Dry Point Graphic ArtBiennial, Uzice, Serbia 2013

Simonida Radonjic (drypoint) The City Gallery of Uzice, (Serbia) is the founder and organizer of the 11th Graphic Art Biennial  Dry Point 2013. At the 11th Graphic Biennial the selected prints will be exhibited  in two gallery locations. Only works in dry point technique (maximum size: 80 x 112 cm) shall be exhibited. Submitted works should be of a high professional standard.  A catalogue book,  of the selected and exhibited prints will be produced and send to those artists. Each artist can send a maximum of 2  original prints. International jury will make selection of the works. no entry fee closing date is at the end of April 2013 for further information: http://www.drypoint.org

PRINTMAKERS ‘OPEN STUDIO’ EVENT 1st December 2012

Start your Christmas shopping with a visit to Fife Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop, Nethertownbroad Street, Dunfermline on Saturday 1 December and be amazed at the range of unique artworks,  cards and other printed products that you’ll find for sale.  
 Fife+ Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop

The Basement,

Dell Farquharson Community Centre,

Netherton Broad St.

Dunfermline, Fife,

KY12 7DS

The workshop will be open 

from noon until 4pm.

This year visitors will also have the chance to purchase prints from the workshop’s most recent collaborative venture 20:20 Print Exchange.  The initiative started in 2009 as a project between Hot Bed Press in Salford and Red Hot Press in Southampton.  This year the exchange involved 392 artists from 30 print studios from across the UK and Ireland producing a staggering 9,800 prints.  Every artist that takes part is asked to produce an edition of 25 prints and in return they receive a boxed set of 20 randomly selected prints (including their own).   Ten artists from Dunfermline Print Workshop took part.  We’ll be selling off prints from this exchange to raise funds for the workshop.  There are only one of each so first customers get the pick of the bunch.

Chair of the workshop Steve Ratomski said: “We were really pleased to be part of this initiative and hope to exhibit the 20:20 Print Exchange in Dunfermline later in the year.  In the meantime people can get a preview of the work and buy some original artwork for their home at a very reasonable price.
“I’m also delighted to announce that several of our members are exhibiting in the Royal Scottish Academy’s Open Exhibition taking place in Edinburgh in the run up to Christmas.  This is the most prestigious open-submission exhibition for small works in Scotland and shows the calibre of artist Dunfermline workshop attracts.”

Refreshments will also be on offer including mulled wine and mince pies so make sure you bring your friends and family, and a driver!


  

PRINT WORKSHOP PARTICIPATES IN OPEN STUDIO EVENT TO CELEBRATE ART AND CULTURE

Fife Dunfermline Print Workshop is opening its doors to visitors this weekend and next, as part of a new Central Fife Open Studios project to celebrate and recognise the breadth of culture and art in our communities.   The workshop will be open this weekend (11th and 12th August) and the following (18th and 19th) between 12 noon and 4 pm.  It is located in the basement of the Dell Farquharson Community Centre,  Nethertown Broad Street, Dunfermline,  just a short walk from Pittencrieff Park and Dunfermline Town railway station.

The Open Studio event  allows people to visit the studio space normally  open to members of the workshop only and to see first hand the highly specialised printing presses which are used to create etchings, linocuts, screenprints and much more.  As well as seeing the presses, visitors will also have the opportunity to talk to artists about their work and buy very affordable original prints editioned in Dunfermline - screenprints, monoprints, etchings and collographs.

Workshop members and Dunfermline residents; Steve Ratomski and Aine Scannell are also individually,  opening up their own studios as part of this Central Fife Open Studios event.

 Visit their web site links below, for further information

 Steve Ratomski  http://www.steveratomski.co.uk/ 

 Aine Scannell   http://www.ainescannell.com   

For a full list of artists taking part in the Central Fife Open Studios and how to find them go to: 

http://centralfifeopenstudios.moonfruit.com/ 

For further information please contact: Stephen Ratomski on 01383 724050 or 07941 341999

For further information about the Buckhaven Beehive contact Linda Judge on 01592 591248

OPEN STUDIOS at FDPW August 2012

http://www.fifedunfermlineprintmakers.org

email:  

enquiries@fifedunfermlineprintmakers.org

What to do with all of those reject prints + drawings?

This image is of a hardback accordion format book -it is NOT difficult to make

Well if you have been meaning to do something or other with them then maybe making them into a sketchbook might be an idea or as a  small notebook to give to a friend as a gift.

I received something like this last year from  Angela Heidemann and I really treasure it -  it is a thing of beauty  - too nice to write something in. Angela made this I believe on a artists book course she participated in last year.   Annoyingly I can not locate the photo I took of Angelas book binding which I customized .............and embossed.

Susie Wilson artists books

Please click on the COURSES  tab in the navigation bar at the top of this blog

or have a  LOOK in the courses section for information concerning the forthcoming artists book/ book binding course being taught soon at FDPW by Edinburgh based artist Susie Wilson.

This looks so perfect, doesn't it  - it's called Coptic /link stitch binding.  

Essentially though, its  bundles of folded bits of paper that have been simply stitched together.

Then they have been lined up,  one on top of the other and thereafter  they are kind of 'chain linked' together using stitches.

More info on book art................where to begin?................. .well I had a look around and though that this Squidoo lens put together by an artist called Nicola Joy was rather good.
It has a glossary as well as online tutorials and video links.  It ends with books that she recommends.
http://www.squidoo.com/bookbinding101

The book I have which I find I go to again and again because of its excellent illustrations of the steps involved in the various binding techniques is "Bookworks" by Sue Doggett.  Here's a photo of one of the pages from the book I found on the web - to give you a sense of what I mean.