Artist's talk at Aicon Gallery New York

Aicon Gallery New York is pleased to present an Artist's talk with Damon Kowarsky.

Please join us on Thursday 5 January for an an evening of wine and art to close out Reprise 2011 and celebrate the New Year!

Thursday 5 January from 7pm

Aicon Gallery New York
35 Great Jones Street
New York, NY 10012
212-725-6092
newyork@aicongallery.com

More information here

Reprise 2011

Aicon Gallery New York is very pleased to invite you to

Reprise 2011
December 1 to January 14

Aicon Gallery New York
35 Great Jones Street
New York, NY 10012
212-725-6092
newyork@aicongallery.com

Artists include Sakti Burman, Shyamal Dutta Ray, Ayesha Durrani, Laxma Goud, Vidya Kamat, Sanat Kar, Damon Kowarsky, Bose Krishnamachari, Rajan Krishnan, Ram Kumar, Baiju Parthan, Raghu Rai, Nausheen Saeed, Anjali Srinivasan and Adeela Suleman.

More information can be seen here

A Happy Medium

Christmas Show at Solander
30 November - 24 December 2011

Come celebrate the 'Happy Medium' of print. Solander's cash and carry Christmas show features affordable works by over thirty artists.

Includes works by Alex Milsom, Alexis Neal, Basia Smolnicki, Catherine Macdonald, Chris Adams, Damon Kowarsky, David Sarich, Ellen Giggenbach, Emma McCleary, Esther Hansen, Faith McManus, Fleur Williams, Graham Hall, Inge Doesburg, Jacob Rolfe, Jacqueline Aust, Jacqui Colley, Jo Ogier, Kim Lowe, Kyla Cresswell, Kyoko Imazu, Lynn Taylor, Maree Horner, Margaret Silverwood, Mark Graver, Marty Vreede, Michele Bryant, Rachael Garland, Sam Broad, Sheyne Tuffery, Stanley Palmer and Vanessa Edwards.

Solander Works on Paper
218c Willis St, Te Aro
Wellington 6011
New Zealand
Tel +644 920 0913
info@solandergallery.co.nz

Port Jackson Press Summer Salon

Port Jackson Press is pleased to invite you to their last exhibition for the year.

Summer Salon -
affordable artwork by leading Australian printmakers

15 November to 31 January 2012
Port Jackson Press Print Room
61 Smith Street
Fitzroy VIC 3065
03 9419 8988
info@portjacksonpress.com.au

Gallery hours
Tuesday to Friday 10 to 53o
Saturday 11 to 5

For more information click here

Exhibition - Public Hanging XIV at MLC

The annual exhibition of works by MLC Visual Arts staff and friends.

Opening Friday November 18 from 7 to 9 pm
Exhibition continues until December 9

Methodist Ladies College
207 Barkers Road
Kew VIC 3101

Japan Foundation Sydney

Kyoko Imazu and Damon Kowarsky were recently announced as recipients of a 2012 Japan Foundation Facetnate New Visual Artists Grant. This program includes support for an exhibition in Sydney in February 2012. The exhibition will feature collaborative prints made in response to travels in Japan and Korea.

Kyoko and Damon are very excited about what will be their first exhibition in New South Wales.

Thank you to David Freeman and the staff at the Japan Foundation for their support.

More information on Facetnate can be found here.

FUSE Magazine

FUSE 34-4/Egypt features exclusive interviews with the directors of artist-run centres in Cairo and Alexandria, coverage of independent film programming on Egypt, and a look at the Bidoun Library’s Egypt acquisitions. Focusing on events such as the revolution in Egypt, the series asks how states of postcoloniality inform the politics and practices of resistance.

34.4/Egypt contributors: Nahed Mansour and Bassam El Baroni (ACAF), Denise Ryner and Babak Radboy (Bidoun Library), Damon Kowarsky, Olive McKeon, Joseph Banh, Moataz Nasreldin (Darb 1718), Mia Jankowicz (CIC), William Wells (Townhouse), Themba Lewis, Aliza Ma, Rasha Salti, Gabe Klinger, Anna Feigenbaum, Francisco-Fernando Granados and Leila Timmins.

FUSE Magazine

JennyPort Gallery - Pressing Matters

JennyPort Gallery is pleased to invite you to

Pressing Matters: Melbourne Printmaking

Jazmina Cininas, Laura di Florio, Gary [Spook] James, Adrian Kellett, Damon Kowarsky, Sarah Menelaus, Jim Pavlidis, Cat Poljski, Julia Silvester, Deb Taylor and Kim Wall.

Opening 28 September 6 to 8pm
Exhibition continues until 22 October

For more information and a copy of the invitation click here.

APW - Scholarships Exposed

Australian Print Workshop invites you to an exhibition of limited edition prints

Scholarships Exposed:
Where are they now?

APW Collie Print Trust Scholarships for Emerging Victorian Printmakers

Opening 2 to 4pm Saturday 8 October 2011
Exhibition dates 24 September to 12 November 2011

Exhibiting artists include:
Mari Adams, Elizabeth Barnett, Alexis Beckett, Anita Bragge, Rhys Burnie, Justin Caleo, Jazmina Cininas, Anna Corbett, Marieke Dench, Louise Donovan, Bridget Farmer, Andrew Gunnell, Greg Harrison, Kate Hudson, Clare Humphries, Suzanne Hutton, Chris Ingham, Georgia Janetzki, Alexi Keywan, Damon Kowarsky, Anna Liebzeit, Eloise Linklater, Jade Mahoney, Rebecca Mayo, Justin McShane, Sarah Menelaus, 13.4.13, Jon Paton, Catherine Pilgrim, Louise Rippert, Matthew Roberts, Andrew Sinclair, Elaine Su-Hui Chew, Deb Tate, Deb Taylor, Georgia Thorpe, Mirjana Vuk-Nikic, Gali Weiss, Cherie Winter, Jessica Wong and Kate Zizys.

For more information and a copy of the invitation click here

Installation and Exhibition at Aesop Aoyama

Thank you to all the staff of Aesop, Aoyama and Melbourne, for their help and support.

Exhibition and Installation at Aesop Aoyama

Aesop Japan is very pleased to invite you and your partner to the installation by Kyoko Imazu and Damon Kowarsky in Aesop's Aoyama store.

Please join us for drinks to celebrate this occasion and meet the artists.

Friday 9 September from 6 to 8pm.

今津杏子とデイモン・コワスキーの展覧会及び常設展示を記念し、
イソップ青山店はささやかなパーティーを行います。
アーティストと共に皆様のお越しをお待ち申し上げます。

2011年9月9日 金曜日 18時～20時

Aesop Aoyama イソップ 青山店
4-8-2 Gingumae Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150-0001
〒150-0001 東京都渋谷区神宮前4-8-2

For more information click here

MLC Acquisitive Printmaking Exhibition and Festival

MLC, together with Chrysalis Gallery and Port Jackson Press have selected over 80 works to exhibit at the 2011 Acquisitive Printmaking Exhibition. Opens August 12 and runs until August 26.

Jazmina Cininas will open the show on August 12 at 7pm and introduce the Printmaking Festival which will be held on the two following Saturdays.

Art House
Methodist Ladies' College
corner Glenferrie Rd and Fitzwilliam St
Kew VIC 3101

Interview on SBS Arabic Radio Melbourne

Australian Artist Damon Kowarsky was delighted to have his exhibition opened at the British Council Damascus last weekend.

Listen to this interview with Damon Kowarsky talking about his experiences visiting Syria and Egypt .

Others Asias Summer Zine Festival

To coincide with the launch of GALERIE8’s web-based journal this event plays host to some of the most innovative publishing and print collectives, with a special focus on the dynamic work taking place in London.

On 23 and 24 July, the independent press and publishing A/FFAIR takes over GALERIE8’s atrium.

Presenting approximately 20 stalls, the fair features specially curated projects by ..ment, Art Licks, Dent De Leone, Marcin Dudek, Kilimanjaro, L_A_N, Landfill Editions, LE GUN, Mute, Nyx Nocturnal, Other Asias, Transition Editions, Turps Banana, YH485 Press and more.

With zines from Siberia, Pakistan, China, Australia, Egypt, Japan, England and beyond...

GALERIE8
195-205 Richmond Road London E8 3NJ

Exhibition - Near and Far

The British Council Damascus is pleased to invite you to the opening of

Near and Far

Saturday 10 July from 6 to 8 pm

Prints based in part on my travels in Syria in 2009 as a recipient of the Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award.

'It was a wonderful experience to visit the historical and cultural places of Syria and spend time with such hospitable and welcoming people. It is wonderful to have the opportunity to return to Damascus and share with you some of the things I saw. I am grateful to Elizabeth White and the staff of the British Council Damascus, and the Australian Embassy Cairo, whose generous support has helped make this exhibition possible.'

British Council Damascus
Maysaloun Street, Shaalan
Damascus, Syria

Exhibition continues until September 7
Gallery hours Sunday to Thursday 830am to 430pm

For more information click here

Exhibition - Contemporary and Collectable Australian Printmakers

Metropolis Gallery is pleased to invite you to the opening of

Contemporary and Collectable Australian Printmakers

Official opening by Jackie Hocking
Gallery Manager, Australian Print Workshop

Saturday 16 July
5 to 7pm

This comprehensive exhibition will transform Metropolis Gallery with an exceptional range of images by some of Australia’s most prominent contemporary printmakers.

Anna Austin, Dean Bowen, Jazmina Cininas, Robert Clinch, Madeleine Goodwolf, Nicolas Goodwolf, Graham Fransella, David Frazer, Rew Hanks, Deborah Klein, Damon Kowarsky, Clare Whitney, and Deborah Williams.

Gallery hours
Monday to Friday 10am to 530pm
Saturday 10am to 4pm
Exhibition continues until 30 July

For more information click here

Exhibition - The New Field

Stephen Nall and Co-Directors Adrian Doyle and Joel Gailer

invite you to the gallery launch of

Dark Horse Experiment

The inaugural exhibition The New Field will open the gallery

Thursday 14 July 2011
6 to 9pm

Exhibition Dates
12 to 30 July 2011

Gallery Hours
Tuesday to Saturday 12 to 6pm

ARTISTS

Matthew Bax, Nicholas Blowers, James Clayden, Luke Cornish (E.L.K.), Adrian Doyle, Geoff Dyer, Ben Frost, Drew Funk, Joel Gailer, PJ Hickman, Bruce Hunt, Andy Hutson, Aldo Iacobelli, Tony Irving, Damon Kowarsky, Cristina Popovici, Craig Poore (ADi), Pip Ryan, Andrew Sibley, Dan Sibley, Tim Sterling, Regan Tamanui (HAHA), Jason Waterhouse

For more information click here

Radio interview on Inner FM 96.5

With Jerry Guirguis on Inner FM 96.5

To listen click here

Summer Zine Festival London

OtherAsias is please to present zines by Nancy Ibrahim, Kyoko Imazu, and Damon Kowarsky The Women's Library on Saturday 25 June from 12 to 4pm.

Summer Zine Festival
The Women's Library
London Metropolitan University
25 Old Castle Street
London E1 7NT

Collaborate on SBS Radio

Kyoko Imazu talks with Mr Hisaaki Nagao from SBS Radio about our exhibition at Port Jackson Press. Please listen from about 33 minutes.

Kyoko Imazu and Damon Kowarsky Collaborate

Port Jackson Press and the Consul General of Japan, Melbourne are pleased to invite you to attend

Collaborate

Recent prints by Kyoko Imazu and Damon Kowarsky

24 June to 17 July 2011

Official opening Friday 24 June 6 to 8pm by Mr Yasufumi Kotake, Acting Consul-General of Japan, Melbourne.

For the past two years Kyoko Imazu and Damon Kowarsky have collaborated on a series of prints exploring themes including nature, science, art and technology.

Their prints are made using use a simple collaborative system. The images are etched onto copper plates and printed by hand at the Australian Print Workshop Fitzroy and Trinity Grammar School Kew.

Together they have produced works of great subtlety, variety and humour.

Port Jackson Press is very pleased to present the first public exhibition of these works.

Port Jackson Press
61 Smith Street
Fitzroy VIC 3065
03 9419 8988

Gallery hours Tuesday to Friday 10am to 530pm
Saturday 11am to 5pm

This exhibition has been generously supported by Aesop, Asahi, and Daiwa Food Corporation.

More information and a map can be found here

SAWA Monoprint Workshop

On Saturday 4 June SAWA presented a monoprint workshop with the Australian artist Damon Kowarsky.

Monoprint is the simplest and most direct form of printmaking. It needs almost no equipment except paper and ink and produces beautiful, subtle and unique works of art.

In this workshop artists learnt to produce multi colour prints through layering. They experimented with imagery and technique, and produced a suite of prints that explored the medium through the lens of their own practices.

The SAWA monoprint workshop was gratefully supported by the Australian Embassy Cairo.

London Alternative Press Fair

Hamja Ahsan from Other Asias took our zines 'about a chameleon' and 'downtown' to LAPF 2011. Thank you Hamja, Nancy Ibrahim and Kyoko Imazu for all you help with this project.

Local media

Anne de Groot in Cairo360

Hagar Saeed in The Egyptian Gazette

Mariam Hamdy in The Daily News Egypt

SAWA Workshop

On 15 May SAWA was pleased to present a zine making workshop with Australian artist Damon Kowarsky and Cairo writer and journalist Nancy Ibrahim.

Zines [short for magazines] are the simplest of artist's books. Made with materials as accessible as photocopy and staples they are an inclusive, democratic and most of all fun medium.

In this workshop artists learnt how to make a simple zine. This included are ideas on design, construction, printing and distribution. The zines were worked on both individually and collaboration with other artists or writers.

The SAWA zine making workshop was gratefully supported by the Australian Embassy Cairo.

from Al Masry Al Youm

Article by Helen Stuhr-Rommereim

"World cities through the eyes of a traveller"

In Visible Cities

Mashrabia Gallery and the Australian Embassy in Cairo are pleased to invite you to attend

In Visible Cities

etchings and drawings by Damon Kowarsky

May 8 to June 2 2011

Official opening Sunday May 8 at 7 pm by HE Ms Stephanie Shwabsky, Australian Ambassador to Egypt.

For the past eight years the theme of the city has featured prominently in the work of Damon Kowarsky.

For Kowarsky the city excites because of its collective and universal character and the great variety of its forms. These range from mud brick to steel but as all serve similar functions there are similarities despite the otherwise enormous differences in language and culture.

The work in the exhibition In Visible Cities is based on Kowarsky's time in Cairo, visits to cities including Damascus, Chicago, New York, and his home town of Melbourne, Australia.

By bringing together images of these cities - old and new, familiar and completely unknown – Kowarsky shows both the links that bind these places and the distinctive details that mark them as their own.

David Hagger, 2011

Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art

8 Champollion St
Downtown - Cairo
Egypt
Phone 02 25784494
Mobile 010 1704554
Opening hours: Daily except Friday 11 am to 8 pm

www.mashrabiagallery.org

Other Asias at the London Zine Symposium

Hamja Ahsan from Other Asias will be presenting the zine 'downtown' , made in collaboration with Nancy Ibrahim, as part of the London Zine Symposium on Sunday April 17.

Thanks to Nancy Ibrahim for her amazing texts, and Ahsan for his support in London.

100 Works on Paper

100 WORKS ON PAPER BENEFIT
Saturday, May 14, 6pm

Kentler International Drawing Space
353 Van Brunt Street
[RED HOOK] Brooklyn
New York 11231

CIVITAS Extension

CIVITAS at Daley Gallery, Trinity Grammar School Kew has been extended until 26 March.

Opening hours Monday to Friday 9 to 5 and

Saturday 26 March 1030 to 230 for the Trinity Open Day.

CIVITAS

Prints and drawings made during an extended Artist in Residency at Trinity Grammar School Kew and inspired by cities as diverse as Chicago, Istanbul, Melbourne and New York.

Opening Tuesday 22 February from 530 to 730pm

22 February to 11 March 2011

Daley Gallery, Trinity Grammar School

Charles St, Kew

Gallery hours Mon to Fri 9 am to 5 pm

Ben Holmes Quartet live in New York

For more information visit www.ben-holmes.com

Impressions 2010

The Australian Print Workshop presents

Impressions 2010
limited edition prints by contemporary artists

3 December 2010 to 12 February 2011

APW Gallery
210 Gertrude St
Fitzroy VIC 3065
03 9419 5466