Extra

011110

Curated by Jakob Schmitt and Elyss McCleary.

Elyss McCleary, Extra extra collage 011110 2011.

Emily Bissland

Pierrette Boustany

Rachel Guy

Christina Hayes

Penelope Hunt

Katie Jacobs

Sim Luttin

Elyss McCleary

James McDonald

Melissa Petty

Jakob Schmitt

Bernadette Trench- Theideman

Anne Warren

Lynette Young

Exhibition:Wednesday 08 June 2011 to Saturday 02 July 2011

Opening Wednesday 08 June 2011 6-8pm

Extra Extra 011110 is an exhibition consisting of 14 artists currently employed at Arts Project Australia, Northcote that supports artists witha disability. The project evolved naturally at work through our interest in art, and a desire to collaborate together.

Jakob Schmitt and Elyss McCleary, 2011.

Printmaking lives on in a digital age

June 9, 2011

Elyss McCleary's Newspaper Wall is one of the works on show at the Extra Extra 011110 exhibition. Photo: Paul Rovere

IF PRINTERS are going out of business in the digital age, then what is the future for printmakers?

''Alive and well'', according to Jakob Schmitt, 33. ''It's a beautiful process and a lot of people are reverting to that winding something through a wheel.

When so much now is digital it's refreshing to have a process that has an old-school rawness to it,'' said the printmaker who organised the Extra Extra 011110 exhibition that opened at The Library Artspace in North Fitzroy last night.

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Given his feelings for print, it's no surprise that Schmitt and the 13 other artists - who all teach at Arts Project Australia for disabled artists - drew their inspiration for their group show from the print edition of The Age from November 1 last year rather than the iPad version of the newspaper.

''We were looking for a theme and randomly chose The Age because of the tactile nature of a newspaper,'' said Schmitt, whose own entry replicates The Age crossword and ''Target'' quiz from that day. ''And as a printmaker I really liked the graphic and striking nature of a crossword,'' he said.

But don't go looking for a solution to Schmitt's Target quiz because he changed one letter ''to keep people guessing''.

The artists chose the November 1, 2010 edition of The Age for the ''aesthetics'' of how the date looks as the palindromic number 011110.

The date also looks somewhat Satanic, though in this case that's only true if you consider horse-racing the Devil's work.

November 1, 2010 was Melbourne Cup eve so almost half the art works in the show have a horse-racing theme.

The works, which are for sale, include paintings, sculpture, collage, silversmithing and one video work - images of Miss Universe 2010 accompanied by Bruce McAvaney's call of last year's Melbourne Cup won by Americain.

RAYMOND GILL

Extra Extra 011110 is at The Library Artspace, 100 Barkly Street, North Fitzroy, until July 2