Cover:  Reaching Hands | Spring Edition 2025  (red)(2025) Christian Noelle Charles.  Screenprint, 420 x 297mm. V.E. 39

Contents
Volume 34, Winter 2025 Issue 136

Welcome  - Leonie Bradley RE

Screenprinters are like meerkats, muses Christian Noelle Charles, running around with their heads up. Read how our joyful cover artist has found her printmaking groove in Glasgow. Other artist profiles include Muriel Moreau who makes work that seeks urgent answers to our perception of the world and the future of the planet. The list of artists that master printer Nigel Oxley has collaborated with is a staggering who’s who of print and so it is with fascination and delight that we feature a profile on his oeuvre. Lastly, Marcus Rees Roberts continues his series of key innovators in etching history with a look at the enduring legacy of Segers and Rembrandt. We are thrilled to celebrate the winners of this year’s State of the Art award, Louise Rouse and Narisara Jirojananukun. Using artists’ books as a research tool and an introduction to hybrid printmaking, Claire Gladstone considers the benefits to students’ wider practices. Elsewhere  Alex Beattie shares his #WIP and we take a look inside Graham Firth’s sketchbook. While screenprinters run around heads aloft, I hope you enjoy getting stuck down into this issue. 

Printmaker's Diary
Jon Reid, general manager at Peacock & the worm in Aberdeen, reports on a season of  busy print activity at the studio and beyond

Exhibition

Art and archaeology  - Wiltshire Museum’s new exhibition 

Downland: Art and the Archaeological imagination   until 24 January 2026

Residency

Pink Days  Lizzie Munn Space of Time Gallery, Bejing, China

Exhibition

Intensively displaced

Lasting Impressions: Women Printmakers 1900 - Now - V & A until 27 September 2026

Residency

Free to a Good House  - Ling Chui

Cuttings

Cataloguing headaches

Nos Criamos Problemas/We Create Problems - Fernanda Fedrizzi and Sarah Bodman 

Monograph

Reflections of life

Imagemaker - Katsutoshi Yuasa  - TAG Fine Arts

In Brief

The International Printmaking Conference  15 to 16 January 2026 Wroclaw

Angela Harding on Desert Island Discs

Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs RA RE - Mount House Gallery Marlborough

Expanded Practice

Healing Treads

Moire Prisms

Profile

Transforming the Real

The work of Muriel Moreau, sitting in a third realm between figurative and abstraction, asks what it means to be alive in the world today, writes Richard Noyce

Graduate Award

State of the Art

This year’s submissions demonstrate many exciting developments in printmaking from a broad selection of international graduates. The judges selected two overall winners: 

Louise Rouse and Narisara Jirojananukun

Profile

While his collaborations with major artists are well documented, the innovative and ambitious artistic journey of Nigel Oxley Hon.RE is worthy of equal recognition, writes Edward Ferguson

#WIP

Inside the Dome

Alex Beattie ARE sheds light on his creative process from sketchbook to digital collage behind his screenprinted, silk folding screen

Artists' Books

Endless War

Clifton Meador uses the artist’s book form to examine the nightmares of history from our present world, writes Sarah Bodman

Profile

Layered Journey

Christian Noelle Charles finds the performative rhythm and musicality of screenprinting the perfect medium to explore themes including community and Black joy, writes Claire Forsyth

Artist's Eye

A Woman’s Worth

Tori McLean was awarded the Printmaking Today prize for her print Elemental Kin 4at the RE’s Small But Mighty exhibition

Profile

The Image as a Search

Continuing his series on key innovators in etching history, Marcus Rees Roberts looks at the enduring impact of Hercules Segers and Rembrandt from the Dutch Golden Age

Education

The Book as Research Tool

Creating artists' books with students to encourage experimental printmaking and hybird practices has a remarkable impact on their wider practice, writes Claire Gladstone

Obituaries

Graham Moss (1947 - 2025)

Bookshelf

Martin Grover ARE

Book Reviews

Resources

Opportunities

Previews

Listings

Sketchbook

Moor and More

Graham Firth ARE visits his local market weekly to draw, hoping to spot a juxtaposition of characters 

that will inspire one of his acutely-observed linocuts