Participate in the Sunday Printmakers Print Exchange and Help Us to Purchase The First Community Printing Press for the Bellarine
When the Barwon Heads Arts Hub opened in 2022, Patsy Bush and Vicki Strachan started running some community printmaking classes. As numbers grew, the Sunday Printmakers formed in 2025 as an open access community printmaking group meeting on the first Sunday of each month. Numbers continue to grow.
Sunday Printmakers now has the opportunity to purchase a large second-hand etching press in excellent condition for $2,000 (new $6,000-$7,000) which will be housed in the Maker Shed at the Barwon Heads Arts Hub. We understand this will be the first community press located on the Bellarine Peninsula.
To help raise funds to buy the press we are inviting our creative community and supporters to get involved by getting involved in our Sunday Printmakers Print Exchange.
How to Participate
Submit 10 prints and receive a random selection from fellow artists in return.
Works will be available to view and purchase at Bellarine Arts Trail weekend on 1-2 November. You will find the Sunday Printmakers in the Maker Shed in the backyard.
Rules of our Exchange
Theme – In the Back Yard
Be as creative as you want, realistic or abstract. However we ask artists to please be aware of copyright infringement
Paper Size
Paper size strictly 12cm square (4.7 inches square). Images can be printed edge to edge or on any part of the paper. Send with baking paper cut to size between your prints.
Techniques
All printmaking techniques – Intaglio, relief, collagraphy, stencil, lithography, letterpress, silk screen, white line, digital or any combination of these methods are accepted.
Number of Prints
Each artist will create an edition of 10 prints signed and numbered (1/10, 2/10, 3/10…etc)
Each print needs the artist’s name, title, and medium in pencil on the back
Mail or deliver to: Patsy Bush 1/34 Noble St. Barwon Heads, Vic, Australia 3227
Nine prints will be exchanged and you will be sent a random selection in return. One print will be on view during the Bellarine Arts Trail (1-2 Nov 2025) and money from sales will go towards buying this press.
Click here to download entry form
Either email to patsymbush@gmail.com or submit with your prints
Entry Fee
$25 AU to cover costs and return shipping. Further donations would be most welcomed!
Bank Details
Barwon Heads Arts Council
bsb 633 000
acc number 149 664 872
Deadline
Prints must arrive by 16 October 2025, but we encourage you to get yours in as early as possible
Enquiries to: patsymbush@gmail.com
Thank you from us all at Sunday Printmakers.
Image: Alexis Beckett (Artery Co-op, artist), Helen Kocis-Edwards (BHAC member & artist), Patsy Bush (BHAC member, artist)
We sincerely thank the Barwon Heads Arts Council for supporting printmaking at the Arts Hub and this initiative to purchase an etching press.
The press will be owned by the community through the Barwon Heads Arts Council.
If you want to start a community arts group in the Maker Shed, get in touch with Erena at admin@bhac.org.au
