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Paper Ink Print Festival 2023

The Landmark is launching a new biennial printmaking festival that will champion the art of hand-printmaking, artists' books, and papermaking. The inaugural fair includes a programme of talks, classes and demos, alongside special exhibits and over 50 stands of artists.

Festival Opening Times

Paper Ink Print Festival is open from Friday 17 – Sunday 19 March 2023.

Pay entry once for the whole weekend; just like our other fairs at the Landmark, you only need to pay entry once and keep your catalogue for free re-entry all weekend!

Opening Night is Fri 17th from 4pm – 8pm. Free admission with an invite, or pay on the door.

Weekend hours: Sat 18th & Sun 19th from 10am – 4.30pm. Admission £5, Concessions £4, Under 16s & LAC Friends are Free. BOOK ONLINE NOW

Exhibitors List

Exhibition Area

Lizzie Brewer, a local conceptual artist, who has been invited to show her artists’ book 10 Meters of Mycelium; which is a 10 metre long scroll that has never before been exhibited in its entirety, due to the scale of the work. Lizzie says: “A year was spent working on drawings associated with fungus and mycelium. These were based on some rotting vegetative material which was cultivated over time to produce funghi. Funghi were some of the first complex life forms on land, mining rocks for mineral nourishment, slowly turning them into what would become soil. Mycelium connects trees and plants underground. This ten metre long drawing of mycelium presented as a handscroll expresses the importance of mycelium and the fact that we could not live without it.”

Lizzie will be doing an artists’ talk on Saturday afternoon at 2pm; no booking required – gather by the exhibition space.

Classes / Talks / Demos

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    Thurs 16 March

    Classes:

    Drypoint Printmaking with Gill Smith | 14.30pm – 18.00pm | Adult Tickets: £45.00 inc. all materials & entry to the fair | suitable for beginners

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    Sat 18 March

    Classes:

    Gel Plate Monoprinting with Jess Levine  | 10.00am – 12.00noon| family-focussed session | Tickets: £11 age under 16 / £39.00 age 16+ inc. all materials & entry to the fair | suitable for beginners

    Gel Plate Monoprinting with Jess Levine | 13.00pm – 15.00pm | adult session | Adult Tickets: £39.00 inc. all materials & entry to the fair | suitable for beginners

    Stencil Screen Printing with Daniel Haskett | 09.30am – 13.30pm | anyone over the age of 8, including adults | Tickets: £45.00 inc. some materials & entry to the fair | suitable for beginners

    Demos:

    Demo Area 1
    10am Linocut with Sue Ribbans
    11am Cyanotypes with Jocelyn Horsfall
    12.30pm Suminigashi (Japanese Marbling) with Sarah Amatt
    2pm No demo – Lizzie Brewer Artist’ Talk in Hall
    2.30pm Print a Postcard on a Vintage Press with Frankie Brown

    Demo Area 2
    10am Diorama Creation with recycled materials with Franceska McCullough
    11.30am Kitchen Litho with Simon Burder
    12.30pm Experimenting with printing & mixed media with Laura Reiter
    2pm Printing in miniature – collagraphs printed in a toy mangle with Flora McLachlan
    3pm Relief Print Woodcuts with Loraine Monk

    Talks:

    The Secret Lives of Books with Sarah Bodman | 3pm | Free but booking required.

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    Sun 19 March

    Classes:

    Notebook Bindings with Gill Smith | 10.00am-13.30pm | Adult Tickets: £39.00 inc. all materials & entry to the fair | suitable for beginners

    Collage & Folded Pocket Books with Amy Sterly | 13.00am-12.30pm | Adult Tickets: £25.00 inc. all materials & entry to the fair | suitable for beginners

    Demos:

    Demo Area 1
    10am Printing using Gelli Plate, Alcohol Inks & Dyes with Tricia Torrington
    12noon Cyanotypes with Diane Frost

    Demo Area 2
    10am No demo
    11.30am Intro to Passive Electro-Etching with Hannah Feuerstein
    1pm Lino Stamp & Ink Printing taster with Caroline Fearn
    2pm Wood Engraving with Alexandra Robb
    3.30pm No demo

    Talks:

    Lithography in Britain Today with Oaks Park Printmakers | 3pm | Free but booking required.

    Poetry Readings:

    1.30pm in the Bell Room | Join the Poetics Research Centre and Corrupted Poetry for a Sunday afternoon of readings celebrating the launch of their new anthologies. Readers include Jennifer Militello, Robert Hampson, Richard Price, L Kiew, Astra Papachristodoulou, Briony Hughes, Caroline Harris, Dani Salvadori, Michelle Penn, Cat Chong, Karen Izod, Tamsin Hopkins, Nic Stringer. More info below.

Cabinets

Miranda Kemp graduated from Oxford Polytechnic with a degree in Visual Studies and History of Art, during which she was first introduced to bookbinding. After a short career in visual merchandising and a much longer career teaching art to children, Miranda came back to bookbinding. She has been a student at Studio 5 with Mark Cockram for many years. Miranda is also a keen printmaker using a variety of printing methods including etching, linocut and monotype. She uses her prints for endpapers, book covering and artists’ books.

She was elected as a Licentiate of Designer Bookbinders in 2022 and has won several prizes for her books. Miranda’s bindings are held in several private collections and also at the British Library. She now spends her time working on fine bindings for competitions and commissions.

Poetry Readings

Sunday 19 March from 1.30pm in the Bell Room.

Join the Poetics Research Centre and Corrupted Poetry for a Sunday afternoon of readings celebrating the launch of their new anthologies. Readers include Jennifer Militello, Robert Hampson, Richard Price, L Kiew, Astra Papachristodoulou, Briony Hughes, Caroline Harris, Dani Salvadori, Michelle Penn, Cat Chong, Karen Izod, Tamsin Hopkins, Nic Stringer.

Living With Other People is a collection of ‘poetry and art for indefinite times’ edited by Nic Stringer, Michelle Penn and Fiona Larkin. Corrupted Poetry create readings and collaborations that bring the very best writers of contemporary poetry alongside art and sound content.

Pertinent Actions (Osmosis Press) brings together work by alumni of the innovative and highly regarded Poetic Practice pathway at Royal Holloway, University of London, to mark the 20 years it has been running.