This lithograph was made while Julia Morison was artist in residence with printmaking specialists Muka Studio. The title Wayzgoose: Net refers to the old practice of providing a Wayzgoose – a dinner, entertainment or outing offered by a master printer to their workers to mark the end of summer and transition to the season of working by candlelight. Morison uses the term here to consider how the Muka Studio project is a celebration of printmaking and artists. Wayzgoose: Net is a discrete work alongside the series of Wayzgoose lithographs that join together to form a larger, interconnected set. It was made as an experiment to work out the imperfections of the lithographic stone and the irregularities or chips on the edges that had become its patina; a network of intersecting lines that starts as a loose regular weave and becomes an intricate, tangled mesh.

(Die Cuts and Derivations, 11 March – 2 July 2023)

In the weeks and months that followed the devastating earthquake on 22 February 2011, many Christchurch people looked in vain for a ‘hero on a white horse’ to lead the city out of crisis. Galloping creakily to nowhere, Wayne Youle’s riderless Saviour punctures the notion of a knight in shining armour. Instead, it emphasises his belief that this city’s salvation lies in the hands of ordinary people: all those who stayed – through choice or necessity – and contributed to the recovery in countless, unsung ways.

(Unseen: The Changing Collection, 18 December 2015 – 19 June 2016)