The Gallery, Wooli

Our holiday house in Wooli on the far North Coast of New South Wales was recently added to the Airbnb list by our real estate agent, and when she did she said we needed to have a name for our house as she would erect a sign.

After a few ideas i thought why not call it The Gallery. then people would get to know the name and i coukd then hold my exhibitions there, in The Gallery.

I haven’t been doing any printmaking for several years now, not since i hurt my back and started painting. However i have quite a number of linocut editions stored away, and several framed prints. I used to frame one print from each edition but it became rather expensive and so I had many at home being stored.

Now i have 17 framed prints hanging along the hallway. 5 x 2 M lengths of hanging bars, 2 wires per frame.

printmaking and Registration

If you intend to print multiple colours, then you will need some sort of system to ensure all prints in the edition are the same.

I experimented and settled on using Ternes Burton tags and pins to always have my prints line up. I also make a back board which has a cutout the size of my linocut plate. the backboard has the pins. each sheet of paper has the tags taped to the back and the pins are used to position the paper when taping the tags on.