Marginalia Printmaking Workshops Series 1

Name: Marginalia Printmaking Workshops Series 1
Start: 2026-06-13T09:00:00+08:00
End: 2026-06-13T09:00:00+08:00
Location: Murray Arts and Crafts Peel Printmaking Studio

Murray Arts and Crafts Peel Printmaking Studio and the Printmakers Association of WA proudly present the Marginalia Exhibition and Symposium Project Printmaking Workshop Series 1. These workshops are generously funded by the Shire of Murray and Alcoa. Please scroll down to see all the details for each Workshop. When you are sure which workshop(s) you would like to enrol in please click on the BOOK NOW window and select your workshop from the list of options.

Upon booking you will receive a very detailed summary email for all the Workshops in this series, including what you need to bring and how to prepare for each workshop, so make sure you read the correct information for the Workshop(s) you have enrolled in.

If the Workshop(s) you are interested in is SOLD OUT please join our waitlist. If there is enough interest, we may be able to repeat some of the workshops. You can then also be contacted if a place opens up.

Members of Murray Arts and Crafts are offered a discount member price.

Please note: we cannot process any refunds. If you are unable to attend for any reason, please organise a substitute to come in your place or contact us to let us know and we will try to fill your place from the waitlist. Only if we are able to fill your place in time, can you receive a refund.

Dr Yvonne Rees-Pagh: 3 Day Hybrid Printmaking Workshop. 10.00am-2.00pm each day. June 13th, 14th and 21st 2026

SOLD OUT Cost : $250 members/$300 non members, max 8 places, suitable for students with printmaking experience, 18yrs +

Image: The Dragon Blood Tree, 2024 by Yvonne Rees-Pagh, Etching

This hybrid printmaking workshop encourages students to break free from traditional constraints and explore the interplay of combining various printing methods to create their image.

The hybrid printing workshop redefines the boundaries of printmaking placing emphasis on experimentation and the beauty of imperfection.

Day 1

Dr Yvonne Rees-Pagh will demonstrate the multiuse of materials, graduated ink roll backgrounds, re used silk screens, Collagraph plates, found materials and expressive painting techniques. The combinations of are endless and will unlock a world of creative potential for the student.

Day 2

The students start to experiment printing with their found materials, old silk screens and relief and intaglio plates. Learning to create graduated ink rolled backgrounds. Making shapes from off cuts of thick paper which can be textured using gesso, impasto paste, carborundum. These will be used as off-set shapes as part of the layering process in creating the image.

Day 3

Final printing of the hybrid prints.

More details on how to prepare and what to bring provided shortly.

Shana James: Black and White Linocut with Chine Colle Saturday 27th June 9.30am-2.30pm

Cost $85 members/$100 non members, max 8 students, suitable for all levels,18yrs+

Image: courtesty of Shana James

Shana James is a WA printmaker and expert in linocut techniques. Learn about adapting your drawing for linocut, mark making, inking and printing by hand and with a press discover how to colour you own washi paper for chin collé an interesting way to add colour.

Bring your own linocut tools or buy a set of 3 Japanese tools from Shana for $22, bring your drawing and /or ideas. If you don't have any ideas Shana will bring still life subject matter.

Francesco Geronazzo: 2 Day Creative Mindset Workshop. 10.00am - 4.00pm each day. Friday 10th and Saturday 11th July 2026

SOLD OUT Cost : $175 members/$200 non members, Max 8 places, beginners to advanced welcome, suitable for 18 yrs+

Image: Carnamah, 2025, gum print by Francesco Geronazzo

This immersive workshop lends traditional and experimental techniques to encourage creative risk taking and unique outcomes. Professional printmaker, Francesco Geronazzo will guide you through the intersection of traditional tachniques and experimental processes to create one of a kind outcomes. Particpants will investigate material transformation, surface development and intuitive making through both structured and open-ended approaches.

Across the two days, students will journey between established methods and experimental interventions encouraging unexpected results, layered narratives, and highly individual works.

demonstrations, process-led exercises and guided experimetation will support participants in developing unique state works that embrace variation, risk and discovery.

Designed for artist, makers and curious practitioners interested in pushing material boundaries while remaining connected to traditional foundations.

All materials provided. Just bring drawing ideas, your visual diary etc.

Dallas Perry: Drypoint and multi colour application Saturday 8th August 2026 10.00am-3.00pm

Cost $85 members/$100 non members, max 8 places, suitable for all levels 18yrs+

Image: courtesy of Dallas Perry

In this workshop you will explore the basic principles of creating dry point prints using a heavy weight acetate. The method is quick, easy to achieve good results and a way to really ignite your ideas into print, whether it be an edition or a range of colourful variables. Simply trace elements from your own photographs or create something that is just an array of expressive marks.

We will learn about a variety of wiping techniques and how to apply multiple colours to the print, and explore layering.

Your facilitator Dallas loves to play. While we start with the fundamentals of how to achieve a clean print, we will then launch into the world of play with colour and mark making with ink.

Vanessa Wallace: One Day Artists Books and simple binding techniques Workshop 10.00am-3.00pm Sunday 19th July

Cost $85 members/$100 non members, max 8 places, suitable for all levels 18yrs+

In this workshop, particpants will use a veriety of book papers to make an artist' book/journal. Drawing on a variety of simple binding techniques the book may incorporate concertina and folded elements along with stitch. Participants are encouraged to bring a small selection of specialty papers (tissue, handmade paper etc) and their own drawings or prints to incorporate into their book. Please note: this is not essential as there will be materials available at the Workshop.

Vanessa Wallace's art practice in predominantly print based with book making forming a central component, through the construction of artist's books and zine and the series-based nature of each new colleciton of prints.

Image courtesy of Ann Ong.

About

2026 Marginalia Printmaking Workshops with Yvonne Rees-Pagh, Francesco Geronazzo, Shana James, Dallas Perry and Vanessa Wallace. Thanks to generous funding support from the Shire of Murray and Alcoa, Peel Printmaking at Murray Arts and Crafts and PAWA are so pleased to welcome these wonderful printmakers to our Pinjarra Studio in June and July 2026. A huge thankyou to Murray Arts and Crafts for providing the venue, tea and coffee and support staff.