The annual Capricornia Printmakers exhibition allows members to showcase their work to the public, interpreting the theme, 'About Time', using their preferred printmaking medium. Invitation
Many of the works were photographed in situ at the exhibition, some of those behind glass have unavoidable but significant reflections. Others may have artefacts from digitally minimising the reflections.
Linoprint, 2025
This piece blends a medieval art style with 20th century Australian culture, creating a juxtaposition of old world art with iconography of a relatively young nation in terms of European influence.
Linoprint and watercolour on watercolour paper, attached to a wooden clock frame., 2025
Alys Mendus is now based in Geelong, Victoria on Wadawarrung Country. This print 'Emu Surprise' is inspired by the emus that she has seen in Victoria, lots more than when she lived near Emu Park, QLD when the total was one! Alys has been making clocks using printmaking for the face since 2022 and felt that a clock was a perfect choice for an 'About Time' exhibition. This lino print was printed by hand using a teaspoon and then watercolour paint added for the details and background. Contact: alysme@gmail.com, Instagram: alysrosemendus
Hand coloured lino print, 2025
Starting as a response to Australia's domestic violence statistics, it developed into a reaction to the news reels about global aggression and conflict and bullies in general. Leaders who create a culture of fear and insecurity on one hand and favoritism on the other are not effective global leaders. The drip feeding of inconsistent communication from people in power who's manipulative, destructive behavior is creative an unstable world. Their abusive speech and actions give followers the license to be disrupters, to create wider divisions, chaos and conflict in their communities. It's time to find common ground - time to stop the 'drips'.
Cyanotype, 2025
Witch Riding Forwards on a Goat is a reprint of Albert DŸrer's Witch Riding Backwards on a Goat (1501-1502). Looking back through time I wanted to reimagine this print by DŸrer and bring a historical work back into a contemporary feminist reading. In my work the original print has been reversed, layers of flowers and feathers flutter around the witch. Historically often the witch is used to pejoratively symbolise women, the untamed, uncontrollable, wicked and wild. In my work the witch is a woman who is powerful, independent and free. She is riding through the rain and wind, feathers and flowers are her creative and energetic force. She is riding forwards from the past into the present.
Lino Print, 2025
The Sun and Moon create Earth's Light, the Resource for mankind's concept of Time. I've styled the image to capture the movement of moonlight.
Oil-based printing ink, watercolour pencils, 2025
I am an emerging artist. This piece has been created as I am an avid collector of old lamps. While admiring them, I came up with an idea to research where lightning came from. I have combined my passion for printmaking and research to complete this piece. The history of lighting that has developed over time is fascinating. Research highlighted that the first known lighting was 70,000 BC which was a rock with moss and a wick dipped in tallow to when Edison developed the lightbulb in the late 1800's.
Linoprint, 2025
Created on Darumbal Country in Central Queensland, this work honours the enduring custodianship of the Darumbal people. It depicts the banksia seedhead -- a resilient, fire-adapted form known to First Nations peoples for millennia before Joseph Banks named it. Indigenous names like biara and banya reflect deep ecological and cultural knowledge. Through this single-colour lino print, I explore the banksia's identity as a witness to time, a symbol of survival, and a reminder of the land's original languages. This work invites reflection on naming, resilience, and the importance of listening to Country.
Mixed media. Coral cyanotype, hand-stitch in linen, handmade paper collage, acrylic on 300gsm watercolour paper., 2025
It's About Time... that politicians took global warming and coral bleaching seriously. First in a new series.
Linoprint, 2025
Inspired by Ecclesiastes 3, there is a time for everything. There is a time to heal; there is a time to grow; there is a time to search; there is a time to mend; there is a time to cry; there is a time to let go... how long will this journey take?
Digitally processed silk screen print from an original image, A4 image on A3 225gsm acid free paper with Permaset Aqua ink, 2025
This print is my latest exploration of the MiScreen printing process. It's been said that it takes 10,000 hours to be truly competent in an area. I haven't spent anywhere near that amount of time but I have discovered that preparing screens from full colour images is far more complex than using more basic originals.
This image shows several middle-aged men reminiscing over their childhood steam locomotive experiences during a museum visit. The locomotive, Airdmillan, has been saved from the wreckers but the museum does not have either time or other resources to restore it to its original glory.
Paper etching mounted on timber, 2025
The shorter days and frosty morning are now changing with time. New light comes with colourful blossom, awakening the dormancy of life in the new seasaon of warmth.
Screen print, etching, hand coloured papers, drawing, 2025
Everywhen is an indigenous concept where time is nonlinear and encompasses the past present and future simultaneously. My friendship with Sambuddhananda Saraswati gave me so many gifts. One is a shared belief in this spiritual concept of self and time. In honoring our friendship I take pieces of her art and recreate them as our story, made separately but together: everywhen.
Monoprints, acrylics, collage, text, 2019, 2025
The vast whiteness of the Alaskan wilderness has a feeling of it's own infinity; where space feels endless, the landscape feels limitless and time feels infinite. You are simultaneously standing in stillness yet feeling a sense of awe and wonder at how ancient the landscape is. How do we define time or encapsulate it? "Time is a stretchy thing" as a phrase has an elusive meaning, but curiously for me captures one fundamental nature of time.
Linoprint, 2025
This series holds the memory of trauma while carrying hope. Dancing girls celebrate a feast as healing rain falls on troubled soil. Inspired by Persian ceramics, the form carries the taste of promise, a long-awaited chapter now unfolding for my people.
Collagraph print with hand written and rubber stamped text, machine stitching, 2025
Inside Tick Tock the crocodile is a ticking alarm clock and the hand of Captain Hook the pirate, cut off by Peter Pan. The sound of the ticking clock serves as a warning to Captain Hook that Tick Tock is close by and hungry for more, the ticking alarm clock also represents the inescapable passage of time when Captain Hook will meet his inevitable doom.
Tick Tock swims among a sea of idioms and expressions about time.
Artists Book, 2025
I've been creating printing plates and prints for 22 years, 14 of these have been with the Capricornia Printmakers Inc. I have loved the final prints from most of my plates, the process of creating and printing a plate has remained a constant positive learning experience for me, the magic of pulling prints by hand or an etching press remain the reward.
It doesn't matter which plate/s I use to create my images, it's always a magical experience to see them revealed.
Screen print on acrylic plates, 2025
This line from Kay Ryan's poem brings ideas of time having a physical aspect. If time thins at the edges perhaps it will even become thin enough to allow someone to climb through it.
Linoprint, stencil, watercolour, hand lettering, hand bound book, 2025
Breaking the Chains is a poem that reflects the journey of discovery and healing over time after life's challenges.
Lino on Bfk, 2025
The piece explores how time inevitably catches up with us, often when we least expect it and in ways that can surprise or unsettle.
Photogravure on cotton paper, 2025
Anitya is the sanskrit word for concept of the truth that everything is impermanent and constantly changing over vast periods of time.
Photogravure and relief polymer plate on cotton paper, 2025
Time flows forward, reality is constantly changing, shifting, but the etched image remains a quiet act of resistance against impermanence, as do these arboreal fossils enduring through the ages. However in time this too, will eventually cease to exist.
Lino Cut on paper, 2025
In Time Warp, my intention is to draw you into a vortex of imagination Ñ a space where time is altered, expanded, and beautifully warped."
Dry Point Etching and Chine Colle, 2025
For a minute there, I lost myself. Finding joy in printmaking again after a very long time.
Hand-painted linocut print, 2025
What lies beneath is not lost - it is waiting to be discovered. Each fossil, each fragment, expands our understanding of what came before and helps to shape how we move forward.
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