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. 

What is the one thing you would change? Each participant will create and submit six prints of any size on A4 paper, card or another material. These can be an edition or unique prints. In exchange, each participant will receive six different prints from members across Aotearoa. The prints will also be shown on the PCANZ website in a virtual exhibition.

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. 

Thursday 15th and 16 th January. Shelley Ryde's two-day workshop introduces participants to two photomechanical printmaking processes: Solar Plate Intaglio and Pronto Plate Lithography

Thursday 15th and 16 th January. Steve Lovett's workshop - Pre-Print Research : Everything we might do before we go to the studio and get into ink.

Thursday 15 th & Friday 16 th January. Tara Axford's workshop - Re/Arrange is a playful two-day printmaking workshop where abstract forms, texture, and textile thinking come together in modular prints designed to be cut, layered, and endlessly recombined.

Monday 12 th & Tuesday 13 th January. Emma Kitson's workshop - Screen Printing with DIY Inks from Reclaimed Pigments. Learn to screenprint using your own ink made from reclaimed and foraged pigments with Artist Emma Kitson.

Monday 12 th & Tuesday 13 th January. Jeff Lockhart's workshop - That’s a relief - our place in the Pacific. Explore multiplate relief printmaking with an emphasis on using woodcuts and found materials to explore your sense of identity and cultural connection to our place in the Pacific.

Monday 12 th & Tuesday 13 th January. Tara Axford's workshop - Re/Arrange is a playful two-day printmaking workshop where abstract forms, texture, and textile thinking come together in modular prints designed to be cut, layered, and endlessly recombined.

Monday 12th to Friday 16th January. Nan Mulder's four-day Masterclass in Mezzotint worrkshop is a time-consuming but a very beautiful technique. During the workshop students would learn how to ‘rock’ a copperplate to prepare the ground for a mezzotint.

Rangi Ruru Girls’ School Accommodation

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. 

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. 

Contemporary Printmaking of Aotearoa  - A korero of thoughts and ideas 

Where: Ashburton Art Gallery 

When: 15 December 2025 – 22 February 2026

Selector: Jacqueline Aust 

Printmaking is often perceived as work of two dimensions framed on a wall. The challenge of this exhibition is to encourage printmakers to explore subjects meaningful to them (including political, environmental or economic issues).

An antidote to doom-scrolling — PCANZ Member Project 2025 – 10 by 10 print exchange

A selected exhibition open to all PCANZ members in recognition of Ruth Davey and her importance in Aotearoa New Zealand regional art. The exhibition is of prints inspired by Ruth’s work. Selector Kathy Boyle. Held at the Ruth Davey Gallery, Artspost, Hamilton from 10 July to 10 August 2025. Opening Saturday 12 July. 1pm - 3pm. Workshop Ruth’s ‘Shift Print’ technique 9.00am-12noon on Saturday, 12 July. This is the online viewing

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. 

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. 

A selected exhibition open to all PCANZ members in recognition of Ruth Davey and her importance in Aotearoa New Zealand regional art. The exhibition is of prints inspired by Ruth’s work. Selector Kathy Boyle. Held at the Ruth Davey Gallery, Artspost, Hamilton from 10 July to 10 August 2025. Opening Saturday 12 July. 1pm - 3pm. Workshop Ruth’s ‘Shift Print’ technique 9.00am-12noon on Saturday, 12 July.

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. 

Participants will create and submit 10 prints of 10 cm by 10 cm size centred on 14 cm by 14 cm paper. These can be printed as an edition or as 10 unique prints. In exchange, each participant will receive 10 different prints from 10 members across Aotearoa. The prints will also be shown on the PCANZ website in a virtual exhibition.

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.