Auckland Report September - November 2025
Bridget Burnett
Member Ina Arraoui has organised several successful print workshops for eager printmakers based at Toi Ora Live Arts Trust in Grey Lynn. There are more workshops to come, and these will be advertised in due course.
Congratulations to Toni Hartill!
Toni’s new online course “Unbound”, run by Fibre Arts Take Two will start soon. Enrolments are already closed, but we hope there will be a repeat.
Member Celia Walker reports on a recently completed residency in Australia.
Earlier this year I spent 6 weeks in Australia, with a month-long residency at BigCi Artist Residency on the fringes of the Wollemi National Park (an hour and a half from Sydney). The BigCi Residency has a purpose-built studio, an enormous light-filled space housing up to four artists at one time. Artists are given total freedom and space to immerse themselves in their work and have opportunities to explore the spectacular natural landscape of the Blue Mountains. I followed up the residency with a fabulous workshop/masterclass run by Sarah Amos at the well-equipped Baldessin Print Studio near Melbourne and so was able to turn some of my drawings and work from the residency into finished collagraph prints. I will be giving an artist talk about these experiences on Thursday 11 September at 6pm, at The Depot 3 Victoria Rd.
Towards Predator Free 2050 Exhibition is currently on at the Auckland Botanic Gardens featuring a number of PCANZ members (see details in members matters of interest section). Esther Hansen is exhibiting in a show in Miranda, Auckland. Anita Mudaliar and Lorraine Vickery are showing their work in a group show at the BSA Gallery, Auckland.
detail from Towards Predator Free detail of Esther Hanson’s prints
Pressing Matters Printmaking Event 2026, 02 to 29 March.
There will be opportunities for printmakers to participate in the following ways:
Submit work for the Exhibition in any print medium....
Participate in the Pop-up live print labs as a tutor or student
Tutor a workshop
Industry specialists to share product knowledge
Talks by artists about their work
Professional development seminars
If interested in any of the above contact manager@estuaryarts.org
For forms, need to be filled in by 30 January 2026.
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