Negative Press

10/07/2025

It is the last two days of Stolon Press 'Flat Earth' at Monash University Museum of Art. As my friend Victoria Perin would say "Run, don't walk".

Alongside material for the exhibition, it was a great pleasure to work alongside Simryn Gill and Tom Melick (Stolon Press) on a series of unique prints on paper. They are very special works that record a great arc of experimentation in the studio 👇🏼

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We're pleased to offer a limited-edition series of works on paper by Stolon Press. Each print is taken from fragments of empty Al Rwad Palestinian Midjewel Date boxes. Only 11 of these unique relief prints remain.

View available prints on display in MUMA's foyer during Stolon Press: Flat earth or browse and purchase online via link in bio

Stolon Press
'Mixed Business: Al Rwad Palestinian midjewel dates' 2025
unique relief prints
$1200

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Stolon Press was started in Sydney in 2019 by Tom Melick and Simryn Gill as a way to publish texts and images that might easily fall through cracks or remain in boxes and bottom drawers. Its growing list of titles follows the paths of friendships and longstanding conversations. Like the plants from which it takes its name, Stolon Press works close to the ground, thriving in modest terrain and untended places.

Stolon Press: Flat earth, curated by Stolon Press, with Rebecca Coates and Stephanie Berlangieri, at MUMA, 29 May – 12 July 2025.

Images: 1-5, Stolon Press, Mixed Business: Al Rwad Palestinian midjewel dates 2025. Photography: Trent Walter. 6. Installation view: Stolon Press, Mixed Business: Al Rwad Palestinian midjewel dates 2025. Photography: Andrew Curtis

25/06/2025

It was a great pleasure to work on printed material with Simryn and Tom of Stolon Press for their exhibition Flat Earth at MUMA. As Simryn said during a talk with Nicholas Croggon, you need to see the show to acknowledge that it is open.

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Stolon Press: Flat earth — Now Open

Conceived as a flattened ‘map’, Flat earth creates a shared space where artistic, linguistic and material practices converge. Artworks overlap across the galleries as a material gesture toward cohabitation and neighbourliness.

Flat earth brings together work by longtime Stolon Press collaborators, including writer, translator and anthropologist Elisa Taber, and Lebanese-born, Sydney-based artist Khaled Sabsabi.

Stolon Press is a Sydney-based art and publishing collective whose work sits somewhere between art and book, image and text. Established in 2019 by writer Tom Melick and artist Simryn Gill, Stolon Press has published twenty books to date, regularly involving an extended network of collaborators and friends.

Now showing until 12 July
Free entry
All welcome
📍 Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA

Curated by Stolon Press, with Dr Rebecca Coates and Stephanie Berlangieri

/ (Khaled Sabsabi) / (Elisa Taber)

21/06/2025

May was such a wonderful and busy time, working with and
There will be more to share here shortly.

Another huge milestone was the launch of Keeper Print Room on the 3rd May conceived and realised with my friend and colleague, art historian and critic, Victoria Perin

is a retail space that sells prints, drawings and multiples sourced from artists, community art centres and private collections. Located upstairs from the Negative Press studio in Brunswick, it is open from 1—5 pm each Friday and Saturday. You can find me there every second Saturday, including today! Come say hello, and have a look through the drawers.

Keeper Print Room
Upstairs, Factory 8/102 Henkel St, Brunswick

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

26/05/2025

I'm so excited to be judging the 2025 Fremantle Print Prize alongside my colleagues Hannah Matthews and Jessyca Hutchens!

Entries close on the 2nd June

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Entries are open nationally for our 47th Print Award, and while we’re waiting for your submission, we’ve taken some time to reminisce. Please enjoy some previous finalists, official judging at the town hall, and the first official winner from all the way back in 1976. 
 
To learn more or apply, please head to the link in our bio. Only 2 weeks to go until entries close!

1. Matthew Newkirk
‘Teenage Riot’, 2017
Screenprint
63 x 44 CM

 
2. 2018 Print Award Judging by Jessica Wyld
 
3. Duncan Wright
‘Untitled (Your Friendly Neighbour)’, 2020
photograph/found chair
84 x 59 x 4cm
1/1
printed by Joseph Landro

 
4. 1976 Print Award Winner!
Ray Beattie
‘Aubergine Still Life’, 1976
Etching in colour
74x59cm
 
5. 2013 Print Award Opening Night

11/05/2025

An amazing week printing with the expanding Wati collective including a trip out to Mintabie mid week. Thank you to and Angus Webb for your leadership and determination to make this happen, along with art centre manager Anna Wattler. Great to spend more time with Meg Hanson and all round legend

This trip was really about the Mimili Maku wati, thank you Robert, Shane, Richard, Desmond and Mark, plus Walter, Arnold, Cassidy, Chisel, Robin, Cyril and Marley. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

27/02/2025

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THIS SATURDAY: Join us for live readings, performances, and conversations at ‘Lost Rocks (2025): End of an Era’

Part artwork, part durational platform and part publishing experiment by - a library of 43 books, by 46 contemporary artists is brought to life in the pavilion.

It’ll be a participatory session, where many of the work’s artists/authors, as well as friends and supporters, will read from then distribute Lost Rocks ‘fictiōnellas’.  

Readers include Justy Phillips, Margaret Woodward, Lyndal Jones, Trent Walter, Katie Stackhouse, Sarah Jones, Polly Stanton, Wendy Morrow, Mary Scott, Julie Gough, Greg Lehman, Jerry de Gryse, as well as audio/visual practitioner Christopher Henschke, who’ll be performing a live sound work with his reading. 

🎟️Register for free via the link in bio^

Photography by Peter Whyte.

26/02/2025

Tonight

Drop into the pavilion tonight for some silent reading.

Surrender your phone, pull up a beanbag and get lost in ‘Lost Rocks’, an experimental library of 43 books by 46 contemporary artists.

Lost Rocks is a slow-publishing artwork that unearths the deep connections between minerals, memory, and storytelling. Initiated in 2016 by Margaret Woodward and Justy Phillips of A Published Event, the project invited artists to craft narratives that blur the boundaries between fiction, geology, and history.

You can read from ‘Lost Rocks’, or bring your own book and relax.

📚 Tonight 26 Feb, 6-8pm
🎟️ Free to book at the link in bio

Collaborators:
Justy Phillips ()
Margaret Woodward ()
Lyndal Jones ()
Trent Walter (.or.rents)
Katie Stackhouse ()
Sarah Jones ()
Polly Stanton ()
Wendy Morrow
Mary Scott
Julie Gough ()
Greg Lehman ()
Jerry de Gryse

Audio/Visual Practitioner
Christopher Henschke

📸 by Isabella Oliveria ()

26/02/2025

I am thrilled to be part of Lost Rocks finissage at M Pavillion this coming Saturday 1st March. I will be moderating a discussion with Lost Rocks authours/artists Sarah Jones, Katie Stackhouse, Lyndal Jones and Polly Stanton from 11 am — 12:15 pm. There is a whole day of events planned. Check out for more info 😀

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We are honoured to be included in MPavilion’s Season 11 Every Living Thing in Victoria Gardens in Naarm/Melbourne. Lost Rocks (2025): End of an Era is part artwork, part durational platform and part publishing experiment and marks the end of our slow publishing artwork 10 years in the making.

The MPavilion is designed by esteemed Pritzker Prize Laureate Tadao Ando, one of Japan’s leading contemporary architects.

We will post more soon but for now this is the summary of MPavilion’s Season 11.

“A river monster splashes and writhes. An installation built to bloom in the deep finds its place in Ando’s pond. Microbes blossom into sculptural forms. Minerals find their voice. As summer warms the lawns we take to the pavilion and wander the park for a series of nature-focused workshops, performances and experiences. Each finds a new angle into the better ways we can cohabitate with all living things—from animals and plants to fungi and each other. We want to try reframing the urban world by decentring the human experience, in search of something endlessly regenerative.“

For more details on MPavilion and Season 11 go to .

21/01/2025

This time last year I undertook the second part of a residency at RACV Goldfields, running print and drawing workshops with staff and guests. The workshop outcomes were exhibited at their Arts House. On the last days of install I had a special guest installer. Thank you to Mardi and Adam at RACV for organising and supporting this work 🙏🏼





Photos: Terry Hope

22/12/2024

A new endeavour coming to in February. Follow for more info 😎

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Coming soon!

The inaugural Melbourne Art Print Fair: edition1.

A three-day celebration of the collective creativity of the art and printmaking community.

22/12/2024