Show some love and vote for prints to win the People’s Choice Award in the Derby Print Open exhibition. Visit https://www.derbyprintopen.org/browse/dpo2022 click on a print, click on the heart icon beneath the print to vote. You can vote for multiple prints. There are 60 printmakers exhibiting over 200 prints!
I am very pleased to be exhibiting at the Derby Print Open for the first time this year!
“The Derby Print Open is an exhibition open to all showcasing contemporary printmaking from artists based in the United Kingdom.
The Derby Print Open was created in 2018, by Green Door Printmaking Studio, with a simple ideology; to promote printmaking and printmakers around the UK.”
There are 60 printmakers exhibiting over 200 prints! On show I have a framed in oak ‘Tyto’ screenprint, a framed in walnut-stained wood ‘Long-eared Owl’ linocut, and unframed: ‘Barn Owl’, ‘Short-eared Owl’ and ‘Tawny Owl’.
Note: I noticed the virtual tour doesn’t reflect the true dimensions or framing of the prints; if you look at the prints by the two below options, you will see how they look for real.
I am extremely pleased to have an entry accepted into the juried Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, opening the 7th Nov and ending on 10th November 2019.
You can buy tickets to the fair at 25% off (price will be £7.50) using code WCPF19 at this link: http://www.woolwichprintfair.com/tickets Offer ends on August 31st.
My entry is a photo-etching with chine-collé, of a courtyard at the Alhambra Palace. I have been lucky to visit this beautiful place on two occasions; the architecture is stunning; the decorative plaster work, mosaic tiles, wood and brick work, in repeat patterns, adorn every surface. Intimate rooms, graceful columns and archways lead you through to beautiful courtyards and gardens with splashing water features, a delight to the eye and mind.
I do hope some of you get the chance to visit this exhibition. I’m certainly looking forward to viewing the work up close, such a different experience seeing prints first-hand, as digital images don’t quite do them justice.
There are a few interesting printmaking exhibitions currently on in London.
First up; ‘Etching:The Infernal Method’curated by Norman Ackroyd and part of ‘Art Sales’ series at the Royal Academy of Arts. “This selection of works for sale by Royal Academicians and invited artists celebrates the diversity of contemporary etching practice.” It’s free and on until 19 February 2018.
Norman Ackroyd RA, Thirsk Hall, 2006. Edition of 90. Etching. 17.5 x 28 cm. (RA, exhibition Etching:The Infernal Method)
Next we have; ‘The business of prints’ at the British Museum, free and on until 28 January 2018. “This wide-ranging exhibition selects fine examples from the nation’s print collection to look at how prints were created, developed, bought and sold in the period 1400–1850.”
Abraham Bosse, The workshop of a printer (detail), etching, 1642. (The British Museum, The business of prints exhibition)
Next up is‘Eclectic: The Julie and Robert Breckman Collections at the V&A’, free and on until 4 March 2018. “This display features some of the best prints and posters acquired for the V&A through The Julie and Robert Breckman Print Fund over a decade of collecting.”
Eclectic: The Julie and Robert Breckman Collections at the V&A (image not credited by the V&A).
Finally we have this exhibition to #SaveTheDate for and #NotToBeMissed as its only on for a short while. ‘One-off: The Masters, Monoprint’, 8 – 19 November at the Bankside Gallery. “This is a compelling series of annual exhibitions focusing in turn on one of the many techniques practised by our members, … This year’s technique is monoprint and the show is being curated by Morgan Doyle RE, a highly skilled printmaker who frequently uses this technique.”
Morgan Doyle RE, As it is, monoprint (Bankside Gallery – One-off The Masters, Monoprint exhibition)
I saw The American Dream pop to the present print exhibition at the British Museum and I highly recommend a visit especially if you are interested in print. This exhibition explores the last 60 years of American history through the printed output of great artists responding to the changing world around them. The exhibition is visually and historically dense with intelligent art. I picked up postcards of two of my favourite prints from the exhibition.
I visited the Eduardo Paolozzi exhibition at the Whitechapel gallery yesterday, and it fair took my breath away, leaving me inspired and a bit overexcited! All I can say is go, go, go! I especially loved the lower ground floor which included work from the 1940s through to the 60s. His early drawings, prints and sculptures really spoke to me – they were intense, energetic and (his prints) full of amazing colour combinations. His print work is so interesting because up close it is full of lots of detail, but the prints still work from far away – clever stuff.
As usual the gallery have provided an amazing catalogue to accompany the exhibition, including great images of all the work displayed. I managed to get a very good discount (alomost £10 off rrp) on the paperback from Wordery (a few remaining at a discounted price).
Here is a pen drawing from me of Paolozzi’s brutalist concrete sculpture Seagull & Fish; and then I tried to emulate the lines in a drawing of a barn owl – which I like, thought it isn’t very brutal!
And here are two images from the exhibition to whet your appetite:
Fish, collage and ink, about 1946, Eduardo Paolozzi
I visited the annual exhibition of work from the Society of Wood Engravers at Bankside Gallery this week – if you are interested in printmaking you have till tomorrow to see this exhibition.
Here are my favourite three prints from the exhibition in no particular order – it’s always the birds that get my attention time and time again. Click on the images to be taken to the artists’ websites.
Julian Witts, ‘Black Grouse’, Black & White Woodcut.
Details: 2017 marks the 50th year of Edinburgh Printmakers. To celebrate, we’re running a series of exhibitions that showcase prints from our archive – a collection of approximately 10,000 prints that are not currently accessible to the public.
Process & Possibilities, curated by Dr Lesley Logue, demonstrates multi-layered, experimental and expressive forms of mark making using traditional printmaking techniques. Through their engagement with printmaking and its responsive nature the artists selected have helped to lay and then build upon the foundations of printmaking as a fine-art practice in Scotland and beyond.
Prizes: 1ST PRIZE 1000€. 2ND PRIZE AWAGAMI PAPER AWARD, 100 sheets of AWAGAMI EDITIONING paper worth 500€
Details: Each artist can submit one piece of work on a paper size of 300mm x 400mm, (30cm x 40cm). The print size can be any within the size of the paper. The work must have been made using any traditional printmaking techniques, including screenprinting, lithography, etching, collagraph, monotipe, electro-etching, woodcut, photopolymer, etc. We also encourage artists to use non-toxic techniques. However, digital prints are not accepted.
The work must be relatively new, completed in the last couple of years, not before, and not have received a prize before.
The shortlisted artists will have their work shown at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, (Chicago, USA), in July 2017. An international jury will vote to select the shortlisted artists; the winner will be…
Cat Among the Pigeons Press 