Te Kowhai Print Trust is a charitable organisation with the principal aim to advance and preserve the practice of fine art printmaking and to make available learning opportunities to all ages and experience. With over 28 years of history the trust continues to serve as a community facility where many forms of printing are both enjoyed and encouraged.
The Print Trust has a significant and unique Lithography facility with two presses and over twenty Lithography stones of various sizes from very large to very small. One of the Lithography presses along with stones and equipment was purchased from Stanley Palmer, a former tutor.
Other studio capabilities also include etching with a magnificent press built by Bruce Young. Also in use for Letterpress is a 1890 Arab Printing Machine, which also has available for use a number of cabinets containing lead ‘movable type’ and plenty of large wood type for printing pleasure.
Te Kowhai Print Trust has offered workshops in Lithography, Screen printing, Etching, Relief wood, Linocut, Letterpress, Papermaking, Bookmaking/Binding and Painting.
With artists donating 2 prints from every edition to Te Kowhai Print Trust, one to sell to support the trust and one to go into the archive, Te Kowhai Print Trust has built a collection of prints of historical importance to New Zealand.