Indigo is a natural colour dye with a chequered history, from its use as the colour of royalty, including the ancient pharaohs and mummies, to the modern day worker’s blue jeans. The world’s most valued and widely used dyestuff since its use in antiquity, indigo has proved a rich source of inspiration for The Press Gang’s contemporary printmaking exhibition of the same name.
Individual interpretations of the colour in ‘Indigo’ encompass trade history (the Silk Road), nature’s curiosities (indigo mushroom, indigo bird, indigo plant) and abstract works and portraits printed in vivid or subtly muted indigo ink.
This is the third display of work from The Press Gang, resident printmakers for over two years at Wallarobba.
Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre
9 to 21 December, 2013
Sydney
Judith Miller, Untitled (detail), 2013, monoprint, 25 x 35cm
Courtesy the artist
Photography: Frances Brown
