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Ian Davenport
b.1966
4am, 2019
Etching
Paper 62.0 x 62.0 cm / Paper 50.0 x 50.0 cm

Thursday, 7th April 2022, 19:00 to 21:00 | £5.45 (including booking fee)

You are invited to submit work for donation to the Printmakers Council Archive located at Scarborough Museums Trust. 

The collection was originally set up in 1992 but an archive had long been an objective for PmC.  The original request to members in February 1992 noted that the gallery’s permanent collection contained ‘works by Ivon Hitchens, Matthew Smith, Gaudier Brzeska, and prints by Michael Rothenstein, Anthony Gross, John Piper and Ceri Richards’.  The send-out suggested that the archive would be made available for study access, reference and exhibitions, and encouraged members to donate ‘the very best (works) from your oeuvre’.

The donation in 1992 had been the only one until 2016 when PmC in collaboration with Scarborough Art Gallery revived the archive, and this led to a very successful exhibition of all the donated prints together with selections from the collection in the spring of 2017. Since then, the museum has hosted exhibitions of members’ work on several occasions.

Our intention is to select one work from each member in order to provide as comprehensive a representation of the current membership as is possible.  Prints for this donation can be from any date, provided you were a member of Printmakers Council in the year the print was made.  This will help to enlarge the date range of the prints held in the archive.

Size: Flat prints can be up to a maximum size of A1.  3 dimensional works are also acceptable but only if possible to store flat, and under A1 in size when flat.

Selected prints must be submitted flat, unframed, and in good condition with clean borders, wrapped in cellophane with a card backing as if for display in a print browser.  Prints that are considered to fall short of the required standard at any stage will be rejected.

All prints will be photographed professionally before sending to the archive, so please ensure your print is easily removable from the acetate. Resealable cellophane envelopes are preferred.

Ecologies of change is a collaboration between artists from Australia and the Printmakers Council UK. Supported by the PMC and the Royal Overseas League, the exhibition will  be shown at ROSL. The project is curated by Clare Humphries (Australia) and Jacki Baxter and Venessa Pugh (UK).

Project Introduction.

Ecologies of change invites artists to visualise their response to a shift in consciousness as we recognise the impact and consequences of human activity on Earth’s ecosystems. We ask artists to consider the consequences of human-led ecological change and imagine other ways we might live in the aftermath of climate change.

By 2021 when this exhibition will be held, the International Commission on Stratigraphy is set to formally define a new slice of geologic record, the Anthropocene, to mark the profound ways in which humans have altered the planet. The Anthropocene identifies a new period in which humans have become the dominant bio-geo-physical force shaping the world.

At a time of profound change, Ecologies of Change forms a conversation across the hemispheres. The project brings together artists who share an ethics of care for Earth’s ecosystems. It invites them to take stock of the Anthropocene and to share visions of both loss and hope for change.

Members will be invited to submit up to 3 works via the PMC website as usual and all artists will pay a £15.00 flat fee. The works may be of any size and chosen prints should then be framed in a plain frame by the artist. It is hoped that all printmaking mediums will be represented in the final show including original digital prints.

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UK selection will be undertaken by members of the committee.

Insurance and Sales.

All artists from both countries will be responsible for their own insurance and sales money will go to the artist. ROSL will take 30% commission. In the event of any lockdown, the exhibition will be held on line.

Deadlines.

The exhibition will be held at ROSL between 30th June and 15th September 2021.

The last date for UK submissions is May 15th 2021.

Successful artists  will be informed by May 31st.

Prints must be delivered to the PMC office on June 9th or 16th.

We will be hosting an alternative online COLOUR exhibition for our members who chose not to submit for the Royal Over Seas League exhibition. If you submitted for the COLOUR at ROSL show, please do not submit again.  We will select an image from your original submission if you were not selected for the show. This is a call out for members who have not yet submitted images because they didn’t want to deliver to London because of Covid 19.

Submit your prints for PMC ‘Colour’ Online Exhibition

Submit your prints on the theme of ‘Colour’