Agave Print Studio

13/05/2025

Redux: Dianne Longley and Olga Sankey
Opening Thursday May 15, 2025
PRAXIS Artspace.
Artist talks 2pm on Saturday May 17, 2025.
All welcome.

22/09/2023

Whispers of Spring - Intro to Photopolymer Printmaking and Folded Books at Sutton Village Gallery, near Canberra in NSW. Wednesday September 27, 10am-5pm, no previous experience necessary. Have a fun day making a plate from a drawing, and combining hand-printed images with other workshop participants to create a folded book on Japanese paper. Contact Kim Sinclair [email protected] or click: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/718392650757

23/02/2023

Want to learn how to make a photopolymer plate from a drawing? And add a range of chine collé backgrounds to your image? My workshop at Firestation Print Studio in March will be all about chine collé. A somewhat mysterious printmaking technique, chine collé offers many possibilities. From a nuanced gampi paper under the whole print, to shapes cut or pulled out of Japanese or other papers, or you can add image information with coloured pencils, and delight the eye with small areas of gold leaf. The possibilities are numerous.

On Saturday we will make and print an A5 plate using Printight KM73 photopolymer plate. On Sunday we start our chine collé techniques.

Bring along drawings that can be re-drawn onto double matte drafting film, and then exposed onto a plate. After processing the plate the fun begins.

For more information call Firestation Print Studio 03 95091782 or call Dianne 0414 891 952.

This workshop is suitable for beginners, or experienced printmakers who want to add chine collé to their toolbox of techniques.

26/01/2023

February Workshop at Newstead Arts Hub! Sunday Feb 12, 2023. No previous experience needed.

In this workshop you will take drawings from the garden/bush/landscape and transform them into intaglio prints using water-washable photopolymer plates. Bring a range of your drawings or photographs to the workshop as a basis for your printmaking.

Using a graphite pencil or felt-tipped pigment pen you will create a drawing on drafting film which is then exposed onto a photopolymer plate in sunlight or using a UV exposure unit. The plate is washed out in tap water, dried and hardened, and then printed onto dampened paper to produce a beautiful intaglio print.

26/01/2023

Istoria exhibition at Burra, SA.
Goldfields Printmakers presents ‘Istoria’ an exhibition at the Burra Regional Art Gallery, South Australia. The opening of the exhibition by Dr Stephen Atkinson is Saturday 28th January 5.30pm.
The term history has evolved from an ancient Greek verb istoria which means "to know". Originally meaning inquiry, the act of seeking knowledge, as well as the knowledge that results from inquiry or what we now call histories, stories or tales. Stories may be fanciful tales woven at bedtime, melodramatic plots, or the relating of a simple tale. Histories, on the other hand, are records of events, although the veracity of those events usually depends on who has written the history/herstory.

08/11/2022

Workshops, Printmaking workshop in Ubud, Bali, Update on collaborations for my new book on photopolymer printmaking -

31/08/2022

New prints for the exhibition opening at Newstead on Saturday September 3 at 2.30pm.

My prints combine line drawings of my iconic 1970s A-frame studio with garden details. In one print outrageously large flowers sit upon my studio roof and float in the sky. In the second print a large sprig of citrus balances on garden foliage, floating in a wintry sky on a sun-warmed afternoon. Gardens take time to reveal their secrets, random or planned. Just so with the printmaking process, time is an integral element in the process of creativity.

My prints are made using photopolymer plates. I combined drawing and photography to produce a film which was exposed onto Printight KM95 plate. I printed the plate in black, with the chine collé colour being an inkjet print.

31/08/2022

The Printmakers' Garden of Imagination, a group exhibition of Goldfields Printmakers opens on Saturday at 2pm at Newstead Arts Hub. Come along and chat to the artists and see their new works.

13/06/2022

Spend a wintry day inside and cosy learning how to enhance your iPhone photographs and then upload them to create a photobook. Select images based on a theme, a travel adventure, family event, the transformation of your garden, plants and views of your garden over time, building project, photos of your hobby. Bring these to the workshop and edit them and then make a booklet for yourself or to give to friends and family.
Call Dianne for more information.

12/05/2022

Workshops, Tacit Editions exhibition, Update on research for my new book on photopolymer printmaking -

Explore the versatility of Japanese 4-hole binding technique. A simple and practical bookbinding process you can adapt to various projects. In this workshop participants will make a Japanese book using folded papers, Japanese paper for book covers, and silk thread for stitching the book. A workshop....

31/03/2022

Sunday April 3 at Agave Print Open Studio features a demonstration on using drawings to make photopolymer plates, and making books and a display of artist books and folios. Lots to see and enjoy!

31/03/2022

Visit Agave Print Open Studio on Saturday April 2 to see demonstrations of printing on an 1860s Albion press, benchtop letterpress printing, and foiling on a 100 year old press. Photopolymer plates are used for Dianne's letterpress plates, some metal type and metal plates are also used.