‘Inking up’ is an exciting print survey, which presents the work of three linocut printmakers: Rona Green, Deborah Klein and Clayton Tremlett. Their work explores the reasons why we get tattooed and why we define ourselves with statements through visual symbols.
Green’s work explores contemporary themes in body marking albeit Surreal with animal heads on human bodies with narrative tattoos. Klein’s work specifically includes tattooed women, faces and silhouettes with some based on women’s sewing iconography recalling the Indian process of Mehendi. Tremlett’s series of images, derived from documentation of the body markings of prisoners held in the Old Castlemaine Gaol, investigates how these images identify their host.
Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum
Until 18 October, 2015
Victoria
Rona Green, Chips, 2008, hand-coloured linocut, 112 x 76cm
Courtesy the artist and Australian Galleries, Melbourne
