Horizon Lines: Marking 50 Years of Print Scholarship
University of Melbourne
‘Horizon Lines’ celebrates the 50-year anniversary of two important print scholarships, ‘The Harold Wright Scholarship’ and ‘The Sarah and William Holmes Scholarship’ both initiated in 1969 for Australian and New Zealand print scholars, which to this day offers opportunity for recipients to visit the British Museum in London to explore one of the oldest print collections in the world while undertaking research.
From cover to cover we are treated to a splendid presentation of prints dating from the 14th to 20th century from the likes of Rembrandt van Rijn, Samuel Palmer, Giovanni Batista, Hendrick Goltzins, Claude Flight, C.R.W. Nevinson and Paul Nash, Ethel Spowers, Eveline Syme, and others. Essays from a number of scholarship recipients including Louise Voll Box, Luke Morgan, Marguerite Brown, Anne Ryan and Stephen Coppel, to name but a few, reflect on the particular prints they studied. A short biography by David Maskill shares the life of Harold Wright, while Kerrianne Stone, editor of this book and 2014 scholarship recipient, gives background knowledge on the collections, how the scholarships came to be and the people and institutions involved.
Celebrations include an exhibition of prints from the University of Melbourne’s Bailleau Library collection, which is on show at the Noel Shaw Gallery until 9 December 2020, and another at the British Museum, which invited recipients to select one work each from the Department of Prints and Drawings collection for a small exhibit in Gallery 90a, until January 2020. Featured works are listed in the final pages of this publication along with a full list of awarded recipients.