The return of this popular print selling show with various supporting events:
OPEN DAILY: 10th - 21st Feb ~ 10am - 6pm
PUBLIC EVENT: Sat 11th Feb ~ 5.30pm - onwards
Featuring artist and musician Jeb Loy Nichols.
Q&A: Sun 12th ~ 11am-12.30pm
With Kat Flint, Laura Boswell, Sean Star Wars and Michael Craine from Cranfield Colours. Event will be live streamed.
Bristol Print Social: Sat 18th ~ 6-10pm £5 entry
Giant Lino Printing Event: Sat 18th ~ 11am-3pm
All Hands In, Giant Printmaking Event with Jemma Gunning and Victoria Willmott. (Suitable for Children).
LINOPRINT3 30 nationally and locally recognised linoprint artists.
Exhibition Features:
Ben Dickson, Laura Boswell, Ieuan Edwards, Hugh Ribbans, Mandy Ribbans, Helen Murgatroyd, Eric Gaskell, John Pedder, Bryan Angus, Kat Flint, Nick Morley, Sean Star Wars, Joshua Miles, Mat Pringle, Jo Oakley, Hannah Forward, Jeb Loy Nichols, Alice Mac, Gail Brodholt, Rosanna Morris, Stephen Fowler, Victoria Willmott, Ben Sands, Matthew Lintott, Angie Lewin, Gemma Trickey, Paul Peter Piech, Mark Wilkinson, Lisa Takahashi, Trish Flynn
Local names hang alongside internationally recognised artists in an exhibition which demonstrates the thrilling versatility of linocut art.
Linocut lovers will have the opportunity to see work by prestigious printmakers including Laura Boswell, Nick Morley and Angie Lewin alongside artists who have built impressive followings on social media such as Kat Flint and John Pedder.
While popularly known for pastoral scenes of ploughed fields and soaring swallows, this timely exhibition displays the wild diversity of the medium from the gonzo punk aesthetic of Mississippi printmaker Sean Star Wars and Jeb Loy Nichols’ iconic Americana-influenced works to Angie Lewin’s teasels and reed beds inspired by the salt-marshes of East Anglia and the landscape of her beloved Scotland.
Local artists featured in the show include Bristol-based Rosanna Morris, Victoria Willmott, Matthew Lintott, Stephen Fowler renowned for his primitive DIY printmaking with rubber stamps and roller printing technologies and Lisa Takahashi, the Somerset artist best known for her bold, geometric linocut prints of cyclists.
Beyond offering the opportunity to see some of the best linocut artists working today, LINOPRINT 3 honours the enduring legacies of the late Ben Sands and Ukrainian-American Paul Peter Piech whose powerfully political graphic style still packs a punch 30 years after his death.
LINOPRINT 3 curator and artist Ben Dickson – renowned for his characterful studies of flawed icons from Ian Dury and Hunter S. Thompson to Muhammad Ali – suggests reasons behind the huge rise of interest in the art-form:
“Linocut art offers a ragged refuge from the ephemeral sheen of our increasingly digital world. The tactile and imperfect nature of the medium channels a beautifully messy world and the imperfections that make us human. While some may be initially attracted by the apparent simplicity of this medium - Nick Morley (AKA Linocut Boy) has occasionally been known to cut and then print his lino with his mother-in-laws jam spoon! - LINOCUT 3 celebrates the surprising versatility of this handcrafted art-form from the graphic impact of simple shapes and colour blocks to works of stunning complexity.”
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