PERFORMPRINT, Live Art & Experimental Printmaking

Magali Gentric ·

Closin performance
Saturday 14 November, 3-4 pm
Stockroom, Kyneton

Exhibition runs 7–15 November

PERFORMPRINT
Live Art & Experimental Printmaking
with guest artist Stelarc

Featuring:
Stelarc, Alex Gibson, Joel Gailer, Jenny Mai Hall, Nicholas Ives, Janset Selbas, Sky Black, Emmer-Chrysanthemum, Anne Scott Wilson, Bianca Lyla


For nine days, the PERFORMPRINT crew is filling all of Stockroom, Kyneton, with the prints and the performance that makes them. Opening night is live: skateboards, steam rollers, rolling pins, block ink, body printing, noise and spoken word. Big immersive prints made in front of you, and you're part of it.

This performance is free to attend


Come up for lunch. Wander Kyneton. See some art. Then watch the crew cover the place in ink.

Come early. Stay late.

Get ink on your shoes.

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Performprint is a collective of Melbourne based artists. 

Development and expansion of our live performances practice has been consistent in Australia since its inception in 2012. 

Performprint emerged from the community print studio and locates this shared experience as a site of performance and collaboration, therefore printmaking is the vehicle and starting point for audience engagement and participation through performance. We are a multi-discipline collective at the junction where fine art practice meets experimental music/sound art and spoken word. 

Over the past 14 years Performprint has morphed and expanded to include sound art collaborations and ongoing artistic experimentation within the traditional context of printmaking. During performances we make large scale immersive prints using, block printing, music, spoken word, skateboards, steam rollers, rolling pins, body printing and branding. Performprint blends theories on copy-based technologies through print informed works and ideas of future and current human and political scenarios; and turns this into live durational performance work. These durational performances can be as long as 12 hours.

Notable past performances are: Fremantle Art Centre, 2012, FOLA, Melbourne, 2014, The Sydney Contemporary Art Fair 2019, Mecha Festival of Experimental Art 2019. Performprint has been shortlisted for the Burnie Print Prize and Freemantle Print Award.  Internationally we have performed at the China Art Academy in Hangzhou in 2016,  Impact 9 (printmaking symposium in Hong Kong) in 2021, Tenjinyama art studio, Japan in 2023. 

Closing performance
Saturday 14 November, from 3 pm

photography by Dan Sibley

Stelarc

photography by Dan Sibley

video by Dan Sibley

photography by Dan Sibley

Ella Rizzi, Distance

Magali Gentric ·

Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two
26 September/ 01 November 2026

ELLA RIZZI
Distance

We Belong Together, 2026, oil on wood panel, 25.1 × 36.6 cm

Distance is a collection of small scale oil paintings investigating painting as a practise. On handmade wood panels and stretched canvas, colour, gesture, shape, and surface control a new focus of abstraction, material and tactility.  

Unplanned and instinctive, the works are informed by domestic scenes as table compositions, nature, in garden scenes, flowers and trees. From these foundations, forms are blurred and moments of complete image rejection emerge, and the object becomes suspended between layers of oil and brush strokes.

In her interdisciplinary oil painting and textile work, Ella Rizzi creates images that piece together fragmented memories to suggest an always incomplete and shifting understanding of histories. Her practise is a constant, intimate inquiry into rediscovery and recollection, and her paintings, in their innumerable layers, delineate the inevitable erosion of memory and identity across generations. Ella uses reclaimed ephemera from her Northern Italian family history as reference to relentlessly pursue an understanding of a past within the images, while also watching as any information becomes blurred among the oil and coats of paint. 

Living and working in Melbourne Australia, Ella has undertaken a Diploma in Visual Arts (RMIT) and a Bachelor in Fine Arts (Victorian College of the Arts). Recent solo exhibitions include Loom, Trocadero Projects, Footscray; Imitami (Valentina), Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy; and To all who lived before me, Green Floor Gallery, Fitzroy. She has also exhibited in group exhibitions at BlackCat Gallery, Joseph Beuys Cafe, VCA, Motor Works Gallery and Trocadero Projects. Ella participated in an art festival at The Gasometer Hotel and an artist workshop at the MPavillion, Melbourne. She has received the Stuart Black Memorial Scholarship and the West End Projects Award for excellence in her studies and graduation work at the Victorian College of the Arts.

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Eleanor Alice, A New Magic - Bubbling Over

Magali Gentric ·

Stockroom Kyneton, gallery one
02 May / 07 June 2026

ELEANOR ALICE
A New Magic – Bubbling Over

These works celebrate feelings of boundless delight in my life currently. Revelling in time spent making and the opportunity to live immersed in the wonder of the natural world, I paint with deep gratitude. Learning and working from the poetry found in both birth and decay; I ponder the narration of time, place and renewal. 

Potential and innovation as an optimistic pursuit has been carried through my practice of over 30 years. When restlessly chased, nothing is ever quite captured or fully understood – the state of play is kept alive. Lively alchemical exchanges between material, method and meaning attempt to satiate my curiosity. These conversations feed my soul; the aim is not mastery but a welcoming of alternate perspectives.

-Eleanor Alice 2026

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