Small Print is an unselected, travelling exhibition of PCANZ members’ prints, which travels to galleries around Aotearoa raising awareness of printmaking and PCANZ.

There are at least 10 months of exhibitions, with new prints submitted each year. 

Small Print is an unselected, travelling exhibition of PCANZ members’ prints, which travels to galleries around Aotearoa raising awareness of printmaking and PCANZ.

There are at least 10 months of exhibitions, with new prints submitted each year. 

PCANZ Summer School 2025 from Monday 13th January – Friday 17th January was held at Waikato Diocesan School for Girls, Hamilton. The six workshop options and open studio to choose from offered a stimulating, varied programme and an exciting week of printmaking. Workshops, accommodation and meals were all on site.

‘The Expanded Field of Print’ is a Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand selected member exhibition open to all members.

20 August - 14 September 2024.
Opening: Saturday 17 August 2024, 1pm - 3pm with floor talk from the selector.

Venue: North Art, Auckland

Selector: Steve Lovett
Organiser: Di Smallfield

A collaborative printmaking exercise encouraging PCANZ members to make contacts with other printmakers and to explore the unusual psychological terrain of working into another person’s artwork while also letting go of any territorial habits and giving another person free rein to interpret the work submitted. Project completion date extended to 29 November 2024.

DRYPOINT & ACRYLIC RESIST ETCHING
A 3 - day workshop exploring drypoint and etching aluminium using copper sulphate/salt mordant, acrylic resists and printing with Akua water-based intaglio inks. There will be a materials cost to students - to be confirmed nearer the time.

An unselected, travelling exhibition of A4 prints. Members’ prints are exhibited widely around Aotearoa, while raising awareness of printmaking and PCANZ.

There are at least 10 months of exhibitions, with new prints submitted each year. 

An exciting opportunity for members to have work offered for sale at Tennyson Gallery in Napier. Tennyson Gallery is a privately owned gallery in the heart of Napier City.

Venue: Tennyson Gallery  https://www.tennysongallery.nz/

Date: 9 – 30 April 2024

All works for sale

PCANZ Summer School 2024 from Monday 8th January – Friday 12th January was held at Queen Margaret College, Wellington. The seven workshop options and open studio to choose from offered a stimulating, varied programme and an exciting week of printmaking. Workshops, accommodation and meals were all on site.

All Square exhibition of 300mm x 300mm prints is an unselected exhibition open to all members of the PCANZ and is a great opportunity to experiment. There is no set theme. The exhibition venue is Community Arts Napier (CAN) from 27 October to 16 November 2023.

Expand your printmaking community, Make new connections, Enrich your art practice.

You will be placed in groups of three. Your mission is to get to know each other, to learn about each other’s printmaking practice, to share ideas, to exchange postcards and to build connections.

An unselected, travelling exhibition of A4 prints. Members’ prints are exhibited widely around the country, while raising awareness of printmaking and PCANZ. The retail price for the Small Print prints will be $100.

‘Celebration’ exhibition is an exciting opportunity for PCANZ members to show their work in conjunction with the book launch of Proof: Two decades of Print Council of Aotearoa New Zealand. Past. present and looking forward to be held at Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History from 4th March to 4th June 2023.

PCANZ Summer School 2023 from Monday 9th January – Friday 13th January was held at Epsom Girls Grammar School. The six workshop options to choose from offered a stimulating, varied programme and an exciting week of printmaking. Workshops, accommodation and meals were all on site.

An exchange exhibition between PCANZ and Impress Printmakers Studio and Gallery Brisbane. This event is limited to 30 members from each country. Exhibition Dates 26th August / 8th September 2022  simultaneously at Impress Gallery Brisbane and Creative Arts (CAN) Napier.

The Winter Workshop programme is a series of workshops to strengthen and empower the regions, and grow connections amongst those interested in printmaking. Members from within each region organise their own workshop activities over the winter months between May and September, and are open to all PCANZ members.

An unselected, travelling exhibition of A4 prints between April 2022 and March 2023. Members’ prints are exhibited widely around the country, while raising awareness of printmaking and PCANZ.

A bestiary (from bestiarum vocabulum) is a compendium of beasts, often refering to any collection of descriptions of animals, whether in words or images. Each participant in this project will randomly be given a letter from A to Z by an area coordinator, from which to create a design. The design will be printed by each participant, then will be later collated into a book.

PCANZ Summer School 2022 from Monday 10th January – Friday 14th January was held at the Nelson College for Girls. The five workshop options to choose from offered a stimulating, varied programme and an exciting week of printmaking. Workshops, accommodation and meals were all on site.

“Looking Forward” is about leaving 2020 behind and moving forward into the future of 2021 and beyond.

Venue:  Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford

Dates for exhibition: 16 July - 8 August 2021

Exhibition opening/preview function: Saturday 17 July at 1pm.

Postcards from North & South is a three way exhibition with PressNorth in Townsville and Firestation Printmaking Studio in Armidale.  

Print Council members were invited to submit four postcards to take part in this exhibition.

The exhibition was hosted at two Australian and three New Zealand venues from 16 July to 12 December 2021.

An unselected, travelling exhibition of A4 prints from April 2021 to March 2022. Members’ prints are exhibited widely around the country, while raising awareness of printmaking and PCANZ.

PCANZ Summer School 2021 from Monday 11th January – Friday 15th January was held at EIT, Hawkes Bay. This was one of PCANZ’s largest summer schools with approximately 70 Print Council members and tutors attending from throughout New Zealand. There were two 2-day workshops and two 4-day workshops. Due to demand an extra waterless lithography course was run at The Learning Connexion in Wellington.

Open entry printmaking exhibition for PCANZ members. Theme: Social Commentary.

Exhibition Dates:

Hawera: Monday 28 Sept – Saturday 24 October 2020

Lysaght Watt Gallery, South Taranaki Art Gallery, Hawera

Rotorua: 27th October to 5th November 2020

J Block Gallery, Mokoia Campus, Mokoia Drive Tihiotonga, Rotorua.

2020 Summer School Tauranga/Wellington

6 to 10 January

Four workshops, including Mokolito with guest tutor, Jeff Sippel, USA.

PCANZ selected Artist Book Exhibition, “Thinking_Unfolding”.

Selector: Paul Thompson

The Exhibition of award winners and finalists, starts at Aratoi Museum of Art + History, Masterton, Wairarapa 2 November – 8 December 2019.

The Premiere Award and three Merit Awards will be announced at the Opening event, 1pm Saturday 2 November 2019.

An unselected, travelling exhibition of A4 prints. Members’ prints are exhibited widely around the country, while raising awareness of printmaking and PCANZ.

Online sale of these prints is still open.

The remaining available works may be viewed here or at Imprint Gallery, Historic Village, 17th Ave, Tauranga

2019 Winter School and AGM, 1-3 June, Taupo Intermediate School, Kotare Street.

AGM marking the retirement of Kathy Boyle as chair.

2019 Bronwyn Rees Workshops

Books and Beyond - “Turning Straw into Gold”

Two-day workshops with Melbourne printmaker

Auckland: 13th /14th April

Napier: 20th /21st April

Wellington: 27th /28th April