The Pride In Print Awards for 2015 were announced recently,
and I just wanted to share two of the category winners
who I think deserve a special mention here...
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| Live to Print screenprinting inks: category winner for Industry Development |
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the Pride In Print Industry Development category winner Live to Print.
The boutique Whangarei printery came up with the
concept of a screen printing ink
so environmentally-friendly
that screen printing is presented in a new commercial light.
Its Screeners Choice selection of vibrant colours
prompted
senior judge Angelique Sparnaay-Martin to say the commercial
flow-on benefit of the inks
is that they opened up screen
printing to companies who previously had not considered it
for their products.
“The main users now are schools of
fine arts
but many companies keen to do screen printing have
been put off in the past.
They are environmentally-friendly
firms and don’t want to use chemicals.
Today, this product
has given them a new choice.”
The Screeners Choice ink are a natural plant-based aqueous
screen ink system
using sustainable ingredients with high permanence
eco-pigments
for printing on a wide range of papers and board,
meaning there is no need for harmful
chemicals, acrylics or other hazardous additives.
Well done, Matt Lewis, I've been a huge fan of your inks for many years,
they are extraordinary to print with at a professional level, and this award is well-deserved!!
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| Matt Payne, Tawharanui Waves, 2015 |
Art met
print in the Tawharanui Waves limited edition print
that won
the Specialty Products category of the Awards.
Artist and
printer worked together, in harmony, to produce fine art of
a breathtaking quality.
Artist Matt Payne worked with
Artrite Screen Printing of Onehunga on site
to get the print
colours just right, so that he could faithfully recreate his
original painting
in a limited run of prints on cotton art
paper that went for sale in the Matt Payne Galleries.
In
all, 27 colours were mixed under the artist’s direction,
with a single screen print pass for each in turn,
until the
artist was sure his original acrylic painting was being
perfectly reproduced.
Awards Manager Sue Archibald said
this represents
a “fantastic use of screen print and
merges craftsmanship with old and new
technology.”
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