
Friday, 4 December 2009
Fine Art Christmas Party

1st Year Etching Workshops

Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Royal College of Art Printmaking students visit....



First year Printmedia students current work....
Monday, 9 November 2009
First year current work....
Interview with recent graduate Sarah Abbott

Thursday, 15 October 2009
Submit your work to an exhibition In New York

New Prints 2010/Winter - IPCNY, New Prints Program
New Prints 2010/Winter - IPCNY, New Prints Program
Deadline : November 13, 2009
In keeping with our mission to promote the greater appreciation and understanding of the fine art print, IPCNY presents a selection of new prints four times per year. Criteria for selection are:
Only original fine art (limited edition and unique) prints are eligible; reproductions of other artwork such as drawings or paintings are not acceptable.
Selections will represent a broad diversity of sources, geographical and otherwise.
Prints must have been completed within a year of the submission deadline.
THERE IS NO ENTRY FEE. Independent artists, workshops, publishers and dealers are all welcome to submit recently completed print projects. Please refer to the Submission Guidelines below.
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
(M.Aristidou)
http://doodlestitch.co.uk/index.php
Welcome to the Doodlestitch website
The perfect introduction to the craft of needlework
Ideal for all ages* from 8 to 80+.
Improves creativity for children/adults and is therapeutic.
Compare your creation with others by sending an image and
short story about your doodlestitch to our gallery.
doodlestitch is a 3D blank canvas that you can make into a character or creature of your choice. It is creative, fun, exciting, relaxing and educational. You can turn it into whatever you want, giving you the freedom to be individual. You can do it on your own or in groups. It is therapeutic and be warned it can be addictive. It is also good for building social skills. Fascinating conversations develop from groups sitting and stitching.
You start by taking your needle and thread to sew on buttons, to give your doodlestitch eyes. Then sew stitches all over to make it individual. You can as have as many eyes as you want and use any stitches that you know. The basic stitch to get you started is running stitch.
With doodlestitch you can start to sew and leave it if you need to do something else. The next time you get the itch to stitch you can pick it up and start again where you left off or at a different point.
doodlestitch is a perfect gift for others or as a treat for yourself.
Enter the doodlestitch competition and you could win a limited edition doodlestitch and a special kit bag containing lots of exciting sewing things.
The first competition ends on December 16th 2009. The winner will be notified by email and their doodlestitch will feature on the competition winners page.To enter the competition you will need to send a photo of your finished doodlestitch. Make sure that you give it a name and add a short sentence about it.
Keep your friends updated— even when you're not signed in.
Some work in the studios...
Here are some works of Printmedia students - currently going on in the studios....
Joyous Machines Tate Liverpool

Richard Deloughry
This exciting exhibition will focus upon the connection between the work of Jean Tinguely (1925-1991), one of the most radical, inventive and subversive sculptors of the mid twentieth-century, and renowned British artist Michael Landy, who has been significantly influenced by Tinguely and his constructive and destructive tendencies.
Landy will co-curate Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely, and will devote special attention to Tinguely’s rarely examined early career, tracing the development of Tinguely’s work from the late 1940s building up to his momentous Homage to New York.This, the most famous and influential of all ‘auto-destructive’ works of art, was a 27ft high self-destroying mechanism that came to life for 27 minutes before catching fire during a performance in the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art, New York on 17 March 1960.
As recommended by Richard in 2nd year
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
Letterpress inductions
for first year students, there are some spaces for 2nd and 3rd years
to sign up. If there is more demand I can book more dates.... See
notice outside 3rd year studio for details.
New Contemporaries at the Cornerhouse
Cornerhouse. The work of current students and recent graduates are
shown across three floors of the gallery. Among the work on show are a
number of works that employ traditional and contemporary print media.
Above is a large photoetch by Andrew Curtis. Also on show are the
ambitious and exquisite silkscreens on various media by Jack Newling,
aswell as the largescale digital prints of Barbara Wolff that also use
collage and found objects.
Early 20th Century prints at the Whitworth

19 September - 13 December 2009
Printmakers in the United States in the first half of the 20th century produced some of the most exciting, original and defining images of modern American life.
Beginning with John Sloan and the Ashcan School of urban realism in the early 1900s, artists adopted a wide variety of print media to depict the American Scene, from the evocative cityscapes of Edward Hopper and Martin Lewis to romanticised views of the rural heartlands by Thomas Hart Benton and the young Jackson Pollock.
Call for entries
Call for Entries - Mini Print 2009, Artlink
Yorkshire, Hull Closes Thursday 12 November 2009 Unpaid (Voluntary) Part time Artform: visual arts Contact: Katie Gill, Gallery Development Workergallery@artlink.uk.net
Description
Artlink in Hull are calling for entries for its popular annual Mini Print Exhibition. This is a great selling opportunity for artists as Mini Print is held in the run up to Christmas. Artists are invited to submit work in any printed medium, please see submission guidelines for exact criteria on what we can and cannot accept. Required with all entries is a fee of £20.00 per artist to cover mounting/framing and return postage of unsold work. A maximum of five prints can be entered per participant.
The closing date for entries is Thursday 12th November 2009 and Mini Print 2009 will run from early December 2009 until end of January 2010. For further information and an application form please visit our websitewww.artlink.uk.net and see the opportunities page. Alternatively contact Katie Gill at Artlink on 01482 345104 or email gallery@artlink.uk.net.
ARTLINK, Centre for Community Arts, 87 Princes Avenue, Hull, HU5 3QP
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
New York Study Visit

Claire Curtin in Blank Pages

Recent print graduate Claire Curtin is reviewed in Issue 15 of Blankpages, an online magazine from BLANK MEDIA collective.
"The focus of my recent work has been the recording of
faces that instinctively appear when random marks are
given character. My intention was to interpret the faces
Monday, 5 October 2009
1st year London Trip

Tuesday Talks at the Whitworth
Please be sure to attend these excellent and free series of talks
Tuesday Talks
13 October - 8 December 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm
The Tuesday Talks series, programmed by Prof. Pavel Büchler with Lesley
Young, explores the driving forces, influences and sources of inspiration
behind the work of contemporary artists.
Mark Lewis
13 October 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm

Mark Lewis¹s film works explore the language of cinema and painting, placing
the incidental compositions and camera shots conventionally used to connect
that surprise and unsettle the viewer. Lewis has had major solo exhibitions
at Vancouver Art Gallery; Hamburger Kunstverein; BFI Southbank, London, and
FACT, Liverpool; and is representing Canada in the current Venice Biennale.
He is co-founder and co-editor, of Afterall Journal and Books.
Fanni Niemi-Junkola
20 October 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm
Fanni Niemi-Junkola initially studied sculpture at Glasgow School of Art in
the 1990s but through her interest in kick-boxing and martial arts has
developed a highly personal style of performance video, often based on
violent action. Her video installations and short films have been shown
extensively in her home country of Finland and also internationally,
including at the 3rd Berlin Biennial; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and
Manifesta 2, Luxembourg. She teaches in the Department of Fine Art at
Tampere Polytechnic.
Knut Åsdam
27 October 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm

Knut Åsdam¹s film works use sound, video, photography and architecture to
reflect upon the politics of space and the boundaries of subjectivity. These
concerns are often related to themes of dissidence and to an analysis of
space in terms of its use and its history. He lives in Oslo and has
exhibited at Tate Britain; Kunsthalle Bern and the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Oslo; as well as in the 2003 Istanbul Biennial and Manifesta 7,
Rovereto, Italy.
Will Holder
3 November 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm
Will Holder is an artist, designer and editor whose work focuses on books
and the gap between language and object. Through these different roles he
explores the transformative processes at play within the act of publishing.
Re-performing and referencing art, literature and music, using the works of
Dickens, Salinger or Cage, Holder swoops around the stuff of books and
writing with reverence and playfulness. He co-edits biannual journal FR
DAVID, has recently co-curated the exhibition Talk Show at the ICA, London,
and in 2005 organised Bachelor Party to celebrate Marcel Duchamp¹s birthday.
Pierre Bismuth
10 November 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm
Disney characters, fairy tales, or the rituals of the white cube and museumPierre Bismuth¹s practice appropriates imagery found in both pop and high
culture. Whether drawing from political events, reportage, men¹s magazines,
architecture; all are disrupted using similar low-tech means. In 2004 he
collaborated with film director Michel Gondry to make the film Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, winning an Oscar for the Best Original
Screenplay. He has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel; Villa Arson,
Nice; and Witte de With, Rotterdam. His work was included in the 2001 Venice
Biennale and in Manifesta 4, Frankfurt-am-Main. He lives in Brussels and
London.
Andrew Miller
17 November 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm
Andrew Miller¹s work engages with abandoned, often utilitarian objects and
architectural fragments, designing and building structures which reference
their provenance and history. As well as exhibiting widely, he has worked on
many public and private architectural and design projects including building
a library for Douglas Gordon and the bookshop at The Fruitmarket Gallery,
Edinburgh. He has recently had a solo exhibition at Inverleith House,
Edinburgh.
Corey McCorkle
24 November, 11.00am - 12.30pm

By moving between cultures, both western and eastern, and disciplines
including art, craft, science and mysticism, Corey McCorkle acquires
knowledge and know-how to imbue his meticulously crafted objects, films and
architectural interventions with complex cultural references and poetic
resonance. Living in New York, he has had solo exhibitions at Maccarone
Gallery, New York: Kunsthalle Bern; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; and
been included within the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
Pamela Rosenkranz
1 December, 11.00am - 12.30pm
Swiss artist Pamela Rosenkranz makes works that resemble language and
suggest a narrative, yet deliberately confuse the viewer¹s search for
meaning. She works in a variety of media, often making use of the simplest
visual forms, techniques and gestures and incorporating in her objects and
installations a range of materials chosen as much for their symbolic
connotations as for their sensual qualities - from her own hair to silicon,
from dust to silk. Last year her work was included in the 5th Berlin
Biennale and Manifesta 7, Rovereto, Italy and will be on show in Manchester,
at Castlefield Gallery, from 3 December.
Speaker tbc
8 December, 11.00am - 12.30pm
Admission is free and attendance is on a first come first served basis. To
be added to the Tuesday Talk emailing list please call The Whitworth Art
Gallery on 0161 275 7450 or email events.whitworth@manchester.ac.uk
Whitworth Art Gallery
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Photoshop Lecture

New Contemporaries 2009

Sunday, 27 September 2009
Fantasies, Follies and Disasters: The Prints of Francisco de Goya- until January

Monday, 7 September 2009
Some more images from the 2009 Print show.....





Images from 2009 Print Degree Show...




