Sydney Printmakers

{{Short description|Australian artist association}}

Sydney Printmakers was an association of artists, founded in 1961,{{cite book|author=Gil Docking |title=Australian Dictionary of Biography: Salkauskas, Henrikas (Henry) (1925–1979) |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/salkauskas-henrikas-henry-11604/text20719 |year=2002 |access-date=15 October 2020}} to further the art of print-making. It marked a renewal of interest in the technique after a lull of two decades occasioned by a boom in etching which began in the late 1930s.

Members included

Earle Backen,

Sue Buckley,

John Coburn,

Joy Ewart,

Roy Fluke,

Strom Gould,

Weaver Hawkins,

Eva Kubbos,

Ursula Laverty,

Peter Laverty,

Vaclovas Ratas,

Elizabeth Rooney,

Henry Salkauskas,

James Sharp,

Algirdas Simkunas, and

David Strachan.{{cite book |author=Alan McCulloch |title=Encyclopedia of Australian Art |publisher=Hutchinson |year=1968 |sbn=090814207}}

Sue Buckley later became the printmaking tutor for The Print Circle.{{Cite web |last=Stephens |first=Andrew |title=The Print Circle: Fifty years – Print Council of Australia |url=https://www.printcouncil.org.au/the-print-circle-fifty-years/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |language=en-US}}