International printmakers head for Cape Town in August
The indispensable William Kentridge will be the keynote speaker on the first night of a four day international conference on printmaking to take place in Cape Town at the end of August.
Organised by the head of the printmaking department at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Stephen Inggs, in conjunction with Dominic Thorburn of the Rhodes University Department of Printmaking, this third edition of Impact will be the first time the conference has been held in South Africa. Linked exhibitions of prints will take place at the art school, the South African National Gallery, the Cape Town Castle and at other venues throughout the city.
International guest speakers include Faye Hirsch, founding editor of Art on Paper and Lynne Allen, of the International Center for Innovative Printmaking at Rutgers University, New Jersey. The programme includes daily practical printmaking workshops in the Michaelis studios run by Richard Kennedy, Eric Avery and Bill Lagatutta and panel discussions and stand alone papers on every aspect of printmaking, from the theoretical and historical to the aesthetic. Considerations of the place of prints in the art markets of the world will also come under discussion.
The conference starts at noon on Wednesday, August 27, and continues every day, with evening events planned, until the final dinner on Saturday, August 30.
For the full day by day programme or to register for the conference online, go to www.impact2003.uct.ac.za. Inquiries to ajames@curie.uct.ac.za.
