The Emerging Print Lab
Printmaking Innovation in Practice
The Emerging Print Lab is a research initiative in printmaking innovation between Te Kowhai Print Trust (Hamish Oakley-Browne) and AwhiWorld (Kim Newall).
It explores the intersection between printmaking and emerging technologies, exploring the interrelationship between analogue and digital, traditional and futuristic practices.
Hamish and Kim work as individual artists while collaborating to form new practices in the context of their respective organisations.
The project emerged from The Awhi Incubator Project and is set in Hamish’s desire to further his practice (and remove barriers to certain aspects of print production) and situate Te Kowhai as a NZ leader in innovative technological innovation.
Kim Newall has long worked between analogue and digital and has a DIY printmaking practice.
Together, they are practising, exploring and making within AwhiWorld’s creative innovation lab structure as a joint initiative between the two organisations to further research into printmaking in New Zealand.
“Working at the intersection of printmaking and emerging technologies like AI and 3D printing has taken my practice, and Te Kowhai Print Trust to another level of innovation. It’s been a great partnership with AwhiWorld.”
Hamish Oakley-Browne, Director Te Kowhai Print Trust
A short video produced by Jarred Taylor on The Emerging Print Lab
Core Research Team
Hamish Oakley-Browne is an artist and Director of Te Kowhai Print Trust, a community-owned open-access print studio in Northland. His art practice explores the cross-section of fine arts printmaking and publishing.
Utilising historical techniques and contemporary innovations in print and publishing practices, he seeks to disrupt the hierarchy of materiality using New materialist and situationist approaches to give agency to the whole experienced environment of printmaking.
Kim Newall (BCT(Hons), MCT) has a thirty-year career as a creative practitioner, performance and installation artist and educator specialising in integrating emerging technologies with traditional tools and practices.
In recent years, he has actively researched and integrated AI into all aspects of his transdisciplinary practice.
Kim has extensive experience coaching and mentoring other creatives in tertiary institutions and community settings and holds a Bachelor’s (Hons) and Master’s in Creative Technologies from AUT University.
“Turning digital image into prints and then into moving image, 3D projections, AR and VR…is rewarding practice-led research. Hamish and I are excited to share our research with other practitioners. It’s great to work with Te Kowhai and their community.”
Kim Newall, AwhiWorld
Frequently Asked Questions
If you are a printmaker or creative interested in printing techniques and want to learn about these practices, contact AwhiWorld or Te Kowhai Print. Workshops are currently registering interest.
Contact [email protected] or submit interest via our contact form. We will then pass this information to Te Kowhai Print or answer your questions as relevant.Contact
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