Preserving Your Assets – Archival Framing

At the Colour Factory we have been researching archival framing procedures to make sure we can help you find the best ways to store your precious photographs for the future. As an artist, implementing archival practice not only protects your work and looks great, but also provides a guarantee for collectors. For collectors, we highly…

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Artist Exhbition Opening Tonight 'You are the light'

You are the light Counihan Gallery Brunswick Drew Pettifer Opening 6-8pm Thursday June 11 “Drew Pettifer’s confessional photography records and reflects on private moments in the life of the artist. This immersive series explores themes of intimacy, youth and the domestic and the ambiguities that surround these amorphous categories.” We Were Young KINGS ARI Gallery…

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Accurate colour for photographic art prints

Accurate colour is important to all photographic artists and critical in achieving the perfect print. From exposing or capturing the image through to printing and installation, minor adjustments of colour can create different emotional and psychological responses. With this in mind – how important is colour temperature in viewing a work of art, and should…

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What's On – Get your Cheap Flights!

Louis Porter  – ‘Cheap Flights’ Gallery 2 Centre for Contemporary Photography Exhibition opening Thursday 4th June 6-8pm The photographs in Cheap Flights would not make it into many holiday albums, but they are still travel photographs. Taken on various trips between 2005-2008 they examine the more disappointing aspects of travel. Travel is about expectation. We…

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Sunday Arts features photographic fine art works

Sunday Arts this week aired a story on a particularly interesting photojournalist, Stephen Dupont. Stephen was recently awarded a Logie for his report on the suicide bombing which nearly cost him his life, entitled Afghanistan a Survivor’s Tale. In addition, Stephen has released limited edition books, which are so much more than simply a collection…

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Fine art exhibition prints for Babel communicate with visual impact

The Colour Factory recently produced fine artists prints for an exhibition entitled ‘Babel’. The exhibition has been described by Craft Victoria’s website: “Babel is a word-based collection of fine porcelain and paper works. This collection of short texts constitutes a series of incantations, codes and instructions scrolled around porcelain bones or thin spines. The porcelain…

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Photographic prints on show

Tim Handfield, presenter of two of the Colour Factory’s upcoming seminars, has a stunning upcoming photographic exhibition entitled ‘Ethiopian Time’. The Colour Factory has been busy printing Tim’s photographic works for this breathtaking exhibition. The exhibition consists of landscape photographs of the Simien Mountains in the North of Ethiopia. In Tim’s own words: “Travelling in…

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Green print options available soon

The Colour Factory is currently upgrading its printing facilities to embrace green print options. In these times when everyone is becoming more conscious of the impact they are having on the environment, the Colour Factory is investing in ways it can offer more environmentally friendly printing options to its customers. As part of these green…

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Putting the art into the exhibition

The Colour Factory has recently produced artist prints for Ilana Payes. With a growing reputation, Ilana has a Masters degree in Visual Art and a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) from Monash University. Shane and Phil assisted with the production of a number of large format 700mm x 1200mm Pigment Gilclee prints on Breathing Colour…

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