website: http://www.markgraver.com
In a Landscape: etching carborundum and chine colle
Mark Graver is an award winning New Zealand based artist/printmaker specialising in Acrylic Resist Etching and Video Art.
Born in St.Albans, UK in 1964, he moved to New Zealand in 2003. He established the Wharepuke Print Studio in Kerikeri in 2005, New Zealand’s only dedicated acrylic resist etching studio, and in 2009 with partner Tania Booth, set up Art at Wharepuke a gallery specialising in international printmaking.
He is a tutor at Kerikeri NorthTec on the BAA Visual Arts degree course.
His current practice involves working with printmaking, digital video and sound with interest concentrated at the point where these approaches meet and cross – the editonable act/event/encounter of pulling a print or screening a film, the re-presenting of this act/event/encounter and its relationship with time and memory.
He is author of the printmaking handbook ‘Non-Toxic Printmaking’2011, London, A&C Black.