ARTEXPRESS Virtual Gallery | 2023 Printmaking

Xanthe Condoleon

Abbotsleigh

Fearless Flight

Printmaking

Xanthe Condoleon

Abbotsleigh

Fearless Flight

Printmaking

"Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight; For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light." Oscar Wilde.

My body of work pays homage to the myth of Icarus, whose wax wings melted when he flew too close to the sun, plunging him into the sea. This expresses my own ambition and drive for success without concern for the consequences. The large-scale wings represent Icarus's flight and fall, with one pair burnt and one dipped in wax. The book narrates Icarus's story, with abstract feathers and wax in reference to his fall.

Mai Sakaguchi

Chatswood High School

Haha no kyujo (mother’s plight)

Printmaking

Mai Sakaguchi

Chatswood High School

Haha no kyujo (mother’s plight)

Printmaking

My body of work pays homage to the pain of migration: a deeply personal experience shared by my mother. Moving from Japan to Australia, she was constantly met with cultural and linguistic barriers and a relentless sense of displacement. My work uses plate prints, relief rolls and monoprint processes, layers of colours and images expressing incongruity, intended as an erratic oscillation between emotions of fear, acceptance, despair and grief. Layers of Japanese traditional Noh theatre transcripts represent the nexus between my mother's homeland and the performativity of the diasporic experience; acculturation can be likened to the 'performance' of Western traditions.

Carysse Evans

St Andrew's Cathedral School

The Life of the Forest

Printmaking

Carysse Evans

St Andrew's Cathedral School

The Life of the Forest

Printmaking

My body of work explores how the forest is used as a motif in ancient and contemporary literature. The forest often becomes a character in itself, intended to evoke a range of experiences and emotions such as comfort and peace, as well as fear and anxiety. I used lino print and woodblocks, alluding to the small scale and techniques of traditional storybook imagery. I have reworked existing images to represent those evocative experiences for my audience.