It’s the early 1980s at Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and John Nixon is having a lively conversation with a student. Nixon is struck by how this student describes the printmaking process of etching and asks for a demonstration. With the roles of teacher and student reversed, Nixon’s nascent printmaking practice began to grow. It’s effortless for me to imagine this scenario, where Nixon’s curiosity spurred a willingness to learn something new.
I first met Nixon in 2017 on a warm March evening after leaving Melbourne’s TCB Gallery. I had just given
