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Aberdeen: Peacock Visual Arts

We have just returned from a week at Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen. At the invitation of their Tamarind trained printer Linsay Croall, we assisted on collaborative projects with John Byrne. Thankfully the temperature wasn't as cold as our last visit back in February.

Tamarind Institute: 50th Birthday Bash

Legacies in Lithography Awards Ceremony


Globetrotting: Tamarind Printers Abroard.
Sarah Dudley (Keystone Editions, Berlin)
Kalle Berg (Helsinki Litho, Finland)
Plinio Avila Marquez (Musegrabado, Mexico)
Mark Attwood (The Artists' Press, South Africa)


Life & Litho: June Wayne tells it like it is


Jim Dine in conversation with Ruth Fine


Ed Ruscha in conversation with Dave Hickey


Win Win Lottery - Hole Editions donated an impression of Narbi Price's - Untitled (Chain)


Big 50th cake with crayon candles for the birthday party.


Garo Antreasian talking about the early days on Sunday morning.


Mark Attwood demonstrates a monoprint transfer technique.


In the pro-shop with Master Printer Bill Lagatutta & Senior Printer Peter Haarz


The student shop

Colour photo credits: Tamarind Institute except for demo shot courtesy of Maggie White Lomeli

Matt Stokes: Dance Swine Dance

New Prints from Northern Print…
Catherine Bertola / Cullinan Richards / Rachel Gross / James Hutchinson / Matt Stokes
Contemporary prints on paper created at Northern Print over the last 12 months

Exhibition on show: 10 September until 6 November 2010

Northern Print, Stepney Bank, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 2NP
Open Wednesday to Saturday from 12 to 4. Or by appointment.
Free entry

Marcelle Hanselaar

We were delighted that Marcelle Hanselaar was able to come along to the workshop for a couple of days and begin work on a stone. She was in Newcastle for the opening of her exhibition "Sticks and Stones" at the University Gallery & Baring Wing. The show opened on the 26th August and runs until the 1st Oct.

Northern Print / Matt Stokes

We have recently been collaborating on a project with Matt Stokes called "Dance Swine Dance." It is a diptych, single colour on both sheets, hand printed directly on Velin pur fil Johannot from positive working photoplates, published by Northern Print. You will be able to see it in their forthcoming exhibition from the 10th September - 6th November.

Contact Northern Print for more information, pricing & availability.

Matt Stokes is represented by Workplace Gallery, Gateshead & ZieherSmith, New York

Josie Dick: Toner fun

Josie Dick assisted in our workshop a couple of years ago and this summer she graduated from Newcastle University. We invited her in to the studio for a couple of days to experiment with toner powder, using similar methods as those she employed to create her degree show works. Josie made some new pieces directly on paper and also on ball grained aluminium litho plates.

The resulting works are on show at the Cluny Gallery.
31st August - 21st October

Artist website/blog: Josie Dick






Photos: Josie Dick

Lee Turner - Monotypes

In-between current contract and publishing projects I've been working on four monotypes as a commission for a client in the US. They are all 15" x 12" and are hand printed with a direct litho press on Fabriano Tiepolo.

View on website > Lee Turner

Artists return: Ray Richardson

As you may remember back in May, Ray Richardson came and began working on a series of new prints with us. We were delighted that he was able to return last week to continue with the series. Seven two colour lithographs have been proofed and approved. You can see six of these hung on the line next to Ray.

Business Collectors Network: Ben Jeans Houghton

If you get the chance you should visit this exhibition. Included in the collection are the three lithos by Anne Vibeke Mou and featuring Ben Jeans Houghton's Untitled 7, commissioned by the BCN.

"The exhibition celebrates the end of the second year of the Business Collectors Network which was set up to encourage businesses to engage with contemporary art and artists, and consider the benefits of having work in the working environment and the vibrant dialogue that contemporary art can bring to the workplace. Secondly it supports contemporary artists living and working in the North East by purchasing their work. The members of the network display the works in their offices during the year with the collection coming together annually for public exhibition." > read more via The Sponsors Club for Arts & Business