Located at UNSW's creative campus in Paddington, the School of Art & Design is home to Sydney's industry leading educational Screen Printing Workshop. As part of The Making Centre workshops, our screen printing facility provides a modern, eco-friendly, and fun learning environment for students to develop their skills and knowledge of the screen printing process.
Often used to produce handmade poster fine art or to decorate textiles materials or garments, our workshop balances brand new screen printing technologies with traditional do-it-yourself methods. This humble, centuries-old process boasts several multi-disciplinary ties to other studios on campus including Photography, Painting, Drawing, Graphics, Printmaking, Textiles and Ceramics.
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If you are stuck, come in and chat to the Screen Printing staff or email us and we can direct you on how to get started with your project.
Our paper printing studio is a naturally lit, versatile work area providing students a devoted space for fine art screen printing. It welcomes several materials including papers, glass, metals, timbers, and plastics.
Micro-adjustable vacuum printing tables and multi-colour registration systems compliment a variety of technical outcomes such as easy monotype artworks, ceramic glaze transfers, or complex commercial cmyk reproductions.
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Our textiles printing studio provides a flexible, modern set-up tailored to the popular interest of screen printing onto textiles. Decorate an array of cottons, linens, leathers, polyesters, or silks intended for either clothing, fashion accessories, upholstery, linen, or sculpture.
Alternatively, try printing personalised t-shirts, hoodies, tote bags, tea towels, or singlets using world class carousels, flash cure units, infra-red dryers, and heat presses.
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As the beating heart of the screen printing facility, the exposure room provides students with a large light-safe environment to personally make their own screens.
This space hosts state-of-the-art screen making technologies including computer-to-screen imaging and LED ultra-violet exposure units. It also can host several photo sensitive printmaking processes suited to etching, lithography, and letterpress.
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Integral to every screen printing facility is an adequate wash up area. Our wash up room brags environmentally friendly screen cleaning chemistry with economically effective screen reclamation methods.
The facility on a whole embraces Australian-made water-based screen printing inks on account of our no-solvent policy.
Equipment and chemistry available:
Film Printing, Computer-To-Screen Printer, Ink Lab Colour Mixing
As custodians of UNSW Art & Design’s shared screen printing facility, The Making Centre is continually finding ways to enhance its workshops where possible.
As the beneficiaries, students can anticipate the introduction of cylindrical screen printing for curved items not limited to bottles, cups, and vessels. Further to this, our team are eager to accommodate precision colour mixing with an in-house boutique ink lab. Watch this space.
Services available in the Screen Printing Workshops:
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The Screen Printing staff are available to meet with you to discuss your next project.
These consultations are available to all students including postgrad and HDR as well as staff and researchers.
Please drop in to Screen Printing or email us to book a time to meet with us.
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