Studio News – Printmakers Council

APPLY TO JOIN GREENWICH PRINTMAKERS GALLERY

Jane Daniell — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 23:57:12 +0000

Greenwich Printmakers is a successful selling gallery in Greenwich Market, run by 35 artist printmakers from London and the surrounding area. Our application process is free and we welcome applications from all members of the Printmakers Council.

Apply here: https://www.greenwichprintmakers.co.uk/membership

Sumiko Okubo – Featured Artist

Jane Daniell — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 07:42:13 +0000

Born in Tokyo. One of the leading contemporary printmakers and artist in the UK, Japan. Her prints and drawings reflecting the nature and the elements with beautiful color scheme. Sumiko Okubo finds inspiration in the change of seasons. Her works includes Wood block, Etching, Collagraph, Mixed Media, and Sculpture. She has had work exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Society of Painters Ether Engraver, Riverside Gallery, Studio Sienko Gallery/London. Mon Musee Numazu/Numazu, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum/Tokyo. Wollecyon Museum/Soul. Oketo Poppo Museum/Hokkaido and in many other well-known venues.

Studied under Norman Ackroyd & Chris Orr (London)

1986-87 Assistant of the Printmaking Dept.

‘Remaining Colour of Autumn’

Prizes: Royal Academy of Arts, Honorable Mention in Water Color interviewed by (BBC) London. OKA Shikanosuke Prize (Shunyo Art Exhibition/Tokyo Metropolitan Museum). Scholarship Prize/ Best Selection of Art 2013, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.

‘Glasses’

Exhibitions:

2000 Krakow International Print Triennial（Poland）,Venus A Centenary（Mitsukoshi Department/Tokyo）。
2009　The Royal Academy of Arts（London）
2011～2013　Invited to the Asia International Art Exhibition（Wollcyon Museum/ Soul）
2013　Best Selection of Art 2013（Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum）
2014 Beyond Printmaking The Many Path of an Artist( Frederick Harris Gallery/Tokyo）
2015 East-West Artists Selection( Posk Gallery/London）
2016 KAKEJIKU TODAY ESPACE JAPON（France）
2018 Prezeglad Suztuki Contemporary Art Collection (MERNATVWY33/GALLERIA33 /Poland )
2021～Printmakers Council Members Exhibition（London）
2023 ART INTERNATIONAL ZURICH 2023 (Zurich)
Affordable Art Fair Singapore 2023(Singapore） and many other Exhibitions.

Member of the: Shunyo-kai Art Society, British Printmakers Council, Japan Artists Association.

Printing method: Wood block, Etching, Embossing, Mixed media

The main theme is the “Harvest”

Collections: British Museum, Central Saint Martin’s College of Arts & Design, Central Museum/ London. Numazu-Shi Shoji Museum /Numazu, Chiang Mai Art University Museum/Thailand, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising/New York. and many other public collections.

WEBSITE

Email; sumiko-central@nifty.com

Twitter

Instagram

YouTube

Our latest talk from Sally Tyrie

Jane Daniell — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:43:25 +0000

Sally has a studio and works at Omega Printmakers in Portsmouth. She likes to “unpick what a place means to me… particularly in the landscape” by “site visits, collecting photos, discarded objects”. Working from and with sketch books, drawing and creating marks. She collates these fragments, some collaged, etched, printed, or transformed into Photopolymer etching.

Zuleika Gallery Impressions in Colour

Jane Daniell — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 17:43:50 +0000

Exhibition at Zuleika Gallery, Woodstock from 9 March – 25 April 2022

https://zuleikagallery.com/impressionsincolour/

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

IMPRESSIONS IN COLOUR – Zuleika Gallery

Jane Daniell — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 17:16:04 +0000

9 MARCH – 25 APRIL 2022

ART OF THE MAKER | PAULA REGO’S PRINTMAKING

Jane Daniell — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 16:53:04 +0000

https://cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/paula-regos-printmaking/ → Book

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

Carinna Parraman will be in conversation with artist Paul Coldwell on the role of printmaking within the work of Paula Rego and in particular her approach to etching.

PMC Award Winner – Filip Gabrhelik – Middlesex 2021

Jane Daniell — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 13:51:05 +0000

Filip, who is of Czech origin, describes himself as a multidisciplinary artist and printmaker whose main focus if relief printmaking, woodcut, wood engraving and linocuts. His work is beautifully crafted and printed. Engaging with traditional methods through new techniques, Filip hopes to start his own paint workshops and progress his career here in Britain. I look forward to the future artwork development of this young artist.

Steve Mumberson – Committee Member

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Caroline Areskog Jones – Hospitalfield Print Residency October 2021

Jane Daniell — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 10:57:34 +0000

Responding and adapting to new environments provides fresh perspectives and the 2 week, interdisciplinary artist residency at ‘Hospitalfield’ recently enabled this. The programme supports the production of new work within a collegiate setting and is situated in a heritage site on the North East coast of Scotland.

Hospiatlfield and Garden

Each artist is allocated space according to their needs and having been awarded the print place I had access to a dedicated studio. With warmth and skylights this outbuilding comes equipped with an extensive water bath for paper and process, saline sulphate etching, roller and pinch presses (maximum A3 size) and ample work and hanging space.

Work in Progress – Print Studio

Daily routine allowed the freedom to be in the studio, explore the garden, the fernery, library, archive, gather field research or join specific tours. Fully catered, vegetarian and totally delicious regular meals established the opportunity to gather. All staff left the site in the evenings with the invitation to consider this enormous historical space ‘our home’!

Heritage Room

Etching Press – Atmosphere of Incoherence

My fellow residents (listed below) afforded some fantastic discussions, points of research and engagement, and this element of the experience felt as valuable as the opportunity to collect resources, experiment and make some preliminary works. I found it interesting discussing what print in itself could be, how it can manifest, its heritage and wider possibilities within a contemporary context, and for some to visit the studio and witness the work in progress was enlightening.

Material Follies – Prints on Somerset

Having experienced a 7 day residency in the Hebrides in 2019, my original application was focussed on wider ideas of liquicity, being interested in how residues, altered states and absorptions manifest through print process. What evolved as Series 1 explored initial possibilities. Spending time in a Victorian atmosphere also seeped into my consciousness, and I found myself considering ideas around toxicity – with wip forming Series 2. Series 3 evolved in response to the physicality of moving within the structural spaces and after visiting the Mortuary Chapel (an extraordinary local memorial) I started thinking more about Victorian ‘follies’, popular purely for social status or surface pleasure.

Mortuary Chapel

Initially I spent time drawing, walking, documenting and understanding the alchemy of the saline sulphate etch on both aluminium and zinc. Intentionally avoiding working with a digital element, I determined to engage more directly with materials to accommodate the transformation of state and ambiguity that I was after. To be able to situate the results within various locations onsite enabled further relational dialogue which I seek for my practice. I found that having a dedicated studio allowed me to think freely with processes, supported by reading, discussion and research and on return I intend to be integrating and continuing to develop these ideas further.

Liquicites – installation

During the final weekend there was an invitation to share progress in a generous discussion. It felt as though everyone had benefitted from what perhaps could be seen as ‘professional development’ no matter each person’s individual level of experience. The residency provided a rare ability to focus entirely on practice and especially after a challenging 18 months of restriction felt particularly unique.

I would like to thank Printmakers Council for inviting me to share this experience and all staff at Hospitalfield for accommodating such an inspirational opportunity.

Residencies

https://www.carolineareskogjones.com

@are3kog

Interdisciplinary Artist Residents October 2021

Francesca Le Lohe (composer and musician)

Caroline Areskog Jones (print place)

Jude Browning and Corin Sworn (collaborative practice)

Kate Holford (artist and curator)

Sarah Trounce (writer)

Sam Williams (filmmaker and artist)

Jamie George (writer and artist)

Holly O’Brien (curator and writer)

Low tide – Arbroath

Sheila Sloss Award 2021

Jane Daniell — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 10:57:52 +0000

We are delighted to announce that Skyler Yiu is the recipient of a £200 prize and a complimentary membership of PMC.

Skyler is an artist and printmaker whose works explore identity, memory and trauma. She graduated with a Bachelor of Illustration and Visual Media from London College of Communication (UAL), before undertaking an MA Print at the Royal College of Art. Skyler works through various media, including printmaking, photography, animation, and drawings. She lives and works in London (UK).

Sinclair Ashman

Jane Daniell — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 18:36:13 +0000

Sinclair works with collagraph and experimental printmaking techniques involving texture, materials, form and structure. In Sinclair’s February talk he discussed his work and how he has made his most recent prints. He also shared with us how he has managed his projects during lockdown.

This was a delightful talk and very well attended. https://youtu.be/aVk8jo1Owdw