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What's going on at WYPW...
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A big thank you from all of us at WYPW
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On Saturday 2nd May we here at West Yorkshire Print Workshop- for the first time ever- hosted a 'Print Day in May’, a day which is celebrated by printmakers and print studios all over the world! Our day went wonderfully… with open artist studios, print demonstrations, drop-in screenprinting and print fair, amongst other activities. We’d like to thank everyone involved as well as everyone that came along and joined in the fun! We look forward to our next one!
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STILL NAVIGATING- Michelle Keegan 11th April - 16th May
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"Landscapes are the places and spaces from where
I begin.Sea.Beaches.Walls. Bare-bone structures of the land..."
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West Yorkshire Print Workshop is pleased to announce that our exhibition- titled ‘Still Navigating’- focuses on the multi-plate etchings of Nottingham-based artist Michelle Keegan. A Slade School of Art graduate, and winner of last year’s Flourish Award- for excellence in printmaking- Michelle is presenting her minimalist and monochromatic works in not just one, but two Yorkshire-based solo shows this year- at the WYPW gallery and at Huddersfield Art Gallery in the autumn.
The collection of works on display at West Yorkshire Print Workshop serves to demonstrate a high level precision and skill in the medium of etching, and demonstrate an attuned understanding of abstraction.
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'Pressing Identities'
Pressing Identities will bring together the work of three contemporary artists exploring notions of belonging, displacement and personal cultural heritage through the medium of printmaking.
The exhibition will investigate the ways in which these artists express, celebrate and question the idiosyncrasies of their ethnic origins, having been born and brought up in India and Sri Lanka.
Artists-
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'The Same But Different'
Jenny Thomas is a painter, printmaker and photographer, whose work is inspired by both urban and rural landscapes. She works from memory using a variety of relief printmaking techniques in combination, specialising in monoprint, linocut and woodcut.
The prints that will be presented in this exhibition are the fruit of over a year’s exploration of a technique whereby lino is etched with a caustic soda solution prior to relief printing. It is a very painterly technique.
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Hepworth Wakefield Gallery
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HENRY MOORE: BACK TO A LAND
Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) presents major exhibition Henry Moore: Back to a Land, in collaboration with The Henry Moore Foundation. The exhibition takes a fresh approach to Moore's work by considering his profound relationship with land, which was fundamental to his practice and fuelled his visual vocabulary. A founding patron of YSP, Moore was committed to showing his work in the open air and in the rolling hills of YSP's former Deer Park in particular.
Click here to find out more
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SCULPTING THE LINE: BRITISH SCULPTORS AS PRINTMAKERS
This exhibition explores the links between two forms of art-making; sculpture and print. Highlights include work by Modern British artists; Lynn Chadwick, Barbara Hepworth, Bernard Meadows, Henry Moore and Eduardo Paolozzi among others.
Throughout the 20th century sculptors have been drawn to the medium of print, often using printmaking processes to work on ideas which would eventually translate into sculpture, and to further refine and expand upon the forms and ideas that drive their sculptural work.
Click here to find out more
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'Love Printmaking'
This exhibition showcases recent work by the Inkers group and reflects the diversity of approach amongst members, with a range of printmaking techniques and varied subject matter.
Artists-
Neil Anderson. Cath Brooke. Shelley Burgoyne. Janine Denby. Lucy Hainsworth. Emily Harvey. Paul Hudson. Sammy Palfrey. June Russell. Ian Wrench.
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'Impression Making a Mark'
Member Mike Smith and 8 other Printmakers, showcase their work in their annual printmaking exhibition.
Artists-
Laney Birkhead. Kath Bonson. Shelley Burgoyne. Lucy Gell. Debbie Grice.
Pat Harvey. Des Pattison. Mike Smith. Andrew Tyzack.
Event Location-
Town Street, Farsley, Pudsey, West Yorkshire LS28 5LF
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'Prints & Plates'
Prints & Plates is an exhibition showcasing a diverse range of original work from contemporary printmakers. Alongside which, their plates, or information about the process used to make each piece, will be displayed.
These images are 'prints' as they have been made, for the most part, by using a press. Although we have for the first time included digital prints in this exhibition, as artists are increasingly using digital files instead of the traditional plates from which the art work is printed.
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'Contemporary Figurative Works Quiet Contemplation'
Member Helen Campbell, is exhibiting a large body of work of over 60 pieces: original figurative paintings in oils, charcoal drawings & etchings plus smaller exhibitions of landscape paintings. Wed 25th March to Friday 15th May by appointment and on selected weekends
Venue: SNAPARTS @ WALKER HOUSE
22 BOND ST, WAKEFIELD WF1 2QP
(OPPOSITE Wakefield College)
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Leeds College of Art
'Creative Networks'
Creative Networks from Leeds College of Art would like to invite you to an evening with British contemporary artist, writer, author, musician and art education advocate Bob & Roberta Smith, May 21 at 6pm.
Bob will talk about his creative journey and career and discuss how art is an important element in democratic life. Bob will also talk through his recent artworks created around his political campaign such as the 'Letter to Michael Gove', a huge placard carrying a diatribe of almost 1,000 words. Bob is currently standing as an independent candidate in the forthcoming general election, in the Surrey Heath constituency for which Gove is currently a member of parliament.
Click here to find out more
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BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
'Artists Book Market'
Gateshead plays host to a national two day Artists’ Book Market. Submissions for tables are welcome from artists, bookmakers, small press publishers, artist’s groups, zine artists, bookbinders, trade and suppliers.
Exhibitors’ stalls are 90 x 180cm approx. Prices for stalls are as follows:
- Individual artist/imprint/collective: £60
- College/university: £120
- Trade/supplier: £150
CALL FOR ARTISTS’ BOOK INTERVENTIONS
NEW: opportunity to propose ideas for talks, demonstrations, performances, screenings and other interventions that could last between 15 mins – 2 hours. Selected interventions will receive a bursary of £100 as well as curatorial/technical support and documentation.
Selected applicants will be notified by
22 May 2015. To secure a stall the exhibitors’ fee must be paid within 14 days from receipt of invoice.
Click here for further details on how to apply and to download submission forms
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'The National Original Print Exhibition'
The National Original Print Exhibition is an annual open show established by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, with the aim of promoting the best of printmaking to a wider audience.
Bankside Gallery will host the exhibition, a well-respected gallery in a prime location next to Tate Modern on London's South Bank.
All forms of original printmaking are eligible for entry.
Selection will be made from digital submissions with an entry fee of £12.00 per entry (£8.00 for students). Selected works will be exhibited at Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH (next to Tate Modern) from Tue 15 – Sun 27 September 2015
Click here to find out more & how to apply
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'Mini Print Exhibition'
Submissions are open to take part in Connections North's 'Mini Print Exhibition' where printmakers from around the world can submit and see their work in a global context and viewers can appreciate and understand the diversity of printmaking.
This mini print online exhibition is part of Connections North: Mirror Images , a unique event focusing on contemporary printmaking, which opens simultaneously at venues in North Yorkshire (UK), Finland and Sweden in May and June 2015. The exhibition aims to offer a reflection on printmaking from an international perspective, drawing upon ideas of place, identity and the environments in which the artists live and work.
Click here to find out more & how to apply
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Printmaker's Toolkit Sessions
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These new hour long morning sessions will focus on technique, practise and making, and will comprise of practical demonstrations and talks led by practising artists and printmakers. The sessions are intended to encourage, inspire, and generate ideas and conversation about printmaking, so don’t be afraid to ask questions! Both members and non-members are welcome to attend. If you are not a member, or indeed a printmaker, they can act as taster sessions to show you just what printmaking is all about. If you are a member, the sessions can offer valuable hints and tips to help further your printmaking practise, or introduce you to a new technique.
Sessions cost £10, and will run bi-monthly from 10.30 – 11.30am on a Tuesday morning, see below for more details-
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Reduction Lino- Toolkit £10.00
Join Scarlette Homeshaw the winner of the 2013 Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking for a informal demo session. She’ll take you through how she makes her beautiful, meticulous reduction linocuts, with tips on inking and registration, (lining-up).
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Screen Printed Posters
£130.00 - Weekend Course
Tutor: Graham Pilling & Cameron Steward
Learn the process of producing screen printed posters and art-prints!
This 2 day course will cover the entire process of getting your design ready for print, preparing and creating screens, and screenprinting prints and posters.
click here to find out more
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Introduction to Bookbinding £37.00 - CREATE! Saturday Workshop
Tutor: Roger Grech
This short day course will introduce students to three basic book structures. These form the foundation for further, more advanced processes. The course is suitable for complete beginners or for anyone with a little knowledge wishing to learn more.
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Introduction to Printmaking
£135.00 - Weekend Course
Tutor: Neil Anderson & Sammy Palfrey
The Introduction to Printmaking course will give you a taster of all the areas of printmaking offered at WYPW, including monoprint, collagraph, drypoint, etching, linocut and screen print. By experimenting with different techniques, you will get a feel for which best suits you and your style of working.
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Making Your Own Cynotypes
£37.00 - Weekend Course
Tutor: Moira Fuller
Experiment with using flat objects and images on acetate to create beautiful cyanotype prints, using pre-prepared paper and exposing to sunlight. Learn to prepare your own paper to take home and continue experimenting.
click here to learn more
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Lino Etching Weekend
£130.00 - Weekend Course
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Introduction to Letterpress
£130.00 - Weekend Course
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Join artist and printmaker Jenny Thomas for this innovative weekend course, exploring ways of making relief printed images using a caustic soda paste to etch linoleum. Lino etching is a very painterly technique, capable of producing gestural marks and gradations of tone. It can also be combined with traditional cutting methods using lino tools. The course co-incides with an exhibition of Jenny’s work in the WYPW gallery.
click here to learn more
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Learn to print letterpress! This course will show you all the basics of setting and printing wood and lead type, to create posters, books and stationery.
After the course you then have the option of becoming a member of WYPW and continuing to use our letterpress facilities on an open-access basis, with technical support on-hand if you need it.
click here to learn more
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Notes from the technician...
We’ve got some new rag bins in the downstairs print rooms for ‘in-between’ rags – rags which are used but still useable. Please put any rags in these which still have some life left in them. These can then be used again for cleaning ink from glass, etc. This will help us to reduce the amount of rags we go through and keep costs down.
So it’s:
Red rag basket – clean rags
Black metal small rag bin – ‘in-between’ rags
Blue metal rag bin – used rags
Screen printers – PLEASE make sure when putting screens back in the racks that you put the mesh side in contact with the cardboard dividers. Screen mesh is VERY delicate and can tear easily. The cardboard is there to protect the screen mesh from snagging against the wooden dividers and ripping. Please treat screens with care! We will be shortly be getting some of our screens re-stretched, so it is even more important to make sure you treat them gently.
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Thank you to all who came!
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In April we had our FREE half-term Easter Multi Sensory Art activity 'Its Cold up North' with artists Becky Newbould, Jan Benham & Andy Burton (Musician) & We had a great day of colourful printing using stamps created from simple materials and found objects.
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Upcoming FREE Activities...
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2 Day Comic-book Workshop
FREE Spring half-term, Art activity for Young People Age 8 - 12
"Day 1- Explore, draw & create your very own characters & text.
Day 2- Screen print your
creations on to paper and make your very own comic-books!"
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Come along, have some fun and meet new people. In a safe, positive and well supported environment with fully accessible venue and facilities.
The activity will be led by artists Karen Stansfield & Amy Hirst
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