Redback - Prints

Click on picture to see larger image - all prices are Australian dollars. 

Namiyal Bopirri  Wak - Crows Lithograph - 1997 Image Size 320mm x 430 mm Paper 530mm x 630mm  Edition size - 90 $352.00 inc. GST	Queenie McKenzie  Mingmarriya Country Serigraph - 1998 Image Size 440mm x 640 mm Paper 560mm x 760mm  Edition size - 99 $550.00 inc. GST	Phillip Gudthaykudthay  Olive Python Original S/P - 1998 I/S 580mm x 410 mm P/S 760mm x 550mm  Edition size - 99 $308.00 inc. GST	Timothy Cook  Traditional Tiwi  Motif VI Serigraph - 1998 I/S 435mm x 630 mm P/S 560mm x 760mm  Edition size - 75 $352.00 inc. GST

Aboriginal Printmaking

The first prints by Aboriginal artists were not produced until the late 1960s, and it was not until the 1970s that a sustained interest in this technique developed. 

For many Aboriginal artists the use of printmaking methods was like an extension of traditional practise. The engraving of wood and linoblocks is a similar process to the incising of designs on stone or the surfaces of wooden sculptures and utilitarian objects. The sequential overprinting of colours in screenprinting is paralleled in the way traditional bark paintings are realised, and the same chalky opaque colours can be obtained. 

Since the early 1980ís, prints by Aboriginal artists have been widely exhibited both in Australia and abroad.