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Nov 9
1 min

Prints for Presents winter exhibition

Our new show at our Greenwich gallery is due to reopen on December 3, after the lockdown, but you can have a sneak peek in the meantime.

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Oct 10
9 min

Behind the print: "Cuttings from Athens"

Ruairi Fallon McGuigan talks about reduction woodcut techniques, making chessboards and being selected for the RA Summer Exhibition 2020.

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Sep 20
6 min

Behind the print: "Lockdown Morning"

Bethany Marett uses print, sculpture and photography to explore the body and the gaze. She talks about her new reduction woodcut.

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Sep 5
5 min

Behind the print: "Hope"

Tammy Mackay’s animal and bird prints are richly layered with meaning. She talks about her new series, "Hope" and "Fear".

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Aug 4
6 min

Behind the print: "Daily Express Building"

Peter Luty combines artistic and technical drawing in his linocuts of buildings.

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Jul 23
3 min

Behind the print: "Colour Combinations"

Olivia Krimpas talks about using colour to create prints that look very different from the same plates in her "Colour Combinations" series.

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Mar 10
4 min

Behind the print: "The Picnickers"

Jennie Ing talks about how she made her reduction linocut "The Picnickers", which captures a perfect summer evening she didn't want to end.

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Mar 2
3 min

Behind the print: “When the Honey Wind Blows”

Clare Grossman talks about using colour, scale and experimentation to create a sense of nature’s power in her new monotype etching series.

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Jan 15
1 min

Barbican 40x40 exhibition comes home to Greenwich Printmakers

If you missed our special 40x40 prints at the Barbican in December, you have another chance to see them at Greenwich Printmakers Gallery.

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Dec 3, 2019
3 min

A gallery through time

Greenwich Printmakers is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2019. Here are just a few of the key events in our history.

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Dec 3, 2019
1 min

40x40: A Celebration of Print

Our landmark exhibition runs at the Barbican Library until December 31 and marks our 40th anniversary with a showcase of 40cm x 40cm prints.

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Oct 15, 2019
2 min

Greenwich Printmakers at the Affordable Art Fair

Greenwich Printmakers will be at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea this week, and we have some digital codes for free entry.

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Aug 28, 2019
3 min

Inspired @ Watts Contemporary Gallery (Part 4)

In the final week of Greenwich Printmakers at 40, more of our artists reveal how and why they made their new prints for the show.

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Aug 28, 2019
2 min

Behind the print: "Mary's Chapel"

Bethany Marett shares how she was inspired by the architectural achievement of another woman artist, Mary Watts, to create her new linocut.

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Aug 22, 2019
3 min

Behind the print: "Chapel on the Hill"

Ann Burnham on how a brief to create a Surrey-inspired print for Watts Contemporary Gallery led her to explore a new approach to linocut.

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Aug 21, 2019
3 min

Inspired @ Watts Contemporary Gallery (Part 2)

Four more of our artists share the thought process behind the new prints they made for Watts Contemporary Gallery.

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Aug 14, 2019
1 min

Behind the print: "Beneath the Woods"

Jennifer Jokhoo explains how she made her reduction linocut "Beneath the Woods", which is in our show at the Watts Contemporary Gallery.

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Aug 10, 2019
3 min

Inspired @ Watts Contemporary Gallery

Many of us made new work in response to the Watts collection and its setting. Three artists share what inspired their very different prints.

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Jul 27, 2019
0 min

Film of our show at Watts Contemporary by That's Surrey TV

That's Surrey TV went to Watts Contemporary Gallery near Guildford to find out about Greenwich Printmakers' exhibition there.

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Jun 21, 2019
1 min

Celebrating 40 years!

On now, our exhibition to celebrate 40 years of Greenwich Printmakers is at Watts Contemporary at Watts Gallery - Artists' Village in Com...

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