Exhibition: Hanart TZ Gallery, 2/F Henley Building, 5 Queen's Road, Central. Tel: 2526 9019. 10am-6.30pm Mon-Fri; 10am-6pm Sat. Sept 22-Oct 12.
Kim Westcott has become one of Australia's leading printmakers. Her drypoint prints on show alongside photographs by Chinese artist Qiu Zhijie at Hanart TZ Gallery until October 12 show how personal experience has been essential to her work. Westcott (Burnt Relic, right) has learned from Aboriginal artists and New York modernists. She has lived and worked in Melbourne's industrial zone and on Victoria's coast.
Her works have developed from early black and white monographs to these, her new series of prints are very much about colour. The large pieces are schematic deconstructions of Australia's Little Desert landscape, but as time has gone on she has started loosening up her methods. There is more freedom there now, sweeping lines. Westcott's is a constant process of layering of imagery.
Qiu, a mainland artist, shows Calendar, a series of photo collages in the format of a monthly calendar. Qiu took a picture a day and put the images into the relating date on the calendar. He is also showing Interface, a series of photographs and pieces of bamboo mat. Each tiny piece of mat is carved with Chinese characters. He then pressed the pieces on to human skin and took a series of photos focusing on the skin from different angles.
