Tessa Sidey R.I.P

Birmingham Printmakers would like to express their sadness at the death of Tessa Sidey earlier this month and convey our sympathy to her family and colleagues.

As well as curating a series of hugely popular exhibitions including several on aspects of Pre-Raphaelite artists, she was a highly regarded academic with a number of publications and lectured at The Barber Institute.

With a strong passion for original print, Tessa did much to promote the medium and was an enthusiastic patron and support to Birmingham Printmakers which was especially valued when we were threatened with closure.

Above all we will miss her energy, enthusiasm and fun.

No Glue Needed artists' book workshop

Simon Goode returned to our studio last weekend and despite the cold conditions gave another fascinating artists' books workshop, this time looking at bindings.

Jackie Rankin's photo shows a coptic stitch binding

My RSC Gallery

Gill Russell's image

(Anne's cyanotype 'A Midsummer's Night Dream')

Congratulations to Anne Crews and Gill Russell whose artwork was chosen to as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's My Gallery installation

Open Day

Images courtesy of Jackie Rankin

Some members of Birmingham Printmakers are at The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Christmas Craft Fair this Saturday 4th December 11.00am - 4.00pm.

Comic Landscape exhibition

BPM member Karoline Rerrie is part of the 'Comic Landscape' exhibition opening with the launch on Thursday December 2nd (till January 10th) at Solihull Gallery. All welcome.

20/20 Print Exchange

Hot Bed Press http://www.hotbedpress.org/show_title.phtml?category=homepage&ref=0 have organised a print exchange between 10 workshops with the only criteria that the prints be presented on 20 x 20 cm square paper. Each individual artist had to complete an edition of 24 prints and their work was exchanged as a whole with another workshop, which in our case was Cork Printmakers http://www.corkprintmakers.ie/ . Each studio receives a random selection of prints from all the studios.


All 120 works can be viewed at http://www.flickr.com/photos/hot_bed_press/


The other workshops involved are:

West Yorkshire Print Workshop Leinster Printmaking Studio

Prospect Studios Seacourt Print Workshop

Cork Printmakers

Black Church Print Studio

Our exchanged prints can also be seen at our open studio day this Saturday - see previous post.