Lynn Zelmer
Primarily working with digital prints, Lynn is a computer-based model designer and printmaker with an audio-visual background. He has worked with print, photography, film and television, radio, and training simulations; and has a passion for developing large interpretive posters for museum and other educational purposes.
Portrait from 2021 Double Exposure Exhibition (left), Mark Collins photographer. Self-portrait (?) within self reflection lino, a/p, Print Day in May 2022 (right).
Lynn's personal archives.
Geological 2017 Exhibition: the 42 x 60mm Rainbow Falls image (top) with detail (above) was hung over the large didactic poster (below, botton of page). The image was a composite from a full roll of negatives taken in 1995. Rainbow Falls A5 promotional poster (pdf file).
Dragon and Phoenix linoprint for Origins Exhibition, 2018. Downloadable A5 Dragon and Phoenix poster.
QR Roundhouse, digital print in various sizes and jigsaw for 2018 Origins Exhibition. Downloadable QR Workshops print.
Postcard linoprint for CPI Riverfest 2018 Open House and public workshop.
Yeppoon Goods Shed, digital print and decoupage for Singularity Exhibition 2018.
House of Cards assemblage at 2019 Off The Wall exhibition. Exterior views (Lynn Zelmer) and interiors (Peta Lloyd).
Disposable wall poster showing the 80 plus exterior images in the House of Cards (2019 Off The Wall exhibition. Eighteen plus views, chosen randomly, make up each of five unique works with Peta Lloyd's prints on the reverse side.
Monoprint detail, November 2019 CPI workshop, end of double-sided print used for flag book (see below).
Monoprint, bound flag book from 2019 CPI workshop.
Incarcerated: Hand printed lino and digital techniques with hand-cut decoupage, Neighbourhood 2021... a sombre glimpse of the world beyond our current political barriers and public health regulations.
PDIM: Screaming in terror or climbing out of the [Covid/bureaucratic] morass??. Lino print (artist's proof) and hand cut block for CPI Print Day in May | "Self-reflection/self-portrait", 2022.
Phoenix Spark, linoprint for 2023 Viva! Magenta: There's no shame: admitting that one has a problem is the first step in responding to mental illness.
There is hope: no matter how dim the spark, the Phoenix always rises again.
2023 CPI Christmas decorations: Paper orbs made from 2019 Double Exposure Swamp Bloodwood print (from photos by Ian McKeague).
Queensland Sugarcane/Mine Workers' Shack in response to Lesbia Thorpe: Mountain Shack, RMOA Collection Focus, 2024.
POP Banana, a three layer screen print using CPI's new MiScreen process | POP Goes the Artist Exhibition, May 2024.
Bold Secrets screen print for 13th Annual "Two Words" exhibition, October 2024.
Artist book for February 2025 Unfolding Stories PopUp exhibition. Zelmer, Lynn (2024). Memories: 1/1. Artists book of selected digital compositions laser printed on 225gsm acid free drawing paper at big colour works, Rockhampton. Hand bound. The book displayed 24 selected digital images from an ongoing project to memorialise personal life events.
The type of binding often determines how artists books can be viewed.
The MiScreen printing process allows us to create a digital proof, making it much easier to develop reduction-style prints and explore colour combinations.
When I was a boy... Digitally processed silk screen print from an original image, A4 image on A3 225gsm acid free paper with Permaset Aqua ink, 2025 for the 2025 Annual Exhibition theme: About Time.
This print was my latest exploration of the MiScreen printing process. It's been said that it takes 10,000 hours to be truly competent in an area. I haven't spent anywhere near that amount of time but I have discovered that preparing screens from full colour images is far more complex than using more basic originals.
This image shows several middle-aged men reminiscing over their childhood steam locomotive experiences during a museum visit. The locomotive, Airdmillan, has been saved from the wreckers but the museum does not have either time or other resources to restore it to its original glory.
Promotional image for Chain Reaction exhibition using a segment from Royal Ibis print. This Pop-Up Exhibition displayed 3 'Chains' of prints, in which each artist created a print in response to the artwork of the person before them in their chain. Nobody knew what the final artworks would be until the complete chains were revealed at the exhibition opening on Friday 21 November.
Terracotta for Chain Reaction exhibition, Silk screen and digital print on Acid Free paper,2025
Terracotta continued my exploration of silk screen techniques using the MiScreen process, combined with a digitally printed scan of the tourist-oriented details. Hopefully I've maintained the cultural significance of the original artefacts I was responding to with a realistic representation of the figurines themselves.
The screen printing started with a photo of the original figurines, in-computer processing removed unwanted background and posterised the image. Three screens of decreasing intensity, printed with an ink mix proceeding from light to dark, optimised detail, particularly in the faces. The concept is similar to that with a reduction lino print.
Royal Ibis for Chain Reaction exhibition: Screen print on Fabriano paper, 2025.
For me, "Royal Ibis" stood out as the core of the diptych and accompanying artist's statement that I was responding to.
That meant Egypt, and my mental image of Egypt centres on the pyramids. An internet search yielded modifiable images for a collage that showcases the poster-oriented strengths of traditional silk screen printing.
Double Exposure 2017: Fran McFadzen (photographer), Lynn Zelmer (printmaker), exploring the view through an ex-bank entryway with several sizes of print for the exhibition, greeting cards, etc.
Cycling through the three views: Denham Street entrance, Rockhampton (original); Hanoi apartment block; and Quay Lane, Rockhampton. Largest print was 120 x 160mm, smaller versions were for sale.
Eye of the Brolga detail from artist's proof, first variation, used for Double Exposure 2018 promotion, Joan Tomkins (photographer), Lynn Zelmer (printmaker).
Brolga print (A2, ~600 x 400mm) for Double Exposure 2018 exhibition, Joan Tomkins (photographer), Lynn Zelmer (printmaker).
Swamp Bloodwood triptych (digital print) from photos by Ian McKeague, Double Exposure 2019. Download Swamp Bloodwood poster.
Created for DE 2020 (cancelled by Covid) the collaboration between Mark Collins, photographer, and Lynn Zelmer, printmaker, resulted in this Iron Pot Locality panorama and detail variations including a 1000 piece jigsaw for Double Exposure 2021.
The portrait (above, top) was another entry in the exhibition.
Tote bag for "Backyard", Double Exposure 2024, A4 print using CPI's new RISO MiScreen screen printing process. Ian Ewing, photographer, Lynn Zelmer, printmaker.
Celebrating CWA Qld's 100th Anniversary | Latitude 23 Arts True Colours Exhibition | Fig Tree Galleries, Yeppoon, 5-28 August 2022
Aperiodic | 2023 Latitude 23 Resonance Exhibition | Didactic (as in frame above except A4)
The Geologica 2017 image (left) was printed in several sizes for large and small display, greeting and promotional cards, etc. This large print served as the didactic for the mounted A3 exhibition print.
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