Exhibition Catalogue
Royal Society of
PainterPrintmakers From top: Christophe Liotard, Tate Modern, London 2013, screenprint | Elizabeth Tomos, CMYK Registrated Ontology, screenprint Ade Adesina, Contradiction, etching | Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin, Coalesce, etching & thread
EXHIBITION PRIZES
ARTS CLUB CHARITABLE TRUST AWARD £1000 cash prize
BIRMINGHAM PRINTMAKERS PRIZE £100 cash prize
BADGER PRESS AWARD Studio access to the value of £120
DEBORAH ROSLUND HON RE PURCHASE PRIZE Purchase prize to the value of the selected print
EAST LONDON PRINTMAKERS PRIZE One year’s full membership plus ten free open access sessions
GALLERIES MAGAZINE PRIZE Full page colour advert
HAWTHORN PRINTMAKER SUPPLIES AWARD Materials to the value of £150
GREAT ART PRIZE Art materials vouchers to the value of £250
INTAGLIO PRINTMAKER PRIZE Materials to the value of £150
HOT BED PRESS BURSARY A six month’s residency including unlimited access to studio facilities, technical support, one course place, materials stipend - prize value £500
JOHN PURCELL PAPER AWARD £150 worth of paper
RK BURT EXHIBITION AWARD A solo show in the RK Burt Gallery
PRINTMAKING TODAY PRIZE An editorial feature in the magazine
THE REGIONAL PRINT CENTRE WREXHAM AWARD One year’s membership to include free open studio access and two complimentary tickets to the annual Print Symposium
RE ORIGINAL PRINTS 2016
EURO 2016 Exhibitions and sporting events bring about expectation. This year sees one of the most anticipated football/soccer competitions in a long time. Three of the ‘Home’ nations are involved in the European Championship finals, and there is great speculation on how far one of our home sides could progress in the competition.
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It brings me back to a starry-eyed time as a child when England1 won the World Cup at Wembley Stadium in London in 1966. I watched the match live from the front room at home on the sofa. Perhaps on recollection I also may have even made some sort of print at school that week!
Some years later and after I had graduated from art school, I was privileged to meet the esteemed British printmaker Michael Rothenstein at his studio in Essex. I was there to select work for a national exhibition and got to talk to him about the beautiful game after I saw one of his prints. He described this particular screenprint (with woodcut, linocut and photo-screen inclusions) from the 1970’s, called ‘Sport’2, in which we see a model girl on a sofa (perhaps watching a game on television) on top a football crowd at the point of a goal being scored, and a goal keeper with outstretched arms. At the heart of this triptych format print, he reminded me that the juxtaposition of disparate elements make for marvelous invention and interpretations of our daily lives. Rothenstein had conjured not only a visually powerful sexual metaphor but employed the process of printmaking as a multidirectional tour de force, combining desire, creativity, attitude, deft process, and daily images into one wonderful graphic celebration. Some years after my afternoon at his studio, I came across Rothenstein’s formative book ’Frontiers of Printmaking; New Aspects of Relief Printing’3. The book was published in 1966 (that famous year in the myth of football) and a number of things tied together, particularly a symmetry of understanding of how art can mirror life, and when that happens it is very good art indeed! In this latest exhibition of contemporary prints from the RE we will see many of those expressions of interconnecting process and worldly desire that were so elegantly expressed to me by Rothenstein all those years ago. The following passage from that important book, Frontiers of Printmaking, tends to sum up all that interconnection spirit very well; In recent years printmaking has reached a turning point in its development. Along with other activities, change, a radical change, is taking shape and new streams of vitality are finding their way into the prints studios. Artists are exploring untried ways of expression, and some entirely novel sources of both imagery and printing materials have been uncovered. Although written in 1966! there could be a maxim here for printmaking’s health in 2016 and of course the possibility of bringing home a trophy? Prof. David Ferry RE
1 England 4 Germany 2, FIFA World Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London, 1966; 2 Sport’ Woodcut, linocut, and photo-silkscreen on laid Japanese paper, 1973; 3 Frontiers of Printmaking; New Aspects of Relief Printing, Michael Rothenstein, Studio Vista London, 1966.
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Royal Society of PainterPrintmakers
Exhibition Catalogue
From top: Christophe Liotard, Tate Modern, London 2013, screenprint | Elizabeth Tomos, CMYK Registrated Ontology, screenprint Ade Adesina, Contradiction, etching | Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin, Coalesce, etching & thread
From top left (clockwise): Corinna Button, Folly, collagraph & chine-collĂŠ | Debbie Lee, School Leaver, monoprint | David Farrar, silkscreen print | Alice Irwin, Face, etching | Anthony Broad, Tailor, collagraph, chine-collĂŠ, digital print & rubber stamp
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From top: Gail Brodholt, All the World’s a Stage, linocut | Kumyoung Kwon, La Vita è Dolce, The 108 Passions No 16, monoprint & screenprint Anthony Dyson, Vincent’s Nightmare, etching, aquatint, collage and hand-colouring | Nana Shiomi, Reverse: Universe-Chashitsu, woodcut
Yucheng Ji, How to Watch the Eclipse No 1, monotype, etching
From top left (clockwise): Theresa Gadsby-Bourner, Conyer Creek at 10pm, monotype with carborundum Jill Carter, Girl with Offering, collagraph | Grainne Dowling, Still Evening, Kinvara, sugarlift & aquatint
From top left (clockwise): Louise Anderson, E35,000, photo etching | Georgia Keeling, Fish, etching & chine-collĂŠ Lars Nyberg, Shadow 4, drypoint | Peta Bridle, Blossom Street, Spitalfields, drypoint | Maria Bowers, Cecilia, photo etching
From top: Leonie Bradley, Spa from Bath Abbey, wood engraving | Ian Chamberlain, Mirror I, etching | Neil Bousfield, Seaside Steps, relief engraving | Prudence Ainslie, Fold I, woodcut & archival digital print | Ros Ford, Lido, Portishead, etching & aquatint
Sarah Frances, Paolozzi, screenprint with linocut collage
From top left (clockwise): Liz Miller, A Classic on Vinyl: Debussy - Clair de Lune - Part 5, etching & printed vinyl record Judy Carpenter, The Boat, etching | John Angus, Portrait A, screenprint | John Duffin, Thames - London, monoprint
From top: Roy Willingham, Bianco ĂŠ Nero No. 8 - Piazza, digital, inkjet | Becky Haughton, Lake, Mountain, etching Paul Thirkell, Ex Machina, photo etching, monoprint, drypoint & collagraph | Jade They, Moon Shadow, photopolymer etching
From top: Margaret Ashman, Altered Histories Campania, photo etching | Laura Rosser, We Ain’t All Middle Class Bohemians, woodcut Henna Asikainen, Icarus and Other Fallen Angels, monoprint | Biddy Hudson, The Ark, photopolymer
From top left (clockwise): Louise Davies, Summer Dawn, etching | Karen Keogh, Pachamama - Mother Earth, etching Ursula Leach, Leaftree, carborundum & hand colouring | Astrid McGarrighan, Within and Without, etching & aquatint | John Lynch, Demolition 3, woodcut
Dolores de Sade, Super, Artist’s book, hand-coloured etching with wood cover
From top: David Ferry, The Heritage of Large Sculpture in England in Colour, artist’s book, photomontage and text | Peter Lawrence, This is a Wood Engraving, wood engraving Anthony Lazorko, The Organs, colour woodblock | Michael Pritchard, Chilton Street Works, digital pigment prints | Melanie Davies, White River Blue River, etching