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Tate Adams
Maurya, 1962

Maurya

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Linocut, printed in black, red, blue and brown ink, from four blocks.
Edition: 9/50
71.5 × 56cm (sheet)
 

From the Riders in the Sea Series, based on the play by Irish playwright, J.M. Synge. This work depicts the main character of Synge's play, a women of Aran Islands, keening in grief. Maurya is one of Adams' most reproduced images and features his confident, farouche cutting technique.

 
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Tate Adams was a key figure in the professionalisation of printmaking in Australia. Soon after emigrating from Northern Ireland, he became a member of the Melbourne Technical College's significant first print collective (established 1952) in the centre of Naarm / Melbourne's CBD. When that institution evolved into the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Adams established the Diploma of Printmaking at in the early 1960s. In 1966, he established the Crossley Gallery, a small but influential venue designed to equally to promote contemporary Australian and Japanese printmakers.

 
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