Michael Kempson is a practicing artist and custom printer who lives and works in Sydney. He has considerable teaching experience with positions that have included: Head of Department - Printmaking, Meadowbank TAFE (1986-2003): Senior Lecturer, Convenor of Printmaking Studies, The University of New South Wales (2004-2023); as well as periods as a visiting professor at Beijing (2010,2025), Xi’an (2012), Tianjin (2016) and Shanghai (2017) Academies of Fine Art in China; and as a resident artist at Alfred University, New York, USA (2017).