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.

George Shaw

Completed George Shaw's one colour lithograph ‘The Other Side,’ published by Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts.

On sale in Baltic Shop during the exhibition 'The Sly and Unseen Day,' 18th Feb - 15th May 2011

Julian Davies

The first round of proofing for five new lithographs by Julian Davies. We first collaborated in 2007 on two pieces, ‘Mountain of My Dreams’ and ‘Hands All Over.’ These new ones are again 9” x 11” and five runs each from five photoplates incorporating drawn and painterly marks in striking combinations of colours.

Carla Bromhead - Albert

Coming of Age: The Art & Science of Ageing
12th Jan - 2nd March 2011
Great North Museum: Hancock

Featuring works by Edgar Degas, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Henry Moore, Nicholas Nixon, John Coplans, Melanie Manchot, Carla Bromhead, Susie Rea, Valerie Laws, Susan Aldworth, Linda Fleming, Jordan Baseman and Sharon Bailey, and new commissions by Annie Cattrell, Andrew Carnie and Jennie Pedley.

Iris Priest

Over the past few weeks Iris Priest has been in the workshop. You may remember the ticket that she designed for our 5th Birthday Prize Draw. For helping us fund raise we have repaid her with some shop time to collaborate with us on some lithos.

We have been working hard and a currently under way with a second round of proofing (see below for a wee sneak peek of first image - 9 runs, 14 colours), while Iris draws a new stone.