The significance of printmaking in the context of contemporary art and design will be explored at an exhibition in Melbourne this month.

From February 6th the Monash Art Design & Architecture (MADA) Gallery will present Community & Context, an exhibition featuring the work of twenty four Australian artists.

eX de Medici and Rosalind Atkins’s collaborative work Our Corporate Who Art in Heaven, combines etching and engraving, botanical illustration and gas masks to subversive effect.

Printmaking as sculpture is also explored in Ruth Johnstone’s work Mining Robert Sticht’s Dürer Archive, which employs engraving, photocopy and kinetic sculpture to explore the vocabulary of Dürer’s vast print catalogue.

The exhibition includes other print methods in the work Delicate Cutting by artist Sally Smart, a film of the artist cutting what could be stencils from paper. The new film also suggests the darker connotations of self-harm.

Artists in the show:

Rosalind Atkins & eX de Medici, Raymond Arnold, Mitchell Asquith, Gene Bawden, Thomas Coish, Marian Crawford, Neil Emmerson, Caren Florance/Apersand Duck, Emily Floyd, Franck Gohier, Richard Harding, Nicci Haynes, Bridget Hillebrand, Lucas Ihlein, Ruth Johnstone, John Loane, Fiona Macdonald, Ruby Pilven, Jonas Ropponen, Stewart Russell, Sally Smart, Warren Taylor, Trent Walter and Lucy Williams

Community & Context is on from 6 February - 12 March at the MADA Gallery, Monash University Caulfield Campus. Entry is free.

The opening event will be held on Saturday 9 February at 2pm. All Welcome.

The MADA Gallery is open 10am-5pm Monday-Friday and 12-5pm on Saturday.

Location:  Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, 900 Dandenong Rd  Caulfield East VIC 3145

See the website for more information