Moveable Type Studio

10/10/2026

Today we’re kicking off our campaign to bring MoveableTypeStudio to the 2027 Tamworth Country Music Festival, and we need your help to pull it off.
The plan: three days on the Fringe, three emerging bands including Rusty Pickups, and three gig posters printed live, in front of whoever wanders past. Real music by real people with real instruments, printed by hand with real wood type, paper and ink.
Every donation is tax-deductible via the Australian Cultural Fund.
Donate via link on image or link in bio. See you in Tamworth peeps!
Australian Cultural Fund Creative Australia Tamworth Country Music Festival Clint Harvey Kelly Lye

10/08/2026

Reflecting on last weeks evening engagement with Kelly Lye for A Winters Night in Tamworth. Thanks to Arts North West for getting us there, and for allowing us to share the tactile nature of letterpress printmaking with people of all ages. It’s great to continue our ongoing relationship with Museum of Printing at NERAM and the awesome Black Gully Printmakers, nice to be a part of the New England North West.
Tamworth Regional Council, NERAM

29/07/2026

Excited to see ANW open its doors to a new space in Tamworth. Looking forward to rolling into town this weekend and hangin out together 💪

Today's the day! 🎉 Arts North West's new Tamworth office is officially open, and our new website is live.
"Having a permanent presence in both the Highlands and the Plains means we can work more closely with artists, councils and communities, building stronger relationships and making our services more accessible than ever before." — Lauren Mackley, Executive Director
Drop into 214 Peel Street, Tamworth from 1pm to say hello :)

29/07/2026

We are on the road again!

Heading down to Tamworth this weekend, drop by to say hello if you are in the New England North West!

Big thank you to Arts North West for supporting us to attend A Winters Night in Tamworth this Saturday, alongside Museum of Printing NERAM-New England Regional Art Museum

https://www.netimes.com.au/2026/07/29/letterpress-printing-comes-to-a-winters-night-in-tamworth/

28/07/2026

Very exiting news!

Queensland Arts Project Fund Round 2 recipients announced! 🎸💃

Investment of more than $1.3 million in funding will be shared across 35 creative projects led by talented individuals, groups and organisations from across Queensland.

These exciting projects include visual arts, theatre, dance, music, cabaret, writing and artist workshops.

Discover the full list of recipients and learn more about their projects here 👉 https://www.arts.qld.gov.au/news/news-articles/queensland-arts-project-fund-round-2-recipients-announced

03/07/2026

Come and visit MTS in Maryborough this weekend!

A Queensland mobile print-making studio is offering a Handset Letterpress Printmaking Workshop in Maryborough this Saturday 4 July.

02/07/2026

Gearing up for our Mary Poppins activation this weekend with Gatakers Artspace not too late to snag a ticket if you're headed up to Maryborough for the Mary Poppins Festival

23/05/2026

Queensland Brand Designs isn’t just about livestock branding irons, it’s a typographic system developed around the 1872 brands Act of Australia. Each brand mark is its own unique combination of characters.

On the 13th June, we’re bringing that typographic system to life at .

Using traditional letterpress, you’ll design and print your own brand mark, which then becomes a part of a collectively bound “brand register”.

Two sessions available on Saturday 13th June:
9am–12pm or 1pm–4pm

Spaces are limited. Link in bio.

20/05/2026

For those who don’t know, is a not-for-profit with no external funding, just a tiny team, volunteers, and the support of members keeping stuff happening. They publish IMPRINT, the only dedicated printmaking journal in Australia, run the annual Print Commission (going since 1967), and champion printmakers across the country.

Last year our good friend and advisor .heather wrote this cover story about Moveable Type Studio for IMPRINT. We’re sharing a few pages from it here because it’s a good read, but also because it reminds us how much the PCA matters to what we do and to the wider print community.

Please consider joining your membership directly keeps IMPRINT in print.

PCA Membership link in bio

19/05/2026

We are so fortunate to be featured in Issue 13 of . 8 glossy colour pages on Moveable Type Studio, and we still can’t quite believe it. Jimmy Hornet is one of Australia’s most distinctive independent magazines: print only, ad-free, and built entirely on the vision of its founder Anthea Palmer. We took a copy along to our Handset workshop at last weekend. It moved between participants hands and sat between the type cases and the brayers all day. Thank you Anthea for the generous feature and for building something that proves independent print is alive and worth continuing to fight for. If you’ve never picked up a copy of Jimmy Hornet, do yourself a favour. A validating, and inspiring publication, highly recommended reading for creatives at every stage of obsession. Head to to grab Issue 13, we’ve also put a link in our bio too and if you want to get your own hands inky, our next workshops will be on our link tree soon!