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Artists Sarah Duncan and Libby Lloyd nominated for Queen Sonja Print Award 2022
We are beyond chuffed that the very talented Sarah Duncan and Libby Lloyd have both been nominated for this prestigious award. The Queen Sonja Print Award has become the world’s leading award for graphic art and is presented every other year to a young, ambitious and promising artist who has excelled in the field of […]
Posted January 7, 2022SPS demos at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021
Our member technician, Maria Quintin, took to the floor at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair https://www.woolwichprintfair.com/about/ with demos in intaglio and relief printmaking. It sounds as if it was a very busy time with much interest in the processes and discovering the magic of print.
Posted November 16, 2021Spike Print Studio Mobile Print Project November update
November 2021 Amy Hutchings and Anna Haydock-Wilson continue to deliver a far reaching community project. We were awarded a Originators Funding by Bristol City Council City Arts Team to continue offering printmaking workshops to vulnerable communities across Bristol. As with our Home Print Project this fund will enables us to support arts activities for young […]
Posted November 11, 2021RA Summer Exhibition 2021 – contd
Martine Baldwin has already sold over two thirds of this edition. “It is a large woodblock inspired by walkers on the beach at Brean printed from found wood from the Severn estuary. I made it as a response to our common need for these vast open spaces which allow us to reconnect with who we […]
Posted October 6, 2021RA Summer Exhibition 2021- Varnishing Day
Chitra Merchant, Sarah Duncan, Ros Ford, Anna Harley, Martine Baldwin, Lisa Takahashi, Emma Studd (collaborative work as Locker & Studd) and Emma Stibbon of course! Tutor Martyn Grimmer and SPS Trustee Ian Chamberlain were also included. Spike Island artists include Angela Lizon & Viv Baker. What a star cast and well done! It is a […]
Posted September 16, 2021Spiked Coffee
A collaborative Risograph book from Spike Print Studio lockdown coffee mornings. The idea for our Risograph book came from a desire to celebrate our coffee mornings on Zoom, which started in the second lockdown. The weekly meetings have been so helpful in keeping spirits up and in keeping us all making. So coming together to […]
Posted July 22, 2021Update on Home Print Project https://spikeprintstudio.org/community/home-print-project/ Mobile Print Project With Anna Haydock-Wilson and Amy Hutchings We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded Originators Funding by Bristol City Council City Arts Team so we can continue offering printmaking workshops to vulnerable communities across Bristol. As with our Home Print Project this fund will enable us to support […]
Posted July 7, 202110 weeks off site Drawing with Anna Marrow
Maria Quintin (our member technician and recent learning programme assistant) joined Anna for the last two sessions where the students were encouraged to print out doors. Anna and Maria took our portable press with them and the students had an amazing time. This is what happened:
Posted July 7, 2021Leonie Bradley – work selected for New Prints 2021/Summer
Leonie Bradley has had a video featuring folded linocut, wood engraving and photopolymer gravure artworks selected for New Prints 2021/Summer at the International Print Center New York. The juror was renowned woodcut artist, Christiane Baumgartner who selected 36 artists from over 900 entries. The video was a collaboration between Leonie and music artist Silverlining to accompany his […]
Posted May 11, 2021