Jennifer Long (Artist) | Visual arts

Jennifer Long (Artist)

Phone: +61 435 091 278

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• Public figure
• Art
• Artist
• Visual arts

25.01.2022 'Network' is my latest etching hanging in the 'Of Foresters, Farmers and Fish' Exhibition at Impress Printmaker's Studio & Gallery Kedron. 40 great prints from Wales and Brisbane. Opening night 6th Dec 6-8pm.

25.01.2022 Join me for a workshop at Impress Printmakers Studio, Kedron on the weekend of 17/18 Oct and make your own collection of personal paper and wax bowls. Upcycle old prints, drawings, image transfers into beautiful objects. Go to the link below or message me if you are interested. https://www.impress.org.au/workshops.html

24.01.2022 Recent artwork 'Quilted Memoryscape' of 9 etched paper panels stitched with red and black waxed linen thread finally finished. Thankyou to Peter Waddington for the beautiful images.

23.01.2022 Setting up new exhibition (GBT-Getting Back Together) at Impress Printmaker's Gallery of some 50 member's works done over the last 6 months. Visit the gallery from 24th Sept(10-2pm) open for 3 weeks. Official opening and launching of new signage at the Studio and Gallery Sunday 27th Sept (10-3pm). 2 new works in the exhibition.

18.01.2022 If you get a chance visit the Vera Wade Gallery beneath St Andrews Church in Ann Street and catch the latest Soulscapes 11 Exhibition. I have 2 works(etchings) in the show - 'Turbulence' and 'Edge of Reason'. It's on until the end of the month.

16.01.2022 Castlemaine press Print Exchange 2021(In My Backyard)are up online. I have a work in the exhibition as does my daughter Jessie Klug. Check them out on https://castlemainepress.com.au//in-my-backyard-online-ex/

15.01.2022 PRINTMAKING FACT! Common Phrases you didn't realise originated in the printing industry! MAKING A GOOD IMPRESSION Essential for job interviews and first dates, ...making a good impression wasn’t always defined as crucial advice to guarantee others have a good opinion of you. It was actually an instruction to printers to ensure the printing plates and blocks made a good impression on the paper to let the ink soak in. For doing something that makes you memorable, it’s all tied up in a word for printing. The Latin word imprimere means to press into or upon. Whether you’re making a good impression or dressed to impress, you’re using a term that made it into English thanks to the printing press. Make an impression... be a printmaker! STEROTYPE The French coined the word as a ‘method of printing from a solid plate’, until it developed to mean ‘fix firmly or unchangeable’ in a more figurative sense. When printing presses were used, the cast iron plate that reproduced the words, phrases, or images was called a stereotype. The Oxford Dictionary didnt’t record its modern connotation of oversimplified and typical characteristics of people until 1953. The process of stereotyping sought to address the scarcity of type supplies by making molds of already set type, then casting whole metal plates of the page for reprinting later. Stereotyping was expensive, but imagine that poor compositor having to re-set some ridiculously popular book for the 26th time. A book had to reach a certain level of demand to merit the high expense of stereotyping, but it was worth it. Take the idea of creating thousands of exact printed copies from a single original setting of type just one step further and you get the modern meaning: assuming that every person from a single group is the exact same. CLICHÉ Was adopted as printers' jargon to refer to a stereotype, cast plate or block print that could reproduce type or images repeatedly. Cliché originally referred to the solid plate of type metal which was made from a cast. This fixed printing cast is where we find the source of the recent meaning in the English Language, of a fixed idea or phrase which hasn’t changed overtime until it is completely overused and unoriginal. UPPERCASE AND LOWERCASE In the dawn of the printing press, letter blocks were stowed in organised cases. Capital letters were kept above their smaller counterparts, however if the case had room for all letter blocks, capital letters were pushed backward so they were ‘higher’ if the case was upright (‘uppercase’), and the smaller letters were lower down (you get the picture). AGAINST THE GRAIN Popularised by Shakespeare in Coriolanus, the contemporary implication of this phrase describes going against social norms and practices. Although it was Shakespeare who brought this phrase out of the woodwork, it actually derives from cutting wood with the grain to ensure a smooth paper finish. It is much easier to work with and print on paper made by moving with the grain. HOT OFF THE PRESS Newspapers used to be made by the ‘hot metal printing’ process from pouring molten lead into the printing block moulds. It came from the hot type cast on the Linotype machine Invented by the German-born American immigrant Ottmar Mergenthaler, this machine allowed compositors to type on a keyboard what they wanted to print. The hot newspapers were then distributed, with the first readers grasping the juicy stories before anyone else, leading to its more common meaning of breaking news stories. MIND YOUR Ps AND Qs! Now denoting to minding your manners, the origins of this officious word are hotly debated in linguistic history. One theory is that printers had to warn their apprentices when distinguishing between the backward facing lowercase p’s and q’s which often led to confusion and error. OUT OF SORTS For those moving in the printing world, sort is another name for a single piece of type. When you run out of letters, you’re literally, out of sorts. This of course is very frustrating for print workers who keep impatient customers waiting whilst they source more lettering. Nowadays, when we feel under the weather or not quite right we’re out of sorts not a far cry from those irritated workers and customers. DITTO This word, used as a shorthand to repeat something that’s already been said, it comes from the Italian word detto, the past participle of to say. But the word gained steam in the early 20th century with a duplicating printing machine produced by DITTO, Inc. The company’s logo was a single set of quotation marks, which we use to mean ditto. -Lucy Moyes See more

15.01.2022 Opening this Friday night. Artist's talk-Sunday 17th Nov 2pm

13.01.2022 Latest international Print Exchange exhibition hung at Impress Printmaker's Studio & Gallery -' Of Foresters, Farmers and Fish: Tales from the Wildwoods of the Old and New Worlds'. See some fabulous printmaking techniques in works from 40 printmakers from the studios of Aberystwyth (Wales) and Impress (Brisbane). Open from 26 November-16 December with the opening night 6 December 6-8pm. I was fortunate to have an etching hung.

11.01.2022 Apparently Impress signage and exhibition opening this Sunday 27th is from 11-2pm (not 10-3Pm). Please note!!!

11.01.2022 Paper and Wax bowl WORKSHOP

10.01.2022 New work for Impressions 13(from 14th-24th Nov) at Impress Printmaker's Studio & Gallery, Kedron.

07.01.2022 Fantastic range of equipment for lino and etching, letter presses, screen printing room, lithography press and all the gear for a huge variety of printmaking. P...erfect for holding workshops as my recent workshop attested to. The gallery space is first class and the group of printmaker members friendly and helpful. See more

07.01.2022 Remembering Meri Meri times with my dear sister Nan on what would have been her 62nd birthday. You left us too early little sister.x

07.01.2022 Rice paper and wax bowls for a new exhibition about to be set up. Will keep you posted!

07.01.2022 Save Sat 14th Nov to visit the Brisbane Artisan Expo at Coorparoo Leagues Club where I will be exhibiting new work along with 19 other artisans.

05.01.2022 Well worth a visit on the Kedron Brook Art Trail.

04.01.2022 'EcoWomen 1' Print Exhibition at Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve Maleny for International Womens day continues until Sunday 22 March. My exhibit 'Nan Bird' is a 5 colour etching of my late sister Nan Borsht a talented artist and passionate lover of nature and birds.

02.01.2022 New exhibition(Mar 6-April 27) at the Chapel in the grounds of St. Francis College Milton opening Mar 12 7pm This exhibition of etchings, printed works and rice paper & wax bowls are part of the body of work ‘Flight’ I have been working on for some years now. They spring from reflections on my father's experience as a prisoner of war and an earlier generation of his family who came to Australia as refugees. I've used bird images and figures in my work as symbols of vulnerability and flight. This is an Arts and Justice Project sponsored by the Milton Anglican Parish.

02.01.2022 Pleased to have my new etching 'Borderline' chosen for the Unique States Exhibition at Impress Printmaker's Gallery & Studio at Kedron. Come to the opening night Sat 17 Nov.

02.01.2022 Join the crowd at Impress Printmaker's Studio & Gallery Kedron on Sunday 29 Nov (11-4pm) for some Christmas shopping at their Mini Print Exhibition(20x20cm artworks all $40 and under) and their Xmas markets.

02.01.2022 Pleased to get TWO new works accepted as finalists in the COSSAG Exhibition opening 12th July at St Francis Rush Centre St Stephen's Cathedral.