STUDIO ARTISTS

Current Artists-in-Residence are: Myra Kaufman, Laura Osborne, Robin Hirst, Bronwyn Rees, Anneliese Hough, Abbi Gilbert, Lucas Jennings, Margaret Marks and Fiona Davey

Read more about our current resident artists below.

Studios at the Firestation Print Studio:

The Firestation Print Studio currently has 10 Artists-in-Residence who occupy Studios on the ground and first floor of the building. Studio Artists must volunteer to help with the day-to-day running of the Firestation, and be actively involved in other ways, such as participating in group shows and the annual Open Day.
Studios become available to rent from time to time, so email us to register your interest.

We also have large lockers and plan drawers to hire, which gives you a space to keep your artist supplies whilst you work in our workshop and community room.

Myra Kaufman

I have been an Artist-in-Residence at the Firestation Print Studio since 2008 having previously completed a Diploma of Visual Arts at the Council of Adult Education in 2007, studying printmaking with Tim Jones and Jo Wilson. My work explores “memory” using printed motifs inspired by the minutae and memorabilia hoarded over many years by my family in old shoe boxes and suitcases. Fragments of lace, discarded keys, excerpts of Hebrew and German text, maps, tailors’ patterns, imperial measure rulers and scraps of old music are some of the recurring motifs in my images. My work evokes memories of the past, where objects which were once simply utilitarian, are now endowed with new meaning. I have had four solo exhibitions and have participated in numerous printmaking collaborations and group shows.

Instagram: @myrakaufman

Laura Osborne

Laura has worked as a printmaker for going on 48 years. She was introduced to the techniques of etching in Paris where she attended an art school called École Nationale Superièure des Arts Decoratifs, that specialised in Etching and print editioning. After four years in Paris Laura returned to Melbourne where she has continued to practise her art. In 2024 she moved into a studio at the Firestation Print Studio in Armadale. Laura says she has now found her 'tribe'.

Instagram: @printmakerlauraosborne

Robin hirst

After a wonderful career in the arts and cultural sector, Robin was pleased to join the Firestation Print Studio in 2017. He loves wood engraving: making marks on the end grain of dense hardwoods. He enjoys researching its history and context from its beginnings as book illustrations in the late 18 th century to an art form in its own right, as well as the creative and practical challenges of capturing small vignettes of life on the surface of a few square centimetres of wood. He enjoys travelling the world to learn more and inspire his practice. Largely self-taught, Robin has never-the-less enjoyed the company and tutelage of two fine wood engraving exponents with vastly different styles, Australian David Frazer and Englishman Chris Daunt. In addition to wood engraving he is also enjoying printmaking: woodblock, linocut and more recently Japanese Mokuhanga.

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