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.

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.

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

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