Artsight Screen Printing Workshop

Workshop Outline

This two day workshop with artist Peter Lendvai is for beginners or those who have limited experience with screen print.You will explore different techniques for developing screen print using stencils and emulsion. You will need to bring your own black and white and colour design(ideally images should be printed on plastic transperancy(Mylar)-maximum size is A3).The process will use water-based inks on paper

Peter Lendvai bio

Hungarian born artist Peter Lendvai began his studies specialising in ceramics at the Secondary School of Arts and Crafts, Kaposvar, between 1991 and 1995 before going on to study at the Industrial School of Design and Interior Decoration, Budapest. In 1997 he was admitted to the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts graduating as a secondary Visual Arts teacher and with an MFA in Graphic Arts from the Department of Graphics and Visual Education.

Between 2002 and 2007 Lendvai was employed at the Mihaly Zichy Secondary School of Arts and Crafts,Kaposvar,where his taught multiple graphic techniques, artistic anatomy and history of art. During this period Lendvai also lectured in artistic anatomy in the Faculty of Art at the University of Kaposvar in Hungary. Since moving to New Zealand at the end of 2007 Lendvai's work has been strongly influenced by Polynesian art. Lendvai has facilitated several workshops in serigraphy and has shown his work in numerous exhibitions both in Hungary and New Zealand.