Mark Graver RE

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

15 Houses – 2019 – digital pigment print – 500 x 900 mm

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 

Lotus 2020 – digital pigment print 1000 x 800 mm
Downs 2019 – digital pigment print – 500 x 900 mm

Mark is author of Contemporary Printmaking – Safer Intaglio Techniques and Processes (London, Bloomsbury, 2026) and 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.

He is a committee member of Prism Print International, an Honorary Member of the Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) and an elected Full Fellow of The Royal Society of Printmakers, London (RE) – one of only 100 in the world.  

The Last of What Has Passed X – inkjet 200x200mm – 2015
The Last of What Has Passed VII – inkjet 200x200mm – 2015
Market Place
Lake VII – 2017 – archival inkjet 329x329mm
Houhora 2015
Collage I – 2016, archival inkjet, 100 x 100 mm
Undertow Series
Pudding Stone II
Collage III – 2016, archival inkjet, 100 x 100 mm
Harry Horn 2015 – digital inkjet, 329x483mm
Stone Store
History 2016
Ibis
Abbey Parish Memorials – digital print on acetate
Harbin II
Ye Olde Fighting Cocks
Mark Graver
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Non Toxic Printmaking workshop
Parallel Prints
44 Sounds
Umbra Sumus
Umbra Sumus 2013 Photopolymer etching 200 x 200 mm
Yen Ben
Kauri 2014 Photopolymer etching, 200 x 200 mm
1906
1969 – Inkjet, 2015
Time Slides 2015
Parallel Prints opening Art Gallery of Ballarat Oct 2015
Collage II – 2016, archival inkjet, 100 x 100 mm

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

Ulster Museum, Belfast

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.