WAIPRINT is an annual exhibition of works by Waikato Society of Arts printmakers.
This year’s Guest Artist is Taupo printmaker Maggie Dawson, whose exhibition ‘Celebrating the Wai’ explores the effect of light on water in both the natural and manmade setting with her masterful reduction linocuts and sensitive layering of colour. Maggie exhibits throughout Aotearoa New Zealand with Plateau Printmakers, Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand and independently. She also works with UK printmakers in a Parallel Print scheme which began during Covid lockdown as a means of forming online community.
Opening
Though WAIPRINT will be on view from Friday morning (and during the NYAA opening that evening), the opening celebration will be mid-day on Saturday, 8 August, to coincide with the WAIPRINT workshop.Â
WAIPRINT Workshop: Repeat Pattern and Tile, Saturday, 8 August
As Guest Artist, Maggie will present a workshop introducing novice and experienced printmakers to the mysteries of repeat patterns. You will learn how to create a design that repeats and will carve a small (10x10cm)Â lino tile. At 12.30 we’ll break and go upstairs for the WAIPRINT opening. Then the afternoon will be spent printing your design onto washi paper to create a wrapping.
9.30-4.30, WSA Print Room, $65 for the day, all materials supplied, but you’re welcome to BYO as well. This workshop is open to anyone 15 and over.
Contact Janice Meadows or Julie Johnstone to register interest in the workshop and to save a place: waiprint2026@gmail.com, julie@wsa.org.nz  Â