Rising Star awards 2023

The Print­ing Char­i­ty’s Ris­ing Star Awards opened for entries on 1 Feb­ru­ary: peo­ple aged 18–30 work­ing in the print sec­tor are encour­aged to apply to fund train­ing and devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties. Entries close on Sun­day 2 April. For more details see the Ris­ing Star sec­tion of the Print­ing Char­i­ty’s website.

Stone lithography weekend in Edinburgh

Edin­burgh Print­mak­ers are run­ning a week­end course in stone lith­o­g­ra­phy at the begin­ning of March. For more details and how to book see the Edin­burgh Print­mak­ers website.

Online book launch: Women in Print 1

An online book launch event, host­ed by the Cen­tre for Print­ing His­to­ry and Cul­ture in Birm­ing­ham will be held on Thurs­day 16 Feb­ru­ary to mark the pub­li­ca­tion of Women in Print 1: design and iden­ti­ties, pub­lished by Peter Lang.  For more details and how to book see the CPHC website.

Wood engraving taster day at St Brides

St Brides Foun­da­tion in Lon­don are run­ning a taster course, suit­able for absolute begin­ners, on the relief print­ing tech­nique of wood engrav­ing on Tues­day 27 Feb­ru­ary 2023 from 11am- 17pm. For more details and how to book, see the St Brides website.

Printing on subscription: call for papers

The Cen­tre for Print­ing His­to­ry and Cul­ture, in asso­ci­a­tion with the Baskerville Soci­ety, has put out a call for papers for a con­fer­ence on the theme Pre­paid print­ing: approach­es to the study of sub­scribers’ lists to be held at Win­ter­bourne House at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Birm­ing­ham in Sep­tem­ber 2023. The dead­line for pro­pos­als is 1 […]

Stone lithography course

Edin­burgh Print­mak­ers are run­ning an evening course in stone lith­o­g­ra­phy from the end of Feb­ru­ary 2023. For more details and how to book see the Edin­burgh Print­mak­ers website.

Talk on the origins of the Adana press

Adana was found­ed in 1922 and still trad­ing today as part of the Caslon group of com­pa­nies. Bob Richard­son will give a talk (in per­son at St Bride Foun­da­tion & online) enti­tled Print Pound Notes! Cel­e­brat­ing 100 years of Adana on 31 Jan­u­ary 2023.  For more details and how to book see the St Bride […]

Etching courses at Edinburgh Printmakers

Edin­burgh Print­mak­ers are run­ning week­end cours­es on etch­ing tech­niques at the begin­ning of Feb­ru­ary and the begin­ning of March. For more details and how to book, see their website.

H Bernulf Clegg

The Trustees would like to offer its con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly and friends of Bernulf Clegg, a long-stand­ing Trustee and an active sup­port­er of the Trust from its ear­li­est days, who died just before Christ­mas 2022. He also served as the Trust’s 2nd Hon­orary Sec­re­tary. It was his ded­i­ca­tion and deter­mi­na­tion that drove the project to […]

Etching courses at Glasgow Print Studio

Glas­gow Print Stu­dio is run­ning evening and week­end cours­es on etch­ing, suit­able for begin­ners and also as a refresh­er course, start­ing in Jan­u­ary 2023. For more details and how to book see the Stu­dio’s website.