Listings and Opportunities
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- please send your information to: listings@cellopress.co.uk by the 1 Feb 2025.
AWARDS, PRIZES AND COMPETITIONS
AHPCS PUBLICATION
AWARDS
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The AHPCS encourages
the collection, preservation, study and exhibition of prints depicting or
reflecting North American history and culture, made either in America or
elsewhere. The purpose of the awards is to recognise and encourage outstanding
scholarship in the field, as defined in our mission statement. Essays between
3,000 and 10,000 words will be considered. Works should be submitted in
published form as a hard copy or digital attachment. Jurors are all AHPCS
members and include collectors, curators and scholars of American prints. To
submit material to the committee for consideration, please post a copy to:
Helena E. Wright, 4628 49th Street NW, Washington, DC 20016. For additional information,
please contact the Committee chair at: wrighthelena16@gmail.com
DEADLINE: 1 DEC
LETTING IN THE LIGHT
Liverpool Book Art, Printmaking
Today and the Society of Wood Engravers, in partnership with Kirkby Gallery,
are co-curating an exhibition of book arts exploring the theme ‘Letting in the
Light’. The theme is to be interpreted widely. Artists may submit existing
works that fit the theme and the curators will also accept proposals for work.
Full details will be available from mid-October when the call out opens. Entry
will be via CuratorSpace (curatorspace.com). The exhibition is open to all
mediums. It is a selling show and there will be opportunities for artists to
run workshops. It is anticipated that the show will run for four months from
April 2025 at Kirkby Gallery, Knowsley, concurrent with the Society of Wood
Engravers’ 87th Annual Exhibition.
DEADLINE: 12 JAN 2025
87TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
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Well-renowned,
touring exhibition of relief works now in its 87th year. All forms of relief
print are eligible, including relief prints incorporating elements of collage
or mixed media. In previous years, wood engravings have accounted for about
three-quarters of the exhibition, but each work is chosen on its own merits.
All works must be unframed with a maximum image size of 600 x 600mm, or the
equivalent area. This is a touring exhibition, no print may be removed from the
exhibition until the tour is over. Prints will be digitised for inclusion on
the SWE’s website and images may be used for publicity (e.g. on websites of
galleries visited during the tour). A commission of 50% will be deducted on all
gallery and website sales. Minimum print price is £75. Prizes include the
Rachel Reckitt Open Prize of £1000 for a British or Commonwealth engraver as
well as the Bewick Prize of £100 awarded by The Bewick Society. Entry form
including fees and guidance can be downloaded from website.
DEADLINE: 28 SEP
STATE OF THE ART 2024
Printmaking Today’s prize
for 2024 graduates. The prize is an editorial feature in the magazine. To apply
please send:
• 3 jpegs of your work
(at least 300dpi)
• Caption for each
work including title, year, medium and dimensions
• Statement about the
works submitted (up to 500 words)
• One-page CV
• Please clearly state
MA/BA course title & university
Please put ‘State of
the Art’ in the subject line and send to the Editor:
leonie_bradley@cellopress.co.uk
DEADLINE: 15 SEP
EXHIBITIONS
BUMP IV BALIKESIR
UNIVERSITY MAIL PRINT
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A free mail print
exchange run by Balikesir University Mail Print International on the topic of
‘Sea and Human’. Printmakers can participate with a maximum of two works with a
paper size of A4. All original printmaking processes are eligible except for
monoprint. All participants will receive a participation certificate and if
selected by jury will feature in the catalogue. Works entered are donations and
will not be returned. Application address: Balikesir University, Faculty of
Fine Arts, Department of Printmaking, Cagis Campus, 10145, Balikesir/Turkey.
Email: bakisanatlari@balikesir.edu.tr.
DEADLINE: 11 OCT
6TH UKRANIAN PRINT
EXCHANGE
NAPAPERI printmaking
studio located in Kyiv, Ukraine is extending an invitation for printmakers
worldwide to participate in the 6th Ukrainian Print Exchange 2024. UPE was
founded in 2016 by Ira Gvozdyk with the hopes of supporting the development of
printmaking in Ukraine. Printmakers of
all skill levels are encouraged to submit an edition of 14 original,
handprinted works in exchange for an assortment of 12 different prints by other
participants. Two prints from each edition will be kept by NAPAPERI: one to be
archived as part of our permanent collection and one for exhibition in Gallery
83, Kyiv. Exhibited prints will be available for purchase. There is a
participation fee of 200 UAH for Ukrainian artists and 20 euros for everyone
else (to cover postal charges).
DEADLINE: 30 OCT
INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL
PRINT EXHIBITION
The Royal Society of
Painter-Printmakers’ annual, international open call exhibition celebrating the
best in contemporary printmaking. This year’s judges include: Gill Saunders
(former Senior Curator of Prints, V&A and writer), Johanna Lover (artist
and MA Printmaking Leader, Camberwell College of Art) and Sam McKechnie
(artist, doll-maker and writer). Selected works will be exhibited at Bankside
Gallery, London from 7–17 November 2024. A wealth of prizes are on offer,
including an editorial feature in Printmaking Today. Entry fee is £16 per
print, up to six prints, with a reduced rate for students of £12 per print.
Note that judges will accept up to three prints per artist. All forms of
original printmaking are eligible – no reproductions. Prints must have been
made in the past three years and must not have been previously selected for any
RE open submission exhibitions. Entry is online via the platform Zealous.
DEADLINE: MIDNIGHT 16
SEPT
FAIRS
LEICESTER PRINT WORKSHOP
Applications for
Leicester Print Workshop’s annual Print Fair are now open. The application form
can be found on our website, via email info@leicesterprintworkshop.com or pop
into the workshop. Stalls are £85 for both days for non-members or £75 if
you’re already member with us. The Print Fair run for two days from 9–10
November, 10am–4pm.
DEADLINE: MIDNIGHT 20
SEPT
WEST YORKSHIRE PRINT WORKSHOP:
ZINE & PRINT FAIR
Applications are open
for a stall at the WYPW Zine and Print Fair. All zine, artists books, etching,
monoprint, screen print, bookbinding, calligraphy, linocut, lithograph,
risograph, typograph, letterpress, Risograph and any other print using
traditional and non-traditional printmaking techniques are eligible.
Applications are open to individuals, collectives, small independent publishers
and students. Fees: full size stall: £30, 180 (W) x 75cm (D), full size stalls
have space for two people to sit comfortably behind. Half-size stall: £15, 90
(W) x 75cm (D). The fair takes no commission, stallholders keep 100% of all
sales. The fair will be held on Saturday 19 Oct, 10.30am–3.30pm at WYPW on
Huddersfield Piazza.
DEADLINE: MIDNIGHT 25
SEP
MEMBERSHIPS
Membership
applications welcome. Greenwich Printmakers Association sells members’ original
prints from its gallery at: 1a Greenwich Market SE10 9HZ. If you are a
London-based printmaker willing to help run the association and to invigilate
in the gallery once every five weeks, then please apply.
DEADLINE: ONGOING
ROYAL SOCIETY OF
PAINTER-PRINTMAKERS
The RE holds an annual
election for professional artists who would like to join the Society and enjoy
the benefits of being a member, which include regular exhibitions at Bankside
Gallery plus many other national and international opportunities. The Society
seeks practising printmakers based in the UK and internationally to join a
membership which reflects excellence in printmaking and celebrates printmaking
as an art form in all its diversity. Artists are shortlisted from a digital
pre-selection and will be notified by 19 December 2024. Shortlisted artists
will be invited to submit their portfolios for review by the Council on 1
February 2025 with results and collection of portfolios on 2 February 2025.
DEADLINE: MIDDAY, 11
NOV
RESIDENCIES
TALLER LA CHALUPA
Printmaking workshop
in Patagonia (Puerto Cisnes, Aysén region) offering residency for graphic
artists from all over the world. This residency includes technical support and
encourages working collaboratively with current residents. The residency boasts
individual or collective programmes that link bioculturality, situated
knowledge, expanded interdisciplinary practices and graphic arts, through a
series of instances specially designed to facilitate reflection and provide a
creative, dialogic and welcoming environment for those who develop their
artistic projects in this space. The duration of residencies available is
flexible, adapting to the needs of the artists. For more information, please
email tallerlachalupa@gmail.com
DEADLINE: ONGOING
TWO CENTS PRESS
Two Cents Press is a
printmaking residency for artists who wish to work in an extraordinary natural
setting in the quiet and beauty of the Tuscan countryside. Residents are housed
in independent apartments in the village of Serrazzano, southwest of Volterra,
with full access to a professional printmaking workshop fully equipped for all
intaglio techniques, a B&W darkroom and – in progress – a letterpress
workshop. Daily fee of €130 covers the accommodation in one independent
apartment in Villa Beltrami (adjacent to the printmaking studio) and the use of
the printmaking studios for one person. Additional guests (friends/family) are
welcome.
DEADLINE: ONGOING