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Artists

Artists Robert Dickerson and Jennifer Maquire produced etchings for specific chapbooks. Some of the originals are still available for purchase from PressPress. Please email (info@presspress.com.au) if you are interested. Other artwork has been produced by the poets themselves (Ken Bolton and Jen Saunders) or using photographs (with the permission of the photographers).

Robert Dickerson

Robert Dickerson, with his definitive angular style, is one of Australia's most recognised figurative artists.

Dickerson's work comments on aspects of the human condition within the landscape. However, for a subject matter that would commonly evoke sympathy in an audience, all sentimentality is eschewed by an economy of perfectly blended colour.

He was a member of the 1959 Antipodeans group and is represented in all major state and regional galleries. For more information on this artist, go to the Dickerson Gallery site.

Jennifer Maguire

Jennifer Maguire was born in Richmond, Melbourne 1964. Her family moved to New York for a couple of years then back to ACT, Australia, and later across the border into NSW. She continued her schooling in ACT. After completing high school she went to Wagga Wagga and studied for a three year associate diploma in Visual Arts, majoring in print making at The Charles Sturt University.

In 1987 she moved to Melbourne and continued an interest in dance with a Melbourne University dance group. In 1991 she trained with the Women's Circus, with particular interest in trapeze, and performed in their first production, 'Leaping off The Edge'. She continued to train with them until she moved to Launceston, Tasmania in 1992.

Maguire and two others formed a three-women circus troupe called Triptoe (with trapeze as the focus) which performed at the Tasmanian Circus Festival in 1993. During this time she also studied Chinese massage and then continued with Chinese Medicine. She returned to Canberra in 1994 and began print-making again.

In 1995, she began a Bachelor of Creative Arts, majoring in print-making, at Wollongong University. She was the recipient of a William Fletcher Trust grant and graduated in 1998. She currently lives in Queanbeyan.