. Reduction linocut. Edition of 30. 27 x 19 cm.

Kate Hudson. Golden Whistlers, 2017. Reduction Linocut. Edition of 30. 27 x 19 cm.

Kate Hudson. Bronze Cuckoos, 2017. Reduction Linocut. Edition of 30. 27 x 19 cm.

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