Looking Forward // Looking Back

Looking Forward // Looking Back brings together emerging artists whose works respond to, reflect on, or reimagine the QCAD printmaking folio box archive as both object and idea. This exhibition of art students from print: praxis at the Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University consider the dual role of a print folio, as a container of history, memory and process, and as a catalyst for future possibility and experimentation.

Exhibiting Artists
Rachel Bywaters
Maria Hill
Cathy Keys
Martina Latimer
Sera Lechowski
Matthew Molineux
Laurent Milton
Maree Purnell
Amritpal Sandhu
Ebony Wright
Lone Veirup
Michael Verhoef

Through this dialogue, these emerging artists explore the layered nature of printmaking: its traditions, repetitions and reinventions. Some works look back, drawing on the lineage of techniques, motifs and stories carried within the medium; others look forward, proposing new directions and expanded forms of practice. Together, these responses reveal how printmaking moves between preservation and progression. Grounded in shared histories while opening space for what is yet to come.

Looking Forward // Looking Back invites audiences to reflect on the past while imagining the future of printmaking in Queensland.