Pamela Griffith: A life in printmaking

About

Speake: Pamela Griffith

Date: Saturday 28th November 2026

Time: 2pm to 4pm

Cost: $0 current NPW members. $10 non NPW members.

NB Places are limited - bookings essential

Enquiries: [email protected]

Venue: Newcastle Printmakers Workshop, 27 Popran Road, Adamstown

The aim of Pamela Griffith’s talk is to share techniques and stories about how to survive as a printmaker. Pamela will bring along some plates and prints and talk about etching techniques. She will also show us two newly published books on her work. Pamela Griffith: Etchings 1965 – 2014 (Lou Klepac, Beagle Press, 2026) is a monograph focusing on Pamela’s etching and the history of printmaking in Australia. The other book, Pamela Griffith a biography (Joanna Mendelssohn, Wakefield Press, 2026) looks more broadly at Pamela’s extensive artistic achievements.

Both the Griffith Studio and Graphic Workshop and the Newcastle Printmakers Workshop were created at about the same time in the seventies. Pamela and NPW founding member Patricia Wilson-Adams both studied etching at the National Art School. Both women already had etching skills acquired elsewhere and were practising artists. Both dreamt of creating workshops specifically for printmakers. These days Pamela uses her workshop for her own prints and the occasional visit from experienced and devoted printmakers who need a place to print. It is with great delight that Pamela is at last visiting Newcastle Printmakers Workshop, and she looks forward to the opportunity…