BLUE ISLAND PRESS - Calendar Catalogue - 2018 Blue Island Press 2018 Calendar Range in 3 sizes. www.blueislandpress.com Blue Island Press Calendars are printed and assembled in Australia. We use high quality Italian felted or chalk stocks which are archival grade. Each page has a framable image to keep after use. The main calendar range is the Wall Calendars which measure 320 x 230 mm. Each month has boxes for each day to record your diary dates. Calendars are twin loop wire bound and hang from the top. Large Wall Calendars measure 320 x 460 mm. These calendars have large diary boxes. They are twin loop wire bound and hang from the top. Desk calendars measure 155 x 170 mm. These calendars do not have diary boxes. They have a fold-out triangular centre to make them free standing. For wholesale customers please order in a minimum of 2 calendars per design. Display stands are available free on loan for the 320 x 230 mm Wall Calendars. Minimum purchase for a display stand is 72 calendars. The display stand takes 12 Wall Calendars, up to 6 of each design. We do not have display stands for the Large Wall Calendars or Desk Calendars. Each calendar design is individually barcoded. Calendars can be re-ordered all year round. All orders attract minimal freight charges. Enjoy! Wall Calendars 320 x 230 mm Clarice Beckett MASTERLY PAINTER – BRILLIANT ARTIST Clarice Beckett MASTERLY PAINTER – BRILLIANT ARTIST 2018 CALENDAR Clarice Beckett’s evocative paintings offer a view of Each page has a framable image printed Australia that celebrates modernity and the quiet on Italian archive paper, plus large boxes beauty of the city and the suburbs. for each day to record your diary dates Her work was challenging for its time, and Beckett’s Front Cover: story as an artist who never compromised her unique Beach Road, Clarice Beckett, c. 1933, Oil vision and who continued to paint ‘against the odds’ is on canvas on board, 44.0 x 49.0. compelling and inspirational while also being moving October 2018 and poignant. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Layout © Blue Island Press 2017 Published by Blue Island Press Following her death in 1935 at the age of 48, 1 2 3 4 5 6 www.blueislandpress.com Beckett’s work, which had achieved some measure of succes during her lifteime, was all but forgotten. It 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 PRINTED IN AUSTRALIA was not until the 1970’s, when a large group of works BIP 0001 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 abandoned in a hayshed in rural Victoria were found 2018 CALENDAR and subsequently mounted in an exhibition that her 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 contribution began to be reappraised. 28 29 30 31 End of the Garden, c. 1929. BIP 0001 Clarice Beckett 2018 CaleNDAR GRACE COSSINGTON SMITH GRACE COSSINGTON SMITH Each page has a framable image printed on Italian archive paper, plus large boxes 2018 CALENDAR for each day to record your diary dates Grace Cossington Smith occupies a crucial place in Australian art of the Front Cover: twentieth century. Landscape with Flowering Peach, c. 1933, oil on canvas board, She was a resilient adherent of an 58.5 x 72 cm. aesthetic system many of her colleagues could not sustain. Cossington Smith produced some of the most intricate Layout © Blue Island Press 2017 and elaborately executed images of her September 2018 Published by Blue Island Press generation, investing even the smallest Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday www.blueislandpress.com of her compositions with an implacable spirituality. 30 1 PRINTED IN AUSTRALIA A student of Dattilo-Rubbo, and a 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 contemporary of Wakelin and de Maistre, BIP 0002 2018 CALENDAR 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 she surpassed these fi gures both as a draughtsperson and a colourist. Her 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 allegiance to Van Gogh and Cezanne, through enduring, did not inhibit her 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Trees At Canberra (Autumn at Yarralumla), 1932, oil on pulpboard, 74.3 x 60.3 cm. own highly distinctive manner. BIP 0002 Grace Cossington Smith 2018 CaleNDAR Page 01 - Wall Calendars 320 x 230 mm BLUE ISlaND PRESS BIRDS IN PAR ADISE Uemura Atsushi BIRDS IN PAR ADISE Each page has a framable image printed on Italian archive paper, plus large boxes for each day to record Uemura Atsushi your diary dates 2018 CALENDAR Front Cover: Birds have always played a Pigeon in Spring, 1992, polychrome on paper, symbolic role in oriental life. 91 x 73 cm. They reflect the many moods and emotions in man and nature. Images © Uemuka Atsushi 2017 This small collection, not seen November 2018 Layout © Blue Island Press 2017 before in the west, embodies Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday the delicacy and fineness of this Published by Blue Island Press www.blueislandpress.com ancient art. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 PRINTED IN AUSTRALIA BIP 0003 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 2018 CALENDAR 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Woodcock, 2006, polychrome on paper, 59 x 48 cm. BIP 0003 Birds In Paradise 2018 CaleNDAR Each page has a framable image printed on Italian archive paper, plus large boxes for each day to record your diary dates Front Cover: ‘Christmas Bell Babies’ single sheet print by May Gibbs, c. 1917. Images © The Northcott Society and the Cerebral Palsy Alliance 2017 October 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Layout © Blue Island Press 2017 Published by Blue Island Press 1 2 3 4 5 6 www.blueislandpress.com 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 PRINTED IN AUSTRALIA 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 BIP 0004 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2018 CALENDAR 28 29 30 31 ‘Christmas Bell Babies’ single sheet print by May Gibbs, c. 1917. BIP 0004 May Gibbs 2018 CaleNDAR Page 02 - Wall Calendars 320 x 230 mm BLUE ISlaND PRESS MASTERS OF THE Heidelberg School MASTERS OF THE Each page has a framable image printed on Italian archive paper, plus large boxes Heidelberg School for each day to record your diary dates Front Cover: 2018 CA L E NDAR Charles Conder, A Taste for Literature, 1899, Oil on canvas, 46 x 60.9 cm, National The Heidelberg School was an Australian art Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne movement of the late 19th Century, latterly described as Australian Impressionism. Painters worked together at artists’ camps around Melbourne and Sydney in the 1880s and 1890s. Arthur Streeton, Walter Withers, Layout © Blue Island Press 2017 Tom Roberts, Charles Conder and Frederick Published by Blue Island Press McCubbin are considered key fi gures of the www.blueislandpress.com movement. They showed a keen interest in the effects of lighting, and experimented PRINTED IN AUSTRALIA with a variety of brushstroke techniques. BIP 0005 The works of these artists are notable, not only for their compositions, but as a part of 2018 CA L E NDAR Australia’s cultural heritage. BIP 0005 Masters of the Heidelberg School 2018 CaleNdaR annie franklin Shining light on small kingdoms Each page has a framable image printed annie franklin on Italian archive paper, plus large boxes Shining light on small kingdoms for each day to record your diary dates. 2018 CALENDAR Front Cover: Annie Franklin has worked as a professional Heide Summer, 42 Degrees. artist since completing her study in fi ne art (printmaking) in 1986. During this time Annie has exhibited widely both nationally Images © Annie Franklin 2017 and internationally and her work is held in Layout © Blue Island Press 2017 numerous public and private collections, Published by Blue Island Press including the National Gallery of Australia October 2018 www.blueislandpress.com and the Australian Embassy in Paris. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Not only known for her promotion of the 1 2 3 4 5 6 PRINTED IN AUSTRALIA arts, Annie Franklin spent four years living in what remained of a prehistoric forest south 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 BIP 0006 of Darwin while she helped with efforts to 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 2018 CALENDAR regenerate it. She was invited to Melville Island to work as Arts Coordinator at Yikikini 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Women’s Centre to teach printmaking 28 29 30 31 techniques there. Long Swamp, Looking South BIP 0006 Annie Franklin 2018 CaleNDAR Page 03 - Wall Calendars 320 x 230 mm BLUE ISlaND PRESS Birds In Antiquity Birds In Antiquity Each page has a framable image printed on Italian archive paper, plus large boxes CALENDAR for each day to record your diary dates. Front Cover: Palace of Amsterdam with Exotic Birds, Birds more than any other creature Melchior de Hondecoeter (1636 - 1695), symbolise soul, eternity, and mystery. 17th century, oil on canvas. Through the centuries they have been companions, used in competition and generally held in high esteem for their Layout © Blue Island Press 2017 apparent ability to defy gravity. October 2018 Published by Blue Island Press www.blueislandpress.com This small collection represents a taste Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday of birds depicted in art. 1 2 3 4 5 6 PRINTED IN AUSTRALIA 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 BIP 0007 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 CALENDAR 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 The Death of Cock Robin, c. 1865, oil on canvas, John Anster Fitzgerald (1832 - 1906).