EXHIBITION NOW OPEN! 'Mezzotints' by Cleo Wilkinson - Gallery NWC
Katherine Kennedy
EXHIBITION NOW OPEN!
'Mezzotints' - A collection of work by Cleo Wilkinson.
First Prize winner of the Blue Mountains Print Prize 2025, Cleo Wilkinson, was awarded a sponsored 2-week exhibition, courtesy of us, Gallery NWC - Gallery 1.
EXHIBITION DATES: 19 March - 5 April 2026
OPENING NIGHT: Saturday 21 March 2-4pm
Artist Statement:
"I try to emphasize the singularity and silence of a form - what is missing in the shadows provides the greatest potential for me. I love nursing the life of an image out of its pitch-black womb into hope - in the form of light – the process has a primordial, spiritual magic. The Mezzotint Print technique and tools have largely remained unchanged for the last 300 years. The process achieves tonality by roughening the metal plate with a metal tool, a rocker. The small teeth of the rocker create tiny burrs that hold ink during the printing process. The rocked areas that are left will produce a rich black print, areas that have been burnished (knocking the burrs down) will hold less ink, producing lighter values. This process produces an image with a high level of tonal richness." Cleo Wilkinson