January 2012
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A Talk by Mike Taylor of The Paupers Press
A Talk by Mike Taylor
of The Paupers Press
Mike Taylor who runs The Paupers Press, a fine art print and publishing studio based in London www.pauperspublications.com will be visiting ELP to talk about his studio. He will give a brief history on the development of the studio but the main focus will be about the projects that the press have worked on.
Mike has worked with artists such as...
November 2011
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Festive Open Studios ~ 2011
It’s that time of year again… the Festive Open Studios - which is on Sunday 11 December this year. A group of ELP artists will be selling their prints, cards, printed cushions etc on that day. There will be warming mulled wine and tasty nibbles to enjoy in a sparkly studio - so get into the festive spirit and come along and have a browse, sip some wine and maybe even buy some early...
June 2011
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ELP workshop: Advanced linocut portrait
Workshop leader Aiste Ramunaite
“In this workshop we learn how to use linocut techniques to capture the spirit and character of our subject. A portrait usually conveys something hidden in the visual sense, the history of a person, their secret or emotional life. How do you reveal and represent these hidden aspects and blend them with the mirror’s ‘reality’? The Portrait linocut workshop...
February 2011
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Printmaking workshops in Italy this summer
This summer artists from East London Printmakers will be running a wide variety of workshops in Italy. Situated in a medieval castle near Rimini, Opificio della Rosa is a printmaking studio dedicated to low environmental impact techniques whilst facilitating traditional and innovative printmaking methods. The techniques being taught include woodcut, photopolymer and photoetching, linocut,...
December 2010
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ELP Wayzgoose party 2010
The East London Printmakers wayzgoose took place on the 4th December in the studio. Around 20 members attended and helped to print the ‘exquisite corpse’ linocut - a joint effort comprising 24 separate lino blocks which joined up to make one large print. Thanks to Peter Rapp for organising the printing and Sue Corke and Katja Rosenberg for organising the party, which including an...
November 2010
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ELP BOX launch party
Last night’s launch party for the 2010 box set was a great success. We had big crowds thanks to being part of the First Thursdays event, which happens once a month when galleries across the East End open their doors late into the night.
On display were 31 brand new prints from this year’s box set and prints from the previous three years were available to buy at a special price of...
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ELP BOX 2010 Launch
Box Set 2010 is now on display at 242 Gallery, just a short walk from the studio. This year’s set is the most diverse and ambitious yet and for the first time there was no fixed image size, which gives it a much more varied feel.
Each print is available individually for £40 and the full set of 31 prints is £950. All proceeds from sales go to ELP and will be put towards future projects...
October 2010
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ELP Box Set 2010
Over the last few weeks ELP members have been busy editioning their box set prints for this year. The boxes will be put together next Tuesday ready for the launch at 242 Gallery on 3rd - 8th November. Here are a couple of photos to whet your appetites…
Wuon Gean Ho editioning her screenprint
Wuon Gean’s prints in the racks
Box sets wrapped and ready to be collated
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New ELP studio photos
Had a big tidy up today - I think the studio’s looking great. These are my attempts to take some arty photos around the studio…
July 2010
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East London Printmakers in Space - exhibition
Triangle Gallery, Space, 129 Mare Street, London E8
16th-21st July 2010
www.elpexhibitions.weebly.com
This summer, ELP celebrated its twelfth year with a group show at the Triangle Gallery in Hackney, next door to the ELP studio. Exciting new work was shown by nearly 50 artist printmakers.
The exhibition was a great success, attracting many visitors, both to the private view and throughout...
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ELP and Friends Fete & Steamroller print - photos
The East London Printmakers and Friends Fete and the Giant Linocut Steam Roller Printing event was last weekend and both were great successes. The events were timed to coincide with ‘ELP in Space’ - the annual members’ exhibition, which was shown this year at the Triangle Gallery at Space, right next to the studio. You can see the works in the exhibition here.
We had twenty...
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Giant Linocut update
More photos of our giant linocut in development and the steam roller we are going to use to print it on Saturday! Come along to the fete to see it in action (see post below)
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Giant Linocut Steamroller print
Here at the ELP studio we have been working on a giant linocut which we will be printing at our fete on the 17th July (see the previous post). The linocut is in four parts and will measure 24ft x 18in (about 7.3m x 45cm). We will print it using a steamroller (or a roadroller as they’re called nowadays) as this has been done successfully by other studios and should make for an interesting...
June 2010
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ELP and Friends Fete - 17th July, 12 - 6pm
East London Printmakers and Friends invite you to our summer fete. Join us for an afternoon of food, art, games, music and printing activities. 12pm to 6pm
Giant linocut printing with a steam roller Tea and Cakes Print your own bag Make your own nipple tassles Masked table tennis tournament Buy prints, cards, books etc from ELP members Face painting GUEST STALLS: Material
Badge-making, gin and...
March 2010
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Chris Pig Master Workshop - Printing large linocut...
For the first of this year’s East London Printmakers Master Workshops, member Chris Pig gave a demonstration of inking up and printing linocuts by hand. Chris Pig’s own linocuts are enormous and take months and sometimes years to carve.
Rolling up the ink.
One of Chris’s large blocks inked up and ready to print.
The paper is held in position at one end with sandbags
As...
November 2009
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ELP Christmas Open Studios: 12th/13th December
This year we will be holding our Christmas Open Studio event on the weekend of the 12th and 13th December. Come along and get yourselves some beautiful original prints direct from the artists, enjoy a glass of mulled wine and a crepe or a mince pie and find out about our programme of workshops, open access, artist residencies and exhibitions.
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Inaugural ELP Wayzgoose 2009
This year we decided to organise a festive party for ELP members in the form of a Wayzgoose. This is a traditional party for members of the printing trade with a lot of drinking going on and a small printed item is made by everyone to keep as a memento of the occasion. We decided to print our design onto canvas bags so we would have something not just beautiful but useful too (rather like our...
October 2009
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September 2009
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OPEN IMPACT exhibition and conference, Bristol
East London Printmakers recently took part in an exhibition deisgned ‘to showcase curated work which will exemplify the very best in contemporary, multi disciplinary print’. The exhibition took place at Spike Print Studio in Bristol alongside the 6th international IMPACT conference on printmaking.
For the exhibition, ELP produced a portfolio of 16 prints in an edition of 20. Each...
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July 2009
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Talk by Michael Goro, ELP Artist in Residence
Michael Goro is the third visiting artist to take up residency at the ELP studio. Brought up in Soviet Russia, Michael is now based in the USA. He has lived and worked all over the world and has won multiple awards internationally.
Michael presented a selection of his prints, which combine etching, engraving, drypoint and photo-etching techniques. His large-scale, powerful images of the urban...
June 2009
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The Colour of Summer
A one day master workshop facilitated by our resident artist Liz Jackson. We spent the day mixing ink, to contribute to a collection of colours named by East London Printmaker’s members. And best of all we all get to keep a copy of the first volume of Atelier Jackson’s Colour of Summer Series.
May 2009
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April 2009
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February 2009
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