Buda Historic Home and Garden Presents
DAMON KOWARSKY
VISUAL ARTS AT BUDA


EXHIBITION LAUNCH
WITH DAMON KOWARSKY & EQUINOX PRESS
NOTE: Although listed separately in the printed program this event has now been combined with the Artist talk event on Friday 31 March. You can book tickets to that event from the listing on this page
A EUROPEAN AUSTRALIAN CONNECTION
Hungarian silversmith Ernest Leviny built Buda Historic Home and Garden during the Victorian goldrush. Australian artist Damon Kowarsky, who works across drawing, printmaking and painting, addresses the European/Australian connection of this heritage home.
VENUE Buda Historic Home & Garden
DATE Friday 24 March – Sunday 30 April
TIME 12pm – 4pm
ADMISSION Free
ACCESSIBILITY Wheelchair access
BOOKBINDING WITH DAMON KOWARSKY
Learn to make your own softcover Japanese bound sketchbook. Learn simple and easily repeatable bookbinding techniques perfect for making sketchbooks and visual diaries. Suitable paper for one book is provided but the technique can later be adapted to whatever paper you prefer.
VENUE Buda Garden Room
DATE Sunday 26 March
TIME 10am – 4pm
DURATION 6 hours
ADMISSION $160
ACCESSIBILITY Wheelchair access
Suitability: 16+
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EXHIBITION LAUNCH & ARTIST TALK WITH DAMON KOWARSKY & EQUINOX PRESS
Meet the artists presenting an Australian European Connection at Buda Castlemaine, with a special artist’s talk by Damon Kowarsky and the official opening by David Frazer with wine and canapes.
“This talk will look at depictions of landscape through my work and the contemporary and historical printmakers who have influenced it.
Landscape [along with portraiture and still life] is one of the three big themes in art. This talk will consider the ways landscape has expanded and contracted in response to new ideas about the world, and how it has come to be central to my current practice.
In a country as urbanised as Australia there is a paradox in our desire to visually depict landscape as separate from everyday experience – the Heidelberg School famously caught the train to paint their pastoral idylls.
For me it is this discomfort with our place in this country that feeds the enduring power of landscape art. It is also, given the truly astonishing environments we live in and at the margins of, a huge joy and privilege to be able to depict them through the medium of print.”
Damon Kowarsky
Damon Kowarsky | Equinox Printmakers | Sharon Greenaway | Dianne Longley | special guest David Frazer
VENUE Buda Garden Room
DATE Friday 31 March
TIME 5pm
DURATION 90 minutes
ADMISSION $25/$22
ACCESSIBILITY Wheelchair access
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COPPER ETCHING WITH DAMON KOWARSKY
Weekend workshop to learn the basics of intaglio printmaking [etching] on copper. Etching on copper is one of the oldest forms of printmaking. Invented in Germany in the 15th century, it has since been used by masters including Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya, Picasso, Hockney, and many others. It is very close to drawing, and is a rewarding way to create multiple images in a medium with a rich history and dynamic
contemporary practice. Over the two day workshop participants will learn the basics of copper etching. This includes etching with ferric chloride and printing on cotton paper with high quality ink. Participants will draw in the wonderful gardens at Buda, and make their etching directly from their drawings.
VENUES
Sat 1 April: Buda Garden Room
Sun 2 April: Equinox Press. Meet at Buda Garden Room
DATE Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 April
TIME 10am
DURATION 2 days
ADMISSION $320
Suitability: 16+