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Level 3 Extended Diploma Student created this beautiful drypoint, inspired by a college trip to Hastings

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Another lovely exam

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‘The Two Human Beings. The Lonely Ones’ by Edvard Munch

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Artists donate prints to schools in revival of postwar UK project

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Artists donate prints to schools in revival of postwar UK project

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Where do we sign up?!

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Wakefield's Hepworth Gallery has revived a pioneering scheme from the 1940s to introduce children to the best in contemporary art. It has commissioned several contemporary artists to produce prints of their work especially for local schools.

The original School Prints were a product of their time: launched in the wake of a terrible world war by people who believed that wider appreciation of art and culture might help stave off another such disaster.

Original lithographs, they appeared between 1946 and 1949, and the artists commissioned included big names like LS Lowry, Henry Moore, Picasso and Matisse.

All were asked simply to contribute "something suitable for children", and most reflected a very 1940s idea of what that might mean. Subjects include a circus, a merry-go-round, ships, horses, a marching band and bucolic rural scenes: images of a safe, colourful world.

Interestingly, several of the later commissions were from European abstract artists and proved less popular, not necessarily with the children but with the adults responsible for buying the prints, and the initiative petered out.

Today, the original School Prints are collectors' items. The Hepworth's updated version of the scheme involves works by six artists, although more commissions are planned, each in a limited edition of 500.

The prints will be sold by the gallery, but six copies of each are being donated free to local schools. High quality poster versions are also being produced for other schools to buy.

They're meant as a classroom resource and as an alternative to the kind of school trips to local art galleries that many schools no longer have the time for.

"This came out of conversations with local teachers who are frustrated about the lack of art provision they're able to give their children currently," says Nicola Freeman, the Hepworth's director of engagement and learning.

"I think it's really important that galleries step in and do what they can to support this. Our real ambition is for this to become a national initiative."

The new prints are targeted at primary school children, but older pupils at Wakefield's Cathedral Academy have already been introduced to the images: they'll act as "art ambassadors", helping the younger children to appreciate the works.

So what did these 13 and 14-year olds make of it all?

Several of the girls liked Helen Marten's untitled lithograph: it showed a couple hugging, one girl suggested, with "an evil pope" behind them; it looked like a playground, suggested another, which a king and queen had commandeered for their own child.

Haroon Mirza's Photons and Friends was popular with many of the boys who saw in it solar panels and a constellation of stars and liked its sci-fi vibe.

The teenagers puzzled over Anthea Hamilton's Daydreamer's Wavy Boot.

Was it a "shoe building", black ink, a smoking chimney or, as Hamilton herself says, a kind of self-portrait from her school days, the black representing her braided hair, the brick boot the wall of her Victorian school, the blue sky the clouds scudding by as she gazed out of the window in maths classes?

Martin Creed's Work no 2874, with its broccoli shapes, prompted thoughts about colour, trees and nuclear mushroom clouds. Rose Wylie's King John, Frog, looked like a dancing cactus, one boy suggested.

They were perhaps happiest with Deller's The Problem with Humans, painted by Stuart Sam Hughes, the most representational of all the prints: the octopus "is planning to fight humans," one girl said, concluding: "He's searching for the humans' weak points to attack them."

One of the boys suggested the octopus is plotting revenge for what we've done to sea life, "throwing rubbish into the ocean".

Deller says he's astonished that no-one has thought of reviving the school prints idea in the decades since the original scheme ended.

"It's not a challenge to make art for children because children are probably the most receptive people to contemporary art," he says.

"They have no preconceptions, no intellectual animosity towards art; they just receive it in a very primal, clear way. For a child it must be very interesting looking at modern and contemporary art because they see themselves within it, they see things they could maybe do.

"Artists make a big mess and muck about and do abstract art and work with colour and form, and that's what children do."

The original scheme, he points out, was born of the same 1940s ethos as the NHS and social housing: a belief in the possibility of a better world.

Today's scheme has more to do with the state of art education in schools. Fewer children are taking arts subjects at GCSE, and there's less time for art in the classroom.

"A lot of schools are under pressure because there's a focus on English and Maths qualifications," says Laura Nicholson, assistant vice-principal at Cathedral Academy, which is also a performing arts college.

"Art as well as subjects like dance and drama and music can be put into the 'other' group. It's understandable that schools at the moment aren't necessarily focussing on those subjects.

"But we really believe the arts aren't just an add-on: they're something that can really enhance our students' experiences and help them succeed in all their subject areas."

For now, copies of all the six newly-commissioned prints and several of those from the 1940s are on display at the Hepworth until the start of June.

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Wakefield's Hepworth Gallery has revived a pioneering scheme from the 1940s to introduce children to the best in contemporary art. It has commissioned several contemporary artists to produce prints of their work especially for local schools.

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Kirsten Reynolds: Dark Ages

12 December 2017- 13 January 2018

GALLERY TWO

Kirsten Reynolds is an English artist whose current work uses photography, painting, printmaking and sound / light installation to re-interpret classical themes relating to landscape, nature and the environment. Preferring to work off the beaten track, Reynolds chooses significant locations to make nocturnal light drawings that capture dynamic traces of the artist's movements in response to each specific landscape. Whilst this technique has been much used over the years in science and the arts, Reynolds has developed a unique approach and her background in music and sound art makes her intuitive physical response to the chosen location both compelling and powerful.

'The photographs she takes record her explorations of place and time through drawing. She weaves skeins of light before the lens, sometimes white, sometimes coloured. Her trajectory leaves traces whose shapes shift from transparent, through opaque, to sinuous, web-fine lines with the tensile strength of steel. Sometimes the landscape is barely discernible, just a dense tactile space, at other times the forms drift over recognisable terrain like mist that is impossibly articulated, or a bolt of fine silk, each fold of which is impossibly crystalline, or a transparent titanium sculpture. They look like an extraordinary natural event: the aurora borealis, or freak electrical activity.' Simone Witney, Hastings Independent Press, 2017

'The drawing process has a lot in common with making music; and I'd say drumming in particular. There is only one chance in each frame to get it right, although there is no pre-defined idea of what is 'right'. It's almost like visual improvising with the landscape. The environment is very influential, and intuition and experimentation are important every time. Each location needs to present a new challenge as repetition and predictability within the process results in images that lack dynamism.' Kirsten Reynolds, 2017

Reynolds has exhibited worldwide from the Hayward Gallery in London for Sonic Boom; The Art of Sound, the first international exhibition of Sound Art, to the Sydney Festival with Power Plant, in which five artists present over thirty site-specific sound and light installations botanic gardens and public parks. Power Plant has won critical acclaim at major arts festivals around the world from the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2011 to the Auckland Arts Festival 2017.
Artist Richard Wilson says of Reynolds' work: 'This Catalogue available is not ephemeral art, this is light, action and location all suspended in time as a gestural moment of magic.'

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Kirsten Reynolds - Dark Ages - Art Bermondsey Project Space

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" All Events Kirsten Reynolds: Dark Ages 12 December 2017- 13 January 2018 GALLERY TWO Kirsten Reynolds is an English artist whose current work uses photography, painting, printmaking and sound / light installation to re-interpret classical themes relating to landscape, nature and the environment.

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Daughters of Necessity: Serena Korda & Wakefield's Ceramics

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Daughters of Necessity: Serena Korda & Wakefield's Ceramics

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The Hepworth Wakefield is home to a rich and eclectic collection of ceramics made by some of the great names of modern pottery, including Hans Coper and Lucy Rie.

For this exhibition, British artist Serena Korda has chosen a selection of these ceramics to display alongside her own new and existing works, exploring where these objects sit between function and sculpture.

Working with ceramics for several years, Korda combines her experimental approach to the material with her interest in the acoustic properties of objects. For The Hepworth Wakefield, Korda has created a new work, Resonators, comprising five large, richly glazed vessels with openings at each end. Visitors are invited to interact with the work by placing their ears to each vessel to hear a range of bass-like tones.

The exhibition also features a new presentation of Korda's ceramic sound installation Hold Fast, Stand Sure, I Scream a Revolution, which was premiered at Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art in 2016. This work is made up of 29 individual porcelain mushrooms suspended from the ceiling, which will be played as bells in public performances during the Ceramics Fair in early May 2018.

This exhibition is inspired by an essay written for Wakefield Art Gallery in the 1950s which referred to clay vessels as 'daughters of necessity'. With this in mind, Serena relates the idea of the Daughters of Necessity to the activity of working in ceramics, using alchemical processes that embrace risk and failure.

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Daughters of Necessity: Serena Korda & Wakefield's Ceramics

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The Hepworth Wakefield is home to a rich and eclectic collection of ceramics made by some of the great names of modern pottery, including Hans Coper and Lucy Rie. For this exhibition, British artist Serena Korda has chosen a selection of these ceramics to display alongside her own new and existing works, exploring where these objects sit between function and sculpture.

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An exhibition of screen printed fabrics designed by Barbara Brown in the 1960s and 70s for Heal

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Barbara Brown was the golden girl of Heal Fabrics in the 1960s and early 1970s. Talent-spotted as a student, her designs for furnishing fabrics are some of the most striking and unusual ever produced in the 20th century and won awards from the Council of Industrial Design.

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Clearing out the drying boards. Collograph prints from Level 3 Access Course

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Clearing out the drying boards. Collograph prints from Level 3 Access Course

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Experimenting with relief print on fabric (with beautiful results)

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Experimenting with relief print on fabric (with beautiful results)

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By foundation student Laura!

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Some lovely results!

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Screen prints from an RUTC Foundation student. We love layers!

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Repeat pattern reduction linocut happening in the workshop this week!

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Repeat pattern reduction linocut happening in the workshop this week!

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Linocuts by Picasso on show in Coventry at the Herbert Art Gallery

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Linocuts by Picasso on show in Coventry at the Herbert Art Gallery

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This exhibition demonstrates each stage of the lino cut process

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An exciting week of monoprinting in the RUTC print studio

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An exciting week of monoprinting in the RUTC print studio

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This wide-ranging exhibition selects fine examples from the nation’s print collection to look at how prints were created, developed, bought and sold in the period 1400–1850.

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An exhibition of works using monoprint, curated by Morgan Doyle RE, a highly skilled printmaker who frequently uses this technique.

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The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers

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ONE-OFF: THE MASTERS | MONOPRINT | 8 - 19 November 2017

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This is a compelling series of annual exhibitions focusing in turn on one of the many techniques practised by our members, and is curated by an established professional printmaker working in that technique. This year's technique is monoprint and the show is being curated by Morgan Doyle RE, a highly...

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Experimenting with monoprint in the RUTC print room

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Experimenting with monoprint in the RUTC print room

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Photogravure is a process whereby an image or object is exposed onto a metal plate using a light-sensitive
gel, to create rich photographic images. In these works artist Cornelia Parker celebrates the creator of this process, William Henry Fox Talbot.

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Southbank Centre's Hayward Gallery Touring presents One Day This Glass Will Break, an exhibition of twenty large-scale photogravures by Cornelia Parker from three experimental series Fox Talbot's Articles of Glass (2017): One Day This Glass Will Break (2015) and Thirty Pieces of Silver (exposed) (2015). Opening at londonprintstudio then touring around the UK, these three series, which are brought together for the first time in the exhibition, explore the artist's fascination with the physical properties of objects, materials and their histories.

The exhibition includes eight works from the series One Day This Glass Will Break (2015) which arose from Parker's investigations into photogravure, a photomechanical process which produces an image through the exposure of a photographic positive onto a copper printing plate. Inspired by the 19th century photographic pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot, Parker combined two of his early techniques, solar prints and photogravure, creating a new hybrid form of print by exposing three dimensional objects to ultraviolet light. In these works, she uses found objects such as a tower of crystal glasses, a shattered light bulb and melting ice cubes, with the resulting prints capturing their shadows in a spectral still life.

Print studio co ordinator Darren van der Merwe will by giving a talk on the photogravure process as part of this exhibition, on Wednesday 22nd November.

Opening party: Thursday 9th November 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Exhibition runs: Friday 10th November - Saturday 9th December 2017

Free entry

Image: Fox Talbot's Articles of Glass (bottoms up), 2016

Courtesy and copyright the artist and Alan Cristea Gallery

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One Day this Glass will Break: Prints by Cornelia Parker - London Print Studio

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Southbank Centre's Hayward Gallery Touring presents One Day This Glass Will Break, an exhibition of twenty large-scale photogravures by Cornelia Parker from three experimental series Fox Talbot's Articles of Glass (2017): One Day This Glass Will Break (2015) and Thirty Pieces of Silver (exposed) (2015).

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Students on the MA at Camberwell College of Arts demonstrate different printmaking processes in collaboration with the British Museum's 'American Dream' Exhibition

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MA student of printmaking Ines Fernandez de Cordova shows a less traditional printmaking technique that uses photo-sensitive polymers to create a plate to be etched in acid.

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3D Prints by Rachel Whiteread

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One of Britain's leading contemporary sculptors, Rachel Whiteread makes casts of spaces inside and around household objects, rooms and even whole buildings. Here she has employed a process known as rapid prototyping - a form of 3D printing used to make industrial prototypes.

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Find out more about different photographic print processes 

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Find out more about different photographic print processes 

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The V&A tells all...

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Find out about the processes and techniques used to create the photographs in our collection

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Students on the MA at Camberwell College of Arts demonstrate different printmaking processes in collaboration with the British Museum's 'American Dream' Exhibition

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MA student of Printmaking Peter Wylie shows the traditional techniques of etching, using acid, smoke, rosin, plate and stylus. The process has been used by artists from Rembrandt and Goya to the present.

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Students on the MA at Camberwell College of Arts demonstrate different printmaking processes in collaboration with the British Museum's 'American Dream' Exhibition

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MA student of Printmaking Jennifer Talbot demonstrates the techniques of screenprinting and discusses how inserting a technical process has affected her art practice.

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Degrees of Abstraction - Crown Point Press

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Crown Point Press announces the group exhibition Degrees of Abstraction. It presents fifteen artists who explore the visual language of abstraction and features six new color etchings by New York artist Mary Heilmann.

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Magical Secrets: A Printmaking Community

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Magical Secrets: A Printmaking Community

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An amazing resource for anyone interested in printmaking

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Magical Secrets is the printmaking website by Crown Point Press. Explore the etching process, learn tips and tricks, and watch artists in our studio.

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Relief printing with a steam roller!

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Monotype by Mark Francis!