Listings and Opportunities

For FREE entries in the Listings and Opportunities Sections of the Autumn (2024) Issue of Printmaking Today - for exhibitions, events and opportunities planned for September, October and November 2024 

 - please send your information to: listings@cellopress.co.uk  by the 1 August 2024. 

AWARDS, PRIZES AND COMPETITIONS

IRONBRIDGE FINE ARTS
ironbridgeframing.co.uk

UK-based printmakers only: an annual printmaking competition illuminating the diverse spectrum of printmaking techniques, encompassing both traditional and contemporary methods and providing a platform to honour and celebrate excellence in printmaking. 

Includes the opportunity to win a Gunning printing press and a subscription to Printmaking Today. All successful applicants will be showcased in a 10-week exhibition. Students will enjoy discounted entries and five students will have their work framed for free by Ironbridge Fine Arts. 

The entry fee is £20 per artwork. Student and Under 25’s entries £15.00 per artwork. Criteria: Any printmaking process with a maximum framed size 70 x 70cm. Submit your application to the OLIST site.

DEADLINE: MIDNIGHT 30 JUN

PETER REDDICK BURSARY AWARD 2024-2025
spikeprintstudio.org/peter-reddick-bursary-award/

New graduate award in relief printmaking for a bursary worth £2,500. The panel are particularly interested in graduates who are innovative and experimental whilst using the oldest of techniques. The bursary is for one year and awards membership to the studio with full support in studio and online, learning opportunities and professional development and an end of bursary award exhibition in September 2025. 

Award includes:

• Studio induction 

• 1 year professional membership

• 24 hour access to studio

• £300 materials credit

• £350 Classes/workshops of choice 

• Professional development sessions x 3

• Exhibit WIP at Spike Island Open Studios 2025

• End of Bursary Exhibition in studio or elsewhere as agreed. September 2025

Application form available from website.

DEADLINE: 30 JUN

STATE OF THE ART 2024

Printmaking Today’s prize for 2024 graduates. The prize is an editorial feature in the magazine. To apply please send:

• 3 jpegs of your work (at least 300dpi)

• Caption for each work including title, year, medium and dimensions

• Statement about the works submitted (up to 500 words)

• One-page CV

• Please clearly state MA/BA course title & university

Please put ‘State of the Art’ in the subject line and send to the Editor: leonie_bradley@cellopress.co.uk

DEADLINE: 15 SEP

EXHIBITIONS

6TH UKRANIAN PRINT EXCHANGE
gallery83.space/upe-en

NAPAPERI printmaking studio locating in Kyiv, Ukraine is extending an invitation for printmakers worldwide to participate in the 6th Ukrainian Print Exchange 2024. UPE was founded in 2016 by Ira Gvozdyk with the hopes of supporting the development of printmaking in Ukraine. 

Printmakers of all skill levels are encouraged to submit an edition of 14 original handprinted works in exchange for an assortment of 12 different prints by other participants. Two prints from each edition will be kept by NAPAPERI: one to be archived as part of our permnent collection and one for exhibition in Gallery83, Kyiv, Ukraine. (www.gallery83.space). Exhibited prints will be made available for purchase. 

There is a participation fee of 200 UAH for Ukrainian artists and 20 euros for everyone else (to cover postal charges).

DEADLINE: 30 OCT

VII INTERNATIONAL MINI PRINT CANTABRIA, THE SEA AND THE LIGHTHOUSES AWARD
miniprintcantabria.es/en/rules

The award is open to all printmaking disciplines, including digitally printed artwork and monotype. The general theme is The Sea and the Lighthouses, but this does not imply that the artwork must be figurative. All kinds of aesthetic languages are acceptable. 

The image and the paper must not exceed 20 x 20cm. There is no minimum image or paper size. You can submit up to 3 artworks. Awards: 1st Prize: €4000, 2nd Prize: €1500, 3rd Prize: €500 and Mar Cantábrico Award: €500. Exhibition: 1 Sept–31 Dec 2024 in Santander, Spain

DEADLINE: 31 JULY 

171 ANNUAL OPEN EXHIBITION   
rwa.org.uk/

The Royal West of England Academy holds an Annual Open Exhibition, now in its 171st year. We welcome all kinds of artwork and expect to include painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, film, sculpture, architecture and more by artists ranging from leading professionals to emerging talent, from across the UK and beyond. 

Maximum of three artwork entries. First or Single Entry Price: £22.00. Additional Entries: £22.00 per artwork up to three artworks. Discount for students. Both rounds of selection for this year’s Annual Open will take place online. Artists will be notified after the second round of selection and will be required to deliver their works if selected to the RWA. 

DEADLINE: 7 JUL

GREENWICH PRINTMAKERS
greenwichprintmakers.co.uk

Membership applications welcome. Greenwich Printmakers Association sells members’ original prints from its gallery at: 1a Greenwich Market SE10 9HZ. If you are a London-based printmaker willing to help run the association and to invigilate in the gallery once every five weeks, then please apply.

DEADLINE: ONGOING 

OPEN CALL FOR PRINTS
theoverwinteringproject.com

New Zealand and Australian artists only are invited to contribute to the Overwintering Project Print Portfolio. Artists are asked to contribute two prints on paper 280 x 280mm from an edition of any size made in response to their local migratory shorebirds and shorebird habitat. The Overwintering Project is a multi-faceted art project designed to raise awareness and funds for migratory shorebirds, their habitat and their research and conservation by BirdLife Australia. For details please email overwinteringproject@gmail.com.

DEADLINE: ONGOING

STAND OUT PRINTS
highpointprintmaking.org/

Highpoint Center for Printmaking is excited to announce the sixth installment of Stand Out Prints, the biannual international juried print exhibition. Opening in the autumn of 2024, this exhibition will fill Highpoint’s 1,000+ square foot gallery space with select impressions of contemporary printmaking. 

Artists must be 18 years of age or older and work must have been completed since 2020. While non-traditional and/or digital output is accepted as a print element, submissions must use one or more traditional print techniques (lithography, relief, intaglio, screenprinting, monotype, letterpress, etc.). Three-dimensional work may be submitted. 

Work may not exceed 48” in any direction. International artists are encouraged to apply. This is an exhibition of unframed work, work must arrive unframed. Work will be displayed behind glass cut to paper size (unless otherwise required). Application fee: $30 (students may apply with a reduced rate of $20).

DEADLINE: 27 JUN

RESIDENCIES

SLOW DOWN TIME
radal.ar/

Taller Radal short printmaking residency programme for training, improvement and creation in print. An artist-run space, printmaking studio and artist-in-residence program. Applications are open for January, February and March 2025. Duration: 2 weeks or 3 weeks. 

Taller Radal offers a short residency program in Villa los Coihues, near Lake Gutiérrez. Located 40 minutes from the city of Bariloche. Lodging in a private studio with a bathroom. A 12 m2 bedroom with a double bed, bathroom, kitchen, washing machine, sheets and towels. 24-hour access to the printmaking studio located on the first floor of the dormitory. For one person: €300 (for 14 nights) €30 the extra night. For two people: €400 (for 14 nights) €40 the extra night. 

DEADLINE: 30 JUN

TWO CENTS PRESS
twocentspress.com

TwoCentsPress is a residency printmakers favored for artists who wish to work in an extraordinary natural setting in the quiet and the beauty of the Tuscan countryside. Two Cents Press residents are housed in independent apartments in the village of Serrazzano, southwest of Volterra, with full access to a professional printmaking workshop fully equipped for all intaglio techniques, a B&W darkroom and – in progress – a letterpress workshop. 

Daily fee of €130 covers the accommodation in one independent apartment in Villa Beltrami (adjacent to the printmaking studio) and the use of the printmaking studios for one person. Additional guests (friends/family) are welcome. 

DEADLINE: ONGOING