Melbourne Art Print Fair

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

> Workshop: DIY Poster and T-Shirt Printing with Troppo Print Studio
Saturday 7 February, 12 - 2PM
Join Matt Feder from Troppo Print Studio for a hands-on, beginner-friendly screen-printing workshop inspired by the works on display at the Melbourne Art Print Fair.

The session begins with a guided tour of selected prints at the Fair, sparking conversation about individual works, approaches, and ideas. Drawing on this experience, you’ll develop your own slogan, image, or pattern and learn how to translate it into a hand-cut stencil. Participants will then print a screen-printed poster and have the opportunity to print their design onto a T-shirt. You’ll take your poster home with you, along with new skills and a deeper understanding of the screen-printing process.

Please bring a new or used T-shirt to print on (op-shop t-shirts are perfect). Permaset water-based inks and card for poster printing will be provided.

Free. Bookings essential.


> Artist & Printer Talks
Saturday 7 February, 2 - 3PM (20 mins each)
Sean Smith, BSG Studio on his work with First Nations artists.

Artist Ella Dunn, Sunshine Editions.

Artist Richard Lewer, Kaleidoscope Editions.


> In Focus Talk: George Baldessin and the History of Baldessin Press
Saturday 7 February, 3 – 3.30PM
Join Tess Baldessin, director of Baldessin Studio in conversation with artist and curator Nicole Bowller, as the shares their insights into the short but stellar career of the late George Baldessin (1939-78) and how establishment of the Baldessin Studio has built upon the artist’s legacy and shared his passion for the creative possibilities of printmaking.


> In Conversation: Fred Williams: Etchings | Vincent Alessi and Cathy Leahy in Conversation
Sunday 8 February, 12 – 1PM
Join Dr Vincent Alessi and Cathy Leahy for a discussion of the exhibition Fred Williams: Etchings as they share insights into Williams as a printmaker and the importance of the medium to his practice.

Dr Vincent Alessi is a curator, writer and academic and is the director + CEO of Linden New Art. Cathy Leahy, NGV Senior Curator of Prints & Drawings was the curator of the NGV’s 2022 exhibition Fred Williams: The London Drawings and is currently working on a catalogue raisonné of Williams’s late prints.


> Workshop: Wood type letterpress with Firestation Print Studio
Sunday 8 February, 12 - 3PM
Firestation Print Studio is thrilled to offer a wood type letterpress experience at this year’s Print Fair. Drop in to our working space, ink-up and pull your own prints of wood type forms while encountering the artefacts of printing history and learning a little of the letterpress lingo.

Children will also have a chance to create prints of their initials with wood type using a simple method that still requires a pull of the press.

Free. Open to the public on a walk-in basis, for both adults and children.


> Artist & Printer Talks
Sunday 8 February, 2 – 3PM (20 mins each)
Max Gosling, Press Studio Manager & Megalo printer and Greta Cooper, Education Manager, Megalo Print Studio, Canberra.

Artist Emily Ferretti, Negative Press.

Sarah Murphy and Matt Feder, Troppo Print Studio.


> In Conversation: Happy 60^th Birthday Print Council of Australia (PCA)!
Sunday 8 February, 3 - 3.30PM
PCA’s board member Sally Foster and Curator, Prints and Drawings at the Baillieu Library University of Melbourne, in conversation with Clare Humphries, PCA’s Victorian Committee member and Studio Lead, Printmaking, at RMIT University will discuss the 60-year history of the Print Council of Australia and its vital contribution to printmaking in Australia.