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The Australian Print Workshop Access Studio provides
artists with access to a wide range of professional printmaking
equipment and facilities at a modest rental. The APW Access
Studio offers professional printmaking facilities for etching,
lithography, relief printing and monoprinting.
The APW Access Studio is well ventilated and air conditioned,
and provides a friendly and relaxed environment in which to
work and to meet other artists. Skilled APW staff are available
at all times to offer advice and technical assistance.
Many artists use the APW Access Studio to make prints for
solo and/or group exhibitions, commissions and for awards
and competitions. The Australian Print Workshop Gallery also
stocks many prints produced by artists who have used the APW
Access Studio to produce their work.
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the selection of works for sale online in our Printstore.
How can I use the Access Studio?
To use the APW Access Studio artists must be competent in
printmaking and able to work independently, as the studio
does not offer tuition and cannot provide full supervision
for those wishing to learn a new medium.
If you would like to use the Australian Print Workshop Access
Studio for the first time, please contact
us to make an appointment. This will be an opportunity
to show an APW staff member a selection of prints that you
have produced and printed yourself. In this way APW staff
can assess your technical ability and determine your competency
in the medium.
Graduates of Australian Print Workshop Summer
School and Printmaking
Classes may also be able to utilise the printmaking facilities
of the APW Access Studio, providing they work in areas that
correspond with the classes they have successfully completed.
Artists new to the APW Access Studio will need to complete
a period of probation, during which time APW staff will be
able to more fully assess the artist's command of the print
medium. If necessary, APW staff may advise artists that their
skills need to be further developed and recommend that they
attend Printmaking Classes
conducted by the Workshop.
All artists are required to sign an agreement form before
commencing use of the APW Access Studio. A new agreement form
must be signed each year. Australian Print Workshop staff
will explain details of the agreement with artists.
What printmaking equipment and
facilities are available?
The APW Access Studio offers a range of printmaking equipment
and facilities including:
- 2 Hilton manual etching presses (bed size
100 x 168cm)
- Hilton manual etching press (bed size 80
x 150cm)
- Guillotine for cutting plates
- Process room with ferric chloride baths for
etching copper
- Aquatint box
- 3 Hot plates for etching
- Takach-Garfield manual lithography press
(bed size 100 x 168cm)
- Takach-Garfield motorized lithography press
(bed size 100 x 176cm)
- Over 100 lithography stones (ranging in size
from 18 x 30cm to 73 x 102cm)
- Graining sink and 2 levigators, for graining
lithography stones
- Albion press for relief printing (platen
size 44 x 59cm)
- Olec Ovac upright vacuum exposure station
(screen size 50 x 60cm)
- Over 25 rollers, including 2 leather nap
rollers (ranging in size from 9cm to 90cm wide)
- Large stainless steel sink for soaking paper.
What is the cost?
The Australian Print Workshop Access Studio provides artists
with access to a range of professional printmaking equipment
and facilities at a modest rental. The rental charges are
kept as low as possible and are subsidised by the Workshop.
The APW Access Studio is open Wednesday to Saturday, 9am-5pm.
Studio equipment and facilities may be booked for either a
full day (9am-5pm) or for half a day (9am-1pm or 1pm-5pm).
Charges are available on application.
For more information about the Australian Print Workshop
Access Studio please contact
Australian Print Workshop.
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