Summer Issue contents

Welcome 
Leonie Bradley RE  Editor

Printmaker's Diary

As Wide As It Is Long
David Ferry, President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, on a vibrant and international profusion of recent exhibitions and celebrations

Cuttings

Conference
Immersed reflections
Bridget Hillebrand

Residency
Changing landscapes
Amanda Maciuba

Exhibition
Tim Marlow Selects
RWS and RE

Installation
Beauty in the gaps

Accrete 
Sam Wilde at the V & A

Manifesto
Next print?
Michael Gunzburger

Workshop
Printmaking offers hope
Hope Press founded by Ben Darlington

Exhibition
LOOP at 20

Collaborations
Printmakers for Ukraine

Expanded Practice
Still Fiction places
Built up from almost 400 stencils, the monoprints by Kat Richards are a playful exploration of body and identity

Profile
Vistas of London
Unrivalled colourist, Steve Edwards is a master of dramatic and elegiac landscapes, writes Mychael Barratt PPRE

Profile
Harmonic Sequencing
The titles of works by Virginia Bridge provide a chronological path through the balancing act of her abstract practice, writes Emma Gregory

Profile/Steve Lovett
‘It Ain’t Necessarily So’
Straddling a path between representation and abstraction, Steve Lovett creates scintillating hand-collaged print works, writes Ruth Pelzer-Montada

Artists' Books
Library of Resistance
Lu Williams, artist and founder of Grrrl Zine Fair, on the radical history of zine making and why zines are so underappreciated as an art form

Artists' Books
Paying Forward
The New Lights Press model supports artists’ books and print-based communities 
Sarah Bodman interviews its founder, Aaron Cohick, and recent recipient, Ruby Figueroa

Tiny Acts of Care

Technical 
Printing in Glass
Combining two traditional techniques, Jun Lee provides a step-by-step guide to deep relief dry plaster casting

Profile
Recontextualising the Present
The collaborative prints of post-digital artists Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston are a compelling response to global politics and social unrest, writes Sarah Kirk Hanley

Artist's Eye
Invisible Reality
Barbara Jones was awarded the Printmaking Today prize at the artists’ books exhibition 

Letting in the Light at Kirkby Gallery

Obituary
James Todd RE (1937–2025)

Practical
Investing in Prints
Art dealer, specialising in 20th-century British prints, Dominic Kemp, provides an insider’s guide to buying prints for investment

Technical 
Coffee Lift Screenprint
Pei-Chen Wuon an experimental and ecological alternative to photo-emulsion-based screenprinting, developed at Texture Printmaking Studio by director Pei-Hsuan Wu

Practical
A Raw Deal
Michael Craine, director of Cranfield Colours, sheds light on the mysterious, industry-wide, short supply of earth pigment inks and paints

Book Reviews

Resources

Opportunities

Previews
Riot!: A Riso Exhibition Celebrating the Art of Protest
Until 26 Jul
Art Market, 58 Glynne Street, Pontcanna, Cardiff CF11 9NS
artmarketcardiff.com

A Family Affair: Artistic Dynasties in Europe
(Part II, 1670–1900)
Until 7 Dec
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, 200E
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Austin, Texas TX78712
blantonmuseum.org

The Sum of the Parts: The Complete 
Portfolios of Josef Albers
Until 29 Aug
Cristea Roberts Gallery, 43 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5JG
cristearoberts.com

Listings

Artist's Eye
Finding Red
Jo Okell ARE was awarded the Printmaking Today prize at the RE Original Prints exhibition at Bankside Gallery for her monotype finding red