Mark Graver

Mark Graver RE is an award-winning artist printmaker based in Kerikeri New Zealand.  Originally from the UK he studied at Leeds Polytechnic (B.A. Hons Fine Art 1985-88) and Camberwell College of Arts, London (MA Printmaking 1994-95).

He moved to NZ in 2003 and established the Wharepuke Print Studio in 2005 (NZ's only dedicated Acrylic Resist Etching workshop).  In 2009 he and partner Tania Booth opened Art at Wharepuke gallery.

Mark is author of the printmaking handbook Non-Toxic Printmaking (2011, London, A&C Black) and Contemporary Printmaking – Safer Intaglio Techniques and Processes (2026, London, Hebert Press/Bloomsbury). He has sat on printmaking selection panels in China, Bulgaria and NZ and curated international print projects, exhibitions and symposiums in the UK, NZ and Australia.

He is a committee member of Prism Print International, an Honorary Member of the Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) and an elected Full Fellow of The Royal Society of Printmakers, London (RE) – one of only 100 in the world. 

His work is held in many public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia and in China, Thailand, NZ, USA, Mexico, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Africa and Europe.