Basil HallEditions

A studio in the Canberra suburb of Ainslie carries the accumulated technical knowledge of more than four decades spent printing alongside some of the country's most significant Aboriginal artists. Basil Hall Editions spent sixteen years based in Darwin, where Hall and a small team of printers travelled to more than fifty-five remote art centres across Central Australia, Arnhem Land, the Tiwi Islands and the Kimberley, setting up etching presses and silkscreens in community halls to make limited-edition prints in collaboration with artists who had never worked in the medium before. The studio then moved to Braidwood, and in 2020 to its current Ainslie premises, where multi-plate etching, photo-etching, silkscreen, relief printing and collagraph equipment now share space with decades of editioned proofs. Hall and his printers still travel to remote communities on request, but the Sherbrooke Street studio itself runs regular workshops and welcomes visiting artists who want to learn the technical side of printmaking, with modest local accommodation arranged for those travelling in to work there for a stretch.