About Megalo

Megalo is a not-for-profit, open-access print studio and gallery in Kingston, Canberra — one of the only places in the country where screenprint, lithography, relief and intaglio all live under one roof.

From a screenprint cooperative to a full print house

1980 Founded as the Megalo International Screen Collective, during a period when youth unemployment in Canberra had reached 23.2 per cent for 15–19 year olds. Screenprinting doubled as a trade worth learning and a creative outlet.
1986 Renamed Megalo Access Arts, reflecting a widening focus beyond screenprint alone.
2000 Absorbed Studio One, Canberra's dedicated etching and lithography press (running since 1983), after the ACT Government bought its equipment. This is what made Megalo the only studio in Australia to offer screenprint, lithography, relief and intaglio in the one building.
2013 Moved into its current home: a heritage building at 21 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston.
2025 Marked 45 years with a touring survey of its own archive, Canberra vs the Government: Prints from the archive of Megalo Print Studio, curated by artist and Megalo co-founder Alison Alder.

What Megalo does today

Beyond open studio access and classes, Megalo takes on commission and edition printing for artists, small businesses and larger institutions — past clients include Australian Parliament House and the Australian War Memorial, and artists such as Mike Parr and Arone Meeks have printed editions here. It also runs an artist residency program, school and school-holiday programs, and a six-weekly exhibition schedule in its own gallery.

Megalo is supported by the ACT Government through artsACT, and acknowledges the Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri nations, on whose unceded land it works and dwells.

For governance details, staff and board listings, see Megalo's own About page.