Situated on Paddington’s long-serving creative education campus, UNSW's School of Art & Design maintains one of Sydney's oldest remaining vocational Printmaking Studios. Through a repetitive editioning process, Printmaking disciplines empower our students with a rewarding analogue ability to create multiple original works of art. Irrespective of your prior experience, our printmaking facility will sustain or compliment any creative practice.
Under the guidance of The Making Centre, you’re invited into an inclusive, nostalgic, and vibrant home of fundamental applications of creating artworks by printing. The facility’s interlinked studios harmonise four techniques, namely Intaglio, Relief, Planography and Stenciling. Chat to us about etching, woodcut, linocut, engraving, letterpress, lithography, monotypes, collagraphy, papermaking, book binding, screen printing and more.
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If you are stuck, come in and chat to the Printmaking staff or email us and we can direct you on how to get started with your project.
Our Etching Studios embody a commitment to chief Intaglio printing techniques including zinc and copper plate etching, drypoint etching, aquatint, mezzotint, engraving, collagraphy, and monotypes. Students are immersed into the studio’s co-operative atmosphere to master artisanal intaglio treatments such as hard and soft grounds, sugar lift, spitbite aquatint, multi- plate process, chine-collé, à la poupée, and viscosity printing.
Relief and planographic printing methodologies are celebrated by the facility’s ornate Lithography and Letterpress Studio. This resilient, skylit workspace is adorned with antique cast-iron printing presses and highlights a greener focus on user-friendly procedures. It presents students with instruments intrinsic to woodcut, linocut, lithography, and letterpress. Additionally, laser engravings or custom typography can be attained at The Makerspace.
Screen Printing or Serigraphy is a widespread form of stencil printing. Famous for pop art, screen printing is an established printmaking medium for fine art, textile design, and communication. Be sure to visit our independent screen printing facility and explore the immediacy of stenciling effects produced through ultra-violet photo emulsion, monotypescreen printing, screen fluid and filler, and hand cut pochoir compositions. Read more…
The Printmaking staff are avalible to meet with you to discuss your next project.
These consultations are avalible to all students including postgrad and HDR as well as staff and researchers.
Please drop in to Printmaking or email us to book a time to meet with us.
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