Urbanus: Open Bite Printmakers

Open Bite Printmakers have been actively engaged in diverse and exciting printmaking for over 30 years, embracing a variety of techniques and styles from traditional to digital.

This exhibition contains a comprehensive collection of techniques, concepts and philosophies revolving around notions of the urban, triggered by the lockdowns and restrictions stemming from Covid. This situation presented the challenge of looking at their environment and art practice through the dual prisms of inhibition and inspiration.

Artists include Lyndall Beck, Helen Brancatisano, Elizabeth Cowell, Mary Cullen, Miriam Cullen, Mike Dingley, Megan Edwards, Jolanta Ewart, Jan Farrell, Jutta Fuhrmans, Linda Galbraith, Sonia Gallart, Sue Hanckel, Annarie Hildebrand, Peter Mackie, Barbara May, Terese McManus, Kerry Anne McMeeking, Eva Molnar, Jo Morris, Judi Ringger, Yuri Shimmyo, Jill Stratton Kelly, Deidre Vaill, Margaret Vickers, Trish Yates.

Opening Night: Friday 9 February, 6-8pm

Image credit: Peter Mackie, Floating Weeds 2023, collagraph and drypoint