This exhibition examines the role of the printmaking studio in architectural education and practice through selected works and materials from four studios: A83, John Nichols Printmakers & Publishers (New York), Polyline Press & Tin Sheds (Sydney). By tracing printmaking processes over time, the show considers the poetics and politics of these methods and their capacity for spatial experimentation.
The exhibition investigates printmaking as both an artistic medium and a rigorous pedagogical tool, where the deliberate slowness and labour-intensive mechanics of craft are made visible through the physical actions that define the medium and the workshop: separation, reversal, pressure, and repetition.
Final works are presented alongside often-overlooked mechanics of process, such as sketches, videos, and tools to examine the relationship between analog craft and digital tools. By highlighting the physical maneuvers of image-making, Pressure ultimately positions printmaking as a lens through which we can understand shifts in architectural practice and pedagogy.
Curated by: Micropolitan Studio (Delara Rahim, Francisco Brown, Jimmy Pan)
Featured studios: a83 (Owen Nichols, Clara Syme). Polyline Press (Kevin Liu)
Tin Sheds Gallery acknowledges the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, upon whose ancestral lands our exhibitions take place. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge of these lands, waterways and Country.
Top image: Art Workshops, 1981, from Tin Sheds Gallery [Series 1016] at the University of Sydney Archives
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