Artists

Jorge Brito explores the fleeting nature of memories and our presence in relationship to the absence of others.
Cotton and linen pulps are applied in fine layers to create large works of delicate translucence yet extraordinary tensile strength; and invite the viewer to engage deeper with the technique of intuitive expression and lyrical mark-making. The resulting surface is a dynamic space where rich textures and vibrant pattern interplay to form an abstract composition that retains a palpable record of the artist’s physical motion and presence.
The tactile nature of paper allows the viewer to closely examine and engage with these monumental works that challenge the notion of paper being a mere support to that which embodies the soul of the artwork, where a new matrix emerges from the destruction of another.
In 2023, Brito was awarded the Turnbull Award and the Grey Hand Press Internship.

Carolyn Craig is an artist whose work examines the coded construction of subjectivity. She investigates inscriptive performance as an active site for the maintenance and enforcement of types of cultural normativity with a particular focus on the idea of "habitus" as discussed by Pierre Bourdieu.
Carolyn deconstructs gestural actions as tropes and stereotypes by utilising her own body as a site of absurd action. The performative traces of these gestures are recorded and inverted to query the distribution and maintenance of fixity.

Pat Hoffie’s art practice extends through exhibitions, collaborative cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural undertakings, publishing, education and advocacy since the 1970s. Trained as a painter, she also works with sculpture, installation, printmaking, drawing and video. Core to all areas of her practice is an examination of power, value, the importance of ‘place’ and the necessity of cultural diversity.
Since 1993, Hoffie has maintained a research focus on the inequities and inconsistencies of global cultural exchange through iterations of her ongoing ‘Fully Exploited Labour’ series. Her artwork has been included in leading exhibitions, collections, and events in Australia and overseas.
Hoffie’s recent works reflect the deep scars of chaos and trauma that have become part of our everyday socially mediated world. Both personal as well as political, they are funny and tragic, idiosyncratic yet bound to the historical traditions of the ‘epic’.

Matthew Hurdle uses time-consuming meditative papermaking techniques to examine guilt and humility, transforming ash-stained sackcloth into fibrous paper. Hurdle's practice shifts between Ancient Christian themes, Modernist art history's layering and a contemporary desire to touch the real art object. Extending on American physician and artist Dr Eric Avery's work which demonstrates the transformative process that papermaking can have when dealing with guilt and trauma through the process of neurogenesis in the human brain. In this context, Hurdle's work extols people to seek the renewal of the mind. Similarly, these quiet abstractions provide a fortifying space for audiences to contemplate the beauty, texture and labour of art.

Tim Mosely is a practicing artist with a deep interest in the relationship between humanity and ‘the bush’, in particular our loss of touch with the wilderness. Having assembled over 50 artists books during his thirty years of professional practice in printmaking studios his work is held in leading artists book collections across the globe and exhibits a proficient employment of intaglio, relief, silk-screening and papermaking techniques.

Michael Phillips is a contemporary artist known for his extensive practice in printmaking, focusing on the materiality, vocabulary and surface of print. Over the past 38 years, he has exhibited his work in 12 solo and 36 group exhibitions, showcasing a diverse mix of paintings, prints, small sculptures, and artists' books. Recently, he completed his Masters of Visual Arts Research at the Queensland College of Art in 2022, where he explored the role of the autographic and materiality in prints. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Visual Arts at the Queensland College of Art and Design, researching "Printable Events: The haptic qualities and cultural readings of color within the surface of print".
In 2018, Phillips was commissioned to produce public artwork for the northern departures concourse of the Brisbane Airport's International Terminal. This substantial public art project involved creating a series of woodblock prints, which were then enlarged and digitally printed onto vinyl panels in collaboration with Urban Art Projects (UAP).
Michael Phillips is represented at Sydney Contemporary by PARKER Contemporary.

Alethea Richter’s practice is an evolving response to our post-digital age. Often using pixel-like marks as devices to investigate optical noise, digital fluidity, and perceptual instability. In her work, the silkscreen process anchors the colour, light, movement, and geometric patterning of the electronic screen to the printed surface. These ephemeral qualities become physical and tangible, exploring a changing sense of materiality in the contemporary image.
In 2023, Alethea was awarded the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Emerging Artist Prize and selected for the Print Council of Australia 2023 Print Commission. She was awarded in 2022 with the Grey Hand Press Internship Award and was a nominee for the Iain Turnbull Memorial Prize in 2021.
Alethea has been selected for multiple group exhibitions including Disruption International Printmaking Exchange 2023, Megalo Print Studios (Canberra) Future Proof National Graduate Online Print Exhibition 2022, and the Highpoint Centre for Print International Juried Print Exhibition Stand Out Prints 2022, Minneapolis.