Jeffrey Makin 'Australia Felix Portfolio' printmaking

Jeffrey Makin 'Australia Felix Portfolio' printmakingAustralian Felix first entered the Australian lexicon in 1836 when explorer Major Mitchell used it to describe the rich pastoral bounds of the Murray River. With felix denoting lucky in Latin, the phrase has become synonymous with the impossible tenacity of the Australian landscape and spirit. Jeffrey Makin calls on this gravitas in his portfolio Australian Felix a series of 10 etchings created for World Environment Week, 2004. In collaboration with

‘The Diving Pool’ occurs in a universe that never existed and yet it is somehow familiar

He recognises that in the country

is the time to reconcile “with the Aboriginal people and this ancient land”

For Rankin

Her work is renowned for its vividness

with her son

‘Carte Blanche’ is an exhilarating find

Chinese and Mayans also recount seeing a rabbit’s outline in the moon’s surface and so perceived them as twinned symbols

'Sign of Life 6' 2014

Virgilio Guidi’s ‘Untitled (Minimalist Venetian Landscape)’ is a work of astounding restraint

View 'Over the Rainbow' swirl as a projection

This work will enliven collections of contemporary art and landscapes