Chris Lawry
Chris Lawry was a painter until a chance encounter with l’Estampe Contemporaine market in Paris in 2009, after which everything changed. On returning to Australia she started making prints - and has not looked back.
Linocut printmaking is Lawry's choice. From the forest near to where she lives or Japan’s Nakasendo Way: from taking and choosing the photographs that act as reference points for her print work: from sketching the outlines and shading on the lino in deciding which cutting techniques will best capture her intentions; from experimenting with new ones and conversations with other linocut artists. All contribute to Lawry's love of her medium, influenced as she is by the perfect lines of a Claude Flight print, the quiet devastation in a Kath Kollwitz, the brutality in an Otto Dix,
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Exhibitions at Tacit Art
2022 There Are Places I Remember
Exhibitions
solo
2023 Somewhere Near Here - Tacit Art, Melbourne
2022 There Are Places I Remember - Tacit Art, Melbourne
2020 Forests - Printmaker Gallery, Melbourne
Group
2025 Summer Salon - Tacit Art, Melbourne
2024 PICES 50 x 50 - Berninneit Gallery, Cowes
SuperImposed - Hills Hub, Emerald
SuperImposed - Up Gallery, Sassafrass
Group Show - PICES, Philip Island
2023 Artbox - Tacit Art, Melbourne
Sense of Place - Adelaide Airport
Arbor - Tacit Art, Melbourne
Spring Collection - Up Gallery, Sassafrass
2022 Editions Print Prize - Tacit Art, Melbourne
2021 Editions - Tacit Art, Melbourne
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times - Selby Community Art Centre
Inkmasters - Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns
2020 Editions - Tacit Art, Melbourne
Footprint - Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut, US
2019 Editions - Tacit Art, Melbourne
Burnie Print Prize - Burnie Regional Gallery, Tasmania
Awagami Miniprint Exhibition - Japan
2018 Impressions - Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Inkmasters - Tanks Art Centre, Cairns, Queensland
What Lies Beneath - Burrinja Open Studios
2017 New Territory - East Gippsland Art Gallery, Bairnsdale (w/ Robert Logie)
Duality - Burrinja Open Studios
Gippsland Print Award - Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale
Awagami Miniprint Exhibition - Japan
Climate Change Biennale - Burrinja Cultural Centre, Upwey
The Forest - Printmaker Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Iconic - Burrinja Cultural Centre, Upwey
Impressions - Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Bellarine Print Prize - Tussock Gallery, Point Lonsdale
2015 Gippsland Print Award - Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale
Climate Change Biennale - Burrinja Cultural Centre, Upwey
End of The Line Arts Festival - Belgrave
Washing in Europe - Limerence Gallery, Belgrave
2014 Impressions - Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Western Loop Series - Adelaide Festival
Swan Hill Print & Drawing Award - Swan Hill Regional Gallery