Open Impact: UK Print Studios Exhibition

Saturday 12 September – Sunday 20 September 2009
10am-5pm (Sun 20, 10am -4pm)
(Impact Conference 16 – 19 September)
Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX

Download the Open Impact A3 leaflet and map (860kb)

The Aim

To provide an opportunity for open access print studios in the UK to showcase curated work which will exemplify the very best in contemporary, multi disciplinary print. To reflect the aims of the IMPACT 6 conference established by UWE in 1999 of sharing knowledge and skills, debating current issues on an international stage.

For latest details about the UWE conference please visit the IMPACT 6 website.

Confirmed exhibiting print studios

Click on the studio names for more details.

• Double Elephant
• Dundee Contemporary Arts
• East London Printmakers
• Edinburgh Printmakers
• Gloucestershire Print Co-operative
• Hot Bed Press
• Leinster Printmaking Studio
• Ochre Print Studio
• Printmakers Council
• Red Hot Press
• Somerset Printmakers
• Spike Print Studio
• St Barnabas Press

HIDDEN IMPACT: prints in the city

Artists living, working, exhibiting or studying in Bristol will install prints in unexpected locations in central Bristol. From the wine vaults of Avery’s wine lodge to Brandon Hill overlooking the city, HIDDEN IMPACT will take you to places you may not have visited.

Visit the Hidden Impact page to find out more

Contact: hiddenimpact@spikeprintstudio.org

Alan Cristea Gallery

Alan Cristea Gallery will be curating an exhibition based around a landscape theme and will include large scale woodcuts by Christiane Baumgartner, Paul Winstanley, Gordon Cheung, Dexter Dalwood and Sue Arrowsmith.

Alan Cristea has been dealing in and publishing prints by international contemporary artists for over thirty years. The gallery has been based at 31 Cork Street for over 13 years and has recently expanded to include a new exhibition space at 34 Cork Street. The gallery is a member of the IFPDA (International Fine Print Dealers Association) and Alan Cristea is treasurer of SLAD (the Society of London Art Dealers).

Editions IMPACT

Spike Print Editions was launched in December 2007 and made possible through a grant from the Arnolfini Collections Trust. The artists involved are John Wood and Paul Harrison, James Ireland, Mariele Neudecker, Andrew Mania, Daphne Wright and Ged Quinn. Since then, Spike Print Studio Editions has printed with Sonia Boyce, Sophie Macpherson, Richard Forster and Richard Long.

More about Editioning at Spike Print Studio