Badger Press
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Jan 12
Printer’s pause
The team will be leaving Badger Press on 31st January and there are discussions currently taking place about a group taking over. In the meantime there will be a short hiatus whilst arrangements are put in place. Apologies if you’re keen to get on a course or come and use the Press. You can continue to contact us via the online form and will reply and pass on your email to the new team. The website will continue to run and we will update it with news of the handover.
In the meantime, on behalf of Kirstie, Paul, Angela and myself I would like to thank you all for your help and support. We have thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and it’s been a real thrill meeting so many people that have now become good friends. We’ll still be at the studio and hope to help it to continue, we’re needed by our (ever expanding) families and learning to cope with all the new things in our lives. We love printmaking and we love The Badger Press, it is a truly exceptional, inspiring and wonderful place and it is held together by the passion of our talented artists. We salute you all.
Stephan
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Dec 11
Opportunities at Badger Press
As you may know, the current team’s tenure at Badger Press is coming to an end and owner Mike Griffiths is currently talking to groups and individuals keen to help continue the studio’s fine tradition and manage Badger Press for the next duration. The Press has grown from strength to strength over the past four years with more and more people attending courses and enjoying open access. If you are keen to take over, have some spare time, a passion for printmaking and experience in the arts or business, then we would like to speak to you. Please contact us via the contact form below and we will forward your message to Mike who will be happy to meet you.
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Sep 11
Autumn Courses 2011
We’re pleased to announce a programme of new courses and events for Autumn.
We have a series of screenprinting, intaglio, textile and photographic courses, and we’d like to invite you to try some new techniques and revisit old favourites, with courses to suit all ages and abilities. Over the summer we’ve invested in some equipment and we’re hoping to trial some new activities that we’re sure you’re going to enjoy, so stay tuned by subscribing to our website.
For a list of courses, our newsletter is available to download here - Badger Press Autumn 2011 (pdf 280kb)
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Jul 11
Open Studio on Saturday!
We will be opening the doors of our studio on Saturday 23rd July and invite you to come and see an exhibition of work, talk to our artists and enjoy a cup of tea. We’re hoping to have a few surprises and will spending the week making the Press ready to welcome you all. If you have a few hours and would like to come and help us, then please send us an email, we’ll be in most of the week.
We would like to showcase the work of our artists, so if you have a few pieces you’d like to exhibit, then please send us an email to make arrangements.
Many thanks in advance for all your help, with special thanks to the Luckins family for their help.
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Jul 11
Andrew Kelly Artist Bookmaking Course
We’re very much looking forward to hosting Andrew Kelly’s Bookmaking Course on Weekend 20 & 21 August. Andrew comes recommended by Mrs Kelly aka Ciara Healy, and has accompanied and assisted on these wonderful bookmaking courses that we’ve run over the past few years.
Andrew talked to us about his proposals for the weekend and his thoughts about his craft. He will be starting with a very simple single page book followed by two more sculptural A3 card books, before continuing with more advanced work.
“If I had to sum up my belief in Book Arts in a nutshell I would say that Book Arts not only satisfies those who relish acquiring technical skills but also helps to free up the many artists and budding artists who can be daunted by a blank page and prefer to tease out a theme as a sequence or set of images. Reading a hand made artists’ book is a private pleasure which reinvigorates a book lovers’ curiosity about what the next page might bring.”
Through Andrew’s small press, Ignition, he has published 16 books, mainly hardback with most in editions of 200 to 500 copies involving five artists and designers as well as Ciara’s and his own work. A recipient of funding from the hard-pressed Irish Arts Council he won the Impressions award, have been shortlisted for two other U.K. awards, received a funded residency to Vermont, and has been widely published in, among others, Image, Envoi, Circa and Orbis. Andrew has just been invited to contribute to a Forward anthology, am awaiting publication in this years’ Ragged Raven anthology and am in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, the National Irish Visual Arts Library, various university collections including U.C.A., Winchester and Edinburgh colleges of Art and the permanent collection of Tate Britain.
We’re looking forward to Andrew’s visit, there are still some places left, and as before these tend to go very quickly.
