The space offers a bright, modern, and eco-conscious environment where students can explore the full screen printing process - whether they’re printing bold posters, fine art prints, textiles, or garments. It’s a space where hands-on making meets contemporary techniques, blending traditional DIY approaches with up-to-date equipment.
Screen printing at UNSW is anything but isolated - it connects across disciplines, with strong ties to Photography, Painting, Drawing, Graphics, Printmaking, Textiles, and even Ceramics. Whether you’re experimenting with colour, layering, or texture, the workshop is a welcoming space to create, collaborate, and get your hands dirty.
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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.
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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:
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. artdesignscreenprint@unsw.edu.au
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