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Graphic showing "A brief history of Big Fag Press". Moving the Big Fag from Alexandria to Woolloomooloo, 2010. Diagram showing the standard process in which a designer produces a physical printed product. Diagram showing the water-vs-oil basis of offset lithography. How offset printing works, part 1 of 4 How offset printing works, part 2 of 4 How offset printing works, part 3 of 4 How offset printing works, part 4 of 4 Designer Claire Orrell with "Avoiding Myth and Message" - limited edition covers for exhibition catalogue for Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2009. John Demos with "Transcriptions", 2013, produced during Accessible Arts residency programme. Diego Bonetto with "Big Fag Crane Print", 2009, fundraising print for Alexandria-Woolloomooloo move. Laura Hindmarsh with "Moire" print experiment produced during Emerging Artist Residency Programme, 2013. Lucas Ihlein with "Nevallan" - by Ihlein and Ian Milliss, as part of Yeomans Project, 2011-13. Paul D.Miller (DJ Spooky) with Nauru Elegies, 2009. Tom Nicholson's Camp Pell Lectures, 2010. Trent Walter with Island. The blue=silkscreen produced at Negative Press in Melbourne, and the black=offset lithograph produced at Big Fag Press in Sydney. Lucas Ihlein, UnderGround, offset lithographic print, 2010. Designer Alex Stevenson with What Lies Beneath LP covers, 2013.


Bad Press: 2004-present


Lucas Ihlein is a founding member of Bad Press (formerly Big Fag Press), an artist-run printing collective in Sydney, Australia. We have an amazing offset proof-press, which can produce excellent large-scale prints in limited editions, up to B1 size.

Bad Press is run by a bunch of enthusiastic artists and designers

Members currently include:
Mickie Quick, Diego Bonetto, Lucas Ihlein, Rhonda Murray.
Members currently on hiatus: Mickie Quick, Tim Barbarino, Pat Armstrong, Louise Kate Anderson, Eloise Lindeback
Deceased members: John Demos.

Location:

Our first home (2004-2009) was "The Barn", an artist warehouse in Alexandria. Between 2010 and 2013, we were located at First Draft Depot in Woolloomooloo. In 2014, the press moved to the Glebe Viaducts.

Key projects:

  • Green Bans Art Walks (2011)

  • John Demos Residency (2013)

  • Emerging Artist Residency Programme (2013)

  • Print Collaborations with artists and designers including DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller), Trent Walter, Kate Sweetapple, Zoe Sadokierski, Jason Maling, Joan Ross, Tom Nicholson, Vanessa Berry, Keg de Souza, Pat Grant, Tom Polo, Michael Stevenson, Jason Wing, Claire Potter, Emily Floyd, James Dodd ...
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