Together, Matt, Glenn and the team at Artite Screen Printing, were the winners of two gold medals including the Supreme Award at the Pride in Print 2023 awards night on Friday 23 June 2023.

It was the 30th anniversary of the event with over 500 guests present in the Cordis Hotel.

Pride in Print: Judges Comments:

An incredible example of true print craftmanship and artistic collaboration, this screenprint was a genuine labour of love.

It required the hand-mixing of 33 colours and production of film layers, which the artist needed to sign off each time. With colours prone to change during repeated pulls, only 30 could be completed at a time before a clean up was required, with colours needing to be remixed, film layers reproduced and artist sign off sought again.

Taking three weeks and about 2000 hand pulls to complete, the result was an original screenprint, produced with great detail and wonderful colour consistency over all areas.

So many things can go wrong in all of those processes, yet it was so beautiful – we were blown away.