Organiser: Di Smallfield and the executive team
An exciting, immersive week of printmaking and connecting with printmakers from around the country.
This year we are thrilled to have two international tutors (from Australia and Canada) alongside our tutors from around Aotearoa.
Not a member of PCANZ? To join us to register for Summer School, click here.
Choose from the 7 options - 2 x 4-day courses or 4 x 2-day courses and/or the open studio with accommodation and meals all on site.
Workshops: 4-day $410 or $396, 2-day $205 or $198
Workshops are on Monday, Tuesday, then again on Thursday, Friday leaving a free day on Wednesday to explore Hamilton's galleries, cafes, sight see, etc.
*There will be an extra cost for materials specific to each workshop. You will be informed with workshop confirmation.
There is a small extra cost for the international tutor workshops.
Accommodation and meals: $615
Waikato Diocesan for Girls Hostel, 660 River Road, Chartwell, Hamilton 3210 from Sunday 12 - Friday 17 January 2025. Your booking is an all inclusive cost to cover 5 nights, 5 breakfasts, 4 lunches and 3 dinners. Specific diets are available on request, some extra charges will apply.
Scholarship:
The Gary Tricker Summer School Scholarship is now open for applications. To learn more or apply, click here.
Scholarship applicants should also book via the form below, to ensure a place in the workshop/s of their choice.
Summer School 2025 programme:
Details of each workshop plus hostel accommodation and meals are below or
Download printable pdf of Summer School 2025 programme here.
Summer School Workshop and Hostel Bookings: BOOKINGS VIA THE FORM ARE NOW OPEN. Click on the button below:
**PLEASE NOTE: When you submit your booking by clicking on the ‘Submit’ button, there will be an automated message confirming that your form has been sent. Please make sure you see this. If not, please try again. Also please be patient when bookings first open, there will be others booking at the same time and this may cause issues as well. Please be assured that all bookings are automatically recorded at exactly the time and in the order they are placed.
Accommodation and meals are all conveniently on site at Waikato Diocesan School for Girls, Hamilton from Sunday 12 to Friday 17 January 2025. Your booking will cover 5 nights, 5 breakfasts, 4 lunches and 3 dinners for the all inclusive cost of $615.
Read MoreMonday 13 to Friday 17 January (with a free day on the Wednesday). The workshop with Tasmanian printmaker Barbie Kjar explores the wonderfully simple technique of Mokulito, a process by which one can draw an image on a plywood matrix and print from it. It uses the same principles as stone and metal plate lithography without acids, etches or turpentine. The image can be added to, subtracted from, carved into and coloured with water colour or printing inks.
Read MoreMonday 13 to Friday 17 January(with a free day on the Wednesday). In Stacey Hildreth's workshop, students will explore Wax Collagraphs, using traditional and contemporary tools, to create texture and pattern. The students will also experiment with different monoprinting techniques, and create colour options for the base of the print.
Read MoreMonday 13 & Tuesday 14 January. Vancouver BC based mixed media artist Brigitte Potter-Mael will guide participants through every step of her own woodcut-intaglio technique. This two-day intensive workshop will involve a unique preparation of a wooden matrix, use of wood-cutting/carving knives and will use oil-based printing inks.
Read MoreMonday 13 & Tuesday 14 January. In Jasmine Horton's two day workshop you will learn about the concepts of whakawhanaungatanga and whakapapa through the alternative photographic process of Cyanotype.
Read MoreThursday 16 & Friday 17 January. Vicki Mangan's Drypoint Monoprinting workshop is a very painterly approach to printmaking. Using drypoint lines as a matrix each print becomes part monoprint and as a result each one is variable within the edition.
Read MoreThursday 16 & Friday 17 January. Kathy Boyle's workshop, Waterless Lithography is a direct, fun printmaking technique that allows you to create a range of gestural and mark making that is similar to traditional lithography but uses a quicker, safer and less toxic approach.
Read MoreMonday 13 to Friday 17 January (free day on the Wednesday). The Open Studio option is perfect for those members who would like to immerse themselves in printmaking and meeting other printmakers, and may prefer to work on their own project. Register for 2 or all 4 days.
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