Alongside
painting Gretchen Albrecht has an on-going involvement with graphic
media such as lithography & etching, recently culminating in the 1999
exhibition Crossing the Divide: a painter makes prints, organised
by the Sarjeant Gallery and documenting important aspects of
the relationship between the graphic and the painted works.
Gretchen Albrecht has collaborated with
a number of print workshops both in New Zealand and internationally.
She produced
a suite of 3 lithographs in 1982, with Robert Jones at the Beehive
Press in Adelaide, following which in 1983, and later, in 1994 a
series of unique paper pulp works was created with Lyn Forgach, at the
Exeter Press, New York. Locally she continues a long-standing
working relationship with Marian Maguire at her Limeworks and
PaperGraphica
studios and in October, 2000 worked with Bartolomeu dos Santos at
Tavira, Portugal on an etching project.