http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/ The latest Blog feeds from www.londonprintstudio.org.uk en-us Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:26:26 +0100 Rocketspark http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/post/12553/justice-for-grenfell-poster/ ... Wed, 18 Nov 2020 10:38:07 +0000 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/#post12553 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/post/12250/closing-down-sale-october-20--24-11am-3pm/ The print studio and shop in West London have closed, and we're having a sale in our gallery.  Our closing down sale is from: Wednesday 21st of October to Saturday 24th October  (11am to 3pm) only Our gallery shop has artisan produced gifts, cards, prints and books. We will be heavily discounting items from our shop for those who are able to visit our building in West London. There are huge reductions on small gifts, cards, prints and books. Get ahead of the Christm... Sat, 17 Oct 2020 13:04:27 +0100 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/#post12250 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/post/10752/Rorkes-Drift-and-Printmaking-in-Southern-Africa/ Rorke’s Drift is a battle site of great importance.  Located in Zulu Natal, it is also significant for South African printmaking. In 1948 the National Party gained control of the British Colony of South Africa and established a statebased on racist ideas - apartheid.  In March 1960 56 people were killed and 200 injured at the Sharpsville ‘Massacre’ in which the South African police opened fire on an anti apartheid  demonstration. This event galvanized international public o... Fri, 08 May 2020 12:04:50 +0100 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/#post10752 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/post/10561/Museums-and-Galleries-to-visit-digitally--A-VR-visit-to-Crystal-Bridges-Museum-of-American-Art-Arkansas/ Under lockdown, techniques of displaying art digitally have been under discussion - from gallery viewing rooms to museum virtual reality tours. Under the 'new normal', travel is likely to be very restricted. Is it possible to do more than present individual artworks with a simple narrative, as we see so often when exploring museums digitally? And when museums do try do more  with VR - is it successful? In this edition, we're visiting Crystal Bridges Museum who are developing an interesting ... Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:08:01 +0100 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/#post10561 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/post/10559/COVID-19-Lockdown--Books-we-now-have-time-to-read/ Mouth Full of Blood Essays, Speeches, Meditations  by Toni MorrisonIncluding eulogies on Martin Luther King and James Baldwin, this collection of essays, speeches and meditations spans 40 years of recent history. Nobel prize winner Toni Morrison's novels  'Beloved ' and 'The Song of Solomon' have become touchstones for generations of readers.Vintage, 2020Barkskins by Annie ProulxIn the late seventeenth century two young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrivein New France.... Wed, 15 Apr 2020 10:16:52 +0100 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/#post10559 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/post/10434/Museums-and-Galleries-to-visit-digitally--Bauhaus-at-Dessau/   Many galleries and museums are providing digital resources during the COVID- 19 crisis. Google has provided us with new digital experiences of major galleries. Not quite the same as visiting the real thing - but an escape route, nonetheless.  The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in Germany is an exciting place to start our digital visits. It is difficult to underestimate the impact of Bauhaus on the worlds of art and design, with an extraordinary range of tutors and students during the scho... Tue, 31 Mar 2020 11:38:18 +0100 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/#post10434 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/post/10431/Books-we-now-have-time-to-read/ As part of our Creative BLOCK  / COVID 19 schedule, in each  Creative BLOCK edition we are featuring books recommended by our staff. John Phillips’ choice:- The Woman Who Discovered PrintingT H Barrett, Yale University Press, 2008 You won’t have wanted to have gotten onto the wrong side of Wu Zetian. She chopped her female rivals into small pieces and cast them into the Yellow River. But to give her due credit, she most probably invented printing seven hundred years befor... Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:19:50 +0100 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/#post10431 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/post/10430/Handprinting-Relief-Blocks-at-Home/ If you’re thinking about new visual art skills and interests to pursue, relief printing athome is an option you might want to try. Unlike most other printing processes itrequires few tools, little space, and, so long as you persuade your pet cat not to getinvolved, it isn’t messy.The process is akin to potato printing. You cut away areas from a flat surface andprint directly from the raised surface that remains. Remember whatever you draw orwrite will flip horizontally when printed. So ‘HE... Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:42:32 +0100 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/#post10430 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/post/10428/Isolation-and-the-Themerson-Legacy/ My friend Peter Mayer had a dual nature.  He was a poet and a hoarder. The poet championed ruthless eviction ‘if in doubt, cut it out’. The hoarder was beyond my league.  (And I’m someone who even stores the fallen petals of dead flowers - just in case…). His house was a miscellany of jewels and junk. One day, as I excitedly recalled discovering Gaberbocchus Press by stumbling upon a copy of Jarry’s Ubu Roi (illustrated by Franciszka Themerson), Peter dashed from th... Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:15:12 +0100 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/#post10428 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/post/10385/Interview-with-Susan-Stockwell/ Susan Stockwell is a contemporary British artist, described as a sculptor who makes subtly political work about materials and their inherent content and histories, with injustice and inequality as overarching themes. Her work addresses political, social, ecological and feminist issues, using her trademark motifs and metaphors of maps, stacks, dresses, money, recycled computer components and other everyday materials and products.... Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:13:36 +0000 http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/blog/#post10385