Elcho Elements
July 11 – August 1 2009
This series of reduction wood block prints comes from Elcho Island Arts, located approximately 550kms north east of Darwin.
The wood block prints are an extension of a long established carving tradition. Each artwork is based upon inherited designs, which originate with ancestral beings who created the land. The prints are based on the four natural elements (earth, fire, water and sky) but also exist as a person, spirit, place, colour, song, dance, ceremony, season, experience, thought, plant, animal, or sea creature and the relationships connecting all these.
Elcho Elements is the result of a workshop held with Basil Hall Editions on the Island in 2009.
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| Joe Manygulma Ocean Currents reduction woodcut © Elcho Island Arts |
Joe Manygulma working on his Ocean Currents woodblock |
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| Tommy Minburra Rock reduction woodcut © Elcho Island Arts. |
Tommy Minburra carving his Rock wood block |
