Angela Newberry
Angela is a printmaker of many years standing.
Quotes from Angela’s talk at Artspace:
…”The linocuts were made on old Albion and Columbian relief presses mostly on presses belonging to John Wolseley when I rented the Dower House on his family estate at Nettlecombe in Somerset. These presses made in the late eighteen hundreds are now museum pieces. I have always worked on fine handmade paper from Japan, Hosho and Nishi Noguchi, these are no longer available, although I did see five sheets of Hosho advertised on eBay for £358 dollar. The oil-based inks are being phased out in favour of acrylic and water-based alternatives. A number of the classic TN Lawrence colours have been dropped over the years due to health and safety issues with fine dust and raw pigment containing arsenic and lead and the labour intensive costs involved in the preparation of the pigment.
I have never had my own screen printing equipment, so my screen prints were made in the early days 1980’s at Falmouth School of Art and Chelsea School of Art, later by Simon Spain in London and by Larry Rawling in Melbourne. Larry has worked with famous Australian and overseas artists which is why eleven of my screen prints and one linocut which I gave him as a present are now featured in the Larry Rawling Collection at the NGA, National Gallery of Australian Art in Canberra.
I also have work in Manchester City Art Gallery, in the Olivia Newton John Cancer and Wellbeing Centre in Melbourne, the House of Lords and Ministry of Defence and the St Mary’s and St Thomas contemporary art collections in London and many others that have been sold by galleries and agents, who seldom tell me the name of their clients.
I bought myself an electric press with a meter square bed, designed by Polymetaal in the Netherlands, this was sold in 2012, when I moved from Kent to Cornwall. My work then shifted to rugs made from fleece from my small herd of black alpacas and wool, also raw silk and plant based silk yarn, these were made in Yorkshire, India and China. Then some sculptures and recently a project making paper from Australian Native Plants…”
