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Book Launch - The Art of Roslyn Kean


Opening Saturday 8th March 3-5pm 2025

Book launch, the art of Roslyn Kean by Sasha Grishin

Published by The Beagle Press, Sydney


The official exhibition opening and book launch by Emeritus Prof. Sasha Grishin


Stella Downer Fine Art

1/24 Wellington Street, Waterloo, NSW 2017


0402 018 283

Tues – Fri 10-5, Sat 11 - 5


About the artist

Roslyn Kean is one of Australia’s most respected and admired printmakers. Whereas many artists of her generation were inspired by the modernist mythology of the rejection of tradition and proceeded to overthrow the prevailing norms in art, Kean in her art practice sought to embrace an ancient printmaking tradition and to give it new life within a contemporary context. 


After initial art training in Sydney followed by further study at The Slade in London, it was while studying in Tokyo and already aged in her early thirties, that Kean was completely seduced by traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking – mokuhanga – and became deeply immersed in Japanese cultural traditions. Now, almost forty years later, Kean is an internationally recognised practitioner of mokuhanga and is revered by her peers as an outstanding print artist, an inspirational teacher and a sage.


When Kean developed her expertise in mokuhanga techniques and became deeply immersed in Japanese cultural traditions, she also brought with her a passion for geometry and colour into her artmaking. 

 

About the author

Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA is an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, who works internationally as an art historian, art critic and curator. He studied at the universities of Melbourne, Moscow, London and Oxford and has served several terms as visiting scholar at Harvard University. In 2004 he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, in 2005 he was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) for services to Australian art and art history and in 2008 was awarded a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. He has published over thirty books and over two thousand articles and catalogue essays dealing with various aspects of art. In 2013 his massive Australian Art: A history was published by Melbourne University Publishing. In 2015, his monographs on John Wolseley (Thames and Hudson), Inge King (Macmillan) and S.T. Gill (National Library of Australia) were published. In 2022 his books on Erwin Fabian (Australian Galleries), Murray Walker (Beagle Press) and Joyce Evans (National Library of Australia) appeared in print.


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Publisher 

The Beagle Press

7 Shirley Road, Roseville, NSW 2069

The Stables Print Studio

The Stables Print Studio is situated in a terpentine forest, surrounded by Japenese  gardens in the magnificent Galston area, 45 minutes from the Sydney CBD. â€‹

​During the week, Roslyn Kean works in the studio,
with open student access on Wednesdays.

Kean Ball Bearing Baren

The KBB Baren allows you to print various types of relief printing and monotypes to any scale using either water base or oil based inks.

Gallery

Roslyn exhibits extensively both nationally and internationally. Click the link below for more information

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