Cicada Press was established in 2004, by its director Michael Kempson at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Art & Design in Sydney Australia, as a strategy devised to facilitate student engagement with fine art printmaking practice. Each semester internationally respected artists join a course to explore the relationships of a custom-printing studio. Preferring to use informal processes and an open dialogue in this collaborative working relationship, UNSW Art & Design through Cicada Press, seeks to reinforce mutual respect in the act of making through the lived experience of learning.

A survey exhibition of fine art prints by artist’s who have worked with Cicada Press. Featuring works by Vernon Ah Kee, Tony Albert, Michael Callaghan, Kevin Connor, Elisabeth Cummings, Nici Cumpston, Tony Curran, Fiona Hall, Alan Jones, Julie Gough, Nicholas Harding, Vanessa Inkamala, Euan Macleod, Michael Kempson, Tilau Nangala, Gregory O’Brien, Chris O’Doherty aka Reg Mombassa, Rodney Pople, Ryan Presley, John Pule, Reko Rennie, Mervyn Rubuntja, Vipoo Srivilasa, Judy Watson, Marshall Weber, Dame Robin White, Raymond Zada, Adeel uz Zafar