Artist Emily Floyd and Michael Kempson of Cicada Press lead a workshop to create original prints using Floyd’s specially created typeface for Ursula Leguin's invented Kesh Alphabet.
Presented at the print studios in G Block.
Emily Floyd is a Melbourne based artist fascinated by themes of education, play and knowledge. Her work is held in key museum collections such as The National Gallery of Australia, Gallery of Modern Art Queensland, and MCA Sydney, and in 2014 solo exhibitions of her work were staged at both the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. She was awarded the inaugural Monash University Museum of Art Ian Potter Sculpture Commission and her work is held in collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Michael Kempson has developed an extensive printmaking practice in Australia and the Asia/Pacific region through his work as an artist, curator, master printer and academic. Kempson is currently a Senior Lecturer and Convenor of Printmaking Studies at The University of New South Wales Art & Design in Sydney, a visiting Professor at the Xi’an Academy of Fine Art in China and the International Member at Large for the US based Southern Graphics Council International for 2014 to 2016. Kempson has been exhibiting in Australia since 1983 with a total of 26 one-person exhibitions and over 200 group exhibitions nationally and internationally.
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Presented in conjunction with 'A Working Model of the World' at UNSW Galleries.
From dioramas to dolls' houses, atomic models to cloud-chambers, mandalas to maquettes, 'A Working Model of the World' gathers together charismatic objects created to help us understand the world around us and imagine new possibilities. The exhibition explores the way models are used to create and share knowledge, and asks how we use models to contemplate, experiment, invent and teach.
Image: Emily Floyd Kesh Letterpress 2016. Installation view, 'A Working Model of the World', UNSW Galleries 2017. Photo: Silversalt Photography