This curated exhibition traces the distinctive, individual art practices of two internationally recognised Australian artists, Dianne Longley and Olga Sankey. Coming from a printmaking background, both artists have individually reimagined the medium, combining analogue with digital, and blending different print techniques, to create works that push traditional print boundaries of scale, materiality and form.
From the curator, Dr Tom Middlemost
[Director, University Art Collections and Art Curator, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga NSW]: The artists are both recognised as explorers of technically challenging and influential digital and more traditional print media on numerous experimental substrates, their work incorporates text and historical reference in exciting ways; examining life’s ongoing stories, the games we play, and complex visual languages. A retrospective exhibition will tease apart these connecting references, and should raise to prominence the artists continuing practice.
IMAGE: Olga Sankey, Forked Tongue, 2007, digital print & sandblasted glass (diptych) 104x154cm framed. Courtesy the artist. Photo Saul Steed