Mark Graver RE

Mark Graver RE (b.1964) is an award-winning artist printmaker based in Kerikeri New Zealand.  Originally from the UK he studied at Leeds     Polytechnic (B.A. Hons Fine Art 1985-88) and Camberwell College of Arts, London (MA Printmaking 1994-95)

He moved to NZ in 2003 and in 2005 opened the Wharepuke Print Studio (NZ’s only dedicated Non-Toxic Acrylic Resist Etching workshop) then in 2009 Art at Wharepuke Gallery here at Wharepuke Subtropical Garden of National Significance

Mark is author of Non-Toxic Printmaking (2011, London, A&C Black), has sat on printmaking selection and judging panels in the UK, NZ, China, Bulgaria and Australia and organised print projects, non-toxic etching workshops, exhibitions and symposiums in the UK, NZ and   Australia.

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

Mark Graver website

Public Collections

UK

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Kent Print Collection, University of Kent, Canterbury

NZ

Whangarei Art Museum, Whangarei

Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Masterton

James Wallace Trust – Pah Homestead, Auckland

AUSTRALIA

Print Council of Australia – Print Archive Collection, Melbourne, Victoria

State Library of Victoria

The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria

Federation University Art Collection – Ballarat, Victoria

John Curtin Gallery – Curtin University Art Collection, Perth

Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery – Townsville, Queensland

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania

Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania

Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania

CHINA

Jinling Museum of Art, Nanjing

Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

Literature and Arts Department, Heilongjiang provincial government, Harbin

Ritz Carlton Hotel, Nanjing (Commission)

USA

Cary Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York

EUROPE

Associació Techne Barcelona, Spain

Lessedra Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

Douro Museum of Printmaking, Douro, Portugal

Painting and Sculpture Museums Association, Istanbul, Turkey

Collection of the International Print Biennale Yerevan, Armenia

MEXICO

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

ASIA

Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Penang State Art Gallery, Penang, Malaysia

National Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan