David Leigh - artist page

David Leigh's artist page has now been added to the website > David Leigh


Green in the Face
Seven colour lithograph
on BFK Rives off white
16" x 20"


Tickling
Five colour lithograph
on BFK Rives off white
16" x 20"

Anticipated release of these two lithographs is autumn 2011 - contact to reserve an impression.

David Leigh

On Friday 1st April, David Leigh arrived in Newcastle from Albuquerque, New Mexico. We allowed him to recover from the 19 hours of travelling and adjust to the low altitude before commencing with his projects. Leigh's work is crazy and colourful with mad melted eyes. He makes drawings, paintings and wall drawings, this will be his first lithograph since is undergrad at ASU around ten years ago.

Less than a week into the project the first finished proof was pulled. Measuring 16 x 20" printed in seven colours from six photo-litho plates and a key stone on BFK Rives off white. The second image is well under way and will hopefully be completed by Thursday prior to his stupid o'clock fight out of the country on Friday morning.

We'll be having a little party on Thursday 14th April, 6-8pm if you'd like to come by and visit to meet David and see the proofs.

Ray Richardson - Signs editions

Ray Richardson travelled up from London this morning to sign his seven completed editions. You can see them all on his artist page > Ray Richardson


Road Trip
two colour lithograph
on Somerset satin white
9 5/16" x 16"
edition size 25

Helsinki Litho

Here are our good & talented friends at Helsinki Litho showing their support of Hole Editions. From left to right (top image) Matti Hintikka, Valpuri Kylmänen and Kalle Berg.

Simon Woolham - webpage

Simon Woolham's webpage has now been added to the website, head along over there and check out the proofs > Simon Woolham. Editioning will take place over the next few months, with an anticipated summer release.

T-shirts abroad

Hole Editions t-shirts are on the move again, recently they have made it Calangute Beach, Goa, India, on the shore of the Arabian Sea - many thanks to Narbi Price and Nancy Isherwood for this photograph...


...and to Paul Staton for this photo, in the "background is Cervinia, Italy. We skied over there for the day from Zermatt, the weather was excellent." Lucky!


If you would like you very own Hole Editions t-shirt we still have a few left in S, M, L & XL for only £10 (inc P&P).

New Artist: Simon Woolham

I first meet Simon Woolham perhaps four years ago when were on the same Trivial Pursuit team, it must have been a good night as neither one of us can remember if we were on the winning team.

Simon kindly supported last years 5th Birthday Draw by designing one of the tickets, 'Land of Chairs.'

Along with his wife Hannah and six month old Ava, they ventured back to the North East and over the last week there has been much catching up with friends as well as hard graft in the workshop. Simon took to drawing on the stones like a duck to water, happily switching from his trusty biro for litho pencils. During the week five pieces were produced, 'At the Edge,' 'Over the Edge,' 'Do Yourself a Favour,' 'The Receivers' and 'Suspect Device.' You can see a sneak peek of these in the last image.

Ant Macari: Signing editions

Ant Macari’s four lithographs have been completed and their release will coincide with the opening of his solo show 'Get out and troop the shape of a void' at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art.

Exhibition dates: 24 March - 18 June 2011
Preview date: Wed 23 March, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Lauren Healey: Capturing Shadows

Capturing shadows: At the end of September 2010 Lauren Healey was given a Publishing Award her MFA show, enabling her to collaborate with us and experiment. The nature of these experiments in highly dependent on the British weather so we have imposed no time constraints on their production.

You can keep abreast of the project via Lauren’s Blog.

Assistant: Rachael Kidd

Newcastle University Fine Art under-graduate Rachael Kidd joined us last year as an assistant. Rachael has been developing her stone graining powers, most recently preparing and re-surfacing the stone for George Shaw (see bottom photo). Other tasks include assisting at the press, dusting the silver powder on the lightning bolts for Ant Macari’s ‘Yaya Con Dios’ and printing some letterpress. Rachael will shortly be creating some pieces of her own and the placement has become a LifeWorkArt module as part of her studies.