Big Fag Press

Netwalking: Sydney

Acclaimed UK artist Simon Pope invites you to join him in a walk around Woolloomooloo.

Following a short talk at the Big Fag Press in which the artist will introduce his work with walking and dialogue, he will invite Sydney inhabitants to take part in a walk in which they reflect on relationships with the people of the city.

Details:
Saturday April 13th 2013 11am – 4pm
Big Fag Press
First Draft Depot
15-17 Riley Street
Woolloomooloo
Sydney

Please bring sunhat, water bottle, lunch, comfortable walking shoes

The event is free of charge.

Places are limited so registration is essential.
http://ada.net.nz/netwalking/#register

Residency Programme Launch BBQ

Join us at Big Fag Press for a BBQ on Sat February 2nd – to celebrate the conclusion of our Emerging Artists Residency Programme.

Artists Laura Hindmarsh (Tas) and Pat Grant (NSW) will be on hand showing what they’ve made in the Big Fag workshop over the last few weeks.

Pat and Laura have set up shop in the very sexy (and triangular!) First Draft Depot Project Space, and will be installing their work for a special “one-afternoon-only” public event.

If you’re a friend of the Big Fag, come down and join us for a shandy and a BBQ. (STOP PRESS! – the BBQ will now also include vegie sausages!).

If you’ve never been to the Big Fag Press, now’s a great time to come along and see what we’re all about.
We’ll have the machine rolling so you can smell the ink and dream about one day making your own print with us!

Details:
Big Fag Press Emerging Artists Residency Programme BBQ
Sat 2nd February 2013
3pm-5pm (or so)…
First Draft Depot
13-17 Riley Street
Woolloomooloo
(enter via Haig Lane)

Big Fag Prints at Wollongong City Gallery

Currently on show at Wollongong City Gallery are three works created on the Big Fag Press, as part of the Green Bans Art Walk project (2011).

They are showing as part of the Wollongong City Gallery’s exhibition commemorating 20 years of its artist in residence programme.

Details of the exhibition, which runs until 18 November, are here.

The two works on the left in the photo above are lithographic prints made from watercolours by Fiona MacDonald, produced after archival photographs of the Green Bans in Sydney in the 1970s.

On the right is an elegant map (front and back both exhibited!) produced collaboratively by Pat Armstrong from Big Fag, and Jo Holder from Cross Arts Projects, entitled Green Bans Civic Walking Map.

Find out more about these prints and the whole Green Bans Art Walk project over here.

Through Indian Eyes

Designer Ishan Khosla and embroiderer Sajnu Ben design the Sangam logo

Diego Bonetto from Big Fag Press will join an expert panel who will navigate a curious story about an Indian designer who arrives in Australia with the objective of reviving a dying craft.

Facilitated by film maker, television writer, on-air presenter, Nell Schofield.

Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
500 Harris Street Ultimo
1 November, 2012
6.30pm – 8pm (doors open from 6pm)
$15, $12 members

More information and bookings here.
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Green Bans Art Walk Film Festival!

To conclude the Green Bans Art Walk project, we are putting on a film night next Saturday at the Woolloomooloo PCYC, which is across Haig Lane from the Firstdraft Depot where the press is housed.

We will be screening Pat Fiske’s excellent Rocking The Foundations with an introduction from Pat herself, and a freshly-produced film documenting the project that the fantastic Justin Hewitson has been filming for us over the past few weekends.

Hope to see you there!

The first Green Bans Art Walk notes and pictures

Lionel Bawden, one of the directors of First Draft Gallery/Depot came along to the first day of the Green Bans Art Walk, and took the following pictures.

The captions are also compiled by him. Thanks so much Lionel, for the photos and for all your hard work helping out with the project!

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Walks, tours, talks and bookings

For more on the Green Bans history, see this site by Sarah Barns.

Green Bans Art Walks

Big Fag Press is well underway with its Green Bans Art Walks project in Woolloomooloo.

It’s a collaboration with The Cross Arts Projects in Kings Cross, artist Fiona McDonald, and a number of Woolloomooloo and Kings Cross residents.

Here’s a page which gives more info on the project, which has been generously supported by Performance Space, First Draft Depot, The Awesome Foundation, and the City of Sydney.

For more on the Green Bans history, see this great site by Sarah Barns.

PRINTED MATTER

PRINTED MATTER
Exhibition opens 7th June, 6 – 8pm. Continues till 25th June

BIG FAG PRESS
BLOOD & THUNDER PUBLISHING CONCERN
THE RIZZERIA

‘Printed Matter’ explores some of the dynamic printing collectives that operate in Sydney. Co-existing in their own unique realm, each individual collective offer a fresh take on printed output – the result being a tactile mark on paper whose character flourishes through the unpredictable nature of the machine in operation.

As far as mass produced media is concerned, the collectives diverge from their digital counterparts, through a certain je ne sais quoi that is too often undermined through digital printing processes. Designs are scrutinised to work harmoniously with the method of production, colours are picked by eye from a limited palette and stocks are often painstakingly hand fed. These elements come together to create a unique print that through its idiosyncrasies is truly human.

Birds, Fish, Stars

DAB LAB research gallery invites you to celebrate Dr Kate Sweetapple’s exhibition opening:

Mr Salmon and Mrs Sparrow

An exposition comprising three brand new prints designed for, and lithographically stamped on the Big Fag Press, shewing a trio of cartographic representations of the fine metropolis of Sydney: the city as shaped by those inhabitants who are named by fish; those named by birds; and those whose names are celestially inspired, as printed by Dr Sweetapple herself in creative collaboration with the young gentlemen of the Big Fag Press, lately of Woolloomooloo.

Gala exhibition opening: Tuesday August 3, 6-8pm

for more info:
Debbie Pryor
Gallery Manager
DABLab
Level 4 courtyard, UTS
Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
702 Harris Street, Ultimo
ph 95148016

Some photos of the prints in production, thanks to Firstdraft:

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