Current - APW Gallery Exhibition

this is my 30 years 

Mervyn STREET 

17 May - 28 June 2025

This is my 30 years is an exhibition of new original prints by esteemed Gooniyandi senior artist Mervyn Street produced in collaboration with APW printers at Australian Print Workshop in 2025.

APW was thrilled to welcome Mervyn Street back to our Melbourne print studio earlier this year - to collaborate with APW printers to create a stunning series of seven new original prints (intaglios, lithographs and relief prints). These powerful works depict the important stories of Mervyn's family, his time as a stockman and their life on the station.

This exhibition of remarkable original prints - marks thirty years since APW printers first travelled from Fitzroy, Melbourne to Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley to work with Mervyn and other artists associated with Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency. Since that first meeting, many reciprocal projects have occurred, resulting in an impressive collection of wonderful original prints and special life-long friendships.

APW is honoured to have a very special creative relationship and friendship with Mervyn. We look forward to sharing this important collection of Mervyn's new original prints with you.

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Mervyn Street was born on Louisa Downs Station in the Kimberley region of north-western Australia (around 1950)

He began drawing as a child - inspired by Hollywood westerns - using a water tank as his first canvas. Aged 14, he became a stockman on the same station where his parents had worked for most of their lives without pay - an injustice which would later inspire Mervyn to lead a landmark $180 million class action against the Western Australian government on behalf of thousands of Aboriginal station workers denied their rightful wages - with settlement successfully reached in 2023.

Exhibition continues until 28 June 2025