Reuse, Create & Print. Tetra Pak Printing Workshop

OVERVIEW

Tutor: Valé Vincent

Dates: Sunday 1st June 2025

Time: 10am to 4pm

Cost: $100 current NPW Members, $110 Non NPW members

Enquiries: valerie.vincent@bigpond.com

Venue: Newcastle Printmakers Workshop, 27 Popran Road, Adamstown

This course requires a minimum of 4 participants to proceed.

Print sustainably by recycling Tetra Pak cartons such as juice and long life milk cartons to create your own prints! It’s a clever and interesting way to re-use this readily available material in the home. A fun, simple way to make your own printing plates and produce amazing intaglio prints. 

In this workshop you will learn to design and create a plate using etching needles, pens and other tools to draw and scratch into the shiny surface of the carton, cut the plate into shapes using scissors, and score/peel away layers using a craft knife to create dark tones. You will be guided through the processes of preparing the printing paper, inking the Tetra Pak plate using quality non toxic water wash-up inks, and printing your plate using the workshop’s presses.

Participants will take away a set of prints on quality printmaking paper.

All materials and equipment are provided. No prior experience is necessary.

Participants need to bring ideas or images for inspiration, an apron or paint shirt (it can get a bit messy) and wear closed in shoes.

Plate/image size up to 20x13 cm

This course requires 4 participants to proceed. 

Covid Safety: Due to NPW’s Covid Policy participants must sign in, wash or sanitise their hands immediately upon entering the workshop and maintain physical distancing whenever possible during class. If you have COVID-19 symptoms, have visited a COVID case location, or have been directed to isolate, you must not attend class.

ABOUT THE TUTOR

Valé is passionate about printmaking with a focus on lino printing, collagraphy, solar plate etching, Tetra Pak printing and fabric screen printing. Valé holds ia Bachelor of Visual Arts majoring in printmaking. She exhibits regularly and has been printmaking for over 20 years. Valé is an active member at the Newcastle Printmakers Workshop and the Make Space collective in Newcastle. Valé has branched out into textile printing in recent years and often draws inspiration from her prints to incorporate them into her handmade textile creations for her local business Inknot.