Sydney Printmakers

Congratulations To Members Selected Finalists in the Gosford Art Prize and Northern Beaches Environment Award

August 9, 2026 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

Out of a record 1518 submissions made to Gosford Art Prize, 148 artworks were selected, including those by Gary Shinfield, Roz Kean, Rew Hanks and Carolyn Craig. This years judges were Dean Cross and Sally Dan -Cuthbert.

The Awards presentation and exhibition Opening Night Event is on Friday 25 September 6pm.

Nathalie Gautier-Hartog Hawkesbury River 2025 Letter press on Rizograph print

And selected finalist Northern Beaches Environment Awards were Nathalie Gautier-Hartog and Roz Kean

Roz Kean also has her exhibition THE SPACE BETWEEN at Belco Arts Canberra celebrating her printmaking 1976-2026 London, Toyko, Canberra and Sydney. OPENING 6pm Friday 28 August until 11 October 2026

Sydney Printmakers at Sydney Contemporary

August 2, 2026 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

Sydney Printmakers members Roz Kean, Ro Murray, Andy Totman and Thea Weiss will be at Booth 05, and Nathalie Gautier-Hartog will be showing her books at a separate booth, and other extraordinary printmakers will be in the Paper Room.

discounted tickets available on this link ACT QUICKLY!!!!!

https://sydneycontemporary.flicket.io/events/98098063-7924-4112-8ef4-4ea38811256d/reservation?slug=40c95a39&code=SYDNEYPRINTMAKERS20

M16 Artspace Drawing Prize 2026 Entries Open

July 16, 2026 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

Surya Bajracharaya Margaret and Fraser Fair, 2025 charcoal 61x80cm. Winner 2025 M16 Drawing Prize

$10,000 drawing prize closes 4 October 2026

framed or mounted works are not acceptable

check T&C https://www.m16artspace.com.au/2026-drawing-prize

Can I submit a ‘painting’ to the M16 Artspace Drawing Prize? How do you define drawing?

Absolutely. The M16 Artspace Drawing Prize is open to a wide range of art forms, including both traditional drawing media and techniques, as well as innovative non-traditional works that push the boundaries of what drawing can be within contemporary art practice.

While the prize is named the ‘Drawing Prize,’ we encourage artists to interpret ‘drawing’ broadly. You can submit works that may be classified as paintings or other art forms if they align with your interpretation of drawing within contemporary art. We are interested in exploring the expansive and evolving definition of drawing.

Jenny Herbert Smith Through the quarries with a hop, skip and a jump 2024, steel. Finalist 2025

The 2026 judges are Michelle Cawthorn, Dean Cross, Terence Maloon

exhibition Saturday 21 November -13 December 2026

Ro Murray in UNRuly M16 Artspace Canberra

July 16, 2026 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

Murray and Burgess PASSION (detail Grace Crowley and Sandy Edwards) 2026 charcoal, ink, conte 150x1600cm

PASSION is a 16m mural of 27 new charcoal portraits extending the project celebrating Australian elder women artists to 60 portraits. Amongst them are printmakers Bettina McMahon (1930 – 2024), Bea Maddock (1934-2016), Ethel Spowers (1890 – 1947), Margaret Woodward (1938-)Nyapanya Yunupinju (1945 – 2021). Murray and Burgess draw back and forth in their collaborative project.

group exhibition UNRuly

Ro Murray, Mandy Burgess, Catherine Anselmi, David Helmers

M16 Artspace 30 July -23 August 2026

21 Blaxland Cres Griffith, Canberra

Opening is 6-8pm Thursday 30 July

Ro is in attendance the first weekend.

Murray and Burgess “PASSION” (detail Margaret Woodward, Judith Wright, Nyapanya Yunupinju ) 2026charcoal, ink, conte 150x1600cm

Members News: Printmaking Exhibition in Hamilton NZ

June 28, 2026 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

Sydney Printmakers Anthea Boesenberg, Jacqui Driver & Gary Shinfield join Australian and NZ Printmakers in

AGGREGATE 9 July- 1 August 2026

Artspost 120 Victoria St Hamilton NZ

Anthea Boesenberg Orange 2026 relief collagraph, wax resist, ink Unique State on Korean handmade paper, 780x610cm

Jacqui Driver Sentinel II, 2026, Lithograph

Gary Shinfield Uncertain Sanctuary I, 2026, Unique State woodcut print on Korean handmade paper 94x64cm

Member News: Sandi Rigby’s Powerful Owls Have Been Acquired by the State Library

June 13, 2026 by Ro Murray 1 Comment

Sandy Edwards, *Mapping the Powerful Owl,* box of 11 etchings

The NSW State Library has purchased Sandi Rigby’s box of 11 etchings of Powerful Owls. Sandi said the etchings were started in 2012, for a project to fight a development that was going to knock down part of a local Blue Gum Forest, the habitat for a pair of Powerful Owls. Sandi monitored the pair over a season, and was rewarded with sighting of their chicks. Powerful Owls are listed as “vulnerable”.

The box contained the story and a drawing of the area in habituated by the owls. The Library hopes to put them in an exhibition next year for recent acquisitions.

Listen to the call of the Powerful Owl and other birds

URGENT: PLEASE HELP SAVE THE PRINT COUNCIL VOTE TODAY

May 30, 2026 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

AGM registration, committee nomination forms and proxy voting forms are available here:
https://www.printcouncil.org.au/agm-2026/
Completed proxy voting forms need to be emailed to (before 30 May):
generalmanager@printcouncil.org.au

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