May 23, 2018
Late Bloom, silkscreen monotype 75cmx75cm A huge congratulations to member Gail Mason, who came away with multiple awards at Printfest 2018 in Ulverstone, Cumbria earlier this month. She was awarded the Chris Benefield Memorial Award 2018 for her work Late Bloom pictured above, as well as the Visitors’ Choice Award 2018.
May 23, 2018
This month we held a one day Japanese wood block print workshop with master ukiyoe carver Motoharu Asaka, who is one of the last few remaining to be traditionally trained in this craft. Motoharu Asaka first went overseas to teach in 2012, doing workshops at various institutions and events in Helsinki and London, and then […]
April 16, 2018
Member Sarah Duncan’s drawings shown here are the result of her recent month-long residency in Hämeenkyrö, Finland. Sarah says “During my time in Finland I was interested in how the element of water can absorb and reflect light in a variety of forms. The starting point for my work on the residency was wondering how I […]
April 16, 2018
ON PAPER is a project to promote the art of printmaking and develop connections between printmakers around the world. It is based in Barcelona and run by an art association with Nuria Melero as a main organiser. The shortlisted artists for the On PAPER Award 2018 will be exhibited in the Spike Print Studio at Spike Island, Bristol […]
February 22, 2018
Molly Lemon has be awarded a scholarship from Spike Print Studio to complete the 1 year Contemporary Relief course. I asked Molly to tell us about herself and her experience on the course. “As a printmaker in Bristol, Spike Print Studio was always somewhere I was interested in but had never found the time to […]
February 5, 2018
Nick Greenglass exhibition at SPS This years Peter Reddick bursary awardee Nick Greenglass came to the award from a background in hybrid printmaking, developing techniques that mix a wide range of printing processes from digital inkjet, silkscreen, laser-cut and relief. With the Bursary being set up for artists seeking to advance relief printmaking in experimental […]
January 30, 2018
Jess Buglar is our current Peter Reddick Bursary Award winner. Jess Bugler explores the nature of traumatic memory in her exhibition Memory States at The Courtyard. Her work aims to evoke the extraordinariness of the traumatic narrative, where each piece is a captured fragment. An exploration of a state of memory. An attempt to convey something both […]
January 29, 2018
“Breathe” is a new exhibition by multi award-winning printmaker and artist Gail Mason. The exhibition is a collection of works which serve as a reminder to take time out from busy lives and to appreciate the wonder and space that the natural landscape provides. Through the paintings, Gail plays with the experience of a journey […]
January 22, 2018
Congratulations to Amy Hutchings who has been selected for this years Shape Open The 2018 Shape Open, this year titled “Collective Influence”, is a group exhibition of artwork created by both disabled and non-disabled artists in response to provocations such as: what influences you? How does influence go further than inspiration? What power does influence have to […]
January 17, 2018
Ruth Ander is one of our UWE SPS scholars. Ruth gets her inspiration from water, light and vapour. Her techniques are perfectly suited to expressing these inspirations. Delicate, translucent drifts of colour on fine tissue paper and traditional hand-made Japanese paper. Painted prints or printed paintings – the results are multi-layered impressions. Her prints are […]
