I've been studying printmaking over the last few years. I'll eventually get some images up from this year, but for now, here's some old stuff from when I first learnt to screen print student club tshirts with emulsion at Macquarie University art studio in 1999 or 2000, then the 2006 course, and the use i've made of those same simple techniques through the years, up to exploring works on paper for the first time last couple of years. No matter how far I explore art printmaking, It'll still be entwined with the useful skill of being able to slap text or image on the front of a tshirt!
2023 - Multi Block Coloured Woodcuts with Roslyn Kean at Willoughby Arts Centre (yes, upcoming - keen to get back to it!)
2020 - Printmaking (linocut, drypoint, monotype, dual inking, chin colle) with Matthew Ablitt at St George TAFE
2020 - Screen printing (digital images and emulsion) with Matthew Ablitt at St George TAFE
2019 - Solarplate with Susan Baran at Gallery Lane Cove
2018 - Printmaking: Exploring Print Techniques (etching, lino, drypoint) with Susan Baran at Pine Street Arts Centre
2018 - Etching with Micaela Christie at Pine Street Arts Centre
2006 - Fabric printing (hand cut screen, lino) with Ro Cook at Sydney Community College
I have also taught screen printing - at least one workshop in 2008 and some less formal skillsharing for various groups that need to do a print run for something and can't afford to get it professionally done. I'm also wondering when I really first started to learn, because I definitely did some work with kids in 1998, before I even got to uni!
I've been planning another workshop for ages, for Robots and Dinosaurs, on screen combined with laser cutting. I should really get around to scheduling that! Do contact me if you're interested in such a thing, and prod me to make it happen.
2023 - Multi Block Coloured Woodcuts with Roslyn Kean at Willoughby Arts Centre (yes, upcoming - keen to get back to it!)
2020 - Printmaking (linocut, drypoint, monotype, dual inking, chin colle) with Matthew Ablitt at St George TAFE
2020 - Screen printing (digital images and emulsion) with Matthew Ablitt at St George TAFE
2019 - Solarplate with Susan Baran at Gallery Lane Cove
2018 - Printmaking: Exploring Print Techniques (etching, lino, drypoint) with Susan Baran at Pine Street Arts Centre
2018 - Etching with Micaela Christie at Pine Street Arts Centre
2006 - Fabric printing (hand cut screen, lino) with Ro Cook at Sydney Community College
I have also taught screen printing - at least one workshop in 2008 and some less formal skillsharing for various groups that need to do a print run for something and can't afford to get it professionally done. I'm also wondering when I really first started to learn, because I definitely did some work with kids in 1998, before I even got to uni!
I've been planning another workshop for ages, for Robots and Dinosaurs, on screen combined with laser cutting. I should really get around to scheduling that! Do contact me if you're interested in such a thing, and prod me to make it happen.
Sirius, two colour screen print, 2020. There were problems with the emulsion process, likely because the screen was old, and one image stretched just a touch more than the other. There were other designs, including repeating patterns, but this was the only one I had time to print, between dealing with screen issues and the term being curtailed.
new images in 2020 - linocut, overprinted monotype
Reprinting old plates in 2020 - chin colle, overprinting
Myriorama of a better Sydney, linocut, 2020. Maybe I'll one day add more places, but the term was cut short by the pandemic. I also hope to take better photos one day, but it's the end of the year and I'm just glad to get this year's work up at all!
Tshirt design for Mardi Gras 2015 - front and back. The hand design was someone else's idea, but the words were all wrong and they didn't adjust it, so I did my own version. They were professionally printed, with emulsion screens.
I'm a Professional Artist!! I was commissioned, with actual money, to designs these four images for a screen printing workshop of 27/2/15 for USYD Enviro Collective. The windflower was done from a sketch I was given. The screens were sent away for emulsion.
This is my original design, inspired by the ruffles of a flamenco dress I made. The screen was hand cut, and I designed and made the whole bag too. This was a wedding present for a flamenco friend who was marrying a tango person. Unfortunately only one got made, instead of a matched pair.
Screen printed upholstery from 2006. The footstool box was the first project in my wonderful upholstery course - an HSC subject, for adults, taught in a highschool's workshop at night. It's a crying shame the program didn't continue.
The yawning lady is a two colour hand cut adaptation of Lassitude by Barbier; the repeating cushion pattern on top is my own design.
The second image is the only photo I can find so far of a beanbag footstool screen printed with VW beetles on the white sides. This is a single colour design I hand cut, the first one from the fabric printing course, I believe. I still have a variety of prints of it but the delicate ezicut stencil has now distorted.
The yawning lady is a two colour hand cut adaptation of Lassitude by Barbier; the repeating cushion pattern on top is my own design.
The second image is the only photo I can find so far of a beanbag footstool screen printed with VW beetles on the white sides. This is a single colour design I hand cut, the first one from the fabric printing course, I believe. I still have a variety of prints of it but the delicate ezicut stencil has now distorted.
Here are two designs I adapted from art into two colour screenprints, 2006 or soon after. Both were hand cut, printed and sewn up as tote bags, as well as printed onto patches and the singlet you see.
Linocut - my design and printing, 2006.
This is a costume commissioned by a friend for Sydney Mardi Gras in 2007. Yes, all those stripes are screen printed, each panel at a different angle. I designed and constructed it, including screen printing the stripes and colouring all those flowers! It was inspired by the lampshade frame and fake flowers we found at Reverse Garbage, which became the basis for the hat.
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On the left is my original design, handmade in 2000 thanks to the printer at Macquarie Uni's old computing centre, the photocopier at the Students' Association and a whole lot of manual layout, tracing against windows. The font I used didn't even have an apostrophe! This design was used in many, many posters and bright yellow tshirts. In 2011 I used the same design for a different uni, getting a friend with better software to change 'THE' to 'UTS'. In 2013 someone else 'upgraded' the logo to use a strangely square and ordinary font inside my original atom loops, as you see in my hand-cut stencil version forever stained into a screen.
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