Northland Report march-may 2026
Megan Squire and Hamish Oakley-Browne
The Te Tai Tokerau/Northland region continues to promote printmaking with workshops, studio get-togethers’ and exchanges being organized through Te Kowhai Print Trust.
Across the ditch
Te Kowhai teams up with Australian print makers in a collaborative printmaking event. Black Gully Printmakers working out of Armadale in NSW together with Neeram the New England Regional Art Museum approached Te Kowhai to collaborate in a print exchange and exhibition. The project involved a collaborative printmaking project with Te Kowhai artists and Black Gully Artists exchanging prints to add to, work over or change. Twelve artists from BGP sent works to Aotearoa and Te Kowhai members sent works to BGP with the outcome completely unknown. The exhibition will run in Australia from 20th March to 26thApril. Te Kowhai will exhibit the works at Te Kowhai gallery in July when the works return from across the ditch.
https://www.neram.com.au/event/across-the-ditch/
Print Your Own Money (PYOM)
Print Your Own Money kicked off in February at TKPT. Print your own money is a 12 week Printmaking program that caters to students aged 18-30. A free program sponsored by Sky City Trust, it aims to give foundation skills to our new cohort of younger Printmakers. Over 12 weeks they are introduced to a range of Printmaking skills. Visiting artists and creative business owners stop by and show the students viable models for working in the creative industries. Their work can be viewed at Printopia in May where they will meet our wider Print Family.
Layering Nature Workshop:
PCANZ member Celia Walker will facilitate a two-day workshop on 7–8 March exploring collagraph and monotype techniques to create loosely bound artist books inspired by the local landscape. Participants will learn to use found materials and carborundum to make richly textured plates and produce a series of unique prints that combine multiple processes, focusing on directly recording the natural environment through its forms, surfaces, and textures. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Celia works with non-toxic methods and large-scale printmaking, and has been a finalist in major national awards including the New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Awards, the Parkin Drawing Prize, and the Estuary Art and Ecology Awards."
Hangar Gallery in Whangārei is hosting the PCANZ Small Print Show for the first time. Adjacent to the Small Print Show will be prints by TKPT Printmakers. The exhibition will preview on Friday 13th March and run through until 10th April.