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	Kat Macleod achieves sensational response from first solo exhibition. Kat Macleod has achieved close to cult status with her very now and funky fashion illustrations. Better known in New York than her home town of Melbourne , she is a regular contributer to Harper's Bazaar, Madison, Frankie, Nylon , Real Simple and Vogue. Well known also for Mishi Girl she co-directs the design agency Ortolan. Her show at Lamington Drive in Melbourne has astonished her with it's success. Despite the touted gloom of a global financial meltdown , Macleods works have been selling like the proverbial hot cakes. The original illustrations and collages , we think are now all sold (some 38 pieces), and about 100 prints have gone, but with limited edition of 50 prints from 12 images it is still possible to pick up prints for Christmas if you are in Melbourne in the next few days. Unmounted, an A4 (the Vogue series),is going for only $150 and an A3 for $250 (The City Girls) . Framed prints also available. Kat Macleod is represented by The Jacky Winter Group. The prints, by Pharos Editions, are on Museo Max, 300gsm cotton paper, have an extraordinary three dimensional appearance due to very luminous profiles and especially crafted sharpening techniques. New Papers from Canson Papers sold under the Canson Infinity range include Arches, Montval and BFK Rives. These French fine art papers, with new coatings for inkjet printing giving superb colour, high sharpness and deep blacks. Most of this new range of papers have been developed over the last few hundred years for traditional printmaking. For example Montval Torchon has a smooth scalloped surface originally used for pastels, Edition Etching Rag is used for intaglio and Arches Aquarelle for watercolours. Our favourites include the famous BFK Rives 310gsm, Arches Velin Museum Rag, Rag Photographique (very smooth), and a new and very fine canvas, Museum Canvas, Water Resistant Matte, 440gsm. The Arches and BFK papers are mould made, with no grain (random fibres) and long fibre length giving great strength. These papers have an extraordinary presence. All paperexceed conservation standards. These new substrates complete our fine art range and we expect them, together with Awagami washi papers, handmade papers (coated here at Pharos Editions), and our range of uncoated art papers for artist's books, to be the mainstay of edition art printing and publishing at Pharos Editions. The papers are also available for mail order sale to artists at very good prices. New Printer offers prints to 1.5m wide by any length Pharos Editions has recently installed a Roland 64" FJ600 pigment printer. The FJ600 utilises 8 colours. The addition of green and orange inks to the usual CMYK offers wider gamut and better reds and greens. Unlike te triangular gamut of most printers the Roland and the new Epson 9900 produce an almost circular gamut. Note that many of the best papers are yet not available beyond 50" wide. This is a situation that we expect will be rectified shortly as more of these wide format printers come on line. We do have canvasses and Hahnemuhle Photo Rag (305gsm) to 60", and Museo Silver Rag (lustre) and Portfolio (matte) to 50" , all acid free cotton , no OBAs. Please ring to discuss possibilities. The Roland uses twin Epson piezo heads to provide resolution to 1440x1440 dpi. offering extraordinary detail. With a custom RIP we can print vector files as well as bit files. This means better book production using text from Illustrator , In Design etc. We expect to add an Epson 9900 44" printer during November. The 9900 has a similar ink array to the Roland (CMYK plus orange and green for wide and near circular gamut) but with 2 more blacks. It is also a lot faster. We will have more to say about this printer son. Gali Weiss Pharos Editions services to artists include the documentation of exhibitions and post graduate projects. We have recently documented a doctoral project for Gali Weiss which is currently exhibited as "The Anonymous Portrait" at Upstairs Flinders Gallery in Melbourne (see Home). The Anonymous Portrait is an exploration of subjectivity and representation through the portrait. The works can be viewed both as portraits of individuals, nameless yet particular, and as portraits of collectivity, of family relations, of inheritance, of difference and sameness. The project consists of works on paper (predominantly charcoal drawings) and handbound artists books printed by embossing, pigment transfer and physical impressions of parts of human faces. . Nina Sellars interprets Stelarc's Third Ear. Nina Sellars and drying prints at Pharos Editions Pharos Editions worked for three weeks with Nina Sellars to produce her solo show "Oblique". which is of the internationally acclaimed performance artist Stellarc's Extra Ear operation in Los Angeles. The show, which has recently closed at the new Guildford Lane Gallery , Melbourne, was opened by Stelarc . A further set have been printed for exhibition in London and will aso be seen at Ex Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City in September 2009. Sellars' work utilises a palette of tone and colour derived from classical painting, particularly that of Carravagio and the theatre lighting of the 19th century that early surgeons observed, in order to interrogate the interface between the internal and external body. In order to achieve this many hours of collaboration between artist and master printer were spent , especially on the refinement of luminosity and depth edits.
	TIM CUSHAN Adventurer, eco-warrior and photographer , Tim Cushan is currently living in San Diego. In this extraordinary series he exhibits selected images photographed over several months at an elephant rescue and rehabilitation reserve in Thailand. In contrast to most "nature photography" where images are recorded from a distance with long telephoto lenses, Cushan has moved with, and often almost under, his subjects with a wide angle lens to create intimate portraits of these highly intelligent but threatened animals. His monochrome images in particular , have a haunting timeless quality seldom seen in this genre. His latest work , yet to be publically seen in on the camels of Rajistan. In keeping with his policy of reducing impact on the planet he has chosen Hahnemuhle Bamboo, a beautiful archival paper made from 90% bamboo fibre and 10% cotton.. Tim's profits from print sales will be used to further the protection of elephants . See our Home Page for location of his current exhibition in the USA. TOMMASO DURANTE Tommaso Durante emigrated to Australia after a distinguished career as an artist and academic in Italy. In Australia he has firmly established himself as a leading sculptor, ceramicist and printmaker. For the production of his recent artist's book ,"Skin, Surfaces and Shadows", Durante has enlisted renown poet Chris Wallace-Crabb to write the text, master binder George Matoulas for the hand binding and Pharos Editions for the printing. The book is printed on Somerset Book White from St Cuthbert's Mill in England. The papers deckle edges have been retained . The images were produced by Durante from a small digital camera for preliminary editing by the artist. Luminosity, depth edits and expanded colour gamut was undertaken at Pharos Editions for approval by the artist. A recent review in the USA by Judith Hoffberg," Umbrella online", Vol 31, No1, March 2008, says it much better than our modesty would allow. "...a stunning new bookwork which pushes the boundary of art, craft and design by combining digital technologies with traditional techniques and materials. With Hugo von Hofmannstal's quotation as a guide "Depth is to be hidden. Where? On the surface" you will have a hint of what the artist intends . With wrought images and design of the artist and the sculptured words of the poet, Durante tries to explore the surface of things and the figurative dividing line of the shadow, with no fear to run the risk of beauty as a side effect. in fact beauty is everywhere - the paper is heavy and handmade to support the gorgeous imagery of prints which goes beyond the double pages to the universe itself..." Well there you go.. We think it is pretty good too. The current edition of Imprint (Spring 2008, Vol. 43 No3),features an article about the book by Durante on pages 24 and 25. The edition consists of only 25 copies of the book , several of which have already been purchased by major institutions including the National Library of Australia and Melbourne University. The book was launched in Melbourne at The National Gallery of Victoria and in Canberra at The National Museum of Australia. BRONEK KOZKA Commercial photography and education have occupies much of Bronek Kozka's time . Recently he has been making strong inroads into the fine art photography scene, which he admits, is his real destination. In 2007 he was the recipient of a Hasselblad Masters Award , the only one awarded to an Australian in that year. Earlier in 2008 he was a finalist in The Lewis Moran Prize , the richest and most prestigious award for photography in Australia and more recently the Wiliam and Winifred Bowness Photographic Prize . Kozka's work utilises meticulous styling, lighting and directoring skills to create performances that describe narratives of human encounter. This is highly collectable work from one of the strongest voices in art photography today. This work has was also recently commended in the Sunshine Art Prize, Cairns, Queensland, earning Kozka $1000. LILIANA MELONI Born in Argentina , Lily Meloni's images are steeped in magic realism. In the last two times she has exhibited with Pharos Editions at Art Melbourne, her work has explored the family and the feminine. This year she showed new works constructed from her experiences last year in Venice and on the Amalfi Coast . Still highly personal , they transcend the individual, touching on a common chord within the traveller that sees mystery in the unfamiliar, that makes the unaccustomed so enticing. MARY ROSENGREN DIGITALIS- MOSS CELLS #1 Mary Rosengren’s practice reflects an ongoing interest in technology and nature. In particular the visualizations of nature and the experience of extreme environments. The prints in the series Fruitingbodies, Digitalis and The Real Thing draw together images, inscriptions and textual material from her own field trips and from historical and contemporary sources in western science. In 2005 Mary re-established her practice in Australia after 15 years in the UK, where she had exhibited and worked with artist networks in Scotland. In addition to exhibiting in the UK and Japan, Mary has continued to exhibit in Australia. Her work is represented in national and private collections in Australia, USA and UK. She recently exhibited at the University of Woollongong as part of the requirements for her Degree of Doctorate of Arts.

	STANLEY AND KAISA BREEDEN The Breedens are highly acclaimed and accomplished nature photographers . At last years Art Melbourne , a very popular piece was their monochrome work "Sanctum" This year they are showing a new image "The Green Man", shown above. This fascinating image is printed on the new Bamboo paper from Hahnemuhle, which is not only appropriately sustainably produced - not from rainforest timber - but prints with both richness and detail. The Breedens are currently photographing spectacular wildflower displays in Western Australia. Samples of these new works will appear on this site as soon as available. Some of these images are currently appearing on th Breeden's web-site. Here RON EDEN Ron Eden is a prophet who speaks in pictures, thinks in sounds. In the late 20th century he introduced discos to Australia, coined the term "multimedia' (1972), and contemplated the future with Marshall McLuhan ("the media is the message"). He now produces images in co-operation with bacteria, fungi and laundry chemicals that speak of a world after climate change, a world of the Paraculture. Ignore him at your peril. Next show at Swan Hill Regional Gallery , March 2009, where he will also be be showng multimedia and giving presentations in local schools.
	MARY MODEEN Mary Modeen is program leader in Art, Philosophy and Contemporary Practices at The Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Scotland. Her work addresses notions of landscape,place, memory and continuity. She exhibits and her work is in major collections , worldwide. Her recent residencies have been in Isle of Man, Australia , New Zealand and Northern Ireland . She is represented in The Archive of Humanist Art. She kindly allowed us to offer three new pieces. Contact us for more information. SIMON O'DWYER Veronica's Pearls Internationally acclaimed photographer Simon O'Dwyer recently attending the Perignon photojournalist conference in France showing a number of Pharos prints. New works to be shown shortly.

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