Created for the Film4 Summer Screen at Somerset House this August and under the curation of Print Club London, this sultry, typographic majesty of a poster celebrates Trainspotting.
From Trainspotting to Ex Machina, Somerset House’s Film4 line-up gets the graphic treatment from Print Club London, with 16 new posters on display. Choose life… and choose this. 28 July to 17 August (somersethouse.org.uk)
35 Dreamy Things To Do This Weekend
This week sees the return of Summer Screen Prints to Somerset House, a tasty chicken wing-eating competition taking place in boozers across the city and a vermouth-themed rooftop bar springing up for after work drinks. Get planning the perfect week with our tips below.
Even if you can’t get down to Somerset House for an outdoor movie session, it’s worth heading to the Summer Screen Prints exhibition, where Print Club London artists have reimagined posters from films showing in the al-fresco season, including Funny Face and Ex Machina. Until 17 Aug; free; East Wing Galleries, Somerset House, Strand WC2R
We are excited to announce that we are looking for someone to take the position of Studio Assistant in our Dalston Office!
Please see below for the job spec and if you think the job is for you then drop us an email with a covering letter and your CV to kate@printclublondon.com
THE ROLE: STUDIO ASSISTANT
ROLE BREAKDOWN
1.General
Ensuring gallery and office is kept tidy and organized.
Dealing with suppliers that relate to the gallery.
Packaging and dispatching orders
Assisting the Directors and other team.
2. Workshops
Manage screenprinting workshop sales,
promotion & relating sales paperwork.
Dealing with technicinans and rota’s ensuring all workshops are staffed.
3. Financial
You must be highly efficient in dealing with accounts paperwork relating to sales.
You will be working closely with our financial director and will be expected to present use excel to record data and keep track of sales.
You must be incredibly organized in doing so and able to oversee others who may assist you in dealing with paperwork.
SKILLS REQUIRED:
Advance knowledge of Excel and Word
Photoshop intermediate Level
This role is a customer facing role, you will be dealing with our members ond the general public on a daily basis so we require a happy friendly confident individual. Organisation is key to this role! The ability to manage your time and your paperwork is essential. As a company we curate projects collectively and you will be actively involved in all aspects of what we do here. We are looking for someone who has a creative background to join our team of fun inky people.
Please note this role may alter from time to time and we will expect you to adapt to this.
Please send a CV and covering letter to kate@printclublondon.com by the 8th August. Interviews will commence on the 15th August with a view to starting imminently.
Position is full time 9-6pm Monday – Friday.
We love our customers tagging Print Club London in their social media posts with their purchases or when we spot a repeat customer ordering. We get such a thrill to see how different people curate our artwork in their home or workplace. We love to be nosy and check out how everyone creates their own unique style!
We noticed recently that Dale Hairdressing had been ordering a lot of screen prints and were excited to hear that he has them hung all around his salon.
He has sent us a few pics of his space and we have to say, he has great taste!
If you are inspired by Dale’s style then shop our favourite affordable screen prints below or from our online shop.
Tag us in your recent Print Club purchases on Instagram or Twitter @printclublondon #printclubwalls
Pick Me Up, the Graphic Arts Festival at Somerset House, is back for its seventh year!!
The show features top emerging illustrators and designers as well as more established names in graphic arts. This year Pick Me Up is part of UTOPIA 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility, and focuses on the themes of community within the graphic arts.
Other past exhibitors we have admired include Julia Pott, Jack Hudson and Malika Favre for their great illustrations.
Jack Hudson
Julia Pott
Malika Favre
Pick Me Up begins on Thursday 21st April and runs until Monday 2nd May and you can purchased advance tickets here.
Keep your eyes peeled as the full line up will be announced soon!
Today World Earth Day, will be celebrating their 46th anniversary. Here at Print Club London we wanted to highlight this achievement and their journey so far. The very first Earth Day began in 1970 and is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement we know today.
They are setting out on an ambitions goal of planting 7.8 billion trees before their 50th anniversary, and they are starting now!
‘Earth Day Network’s mission is to broaden and diversify the environmental movement worldwide and to mobilise it as the most effective vehicle to build a healthy, sustainable environment, address climate change, and protect the Earth for future generations.’
Anthony Burrill has just launched his new website, A.B. Archive, dedicated to his lifetime collection of printed ephemera. This inspiration source may come as no surprise since he is well known for his typographic, text-based compositions in his silk screen prints.
By definition, ephemera are objects that when they were produced, were not intended to last a long time or were specially produced for one occasion. This makes Anthony’s collection all the more amazing and shows the time that has gone into creating such an archive.
The site includes everything from stencils, postal labels, receipts and car tax certificate. It documents a wide range of his inspiration from his early days as an artist.
You can see Anthony Burrill’s persuasive, up-beat limited edition screen prints here.
Our *BRAND NEW* Printern, Aleesha Nandhra!
We are super excited to announce that we have finally selected a new Printern! We had many applicants and it was a VERY hard decision to make and could only pick one! Aleesha has now joined our team for 2 months where she will be creating exclusive work for Print Club London and we can’t wait!
Her illustrations take insipiration from her travels and her sketchbooks are always on her to doodle when inspiration springs! Her fun and detailed illustrations will translate well as screen prints and we can’t wait to see them unfold.
Here’s what Aleesha has been up to in her first week here at Print Club!
“I graduated from my Illustration BA at The Cambridge School of Art (Anglia Ruskin University) in 2014, and since have done some teaching, and worked as an in-house Illustrator.
While looking for my next creative experience, and working on my first foray into the world of freelancing, I came across the advertisement for the Print-ern-ship, and decided to submit some of my work. A few weeks of waiting and a meeting later, I found out that I had been successful.
I have screen printed previously, but it’s been a couple of years since I have even set foot in a print room, so this is going to be a very educational and fun experience.
I moved into my desk space in Millers Junction, and got stuck in!
I was introduced to the Print Studio by Rose Electra Harris, who has just completed her very own Printernship and now works as a studio technician (she makes lovely artwork too!). I learnt about the day-to-day running of the studio, as well as having a go at printing something. The result being a small two colour image of a soy sauce fish bottle.”
We were super proud this week to be named by Cherie Lee Interiors as one of their top 5 ‘Go to’ online galleries and we couldn’t be more pleased!
We love bringing affordable art into people’s homes so it is always great to be recognised for this by others as well.
“Finding those finishing touches for your home can be difficult and time consuming. Print club London is a unique concept giving a platform for freelance artists and designers to sell and showcase their work. More than that, they are a studio for freelancers to work in and access the equipment required to produce their creations too. As a result, there is a huge range of prints from well known brands like HAM, to more urban, upcoming artists.”
“We used the Donk “B Brave” print in a teenage girls bedroom recently and it looked fantastic whilst giving an inspirational message. We are also fans of the humorous takes on traditional British foods from Claudia Borfiga. Quirky and affordable kitchen art can be tricky to come by and these fit the bill perfectly!”
Donk will be releasing a new Be Brave print soon so keep your eyes peeled on our Instagram and Twitter accounts!
Discover the perfect print for your home by browsing our range of over 1,000 limited edition screen prints in our online gallery here.
Thanks so much to Cherie Lee Interiors for the recognition; we also love the styling they used for the Claudia Borfiga print!
It’s been an absolute pleasure working with Print Club London’s new artist, Caroline Tomlinson. Since graduating from her MA at Central St. Martin’s, Caroline has worked as an illustrator for clients all over the world. She exhibits internationally, and this Summer her work will be on show as part of the Secret 7” showcase.
Currently residing in ‘beautiful Cape Town’ Caroline is due to visit the studio during the Summer months, and we already can’t wait.
Caroline has been working closely with Print Club over the last month and has recently launched 2 brand new, limited edition screen prints which are now available from our online gallery. With more prints on the bed soon to be making their way to us, keep your eyes on our Instagram and Twitter feeds for updates and new print editions as and when they happen!!
Caroline Tomlinson – Kate the Great – Kate Moss Screen Print – Print Club London
KATE THE GREAT
“I wanted to paint the most famous face of fashion – and for me there is no one more fashion and famous than Kate Moss. Love her or hate her, she is a face that will be forever linked to fashion in the 21st Century. Kate Moss is the first in a series I am working on of icons in fashion. She also marked the start of my return to silkscreen printing. It was wonderful to create my painted marks and see them translate and change every so slightly on the silkscreen. Kate the Great is a limited edition screen print, edition of 50 at £65.
Moss is also the start of my exploration into celebrity. An area explored and made famous by print maker and Pop Artist – Andy Warhol. It is a movement that I have always had a huge interest in. Warhol’s words “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes” have never rang more true. Fame has always been a commodity many are hungry for. And in todays culture of endless selfies and reality tv shows everyone seems to want their face to be captured and known – and for some at any cost. However, few truly deserve the accolade of being iconic.
Caroline Tomlinson – Lips – Georgia May Jagger – Screen Print – Print Club London
LIPS
Perhaps the most famous lips in fashion?
Another step in my exploration into capturing fashion icons and in the same way as Kate Moss, Jagger is another iconic British female. I begun experimenting with what can be removed from an identity whilst remaining recognisable. Moving forward I would like to take this down a more abstract route in my print making. This is something I am starting to explore and work with in my studio. Lips gave me an opportunity to translate my watercolour marks onto screens and explore the challenges and all the happy accidents that came with that.
A great deal of my recent work is monochrome, or simply one extra colour. But with Lips – the colour felt all the more important. As I wanted to mix the perfect red for this series, after all the perfect red lipstick has also become a style icon in itself. Every fashionista knows a swish of the perfect red takes you from the everyday to extraordinary in an instant.
Hattie Stewart, the self-styled ‘professional doodler’ has just released her first book ‘Living With: Hattie Stewart’.
The brand new all singing, all dancing publication comes equipped with prints that you can tear out and decorate your humble abode with!!
Hattie describes the book as a way of “Putting down all the different ideas, motifs and patterns that had been swirling around in my mind onto paper.”
The 32 pieces of artwork included in the book feature her trademark style of fun, striking and colourful illustrations which are rich with humour and dark touches.
The book is available from Amazon, and you can purchase your own limited edition, signed and embossed screen print by Hattie Stewart online here!
Bat Country Collective and friends bring a range of imaginative responses to the theme ‘When Hell Breaks Loose’ with new series of prints and illustrated objects. The London and Stockholm based illustration group share a love of dark humour that they use here to investigate forces brewing beneath the surface of everyday life.
Print Club London artist Ashley Amery is part of the collective and will be exhibiting this Thursday with East London creative studio Jaguar Shoes Collective at the Old Shoreditch Station. To coincide with the event, Print Club are the first to launch Ashley’s new limited edition screen prints which are now available from our online gallery HERE!!
Ashley Amery is a London-based artist and illustrator. Drawing forms the basis of her practice, which she uses across a range of media from printmaking to gouache paintings, to digital design and lettering. She is interested in the aesthetic of craft, story-telling, and domesticity, elements she uses to expose the strangeness of familiar things. She earned her MA in Book Arts from Camberwell College of Art.
“JAGUARSHOES believe that making something, makes you happy… We create beautiful and unique exhibitions, events, publications… within a constantly evolving, world renowned venue where people who share that belief can relax and have a great time in good company.
The arts organisation was born out of much celebrated Shoreditch bar and exhibition space: DreamBagsJaguarShoes™ in London in 2002.”
OPENING NIGHT THIS THURSDAY 17TH MARCH // OLD SHOREDITCH STATION 6PM – 8PM
The exhibition will run until 18th April.
To coincide with International Women’s Day the ad agency BBH London hosted ‘She Lights Up The Night’ in aid of Refuge at the Protein Studios last weekend.
The London Creative Agency brought together 10 contemporary graphic artists, including Print Club London favourites Anthony Burrill and Hattie Stewart.
Other artists included Lakwena Maciver, Supermundane, Camille Walala, Ana Montiel, Charlie Patterson, David Shillinglaw, Jordy Van Den Nieuwendijk and Morag Myerscough. Each artist also created a limited edition screen print to be bought at the show for £50 each.
The one-off unique art pieces on display at the exhibition will be auctioned off at 7pm on Thursday 10th March at Christie’s.
The funds raised from the limited edition screen prints sold at the exhibition and auction will go to raise funds for Refuge.
#GiveThemRefuge
International Women’s Day takes place on Tuesday 8th March and the theme for 2016 is Pledge For Parity.
Print Club London is celebrating by highlighting a few of our talented female artists.
‘Everyone – men and women – can pledge to take a concrete step to help achieve gender parity more quickly – whether to help women and girls achieve their ambitions, call for gender-balanced leadership, respect and value difference, develop more inclusive and flexible cultures or root out workplace bias. Each of us can be a leader within our own spheres of influence and commit to take pragmatic action to accelerate gender parity.’
Originally from Singapore, Cassandra Yap is an artist and art director based in London. Her work often explores the juxtaposition between dark and beautiful subjects to create the surreal. Fuelled by her love of pin ups, the female form and an unhealthy obsession with vintage erotica, her photomontage halftone style images are dark, bold and humorous with a kinky edge.
Hattie Stewart is a young London based illustrator. A self – proclaimed ‘professional doodler’ her unique and playful style extends itself through art and fashion. Having worked with designers such as House Of Holland, Marc By Marc Jacobs and Adidas, she has also exhibited in Miami, L.A, Bangkok, New York, Berlin and London. Most recently her notoriety has increased due to a project aptly titled ‘Doodle-Bombing’ where she draws over the covers of influential fashion publications such as Vogue and i:D.
Bonnie and Clyde is an artist and printmaker who uses photography, paint, collage and print to construct graphic mixed media pieces. These deeply personal creations are born of a fascination with street photography, psychogeography, people and signage – and draw inspiration from her loves in life including music, film, typography and architecture.
Kate Gibb has worked as a printmaker & illustrator for over fifteen years. A silkscreen obsessive, her early studies in textiles fuelled her love for colour & pattern which still provides the basis for the majority of her work. The kind of printing she is inspired by is drawn from her continual exploration of the silkscreen process & the random hiccups and happy accidents that happen within this. Commercially she is renowned for her Music related sleeve artworks, most notably for her long standing relationship with ‘The Chemical Brothers’.
The ‘Hung up, Ripped off’ private view by David Shand is on tonight from 6.30pm, Friday 4 March.
‘Bill Hicks famously encouraged everyone who worked in marketing and advertising to kill themselves. Reading adverts and posters on a busy train or billboard I’ve often agreed with him. But as these adverts decay and rip I find something very pleasing, both in the imagery and how they lose meaning and gain new ones. This is the inspiration for my work.’
You can see David’s distinctive paste ups adorning the streets around Finsbury Park and Stroud Green now.
The exhibition will run Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm until the 2nd April at Atom Gallery 77 Stroud Green Road London N4 3EG.
Ham prints are instantly recognisable for their monochrome colour palette, minimal design and whimsical use of rabbits, and this show is no exception. Ham have produced giant wall stickers, merchandise and a new print for Colette to feature in the show.
‘A farmer’s daughter, Jo from Ham grew up in the English countryside before training as a fine artist at The Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford University. Jo spent the next five years working at a London design agency before launching HAM with a pop-up shop in Carnaby Street.’
The show is on in their Paris store until Saturday 2nd April and will run over the Easter period.
You don’t need to go to Paris though to get your hands on one of Ham’s iconic prints, as you can find their range here in our online shop.
And remember a rabbit print is not just for Easter, it’s for life!
James Joyce has recently exhibited at the Colette store in Paris featuring ‘100 likes’ silkscreen prints and paintings.
The word ‘Like’ has become pervasive in today’s culture. It is used constantly in sentences when it is not required, but is also a much sought after reward in social media to boost egos and show popularity for users posts.
‘James Joyce’s Like paintings take a neutral and ambiguous position. They can be read as both a reflection of a vacuous culture defined by a word that has lost it’s meaning, endlessly and mechanically repeated, or as a celebration of ‘Like’ as a positive expression, transformed from its former passive status by its modern active context.’
James demonstrates that ‘Like’ as a word, and also an action, has come to sum up today’s internet generation.
James Joyce is a London based artist and designer and studied at Walsall College of Art at Kingston University.
It’s that time of year when we are given a great excuse to treat our one and only… OUR MUMS!!
We’ve selected our top prints to help celebrate this Mother’s Day. Order by Wednesday to receive your limited edition screen prints in time for Sunday! Or purchase online and collect from our studio until Friday 6pm…
All of our limited edition, screen prints are available from our online gallery.
Click here! Or click on each image to be taken to the artist’s profile.
Lennie Lee is a painter, performer and mixed media artist who lives in the aptly named ‘Colourful House’ based in Dalston. Due to the bright exterior the house has become an East London landmark.
Lennie explores the relationship between contemporary urban daily life and the life-styles, beliefs and rituals of more primitive cultures. He has brought this style into his home by painting colourful murals throughout.
His friend Baz, aka The Skelton Cupboard has contributed too by painting the door of his bathroom with one of his well know skeleton murals.
If you are inspired by Lennie Lee’s Colourful House and want to own a piece of his style then you can by purchasing one of his Day of the Dead inspired female screen prints from Print Club London.
‘What Happens in the Print Room…’ is the third solo show by screen printer Gurley at the Anise Gallery.
London based artist Gurley has been focusing on developing her own evolution of screenprinting that uses a distinctive watercolour style. The exhibition highlights the meticulous and time intensive process of screenprinting.
Gurley merges street art, expressionism and pop art style, while taking inspiration from the streets of London and New York and popular culture.
“Popularised in the 1960’s by Andy Warhol, screenprinting is meticulous, time intensive and, akin to the photographic dark room, its results can be uncertain. It is these nuances that Gurley aims to highlight through this exhibition and her distinctive style that lies somewhere between street art, expressionism and pop art as her work exemplifies the dialogue between colour, subject and viewer.”
The exhibition is open Tuesday – Thursday and Saturday 11am – 5pm until 24 March.
13a Shad Thames, London, SE1 2PU
We are honoured to have taken on the new print edition from Print Club Artist and previous Art Director of Polydor Records in the 1970’s, Vincent McEvoy.
Vincent works primarily using screenprinting, having worked with and been influenced by Andy Warhol in the 80’s and now works printing some of the memorabilia that he has accumulated throughout his career.
“This silk screen print of David Bowie has been reproduced from a candid photograph I took in 1979. Taken at a press call at The Café Royal in London moments before Bowie faced the Fleet Street pack to promote his film ‘Just a Gigolo’ with Marlene Dietrich. This is my contribution to the collective memory of this most talented artist of our time.”
It follows the limited edition print of 2015, ‘The Man Who Sold The World’
It’s this time of the year when we all start to panic about buying our loved ones a special gift that shows just how much we appreciate them! Well, Forget flower bouquets, boxes of chocolates and bad taste gifts – We’ve put together a selection of prints which we are lusting over for Valentine’s 2016.
“I found these playing cards on one of the stalls in Istanbul, and immediately bought them. The cards remind me of the beautiful combination in a relationship of love and lust. I thought these would make intimate Valentines gifts for that someone special. They are small, fun and meaningful, and most importantly they are the same price as a shitty bunch flowers from a petrol station.”
Following the success of both edition runs of Gentlemen’s Flower Arranging Club, Print Club have spent the last month working with Thomas in the studio on a series of new and exlusive prints, available only through Print Club London. Tom’s new print ‘Lido’ is available now through the Print Club Gallery
With it’s romantic and surrealist subject matter we think this limited edition screen print makes the perfect gift for those looking for something a little more special than the usual…
Print Club London are the first studio and gallery to work with Bonnie and Clyde to create works that are entirely screenprinted (and we couldn’t be more excited.)
Bonnie and Clyde use collage, type and photography to produce visually arresting screen-prints and mixed media collages. Bonnie and Clyde decamped to the seaside with her beloved Leica camera a few years ago and began learning the art of screen-printing. Her interest in street photography, psychogeography, architecture and the sea are often reflected with the use of colour and graphical elements that shape her work.
We are happy to announce that the new and exclusive, fully screen printed edition of Hot Lips is now available from the Print Club London online gallery.
We are super excited to announce that we have finally selected a new Printern! We had many applicants and it was a VERY hard decision to make and could only pick one! Aleesha has now joined our team for 2 months where she will be creating exclusive work for Print Club London and we can’t wait!
It’s that time of year when we are given a great excuse to treat our one and only… OUR MUMS!!
