Andrew Totman

Born 1961, Sebastopol, California.

For the time I have known him, he has worked as Head of Art and Design at TAFE NSW and held other positions within the TAFE NSW system.

After arriving in Australia from the U.S. in 1996 colour within Totman’s work became gradually more subdued. In 2000 his work changed from the figurative imagery of games and toys to a graphic, symbolic one. Multi-plate and spit-bite etching also became more prominent within his oeuvre.

In 2005/6, whilst travelling, and therefore working with limited printing facilities he worked more prominently in monotype. The monotype, the most painterly of printmaking mediums, is a unique painted or inked impression transferred from an unincised and unregistered matrix.

— Dr. Thomas A. Middlemost
Art Curator, Charles Sturt University Art Collection