Mark Graver RE is an award winning artist/printmaker, curator and tutor. He specialises in Acrylic Resist Etching, Digital Printmaking and Video Art.

Born in St.Albans, England in 1964, he moved to Kerikeri, New Zealand in 2003.  In 2005 he established the Wharepuke Print Studio, New Zealand’s only dedicated acrylic resist etching workshop.  In 2009 he and partner Tania Booth set up Art at Wharepuke, a gallery specialising in international printmaking and in 2015 The Wharepuke Art Park Sculpture Trail 

Mark is author of the printmaking handbook ‘Non-Toxic Printmaking’ (London, A&C Black, 2011) and has sat on printmaking selection panels in China, Bulgaria and NZ.  He has curated international print projects, exhibitions and symposiums in the UK, NZ and Australia such as Parallel Prints 2013/2015, Combinations, UK 2014 and RE:Print/RE:Present, UK 2015.

In 2019 he was elected as an Associate Fellow of The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers based at the Bankside Gallery in London and in 2021 promoted to full fellow RE – one of only 100 in the world at any one time.

In 2018 he was invited to join Prism Print International based in the UK and in 2021 became a committee member helping to run the group.  In 2021 Prism showed in Krakow at the Centrum Gallery as part of the famous SMTG International Print Triennial programme.

His current practice involves working with printmaking, digital video and sound with interest concentrated at the point where these approaches meet and cross – the editonable act/event/encounter of pulling a print or screening a film, the re-presenting of this act/event/encounter and its relationship with memory, place and time.

Public Collections

Mark Graver’s work is held in the following international public collections :

UK

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Kent Print Collection, Kent University

Tolpuddle Museum, Dorset, UK

Camberwell College of Arts, London

NZ

Whangarei Art Museum, Whangarei, NZ

Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, NZ

James Wallace Trust, NZ

AUSTRALIA

Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery – Queensland

PCA -Australian Print Council Collection

State Library of Victoria

The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart

Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania

Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania

Federation University Art Collection – Ballarat, Victoria

CHINA

Jinling Museum of Art, Nanjing, China

Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Literature and Arts Department, Heilongjiang provincial government, Harbin, China

USA

Cary Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA

EUROPE

Collection of the International Print Biennale Yerevan – Armenia

Associació Techne Barcelona, Spain

Lessedra Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

Douro Museum of Printmaking, Douro, Portugal

Painting and Sculpture Museums Association, Istanbul Turkey

ASIA

Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Penang State Art Gallery, Penang, Malaysia

National Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan

SOUTH AFRICA

Durban University – Arts for Humanity Collection

MEXICO

CONARTE – Non-Toxic Printmaking Museum Collection, Leon, Monterrey

 

 

 

Work held in private collections in UK, New Zealand, Australia, USA, Japan, China and Europe.

His work has been included in many international exhibitions and has been shown alongside artists such as Antoni Tapies, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Sir Terry Frost, Ian McKeever, Stanley Jones, Marc Quinn, JMW Turner and Patrick Heron.