A Studio With Ethos

This is an artist-led Risograph print studio and artist book makers

Wayzgoose Roots

Our name tips the hat to the old printmakers’ feast days, known as a Wayzegoose! These wild late-summer gatherings where printers ate, played, and printed keepsakes before the long candlelit season began. We carry that spirit: printing as celebration and the Commons as feast.

The Gooze

Our gooze is kin to the queer meme goose “be gay, do crime” born in activist spaces, beak wide open and rules be damned. At Silly Gooze, the goose wields a pallet knife: playful, disruptive, protective. It reminds us to make print that refuses to be tamed.

The Why

Silly Gooze Editions isn’t neutral. Dylan Fox and Billy Hawes built it from lived queer grit: discrimination survived, kinship chosen, norms challenged. So our promise is this, print is never just ink on paper. It’s survival, mischief, belonging, and bite.

Not just what we believe; what we do, who we prioritise, and what people can expect from us.

How we print

Silly Gooze is a working Risograph studio built around good print, practical sustainability, and studio habits that can last.

We use plant-based inks, prioritise better paper choices where possible, and try to reduce waste through reuse, offcut testing, and more thoughtful production.

In practice, this means:

  • plant-based Riso inks

  • FSC and recycled paper options where possible

  • reuse, offcut testing, and less wasteful overproduction

Who we prioritise

We are shaped around queer, trans and neurodivergent life, and around the belief that print should not only be for people who already know the ropes.

We actively make space for artists, makers and community-led projects that are too often pushed to the edge, and try to direct time, care and resources where they can have real impact.

In practice, this means:

  • underrepresented makers actively reflected in our programming and publishing

  • reduced rates for eligible CICs, not-for-profits and community-led work

  • 10% of surplus goes to local LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent causes

Who benefits

We want people to be able to work with, return to and grow with the studio. That means clear routes in, supported learning, and fewer avoidable barriers.

Our studio has steps, so we work flexibly around access and travel through remote consults, off-site delivery, and other practical alternatives where needed.

In practice, this means:

  • beginner-friendly workshops and supported print sessions

  • remote consults, off-site workshops, and flexible support where possible

  • plain-English teaching, free parking, a gender-neutral toilet, and tea