Join our Wall of Wings! Invitation to Coffs Coast Printmakers
The Wall of Wings is an integral component of The Overwintering Project exhibition to be held at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery from 6 December 2019 to 1st February 2020. The project is open to local Coffs Coast artists, both individually and as members of art groups.
Venue: Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
Address: Cnr Coff & Duke Streets, Coffs Harbour NSW
Date: 26 March - 1 November 2019
Ticket: FREE
Web: https://www.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/gallery
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EMail: gallery@chcc.nsw.gov.au
Call: 02 6648 4863
Address: Cnr Coff & Duke Streets, Coffs Harbour NSW
Date: 26 March - 1 November 2019
Ticket: FREE
Web: https://www.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/gallery
: https://www.facebook.com/CoffsHarbourRegionalGallery/
: https://www.facebook.com/groups/422075268335832/?source_id=1837002199849465
: https://www.instagram.com/wallofwings_migratshorebirds/
EMail: gallery@chcc.nsw.gov.au
Call: 02 6648 4863
The Overwintering Project (www.theoverwinteringproject.com) is an environmental art project initiated by printmaker Kate Gorringe-Smith designed to highlight the unique nature of migratory shorebird habitats found around Australia and New Zealand.
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery's exhibition will include the full Overwintering portfolio of over 200 prints by Australian printmakers as well as artworks by local high school students.
Local artists are invited to contribute prints of individual shorebirds, which will then be attached directly to a wall of the gallery, thus creating a "wall of wings". The Moth Migration project provides an example of a similar, worldwide, crowd-sourced exhibition.
Print: Single bird only, flying, landing or walking, feeding, standing. No background or surrounding image, image to be cut to outside edges of bird contour. When in doubt, keep image plain and simple.
Artists can contribute as many prints as they like but we ask for a minimum of three of each design to create a sense of the density of a flock
Colour: Shorebirds are predominantly brown, grey and black (some pink/red for beaks) - prints must be in these colours only. Paper must be white, off-white or cream
Size: No larger than 30cm and no smaller than 12cm
Paper weight: Variable - from 30g/m to 285g/m, matte paper only, no glossy or "printer" paper
Mediums: Printmaking - Linocut, etching, dry point, aquatint, lithography, woodblock, collagraph, screen print, rubber stamps. Please no photographs, digital prints, computer printouts or origami.
Important: Bird shape MUST be cut out of paper. Please do not send bird with any surrounding or background image or paper, just the outside contour of the bird
Notation: Please print name, bird species, location (city or town, state), on the back of each print.
Deadline: prints are to be submitted to Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery by Friday 2nd November 2019
Contact: Jo Besley Joanna.besley@chcc.nsw.gov.au or Penelope Lawry penelope.lawry@icloud.com
Due to the nature of the exhibited work, it will not be possible to return the contributions at the end of the exhibition, but the exhibition will be documented and photographed.
Species: East-Asian Australasian Flyway migratory overwintering shorebirds - with a focus on the species which frequent your local area as listed. Those in bold are the birds most commonly found in the Coffs Harbour region during summer months, October to May. Pacific Golden Plover; Grey Plover; Lesser Sand Plover (Endangered); Greater Sand Plover (Vulnerable); Oriental Plover; Latham's Snipe; Black-tailed Godwit; Bar-tailed Godwit (Vulnerable); Little Curlew; Whimbrel; Eastern Curlew (Critically Endangered); Terek Sandpiper (Vulnerable); Common Sandpiper; Grey-tailed Tattler; Wandering Tattler; Common Greenshank; Marsh Sandpiper; Ruddy Turnstone; Great Knot; Red Knot; Sanderling (Vulnerable); Red-necked Stint; Long-toed Stint; Pectoral Sandpiper; Sharp-tailed Sandpiper; Curlew Sandpiper; Broad-billed Sandpiper (Vulnerable); Ruff; Red-necked Phalarope; Oriental Pratincole; Little Ringed Plover; Pin-tailed Snipe; Swinhoe's Snipe; Common Redshank; Wood Sandpiper; Asian Dowitcher. Double-banded Plover (mid-Feb - late August).
Refer: Bird field guides, Birdlife Australia poster or app http://www.penboc.org.au/shorebirds/, http://birdlife.org.au/projects/shorebirds-2020/educational-material
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery's exhibition will include the full Overwintering portfolio of over 200 prints by Australian printmakers as well as artworks by local high school students.
Local artists are invited to contribute prints of individual shorebirds, which will then be attached directly to a wall of the gallery, thus creating a "wall of wings". The Moth Migration project provides an example of a similar, worldwide, crowd-sourced exhibition.
EVENT DETAILS
Eligibility: open to all artists/printmakers in the Coffs Coast region, ie from Woolgoolga to Nambucca to Bellingen and DorrigoPrint: Single bird only, flying, landing or walking, feeding, standing. No background or surrounding image, image to be cut to outside edges of bird contour. When in doubt, keep image plain and simple.
Artists can contribute as many prints as they like but we ask for a minimum of three of each design to create a sense of the density of a flock
Colour: Shorebirds are predominantly brown, grey and black (some pink/red for beaks) - prints must be in these colours only. Paper must be white, off-white or cream
Size: No larger than 30cm and no smaller than 12cm
Paper weight: Variable - from 30g/m to 285g/m, matte paper only, no glossy or "printer" paper
Mediums: Printmaking - Linocut, etching, dry point, aquatint, lithography, woodblock, collagraph, screen print, rubber stamps. Please no photographs, digital prints, computer printouts or origami.
Important: Bird shape MUST be cut out of paper. Please do not send bird with any surrounding or background image or paper, just the outside contour of the bird
Notation: Please print name, bird species, location (city or town, state), on the back of each print.
Deadline: prints are to be submitted to Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery by Friday 2nd November 2019
Contact: Jo Besley Joanna.besley@chcc.nsw.gov.au or Penelope Lawry penelope.lawry@icloud.com
Due to the nature of the exhibited work, it will not be possible to return the contributions at the end of the exhibition, but the exhibition will be documented and photographed.
Species: East-Asian Australasian Flyway migratory overwintering shorebirds - with a focus on the species which frequent your local area as listed. Those in bold are the birds most commonly found in the Coffs Harbour region during summer months, October to May. Pacific Golden Plover; Grey Plover; Lesser Sand Plover (Endangered); Greater Sand Plover (Vulnerable); Oriental Plover; Latham's Snipe; Black-tailed Godwit; Bar-tailed Godwit (Vulnerable); Little Curlew; Whimbrel; Eastern Curlew (Critically Endangered); Terek Sandpiper (Vulnerable); Common Sandpiper; Grey-tailed Tattler; Wandering Tattler; Common Greenshank; Marsh Sandpiper; Ruddy Turnstone; Great Knot; Red Knot; Sanderling (Vulnerable); Red-necked Stint; Long-toed Stint; Pectoral Sandpiper; Sharp-tailed Sandpiper; Curlew Sandpiper; Broad-billed Sandpiper (Vulnerable); Ruff; Red-necked Phalarope; Oriental Pratincole; Little Ringed Plover; Pin-tailed Snipe; Swinhoe's Snipe; Common Redshank; Wood Sandpiper; Asian Dowitcher. Double-banded Plover (mid-Feb - late August).
Refer: Bird field guides, Birdlife Australia poster or app http://www.penboc.org.au/shorebirds/, http://birdlife.org.au/projects/shorebirds-2020/educational-material