Mark Graver – Bridge

Sound (NFS)

The sounds in Bridge were recorded under a different bridge in a different place at a different time then layered with street sounds from market day in my home town of St. Albans, UK.

The St. Albans bridge carries the railway over the London Road and I still remember the slightly nervous thrill of walking under it when a train went over and cars swept by.

Hunter

Digital Print on vinyl – nfs (original edition archival pigment print on paper 500 x 900mm – $1525 framed/$1150 unframed)

Hunter is part of series of ‘landscapes’ based around images of places and spaces visited, recorded, imagined and remembered. The works begin by re-visiting photographs and sketches made at a particular time in a particular place, in this case Hunter Street in Hobart, Tasmania. Scanned sketchbook drawings are layered – much in the way memories are – and manipulated, digital drawing is added – things come to the fore, emerge then disappear.

Mark Graver is an award winning artist printmaker, tutor and curator now based in Kerikeri New Zealand.  He established the Wharepuke Print Studio, NZ’s only dedicated Non-Toxic Printmaking workshop, in 2005 and, with Tania Booth, Art at Wharepuke Gallery 2009.  He is author of the printmaking handbook Non-Toxic Printmaking (2011, London, A&C Black).

He has sat on printmaking selection panels in China, Bulgaria and NZ and curated international print projects in the UK and Australia.

In 2019 he was elected as an Associate member of The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (ARE) based in London

His work is held in many public collections around the world including the V&A Museum, London, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford UK, the National Gallery of Taiwan, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Australia, Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart Australia, Guandong Museum of Art, China, Jinling Museum of Art, Nanjing, China, Penang State Art Gallery and CONARTE – Non Toxic Printmaking Museum Collection, Monterrey, Mexico.