Printmaking

Prue MacDougall

Prue MacDougall
Guest Artist Printmaking

Prue MacDougall's feature exhibition at No 1 Parnell takes us on a walk through a forest guided by narrative threads, turning our watchful and whimsical gaze towards the innate power of trees. Utilising Greek Mythology, she is urges us to think about the essential roles that trees and forests play in our lives and psyches. 'Arbornauts Revisited' explores a mythical and complex interaction.

The serenity that comes from sitting beneath a tree on a pleasant afternoon or your racing heart beat felt in a dark forest at night are not random emotions. The trees are truly alive with more than we may prefer to believe. According to legend, the ability to inspire strong emotions was the gift of the dryads.

Prue has incorporated female deities into intaglio photopolymer prints dramatizing the intricate architecture of branch and root systems. Hopefully, visitors will leave the exhibition with a renewed sense of appreciation for both the beauty and complexity of these indispensable organisms.

Jennifer Huebert

Jennifer Huebert
Printmaking

Jennifer Huebert is an artist working in print, mixed-media, and artists' books. She lives and works in Mangonui.

Exploring our perceptions of adventure and wonder regarding the world around us, Jennifer's practice is inspired by modernist interpretations of the landscape. Her current body of work draws inspiration from the natural world, employing ephemeral landscapes which challenge the viewer to contemplate their transient relationship to oceans, forests, and other places where people can only be visitors. Each work is a hand printed linocut.

Jennifer studied fine arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the Women's Studio Workshop in the USA. In recent years, she has exhibited at galleries and events in Auckland / Tamaki Makaurau and Mangonui. Driven to make things and finding joy in the process of creating, she looks forward to being in the studio, wherever it happens to be.

Leigh Tawharu

Leigh Tawharu
Painting Printmaking

Leigh Tawharu, is a contemporary mixed media and printmaking artist. Leigh made the shift from Auckland's suburbia to the rural wonderland of Kaeo, Te Tai Tokerau, following a lifelong fascination with fabrics, textiles, sewing and fashion filled years of experimental sewing for the wearable and not so.

After training in the Applied Arts Degree at North Tec, Whangarei this was combined with an invigorated passion for drawing and printmaking. Mixing experimental ideas of fine art and craft, with new techniques, honed into an aesthetic, inherently informed and influenced by the fundamentals of fabric and fashion, delving into what surface texture, design, colour and construction actually represents.

Drawing inspiration from realism's tradition of still life, within Tawharu's immediate domestic realm and surrounding landscape. Enriched by a lifetime of collecting and treasuring, the home and studio are filled with exotic knick-knackery, plant life and textiles. Immense pleasure is gained from the object and the cloth, and the memories they hold, the strange and the eclectic, the plain and the ordinary, the look and the feel.

Tawharu was a semi-finalist in the 2022 Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards (drawing & painting), has exhibited in Auckland and Whangarei respectively, and has art works in private collections.

Ruth Francis

Ruth Francis
Painting Printmaking

Ruth grew up in Northland NZ, she was inspired to create by some fantastic role models, here in Northland in the 80s. And continued her studies in Australia.

She loves the ebb and flow of life and likes to portray this in her imagery, often working from the emotions places and time have given her.

She hopes you enjoy her work.