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An artist talk by Perrott Bespoke Printing coming up next week at East London Printmakers!
It’s absolutely free, so do come along and check it out.
Find out more about the event here.
Artist Talk with Perrott Bespoke Printing
Tuesday 21st July 7.30pm
19 Warburton Rd E8 3RT
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Next up in our Artist Talk Series ELP presents Perrott Bespoke Printing.
Tuesday 21st July.
Save the date.
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Last but certainly not least …
Artist and designer Nick Scott completes our line up at The London Illustration Fair this year!
Nick Scott has been making artwork for a wide variety of clients over the past decade. Working heavily with bands, he has also worked with international brands in both digital and print media.
To see the full line up please visit our website here!
Tickets for the fair are available now with a reduced price for entry on Friday. Please use the promotional code ‘cosmic’ to receive your discount. Click here to get your tickets!
The London Illustration Fair 2015
10th - 12th July
Hoxton Arches
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Busy weekend at the studio. Our artists have been printing ready for the London Illustration Fair in Hoxton Arches opening this Friday! You’re in for a treat
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We’re very excited to be returning to the Independent Label Market at Old Spitalfields on Saturday 11th July.
Our artists will be getting together to showcase some of the freshest work coming out of the studio to date. We’ll have loads of screenprints, etchings, and relief prints up for grabs on the day and you’ll get the opportunity to meet the artists too!
Join us for a day you definitely won’t want to miss!
Independent Label Market
Old Spitalfields Market
Saturday 11th July
11am - 6pm
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Continuing our countdown to The London Illustration Fair 2015, we’ll have Dolores de Sade on the stand next week!
Dolores de Sade is a British artist who trained at Royal College of Art. Following her graduation she was awarded Royal Etcher status. She has exhibited across the UK and internationally. Dolores de Sade’s work is concerned with the representation of place. Focused mainly on the landscape, her work is as much about what is not included in such depictions – the absent figure, the ever-shifting horizon, the need for wilderness, the authority of knowledge.
To see the full list of exhibitors you can visit our website here!
Tickets for the fair are available NOW with a reduced price for entry on Friday. Please use the promotional code ‘cosmic’ to receive your discount. Click here to get your tickets!
The London Illustration Fair 2015
10th - 12th July
Hoxton Arches
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So excited to have the fantastic Eliza Southwood joining us at The London Illustration Fair again this year.
Eliza is an artist and illustrator based in London. Most of her current work is printmaking, with subject matter ranging from cycling themes and urban landscapes to large abstract paintings. She also works with collage, charcoal and acrylic.
She has been awarded the Bronze Prize Illustration and her work will be on display at the London Transport Museum as part of the The Prize for Illustration 2015 exhibition until September.
You can see our full list of exhibitors on our website here.
Tickets for the fair are available NOW with a reduced price for entry on Friday. Please use the promotional code ‘cosmic’ to receive your discount. Click here to get your tickets!
The London Illustration Fair 2015
10th - 12th July
Hoxton Arches
E2 8HD
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BREAKING NEWS!
The fantastic Rochat came today to deliver our new etching press! It’s fair to say we are over moon and were practically salivating at the sight.
They came early this morning in the sweltering heat and worked their socks off until all the cogs and nuts & bolts had been fitted. Then the guys gave it good old grease and a polish and it was good to go.
This one is a beauty. It’s smooth & silent and we cannot wait to see her in action!
Hats off to David and Phil who did a grand job today and will be returning on Friday with some more new equipment - keep your eyes peeled!
You’ll be able to come and see all of our new equipment at our open studio coming up this month….more announcements about this to come soon!
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In the run up to The London Illustration Fair we’re taking a closer look at the artists involved.
Today we’re looking at printing extraordinaire Helen Ashton!
Helen’s working methods centre around the amalgamation of photography, drawing and collage through the medium of printmaking. She’s interested in the constraints and subsequent consequences of print as a mechanistic process.
You can see our full list of exhibitors on our website here.
Tickets for the fair are available NOW with a reduced price for entry on Friday. Please use the promotional code ‘cosmic’ to receive your discount. Click here to get your tickets!
The London Illustration Fair 2015
10th - 12th July
Hoxton Arches
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Continuing our countdown to The London Illustration Fair 2015, we’ll have artist and illustrator Eleanor Rogers on the stand.
Eleanor Rogers is an Artist and Designer who lives and works in London. She is an active member of the East London Printmakers and exhibits with them locally and internationally. She studied Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art, after which she completed a Scholarship to Florence. It was in Florence she began drawing seriously and has not stopped since. Her style of creating is varied, immediate and often humorous opting to make works that instantly impact upon the viewer with its use of colour, text and varied references to popular culture.
I make work in lino, screen print and etching. When I draw it is fast, simple and cut throat and I strive to hold on to this quality within my prints. I try to be honest in all I capture, and aim to create images that are inviting in their hope and strangeness.
You can see our full list of exhibitors on our website here.
Tickets for the fair are available NOW with a reduced price for entry on Friday. Please use the promotional code ‘cosmic’ to receive your discount. Click here to get your tickets!
The London Illustration Fair 2015
10th - 12th July
Hoxton Arches
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East London Printmakers have been invited to participate in The London Illustration Fair again this July.
The fair, based in Hoxton Arches brings artists and illustration lovers together to showcase the diversity of illustration in London and further afield. We’re very excited to have six fantastic artists and illustrators who will be showcasing there latest prints!
They’ll be exhibiting next to some greats and some familiar faces this year, including Heretic Studio, Hello Print Studio and Belly Kids.
In the run up to the event we’ll be introducing you to the artists involved! First up Belinda Chen!
Belinda Chen is the creator of Bel’s art world. She is a freelance illustrator, printmaker and book artist based in East London.
Her passion for drawing and art began from a very early age. Growing up in a small family run ceramic factory in North Taiwan. Belinda imagined the factory as a giant playground. It has inspired her to create from childhood striving to create dream-like utopia to be enjoyed by both children and adults of all ages.
Her work normally appears in children’s story books, editorials, textiles and stationery.
You can see our full list of exhibitors on our website here.
Tickets for the fair are available NOW with a reduced price for entry on Friday. Please use the promotional code ‘cosmic’ to receive your discount. Click here to get your tickets!
The London Illustration Fair 2015
10th - 12th July
Hoxton Arches
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![Ghost[ed.] is a suite of eight limited-edition stone lithographs by eight artists, published in 2015](https://64.media.tumblr.com/f730bcd8be833c7b900503e0f7994d0d/tumblr_nqi1exThIU1rp7y34o1_1280.jpg "Ghost[ed.] is a suite of eight limited-edition stone lithographs by eight artists, published in 2015")
![Ghost[ed.] is a suite of eight limited-edition stone lithographs by eight artists, published in 2015](https://64.media.tumblr.com/454f09604fd740ae3288a68791211b70/tumblr_nqi1exThIU1rp7y34o3_1280.jpg "Ghost[ed.] is a suite of eight limited-edition stone lithographs by eight artists, published in 2015")
![Ghost[ed.] is a suite of eight limited-edition stone lithographs by eight artists, published in 2015](https://64.media.tumblr.com/cff045ada3a85b7b00ca5408f167d1ce/tumblr_nqi1exThIU1rp7y34o2_1280.jpg "Ghost[ed.] is a suite of eight limited-edition stone lithographs by eight artists, published in 2015")
Ghost[ed.] is a suite of eight limited-edition stone lithographs by eight artists, published in 2015. The project to realise it was devised and co-ordinated by Sue Baker Kenton and Nicole Polonsky, who met at one of ELP’s breakfasts for new members. Joining them as contributors to the suite are ELP’s own Caroline Whitehead, open access-user Edit Toaso, as well as Gino Ballantyne, Jessie Brennan, Tim Brown and Hen Coleman. Ghost[ed.] will be launched at an exhibition at Dean Clough in Halifax which runs from Saturday 13 June – Sunday 6 September 2015.
Ghost[ed.] evolved from the ‘ghost’, or residual image, which remains within the lithography stone after printing. The ghost is usually removed entirely by the process of graining. In Ghost[ed.], graining was only partial. This allowed the residual image to be retained and printed again as a reduced version of the original.
Ghost[ed.] lithographs emerged sequentially: after an initial ‘catalyst’ image which got the project underway, contributors were invited in turn to devise a new ‘key’ image in response to the ghost of the one that came immediately before. The two elements were then incorporated into a single print, with one superimposed over the other - a key image by one artist and the ghost of the previous one by another. Instead of being erased, the ghost is an active and dynamic component of the eight pictorial schemes.
We are not aware of any precedent in lithography practice for combining ghost and key images in this way.You can read more about the suite and see images of the complete edition at www.ghosted.co.uk.
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East London Printmakers will be making another appearance at the Independent Record Market this year!
We’ll be joining some fantastic UK based record labels as well as some of London’s finest brewers to celebrate our love for music and other creative industries that make it all possible.
Their will be have some cracking prints up for grabs and you’ll get to meet the artists too.
So join us at Old Spitalfields Market on the 11th July for what will surely be a very exciting day at independentlabelmarket
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Yep that’s right … this year artists from East London Printmakers will be returning to exhibit at The London Illustration Fair at Hoxton Arches!
Keep an eye out for more info on the six artists who will be exhibiting!
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Before and after!
Our stand coming together at the Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead.
Come and see us at Stand L2, we’ll be there until Sunday.
See more about the ten artists exhibiting here.
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Congratulations Sumi Perera!
ELP member Sumi Perera has been awarded the Prix de Print by Katherine Alkauskas of MoMa for her print REBUILDING THE UNBUILT [Y BLOCK].
Katherine will be writing an article about Sumi’s work and print practice, so keep an eye out for that!
You can see more of Sumi’s work here
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Tonight don’t miss Pop-Up Exhibition with Kei Imai Come along this evening to see a fantastic exhibition of work by Japanese artist and printmaker Kei Imai. Her prints a minimal, simple and so beautiful. A selection of screen monotype pro ts which she produced during her time as a project resident at ELP will be on display and open to all tonight from 6-9pm. We’re really excited to have been able to give Kei the opportunity to exhibit her work before she returns to Japan in September. Come along and celebrate young creative talent. East London Printmakers Buzzer 1 19 Warburton Road E5 8PJ 6-9pm
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We are pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Kei Imai.
Kei will be showing a suite of screenprints recently completed during her residency at our studio.
These works, though simple in form, demonstrate a complex experimentation with colour and texture. They are exciting in the ways that they fully exploit the potentialities offered by the screenprinting process. Based on architectural shapes of industrial areas, these prints are firmly grounded in the area in which they were produced. Their fragility and impermanence reflects the rapidly changing landscape of Hackney’s industrial past.
Join us on Thursday 20th August from 6pm – 9pm to support emerging creative talent.
Pop-Up Exhibition with Kei Imai
East London Printmakers
Thursday 20th August
6pm-9pm
You can find out more about the residency programmes we offer, please visit our residency page.
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On Saturday 8th August, East London Printmakers will be a part of Visions Festival. Visions is a one day celebration of music, art, food and culture which is based across various sites in Hackney. East London Printmakers is offering Visions festival goers the opportunity to visit the ELP studio and gain an insight into the world of print.
East London Printmakers’ designers Narcsville & Pat Lunch will be running a class teaching you how to screen print. Here you’ll print special Visions artwork created with designers Heretic, Le Gun and Personality Crisis. The print will be on t shirts or paper depending on the slot chosen. This is a great opportunity to visit their studio in Space Studios, learn more about the screen printing process and view the artists work in their exhibition space.
Visions is now in its third year and returning with increased capacity. Space Studios Outdoor Courtyard is one of their most recent additions. There will be an art market in the courtyard on Saturday showcasing some of the great artistic talent in London. You’ll be able to find us there from 1pm!
To make sure you don’t miss your favourite bands you can book a slot in advance and work it around your festival schedule! Just email us at [email protected] to book your slot.
You can choose from the following slots
Screenprinting on Paper : 2.30 / 3.30 / 4.30 / 5.30
T-shirt Printing : 3.00 / 4.00 / 5.00 / 6.00
Please note these classes are only available to those with a Visions Festival wristband.
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The wonderful Five Points will be joining us this Thursday at our Open Studio!
Five Points Brewing Co have been kindly supporting us at ELP since summer 2013. On Thursday we’ll have a cask of their delicious Pale Ale for you to sample.
There will be loads of other stuff happening too. We’ll have print demos, a print sale, we’ll have a new exhibition of members work and more!
Pop along from 6pm!
Have a look here for more info about what’s in store this Thursday!
Summer Open Studio at East London Printmakers
Thursday 30th July, 6pm - 10pm
19 Warburton Road, E8 3RT
Look forward to seeing you there.
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On Thursday we’re opening our doors to celebrate the completion of our studio expansion and to show you all the fantastic new equipment we have at ELP. We’re lucky enough to have two brand new Kippax Vacuum Tables along with loads of other new equipment for etching, linocut and risograph.
From 7pm we’ll have print demonstrations from four of our artists at ELP. In the screenprinting room we’ll have experienced artist and illustrator Eliza demonstrating the process of screenprinting. Come and check it out on Thursday at 8pm, you’ll get to pull your own print and take one away with you too!
Have a look here for more info about what’s in store this Thursday!
Summer Open Studio at East London Printmakers
Thursday 30th July, 6pm - 10pm
19 Warburton Road, E8 3RT
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Susan Vera Clarke ELP tutor and artist Susan will be taking you through the process of etching. Based between London and rural Essex, Susan creates screenprints, etchings, monoprints, lithographs and lino cuts.
At 7pm on Thursday Susan will be taking you through the intalgio process of etching and giving you an insight into the potential of the medium. Etching is a beautiful medium that offers great detail, richness and texture. Come along and see for yourselves! You might be able to walk away with a print too.
Have a look here for more info about what’s in store this Thursday!
Summer Open Studio at East London Printmakers
Thursday 30th July, 6pm - 10pm
19 Warburton Road, E8 3RT
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We’re lucky enough to have some swish new equipment to show you at our Summer Open Studio this Thursday! Iincluding two new Kippax Vacuum Tables, a brand new Rochat Albion press, a Rochat Etching Press and a Risograph printer.
Throughout the evening, you’ll get the opportunity to learn more about different printmaking processes and the chance to pull your own print with the assistance of our ELP artists.
From 7pm we’ll have print demonstrations from four of our artists at ELP.
Artist, printmaker and ELP tutor Jamie Temple will be taking you through the process of linocut. A fun and accessible technique that will surely get you excited by printmaking. He’ll be printing on our brand new Rochat Albion press from 8pm.
Have a look here for more info about what’s in store this Thursday!
Summer Open Studio at East London Printmakers
Thursday 30th July, 6pm - 10pm
19 Warburton Road, E8 3RT
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Our 2014 box set edition is up ready for our open studio this Thursday! Every year our members get the chance to participate in the ELP Annual Box Set. Our 2014 set was the biggest yet with 59 artists taking part. Once completed the box is donated to the V&A prints and drawings collection and to John Purcell for there generosity in providing the paper for the set. To see the complete edition, our new exhibition of work by our members and much much more come along to our open studio on Thursday. We’ll be open from 6-10pm. Summer Open Studio at East London Printmakers Thursday 30th July 6-10pm 19 Warburton Road E8 3RT
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At out Open Studio this Thursday, there will be loads to get your teeth into. From 7pm we’ll have a variety of print demonstrations with four of our artists at ELP.
ELP tutor and printmaking extraordinaire Helen Ashton will be giving a demo on our latest addition to the studio; our risograph printer. In recent years, Risograph has become an increasingly popular medium to create artists books, zines and the like. It works similarly to a copying machine but offers a more interesting and delicate printing effect with a variety of colours available too.
Pop down on Thursday and learn more about the process! You’ll be able to catch her at 7pm showing you how it’s done!
You can see what else is happening during the evening here!
Summer Open Studio at East London Printmakers
Thursday 30th July, 6 - 10pm
19 Warburton Road, Hackney E8 3RT
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Come and check out our new space and our new equipment at East London Printmakers this Thursday. We’ll have print demos, a print sale, Five Points Ale and print prizes to be won.
We’ll be open from 6pm and would love to see you there.
For more info visit our website here
Summer Open Studio
East London Printmakers, Thursday 30th July, 6pm - 10pm
19 Warburton Road, E8 3RT
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DON’T MISS!
We’re really excited to have Perrott Bespoke Printing joining us at East London Printmakers this evening. They’ll be giving an artist talk taking us through the traditional printing techniques that have been in their family for four generations.
We hope you can make it!
Tuesday 21st July - 7.30pm - Admission Free
East London Printmakers 19 Warburton Road E8 3RT
This beautiful Rochat etching press was delivered to ELP just two weeks ago. Two gents from Rochat spent the hottest day of July on record putting this beauty together. You can check out their progress here.
We’re so excited to be able to share this with you and you’ll be able to come and use it during open access and our courses too!
Come along to our open studio and check out what other new stuff we have after our studio expansion.
ELP Summer Open Studio, Thursday 30th July, 6-10pm
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A look back at all the hard work these guys put in getting the screenprinting room ready for all of our new equipment at ELP.
Have a closer look here.
Come and check out the results of the big move and the studio expansion on the 30th July. From 6pm we’ll be opening up the studio and showing you all of our new equipment. We’ll have demos from 7pm, Five Points Ale and a print sale with work from our fantastic artists on display.
For more information about our Open Studio have a look on our website
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This year East London Printmakers studio has expanded!
We’ve spent the last few months getting the ELP studio in ship shape and fitting it out with brand new equipment!
Helen Ashton our technician took on the task of managing the project and has done an absolutely fantastic job. The last few months has been filled with a shed load of planning, a lot of demolition and construction work, lots of heavy lifting, loads of teamwork and many many tea breaks!!
Now, the space is complete and we have more space and equipment than we ever imagined we’d have!
On our website we’ll be giving you a breakdown of all the changes that have happened at the ELP studio over the past 6 months.
Follow it here :
https://www.eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk/category/gallery/
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All the equipment is in and we’re ready to go!
In the last six months we’ve got a brad new space and five new pieces of equipment at East London Printmakers!
Check out our website to have a closer look or even better come to our open studio on the 30th July and get a real look at what we have to offer!
Open Studio Thursday 30th July 6-10pm
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Recognise this?
Last January this short documentary was featured on this very blog!
Way back in 2013, we met Greg, a friend of Catherine, at the first Independent Label Market we did in the July. He spoke of their plans to create a piece to commemorate Stephen’s family’s long running involvement in the process of die stamping and to raise awareness of his trade as it moves into it’s fourth generation. Greg, Catherine and other close friends worked together to create this fantastic piece, which appeared on the ELP blog just after it’s release last year. Later in the year the film was nominated for a short film award and ended up being screened at BAFTA! The film is beautifully made and shows the true charm of the process and the equipment.
On Tuesday 21st July, father and daughter team Stephen and Catherine Perrott will be joining us to discuss the traditional printing techniques that their family have used for four generations.
Small world eh!
You can see more about Perrott and the upcoming talk here
We hope you can make it along to the talk next Tuesday - it’s free after all!
Artist Talk with Perrott Bespoke Printing, East London Printmakers, 19 Warburton Road, E8 3RT
Inky, dreamy, artwork by Helen Ashton for our Artist Talk next Tuesday
Join us on 21st July, 7.30pm for what will be a fantastic talk with Perrott Bespoke Printing.
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