National Gallery/Megalo workshop with Annika Romeyn and Basil Hall

To coincide with the National Gallery of Australia’s current exhibition, Prints & Processes The Kenneth E Tyler Collection (curated by Kira Godoroja-Prieckaerts), Annika Romeyn and I were asked to run a joint printmaking workshop for Canberra and region teachers. Kira kindly gave us a tour of the Tyler exhibition and, suitably inspired, we headed to Megalo to look at slightly less ambitious possibilities in monoprinting and collagraphs for the weekend. Both mediums are easy to apply to a classroom situation, where equipment and time can be limited and where oil-based solvents and inks are not really suitable health-wise. Here are a few of the small experiments at the workshop’s conclusion.