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Leonie Bradley ARE Editor

Printmaker’s Diary

With exciting plans for the year ahead, Merlyn Chesterman RE looks back on a year of  print collaborations and exhibitions

Cuttings

Collaboration  Sonic Landscapes

Exhibition  Rising Tides

Fairs - LOPF - The London Original Print Fair : the 40th Edition - Somerset House 20- 23 March 2025 - Readers Offer

Exhibition   Tizah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious - Dulwich Picture Gallery

Online The Art of Talking - Edinburgh Printmakers

Exhibition  The Future is Today - Mead Gallery Warwick

Exhibition  Mirablia

Book  Meet the Typographer

Extended Practice

Transformed into Sound

Tableau of Memory

Profile

A Hive Mind

Katherine Jones considers the work of Temsuyanger Longkumer whose printmaking practice expands far beyond the perimeters of the etching studio

State of the Art

This year’s entries for our graduate printmaking award were outstanding. The judges would like to congratulate winner, Rachel Shephard, for her unsettling compositions and the precise execution of her printmaking. The judges awarded second place to Elia Vanderheyden and highly commended Hamna Nibras and Milan Radomirovic

Profile

La Forêt Noire

Derek Michael Besant RCA steps into the fairytale world of Anna Jane McIntyre,  where the path soon splits in myriad unexpected and rich ways

Profile

Web of Life

Kevin Petrie, Professor of Creative Practice at the University of Sunderland, uses print to explore  the novels and philosophy of Iris Murdoch, writes Dr Miles Leeson

Artists' Books

On the Road Again

Sarah Bodman speaks to dedicated curator Kestutis Vasiliunas about his ongoing travels with the Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius

Technical

Gypsum Block Prints

Shi Ziyuan explains how she effectively invented her gypsum block print method to create her Celestial Quest series. Translated by Zheng Haiyao

Profile

States of the Nation

The collage-like screenprints of Janet Sang ARE, combining autographic and photographic imagery, take aim at social injustices, writes Gill Saunders

Technical

Eye-tracking Prints

Robert Jackson and Annis Fitzhugh on the diverse scope of print outcomes created with a new iteration of their eye-tracking technology

Technical

Dürer’s Acid

Physicist and printmaker, Dr Susanne Klein researches the etchant recipe that would have most likely been used by Albrecht Dürer

Obituaries

Norman Ackroyd CBE RA (1938–2024)

Adrian Bartlett RE (1939–2024)

Derek Boshier (1937–2024)

Collection

Longiano Collection

Giovanni William Guidi visits the extraordinary collection at Fondazione Tito Balestra, in the small town of Longiano, featuring a wealth of prints

Bookshelf

Ade Adesina RSA RE

Book Reviews

Opportunities

Previews

George Bellows: American Life in Print

Christiane Baumgartner: Sunken Treasure

Tadek Beutlich: On and Off the Loom

Listings

Artist’s Eye

Mbugua Kimani ARE was awarded the Printmaking Today prize at the RE’s Small But Might exhibition for his woodcut Mountain Stream