Printmaking Today - Spring Issue 2025
Volume 34 - Issue 133

Welcome Leonie Bradley ARE

Printmaker's Diary
Roll Out the Fresh Ink
As MGC Community Print Studio crosses the East River, Studio Director Lisa D. Archigian reflects on the editions ahead with new neighbours at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn

Cuttings

EXHIBITION
Sakura landscapes

ANNIVERSARY
PMC at 60

EXHIBITION
Mythic and material

PRINT FAIR
Printmaking for wellbeing

BOOK
Make-Ready

CUTTINGS
ELECTION
Class of 2025

EXPANDED PRACTICE
Printing with care

Between the journey and the destination

Profile
Quiet Contemplation
Koichi Kiyono silently builds installations constructed from an array of graphic impressions in hypnotic layers of concentric repetitions, writes Derek Michael Besant RCA

Collection
Hidden Wonder
Chris Pig ARE discovers an outstanding national collection of prints at the Museum of Contemporary Spanish Printmaking in Marbella

Profile
Bulgarian artist Peter Lazarov creates powerfully theatrical wood engravings, inspired by myths, that expertly depict the human form, writes Richard Noyce

Artists Eye
Balancing Act
Inga Eičaitė was awarded the Printmaking Today prize at the RE’s International Original Print Exhibition for her abstract print B_o7.8

Creativity without Boundaries
Pennie Elfick RWA was awarded the Printmaking Today prize at the RWA Biennial Open 2025: Paper Works

Artists' Books
Sowing the Seeds
Sarah Bodman looks at artists’ books by Sarah Nicholls, Tracey Bush and Jane Hyslop that can help bring us closer to nature

TECHNICAL
Laser Fusion
Robert Jackson and Annis Fitzhugh on a technique developed at Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Studio that involves a laser cutter bonding the remnants of one layer of paper to another

Profile
Modern-day Tinkerer
James Rogers merges ancient divination practices with contemporary technology and artistic exploration, writes Professor Carinna Parraman

TECHNICAL
Push to Pull
Rod Nelson ARE has developed the new Pullcut tool for relief printmaking that revolutionises cutting by changing the motion from push to pull

TECHNICAL
Combining Threads
Continuing his series on expanded practice, Dr Steve Brown takes a look at artists exploring the potential of print and textiles through matrix and substrate

Obituary
Simon Brett RE (1943 - 2024)

Books
Screenprints: A History

Gill Saunders, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the V&A, explains why she chose to focus on the technique of screenprinting for this comprehensive history

Book Reviews
Eric Ravilious Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries
Alan Powers

Chris Orr: Seeing Ways
Chris Orr and Richard Davey

Anthology: Ten Years of Turn the Page Artists’ Book Fair
Jules Allen and Jo Howe

Resources

Opportunities

Awards, Prizes and Competitions

Previews

Listings

Artist's Eye
Urban Toile
Ellen Shattuck Pierce was awarded the Printmaking Today prize at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair for her print installation that playfully exposes the mundanity and difficulty of raising kids