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Toi Ora Live Art Trust

Toi Ora Live Art Trust is an art studio and gallery in Grey Lynn, Auckland for people experiencing mental distress to participate in the arts in a supportive and inclusive environment.

Toi Ora promotes creativity and personal growth to improve well-being by fostering community connections through visual and performing arts.

In our weekly printmaking classes, artists develop their own designs and images by exploring a range of techniques, such as wood and lino cuts, etching, and monoprints. At Printopia, a selection of prints by tutors and students will be on display.

Instagram: @toi_ora_live_art

Website: www.toiora.org.nz

IWIN ART GROUP

IWIN (Iranian Women in NZ) Charitable Art Group are a group of nine artists, with different skills and background in art, working together to combine various print techniques to tell Iranian stories.

For Printopia 2024 the group has chosen to depict the famous Persian romance between the Sasanian king Khosrow II and Armenian princess Shirin, who becomes queen of Persia (Persian: خسرو و شیرین) as told by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1209).

Scenes from this historic love story, along with classic motifs from the Sasanic era, have been created through digital illustrations, silkscreen and woodcuts, printed onto paper, fabric and wood.

Istagram:@iwin.charity.artists

Website: https://iwin.org.nz/

Kakano Youth Arts Collective

Kākano Youth Arts Collective developed from a pilot programme in 2013 as a response to recognising the needs of some of the most vulnerable young people in West Auckland; all of whom have struggled with mainstream education. Kākano runs 3 studio sessions a week covering a variety of visual art forms, and currently has approximately 20 rangatahi in the Collective.

In March 2023 we were excited to open The Kākano Gallery in Henderson with the support of te Puni Kōkiri and the Henderson Massey Local Board– a space run by our young people, where they can display and sell their work.

Instagram @kakanoyoutharts

www.facebook.com/kakanoyouth

www.kakanoyouthartscollective.com

Makyla Curtis

Makyla Curtis is a letterpress printer and poet. She combines letterpress and nature monoprinting techniques to produce her poetry and botanical prints. Makyla produces handbound limited run poetry booklets. She works with handmade botanical inks made from marigolds, gorse and tanekaha and prints onto handmade paper made with botanical waste such as onion skins and corn husks.

She also produces letterpress prints with a typography focus to showcase the poetry of New Zealand writers. Makyla has master’s degrees in both fine arts and New Zealand poetry from AUT and the University of Auckland.

Instagram: @makylac

Newsletter: https://threefoldletter.substack.com/

Aotearoa Art Supplies

Aotearoa Art supplies supply quality printmaking presses and art supplies to printmakers, artists and educational services throughout Aotearoa. Based in Fielding, they have recently opened a second store in Whanganui.

They’ll be coming to the Print Fair with a a selection of Akua Inks, intaglio equipment and rare paper.

Instagram: @aotearoaartsupplies

https://aotearoaartsupplies.co.nz

Willow Whitham

I am from a rural North Auckland town called Warkworth and have just completed a Bachelors of Fine Arts at Elam with my final grad show focusing primarily on woodcut print processes. I work mostly with rats as a subject matter, taking themes and ideas from iconic religious artworks and re-working them into humorous caricatures through the art of woodcutting.

Instagram: @stupid.little.life_

Waitakere Printers Ink

Waitakere Printers Ink (WPI) is local print group who meet monthly at Corban Estate Arts Centre. The group welcomes new members who want to be part of a supportive, print community to share and grow their practice.

Inviting guest artists to run workshops, as well as working independently, the group also has an annual exhibition at the Barrel Store to share their work with the public.

Instagram: @waitakereprintersink

Waikato Society of Arts

WSA supports printmaking in the Waikato community and beyond. Our art school includes four tutored and untutored printmaking classes covering intaglio and relief techniques for beginners and experienced printmakers. Our annual members’ exhibition, WAIPRINT, showcases a guest Printmaker and workshops each year. WSA also sponsors and hosts the New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Awards (NZPPA), a national competition with prizes worth $35,000.

Find out more at our Printopia stall and browse a variety of unframed work for sale, including woodcut, wood engraving, screenprint, etching, drypoint and collagraph.

Instagram @artwaikato

Facebook Waikato Society of Arts

Website wsa.org.nz

Trinity Landis

Flowers hold a lot of symbolism, and that is something that many cultures share, but for me, flowers are something that hold memory. This year I have been working with Intaglio to help depict those memories.

As a kid I grew up in an almost rural part of California where I spent the majority of my time hiding away outside and finding wonder in the smaller things around me, like flowers. As time went on, I started associating the people I grew up with certain flowers, for both things heavily influenced my childhood.

Instagram: @trinityezre_art

The French Art Shop

The French Art Shop, based in Morningside, Auckland proudly supports printmakers in Aotearoa. They will have a selection of printmaking equipment, inks and paper on display. Come and ask them a question.

Instagram: @thefrenchartshopauckland

Website: www.thefrenchartshop.co.nz

Te Kowhai Print Trust

Te Kowhai Print Trust is a community owned facility unique to Whangarei. It operates as a workshop and educational facility in fine art printmaking as well as keeping a nationally significant historical archive of fine art prints.

At Printopia they will have a selection of work by their members ranging from Stone Lithography, Screenprinting, Solar Etching, Dry Point, Collograph, Monoprinting, and Woodcut/Linocut to Letterpress.

Instagram: @tekowhaiprint

Website: www.tkpt.org

Sophia Jenny Artist

Sophia Jenny is an Auckland-based visual artist working with cyanotype. Her art reflects themes of natural and human beauty, and the spiritual condition. She aims to elicit positive emotional responses of happiness, joy, and freedom in people, and to help anchor them in a chaotic and unravelling world. She is highly motivated by capturing the generous present moment and the omnipresent beauty of life.

Website: www.sophiajenny.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/sophiajennyartist

Facebook: www.facebook.com/sophiajennyartist

Sheyne Tuffery Visual Art

Sheyne Tuffery is a Wellington based multi-media visual artist; whose primary mediums are printmaking, mixed media painting, and animation . He is perhaps best known for the dynamic style of his prints and woodcuts,

Tuffery describes himself as a paper architect who uses his work to create and represent his own cultural context and sense of belonging. His recent work is a foray into mono and unique state prints using found objects to make compositions about our place in the cosmos.

www.sheynetuffery.com

Instagram @sheynetuffery

Facebook @TufferyVISUALART

Sean Thompson

Based in the smallish and ruralish town of Helensville, Sean spends most of his days ernestly attempting (and sometimes failing) to produce deeply unserious prints, mostly by squishing linoleum into paper. His works are inspired mostly by a deep and sincere lack of existential certainty, as well as a bunch of science study and his previous work in engineering, education, and environmental management.

Instagram & tiktok: @stegoseanus

Website: www.seanart.nz

Sarah Lund

I’m a cut paper artist, zinemaker and print hobbyist from Christchurch! My practice tends to focus more on functional art that you can interact with -books, stamps, dimensional things you can hold- but also incredibly fiddly miniatures. I’m bringing a bit of everything to the market, so there should be something for everyone- look out for the bright colours!

Instagram: @plaidcushion

Sandra Waine Printmaker

Sandra Waine is a printmaker based in Tamaki Makaurau north of the Harbour Bridge. She creates prints using lino, hand-carved rubber stamps and hand-cut stencils. Working on paper, card, wood and textiles Sandra creates homewares that bring a bit of fun and colour to your day. They are practical items like tea towels and pillowcases, designed to be used, loved and enjoyed!

Instagram and Facebook: @sandrawaineprintmaker

Ruru Artisans

Ruru Artisans is a craft-based workshop situated in the Oruru Valley, inland from Doubtless Bay in the Far North that includes letterpress, art print, book making, and linen items. The works we produce are inspired by the natural environment that surrounds us.

We have been involved in the creative industries for over three decades and continue to find ways to produce quality pieces, exploring how materials and technologies can be put to work. For Printopia, we will have letterpress and screen prints on archival stock and cotton.

Instagram:@rururartisans

www.ruruartisans.co.nz

RATA Printmakers

Rata Printmakers is a group of artists who share a love of printmaking. Since the original group in the 1980’s there have been many iterations, moving to it’s current residence in 2000, Te Whare Roto o Toi, Lake House Arts, Takapuna. Here there is a well-established studio where a variety of themes are explored through traditional etching and relief to more recent printmaking techniques.

At Lake House Arts, the group holds an annual exhibition with permanent rolling displays at the centre and at a local hotel. With workshops and open studio, Rata Printmakers help promote printmaking to the wider community.

Instagram: @rataprintmakers

https://lakehousearts.org.nz/webpages/rata-print-makers-rutherford-studio/

Print Council Aotearoa NZ

The printmaking displayed embodies the eclectic and rich tapestry that is wrapped around and supported by the Print Council Aotearoa NZ (PCANZ). The original and contemporary prints (postcard size and larger) comprise of a combination of many printmaking techniques such as mezzotint, intaglio, lithography, mono, woodblock reduction,screen-printing to name a few. The expression of subject matter is unique to the individual artists, ranging from the local environment, native flora, to abstract expressionism and realism.

Instagram: @printcouncilnz

Website: www.printcouncil.nz

Plateau Printmakers

Plateau Printmakers is a group of eight friends who meet regularly in Maggie Dawson’s Studio 92 to share ideas and inspire each other with printmaking techniques. We have all developed an individual style since we started getting together about 9 years ago. Individually we have attended workshops all over NZ, UK, Barcelona and an artist residency in Tuscany.

As a group we have facilitated events in the wider community to encourage an appreciation of print: such as drop in sessions at Taupo Winter Festival and Taupo Art Trail and the international Moth Migration Project.

Instagram @plateauprintmakers

Permaset

With over 60 years of manufacturing experience, Colormaker Industries is recognised globally by both the fine artist and professional printing trade as the premier manufacturer of textile screen printing inks.

As the art, craft, fashion and design worlds strive to tread more lightly on the Earth, practitioners are seeking more environmentally sustainable products, which are not only safer for the planet, but also safer for the artist to use.

Instagram: @permaset_aqua

www.permaset.com.au

Numa MacKenzie

Interdisciplinary artist Numangatini Mackenzie works in graf, tatau and mixed media installation. His practice centres on the exploration of urban space and the processes of building connections to his Pacific heritage and people. His research engages with literature on Oceanic art, museum collections as well as collaborations with living practitioners of art forms ranging from tatau, painting, and spoken word to voyaging/navigation and street art.

Instagram: @numanaturesgentleman

Website: https://numanaturesgentleman.com/

Nineteen99

Nineteen99 brand is deeply rooted in the theme of identity. We create clothing that celebrates the nuances and complexities of Black culture and African heritage, allowing wearers to stand out and express themselves authentically. Through our focus on identity and representation, we strive to send a powerful message that resonates across cultures, especially for those who have experienced being ‘othered’ by society.

The majority of the artwork presented is a revitalization of old family photos from Burundi. these images are important because these people, places, and things have played a key role in the brand that is ‘Nineteen99’.

Tiktok

Instagram

Website/store

Ngāmotou Student Print Club

A range of printmaking work from current and recent graduates of the WITT Te Pūkenga art and design programme. Processes include; screenprint, relief, reductive relief, aquatint, multi-plate etching, and monotype.

Instagram: @witt_art_design

Instagram: @ngamotustudentprintclub

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wittartanddesign

Website: https://www.witt.ac.nz/study/arts-and-design-creative/

Mark Phobos

Based in Northland and working out of Te Kowhai Print Trust in Whangarei, my prints draw inspiration from tattoo culture, infusing symbolism like skulls, snakes, and unique motifs into the medium.

Going beyond convention, I explore the dynamic possibilities of printmaking, pushing boundaries of visual expression. Each
meticulously crafted piece fuses influences from contemporary and historical printmaking masters with the captivating world of tattoos.

With a dedication to creating unique compositions, I challenge norms to produce prints that captivate and push artistic boundaries.

Instagram: @mark.phobos

Levon Parker

I am an artist printmaker living in West Auckland. My current practice consists of relief printmaking using linoleum and woodblock prints onto paper and t-shirts. Drawing and representational imagery forms the foundation of all my work with subject matter ranging floral forms and fauna from the natural world.

I incorporate symmetrical design, mandalas, celtic knot work and the flowing linear forms of art nouveau style into my prints. I have recently been inspired by the traditional tattoo style using bold line work to create a series of linocuts onto tie dyed T-shirts.

Instagram: levonparker_art

Website: www.levonparker.com

Kate Steiner

Kate Steiner is a printmaker from the Tāmaki Makaurau region. She describes herself as a watcher, dreamer, and a lover of nature and whimsy. Her work is influenced by emotion and intuition which she allows to guide her hand and speak in her imagery. She creates hand-carved, limited edition reduction linocuts inspired by Aotearoa NZ.

Instagram @katesteinerart

Jewelia Howard Art

Jewelia is a Pōneke based queer artist and printmaker focusing on themes of pop culture, nature and magic. Their print work is predominantly lino cuts and is handmade with love.

Instagram: @glaciars

https://jewelia.co

Gordon Harris Art Supplies

Gordon Harris is New Zealand’s leading art supplies specialist with stores in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch, an online store at www.gordonharris.co.nz, and a dedicated schools division. We are excited to be supporting Printopia and will have on display and for sale a wide range of printmaking and screenprinting supplies for the beginner to the professional, including:

Permaset Screenprinting inks and kits

Block Printing kits, inks and tools

Gelli monoprinting kits and plates

Awagami Japanese printmaking papers

Hahnemuhle German printmaking papers

Fabriano Italian printmaking papers

www.gordonharris.co.nz

https://www.facebook.com/GordonHarrisArtSupplies/

https://www.instagram.com/gordonharrisartsupplies/

Emily Clemett

I am a Wellington based Ngai Tahu artist, working in and exploring many art forms from print making to music. Growing up in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, surrounded by vibrance, creativity and nature, I am endlessly inspired to push the boundaries of my artistic practice.

This series of work is created by painting directly onto my skin and then transferring this as a print. I like to work in large scale with bold and bright colours, exploring abstract shapes and forms.

Elam Artists

Current Elam School of Fine Arts students Jade, Emma, and Olivia (all from Tāmaki Makaurau) experiment with various printmaking processes, styles and themes.

Emma’s work with etching, lithography, and paper-making processes that think through time, materiality and the environment, Olivia’s etchings and CMYK screen-prints that use layering and photography to explore ideas of memory and the body, and Jade’s colourful woodblock patterns transformed into bags will all be for sale at our table.

@jadejadeperry

@artofemmastretch

@werryart.ofolivia

Courtney Bruce

My name is Courtney, and I am a printmaker based in Upper Hutt, Wellington. I have just recently graduated from Ara institute of Canterbury where I completed a Bachelor of design in applied visual arts. While in my last year of study I found a unique technique of printing where I can achieve clean prints of the rings in wood stumps. I have developed a love for this technique because not only does it look beautiful, but it preserves the unique stories of the life of these trees.

Instagram and TikTok: _cb.artist_

Brie Rate

Rooted in observation, Brie’s practice narrates connecting to the world through drawing, walking and repurposing found and foraged material. As a printmaker and paper maker, Brie is passionate about sharing creative skills which are sustainable, accessible, and consider our complex relationship with the Earth. Her visual work frequently explores natural phenomena of urban environments and is preoccupied with questions of belonging and ecological stability.

Brie holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts completed across Ilam School of Fine Art, University of Canterbury and Elam School of Fine Art, University of Auckland. She has been involved in a number of shows, including as a Parkin Drawing Prize finalist in 2023. She is currently a resident artist at Corban Estate Arts Centre.

@eirbeirb

https://ceac.org.nz/community/artists/brie-rate

Ara Art and Design

Ara Art and Design will have a selection of intaglio, woodblocks and screen prints on display at Printopia by their tutors, students and recent graduates specialising in print media.

Tutors include Sandra Thompson (woodblock), Carol King (woodblock and mixed media) and Kim Lowe (ghost prints/ emboss and intaglio).

Instagram: @ara_art_design

Facebook: @AraArtDesign

AIM Publishing

AIM Publishing has been creating artist books and zines on theology for the last twenty years, mostly for resourcing the Methodist Church.

More recently, AIM Publishing has begun exploring how to create a new dialogue between the book and the reader. As the print comes down from the frame, the eye can explore more closely at different angles, allowing the words to take on a new life.

At the Print Fair, three artist books using poems from A E Housman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost and Hermann Hesse will be on show along with some prints and zines for sale.

Website: https://kiwiconnexion.nz/view/view.php?id=184

SAVE THE DATE 3 - 5 May 2024

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3 - 5 May 2024