Megalo + Edition Printing: 2012 - 2019
In 2012 I was incredibly fortunate to be given the studio manager position for the etching, relief and lithography studios at Megalo Print Studio.
I worked as the studio manager until 2019, and in that time I got to work with some of the best artists and printers in the country, as well as dozens of local, national, and international residents.
Alongside my role at Megalo I also engaged as an editioning printer for a small number of artists, operating as Pindika Press - a small scale editioning and book publishing house (still operating!)
Below are some highlights from the Megalo years.
KYOKO IMAZU - 2019
This was a small series of stone lithographs, printed for my friend (and extremely talented artist/printmaker) Kyoko Imazu.
Image titles from left to right: Bilateral Gynandromorph, Night Ritual, Travelling Light
ARONE MEEKS - 2017
Arone Meeks (a well known artist, and Kukumidiji man of Laura, Far North Queensland) spent several weeks at Megalo undertaking an ambitious residency, producing a number of multi-plate copper etchings (printed by Clare Jackson) and several large lithographs (printed by me and Millan Pintos-Lopez)
You can read about Arone’s exhibition at Megalo here: Beyond the Blue: Unbroken. An artistic anthology of works on paper
Arone has, very sadly, since passed away. He was a wonderful artist, and is missed.
Arone Meeks, Gender Spirit II, lithograph, 120x80cm, 2017. Photo by Louis Lim
KATY MUTTON - 2016
I printed this for my good friend Katy Mutton, for her Print Council of Australia Print Commission in 2016.
This was both a nightmare and a pleasure to print - it is definitely the print I am proudest of.
We had very little leeway for error, and it was a lot of colours in a reasonably large edition (I think 50?), so lots of scope for things to go wrong!
The Stack
11 colour screenprint
Image size: 30.5 x 30.5 cm
Paper size: 49 x 38 cm
Below are some process photos from printing The Stack, as well as some process photos from other editions I have printed for Katy.
ALISON ALDER - THE KNOWN WORLD - 2015
This commission came to Megalo through the National Gallery of Australia, asking us to print for Alison Alder (who is a much better screenprinter than I am!) for the Eighth Australian Print Symposium
This was a huge joy to print, and progress photos are included below.
The Known World
9 colour screenprint, printed from two photo-stencils
78 x 61cm
ANZAC CENTENARY PRINT PORTFOLIO - 2014/15
I was incredibly lucky to work with Master Printer John Loane, printing for the ten artists invited to participate in the Australian War Memorial’s ANZAC Centenary Print Portfolio.
The aim of the Portfolio was to creatively explore the legacy of the First World War and the Centenary itself as a way of linking our past with our present and future.
The ten artists chosen to participate were: Daniel Boyd, Megan Cope, Helen Johnson, Mike Parr, and Sangeeta Sandrasegar from Australia; and Shane Cotton, Brett Graham, Fiona Jack, John Reynolds, and Sriwhana Spong from New Zealand. Each artist came to Megalo for a two-week residency, during which they worked with John Loane and the staff at Megalo to produce their prints.
A limited edition of 20 portfolios were printed, with 17 gifted to cultural institutions in Australia and around the world to promote international awareness of Australian and New Zealand artists and of our countries’ experiences of the First World War. The edition presented to the Parliament House Art Collection was displayed at Parliament House, Canberra in 2016
More information can be found here: ANZAC Centenary Print Portfolio
WAVE HILL/JINPARRAK EXCHANGE - 2013
This was the first edition we printed after Megalo moved to their new (and freshly refurbished) Wentworth Avenue studios in Kingston, having packed up and shifted from Phillip Avenue in Watson.
This exchange was part of part of the Centenary of Canberra’s Indigenous cultural program, and an ongoing collaboration between Megalo and the artists from Wave Hill - famous for the historic Wave Hill Walk-off in 1966, led by Vincent Jurlama Lingiari AM with Gurindji, Ngarinyman, Mudburra, Bilinara and Walpiri workers from Wave Hill Station, in response to the unfair working and living conditions for Aboriginal people under the station’s management, Vestey’s Group.
The artists came to Canberra and worked with the staff to create a series of incredibly beautiful screenprints, which pretty well sold out at the opening (opened by Ngambri elder, Matilda House, and the Governor of New South Wales, Marie Bashir).
These prints were exhibited in 2025 at the ANU School of Art and Design as part of the Gurindji Freedom Banners & Wave Hill / Jinparrak / Canberra Exchange Exhibition, presented in collaboration with Charles Darwin University Art Gallery, Karungkarni Art and Culture, Kalkarindji, Northern Territory, and Megalo Print Studio.
You can read more here: Joy in cultural exchange at Megalo
