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~ Vie de Pacifique/Pacific Life Pacific Perimeter Print Exchange ~ An International Print Exchange to coincide with the Asia Pacific Triennial in 2012-13 An exciting print exchange of original contemporary prints is organised by Impress president Jenny Sanzaro-Nishimura with a number of print studios around the Pacific Ocean. Each print studio selected up to five artists, each to make an edition (or series) of 12 (or more) prints (paper size A4), 10 that will be distributed to the other participating 10 countries, the remaining prints will be for sale at each exhibition. In Queensland, Impress will host the Vie de Pacifique/Pacific Life exhibition at our new Impress studio Gallery in December/January 2012-13 to coincide with the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial. Other countries involved will stage their exhibitions simultaneously. The works of Vanuatu artists will be exhibited at the Alliance Francaise, Port Vila, Vanuatu in December/January 2012-13(exact dates to be advised). The theme Vie de Pacifique/Pacific Life objective is to enable a cultural identity to emerge from the artworks. Artists explore their relationship with the Pacific Ocean; culturally, as a source of life and beauty, a source of food, an element of nature, as a place of travel & recreation and environmental or political concerns. Artists work reflects on the Pacific in their own way: Some of the countries involved are geographically remote; climates vary from tropical, to temperate and sub-Arctic/Antarctic. Each country has greatly differing flora, fauna and marine life, coastlines and cultural lore related to the Pacific; each country uses the ocean as a means of food supply/sustenance, transport, recreation or other purpose. Queensland has a strong recreational link to the Pacific beaches, our penchant for ocean view or canal front homes and our lifestyle. Countries who exhibiting are Australia, Chile, Japan, The Philippines, Vanuatu, New Zealand, Hawaii. The exhibition presents contemporary printmaking practices as they have developed in each participating country. Artists have used various Fine Art printmaking techniques both traditional and digital, editions and monoprints on at least 210 gsm archival (acid-free) paper. Each studio keeps a set of their prints to exhibit around their country, add to their collection or sell to an interested museum. Jenny Sanzaro-Nishimura BVA Hons, GCHE, DVA Candidate President Impress Printmakers Studio Brisbane Lecturer in Print Media Queensland College of Art, Griffith University Impress printmaking studio, Brisbane