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Here at Print Club London our artists always have your best interests at heart!

Check out the variety of *NEW PRINTS IN* for this FEBRUARY!

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Cod and Chips For Sid // Dave Buonaguidi

500 x 700 mm // £100

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Marilyn’s Breakfast // Dave Buonaguidi

500 x 700 mm // £100

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Totem 4 // Johnathan Reiner

420 x 594 mm // £175

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Franks Elephant // Craig Kennan

500 x 700 mm // £120

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Horse 2 // Craig Kennan

497 x 420 mm // £130

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Feather Eye’s // Craig Kennan

190 x 135 mm // £55

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Blue London // Craig Keenan

297 x 420 mm // £120

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Video Nasty // Ben Rider

353 x 500 mm // £60

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Vera Rubin // Ruby Taylor

500 x 700 mm // £50

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The Butcher // Ruby Taylor

500 x 700 mm // £50

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Alice in Wonderland – Cheshire Cat // Liz Whiteman Smith

300 x 400 mm // £40

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Beach Umbrellas // Liz Whiteman Smith

300 x 400 mm // £40

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& Is For Lover & Friend // Cassandra Yap

594 x 420 mm // £30

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Metroland // Nadia Taylor

500 x 700 mm // £60

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Moon 2.0 // Baby Crow

508 x 720 mm // £60

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Subterranean Homesick Blues // Simon Fitzmaurice

500 x 700 mm // £70

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The Things We Do #1 // Dave Buonaguidi

500 x 700 mm // £110

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Say It With Flowers // Dave Buonaguidi

500 x 700 mm // £60

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The end of 2014 saw an inspiring collaboration between Print Club and Farrow & Ball. 

To celebrate the holiday season Farrow & Ball commissioned three of our London-based artists to create original artworks inspired by the British winter. Each print was printed using Farrow & Ball’s signature chalky finish, Estate Emulsion.

Print Club London x Farrow & Ball Artists:

Clare Halifax

Having grown up in the South West of England, the inspiration for Clare’s work comes from the buildings that surrounded her and nostalgic reminisces of places and items of interest. Within each image, design, pattern and colour plays an important part, adding depth and decoration to build an aesthetically pleasing overall effect.

Clare currently resides in London where she continues to be influenced by her everyday environment.

Chris Andrews 

Since graduating with a BA Hons in Illustration, Chris has worked for a variety of clients in editorial, packaging and publishing fields. Chris’ work is inspired by vintage graphics and fonts from the 1930′s and 1940′s. Texture plays an important part of the work, giving each image a warm nostalgic tone.

Lucille Clerc 

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Lucille is a french Illustrator and she set up her studio after graduating from Central Saint Martins with an MA in Communication Design and before, from ENSAAMA in Paris with a DSAA in Visual Communication.

Her work is mainly handcrafted from drawing to printing.

Her personal work is inspired by London and her most of her work is screen printed (of course.)

“It is a long process, everything is done by hand, everything is drawn, and often the layout is done on site. This way the print is not a reproduction, it’s the original.”

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All of these prints (and more) are available from our Online Gallery.

 

Despite a busy push to get work out in time for Christmas, the artists at Print Club London were no less inspired to create new work for us all to enjoy!

Here’s what we have in our Online Gallery new to January…

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Our Lady Of The Shadows // Lennie Lee
760 x 760 mm // £250

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Made You Look // Anthony Burrill x Hattie Stewart
500 x 700 mm // £100

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Gentlemen’s Flower Arranging Club 1 // Thomas Harold Whitcombe
297 x 420 mm // £50

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Gentlemen’s Flower Arranging Club 2 // Thomas Harold Whitcombe
297 x 420 mm // £50

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Nanus Green // Andrew MacGregor
700 x 500 mm // £100

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Cacti // Andrew MacGregor
700 x 500 mm // £100

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I’m Fine, Thank You // Ashley Amery
700 x 500 mm // £50

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Sphere #1E // Adrian Navarro
730 x 730 mm // £450

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Sphere #2E // Adrian Navarro
730 x 730 mm // £450

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Little Rob // Oli Fowler
297 x 420 mm // £40

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Let’s Go Get Lost Together – France // Dave Buonaguidi
550 x 784 mm // £180

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Play Run Fun Look // Dave Buonaguidi
Sizes Vary // £150

 

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Penelope Kupfer’s exhibition Insects is a contemplative and meditative research into the concept of food through the pretext of a polemic dish: insects. The idea behind the artist’s drawings is that eating choices are also the manifestation of an anxiety related to immortality. Eating is the wish to perpetuate one’s existence.

Nevertheless, there is another side of eating that is related to the impossibility of knowing with certainty how much the food ingested is affecting one’s body harmony and balance. Every bodily process is a wear and tear activity and this is no different with digestion. Our bodies die a little while trying to keep us alive. No matter how conscious or unconscious, there is always a fear that the food ingested is also shortening one’s life expectancy. From that perspective, each spoonful is a small act of suicide.

Insects are the stereotypical “disgusting” food in the majority of the Western world, despite being rich and efficient in protein and ecologically superior to live stocks. They are a more sustainable option yet play interesting cultural charade games with the Western public. What is behind the culture that refuses insect food while accepting other insect-like options such as shrimp, lobster and crabs?

Kupfer’s work is a slow and autonomous process. Repetitive and cyclical, the artist ruminates over the insects, deconstructing them into an infinitude of tiny intricate parts within an endless choreography of circles. Drawing those insects is losing herself into the detail in the hope of finding something by accident. Perhaps there could be some truth hidden behind the physicality of the creature. Or perhaps losing herself in the object is a way to find something in the subject, herself. She has no other option but to open the can of worms and let them out.

At a first glance, it might look like Kupfer’s approach to the issue is similar to that of a child breaking a clock into pieces, trying to understand time. The effort is fated to failure. But the act of dissecting the matter is, in itself, the purpose of the research. In that respect, the artist’s reduction of insects into many small parts is rather an involuntary movement of digestion than an intellectual intention to understand and explain.

Kupfer’s work has been featured in exhibitions in London, Berlin, New York and Sao Paulo, including MoMA NY and a series of workshops at the Tate Britain. In her first solo exhibition at The Vaults Gallery, she will present 24 original new works, alongside a series of hand finished screen prints.

PENELOPE KUPFER

INSECTS

08.01.15 – 24.01.15

PRIVATE VIEW: WEDNESDAY 07 JANUARY 2015, 6-9PM

RSVP: [email protected] 

Get a free limited edition Lucille Clerc calendar for 2015.

Lucille Clerc is a generous artist!
For any purchase over £180 of her artwork, you will receive a free screen printed calendar.

‘Season Swatches’ 2015 Wall Calendar
644 x 600 mm /// Edition of 100 /// Signed

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Lucille-Greenhouse

More of Lucille’s artwork here.

Print Club London are proud to get their hands on the limited edition print created by Anthony Peters of Look & Yes, designed in collaboration byAnthony Burrill and Hattie Stewart printed at Print Club London.

Made You Look is a documentary about the UK DIY graphic arts scene of the 21st century. Via candid interviews with top British creatives, publishers and agency owners we explore the fact that more people than ever seem to be turning to analogue means of creating things, even though we are living at the height of the digital era.

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The film is due for limited theatrical release in 2015 and will be premiered at a major UK Arts festival.

“So many creative people are turning to mediums that take them away from their computers. Methods of making work that involve making real, tactile items to be cherished and kept, instead of being consumed and forgotten.

However, very few creatives could have an audience or career without the trappings of the internet and social media, and this tension between the analogue and digital world is the story we are pursuing in Made You Look.”

-Anthony Peters

This unique screen print has been created in order to raise funds for the documentary, exclusive to Print Club London. 

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Made You Look documentary trailer from Look and Yes on Vimeo.

Most toys will have been cast aside before the tree is down, so why not get them something that won’t lose its novelty!    

Totoro

Totoro /// Anthony Peters
500mm x 700mm /// £60

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Red Fox Cub II /// Tiff Howick
300mm x 400mm /// £50

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Caribou – Eastern Edition /// Margaux Carpentier
500mm x 700mm /// £160

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Penguinception /// Darel Seow
420mm x 594mm /// £60

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Surfboard /// Hattie Stewart
500mm x 700mm /// £40

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Aura /// Sabi Koz
500 x 700mm /// £40

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E.T — the Extra Terrestrial — Silver Edition /// Rose Blake
500 x 700mm /// £45

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treet Food /// Claudia Borfiga
700 x 500 mm /// £100

Always the hardest we know! Fear not, we’ve got a great selection of male friendly festive prints to make this year easy. 

MM is for Master and Slave /// Cassandra Yap
594 x 420 mm /// £30

Print part of a larger collection, see artist’s profile.

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B is for Bondage /// Cassandra Yap
594 x 420 mm /// £30

Print part of a larger collection, see artist’s profile.

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Heisenberg /// Ben Rider
420 x 297 mm /// £40

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Firestarter /// Ben Rider
700 x 500 mm /// £40

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The Ace Of Spade /// 57 Design
700 x 500 mm /// £50

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he Illustrated Letter Project /// 57 Design
700 x 500 mm /// £80

Print part of a larger collection, see artist’s profile.

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Vodka Girls & Chocolate Zombies /// Dave Buonaguidi
500 x 350 mm /// £70

Print part of a larger collection, see artist’s profile.

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Butterfly /// Donk
800 x 520 mm /// £100

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F
lickers /// Marina Esmeraldo
700 x 500 mm /// £40

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Obama /// Joe Wilson
500 x 355 /// £30

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scape Your Modern Life By Bike – Orange /// Andrew Diprose
660 x 500 mm /// £46

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Landscape 9 /// Paul Wardski
410 x 410 mm /// £60

 

Vouchers always seem like an easy answer when you’re running out of ideas, but they’re absolutely the perfect gift for some! Choosing pieces of art to put in your home or office can be really personal and we know that getting it right for someone is sometimes tricky. Giving someone the opportunity to choose from a huge range of beautiful prints is like handing over a bit of luxury which would most definitely be enjoyed!

We have vouchers in £20, £30, £50 and £100 and we’ll send them to you in the post ready to give as the perfect present.

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For those among us who yearn for experiences to learn new things and add to the memory bank we have workshop vouchers. We teach beginner workshops here twice a month where we’ll cover all the basics to set up budding printers to be able to produce their own small edition. Our deluxe workshops also teach the more ambitious to edit artwork and print a multi-layered edition! You can buy beginner workshops here and you can call us at the studio to buy your deluxe workshop vouchers.

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“Stick to the list” is what keeps us safe and probably what we are used to hearing!
NOT THIS YEAR! 

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Shrine I /// Rosie Emerson
850 x 350 mm /// £295

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Shrine 2 /// Rosie Emerson
850 x 350 mm /// £295

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Woman, Fig 18 – With Suitcase /// Joanna Ham
760 x 560 mm /// £100

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Woman with Trainers /// Joanna Ham
760 x 560 mm /// £500

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Stag

Stag Head MMXIV /// Susie Wright
400 x 300 mm /// £100

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Flamingos /// Susie Wright
700 x 500 mm /// £190

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Standing Stag /// Susie Wright
400 x 300 mm /// £50

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And The Cat Just Stared /// Dave Buonaguidi
700 x 500 mm /// £80

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Let’s Go Get Lost Together /// Dave Buonaguidi
550 x 784 mm /// £150

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Flamingos /// Clifford Richards
1016 x 762 mm /// £385

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Totem 3 – Fortuna /// Johnathan Reiner
594 x 420 mm /// £200

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Totem I – Artemis /// Johnathan Reiner
594 x 420 mm /// £175

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Tate Modern /// Lucille Clerc
700 mm x 500 mm /// £180

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Burlesque /// Gavin Dobson
700 x 500 mm /// £80

No one has friends ‘one size fits all’ and neither do we when it comes to our artists and prints. From graphic text to hand-printed detailed illustrations, we have everything. 

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Egg and Soldiers /// Claudia Borfiga
500mm x 700mm /// £70

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We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About /// Giulio Miglietta
420mm x 590mm /// £50

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Hey Ho /// Barry Leonard
500mm x 700mm /// £40

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Daddy Day Care /// Sam Baldwin
297mm x 420mm /// £20

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Flickers /// Marina Esmeraldo
500mm x 700mm /// £40

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Zagora – Loose Ends /// Ted’s Draws
500mm x 700mm /// £40

We have a gift for you to reward your loyalty to Print Club over the year 2014!!

For any print order over £100, we will give you a free print valued at £49.

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Anthony Peters /// Open Heart
420 x 297 mm

Scroll through our news post to find the best gift ideas for all the loved ones!

For HerFor HimFor FriendsFor Kids.

More gift ideas.

Offer valid in December 2014 only.

Freshly pulled limited edition screen prints to treat yourself or your friends.
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I Dreamed A Dream Of Jericho /// Dave Buonaguidi
700 x 500 mm /// £80

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Dace-Buonaguidi-Lets-go-Lost-Together-5Let Go Get Lost Together /// Dave Buonaguidi
550 x 784 mm /// £110

Part of a larger collection, see the artist’s page

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No Sleep /// Gus Farnes
450 x 320 mm /// £30

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And The Cat Just Stared /// Dave Buonaguidi
700 x 500 mm /// £80

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Totem 3 – Fortuna /// Johnathan Reiner
594 x 420 mm /// £200

Part of a larger collection, see the artist’s page

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Caribou – Eastern Edition /// Margaux Carpentier
700 x 500 mm /// £160

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Golden Dandelion /// Chris Keegan
297 x 210 mm /// £30

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All You need is /// Dave Buonaguidi
700 x 500 mm /// £70

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All I Want (Purple) /// Gus Farnes
450 x 380 mm /// £30

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Snowy Harbour /// Louis Craig Carpenter
594 x 420 mm /// £50

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Hackney Town Hall /// Clare Halifax
380 x 560 mm /// £280

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Kew – Palm Greenhouse /// Lucille Clerc
700 x 500 mm /// £100

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Same Shift Different Day /// Dave Buonaguidi
500 x 700 mm /// £70

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Burlesque /// Gavin Dobson
700 x 500 mm /// £80

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Bad Cartoons – Dennis /// Dave Buonaguidi
500 x 400 mm /// £70

Part of a larger collection, see the artist’s page

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Rock Royalty ’86 /// Raed Jibrail
700 x 500 mm /// £65

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Bricks /// Craig Keenan
297 x 297 /// £90

Part of a larger collection, see the artist’s page

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Vilain Chien Planche 1 /// Dave Buonaguidi
700 x 500 mm /// £80

Part of a larger collection, see the artist’s page

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Leaves /// Craig Keenan
297 x 420 mm /// £90

Part of a larger collection, see the artist’s page

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Bad Cartoons – Wally /// Dave Buonaguidi
500 x 400 mm /// £70

Part of a larger collection, see the artist’s page

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The Illustrated Letter Project – & /// 57Design
700 x 500 mm /// £80

Part of a larger collection, see the artist’s page

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Red Fox Cub II /// Tiff Howick
400 x 300 mm /// £50

Part of a larger collection, see the artist’s page

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Gold Fox Cub II /// Tif Howick
400 x 300 mm /// £50

Part of a larger collection, see the artist’s page

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Bombers Over Little Italy /// Dave Buonaguidi
700 x 500 mm /// £80

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Icarus II /// All Cats Are Grey
760 x 560 mm /// £60

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Robot Dance /// Oli Fowler
500 x 500 mm /// £40

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Dunwich Dynamo /// Simon Fitzmaurice
700 x 500 mm /// £45

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Bisous /// Cassandra Yap
500 x 700 mm /// £60

Gold, silver, bronze or coloured, metallic inks are our favourite texture of the moment!

Discover here all the latest prints done with metallic ink.

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We have been commissioned by Eurostar to produce a series of screen prints for their 20th birthday. 

Theme is #BetterCloser because Paris and London are definitely better closer!!!

You can see them in the Metropolitan and buy them online HERE.

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Here is what happen when The Times sends their critics to an art fair with £250 in their pocket… You can buy Andy MacGregor’s pineapples here

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AAF – The Times

Thank you to ‘Courier’ for featuring Print Club in the article “Wall Street”

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The Print Shop

Commercialisation has been a thorny issue among street artists. Despite continued resistance, a broad outlook has taken hold that making money is fine. It’s how you do it that’s of critical importance. The model of print editions for street artists has been led by Banksy and others like Ben Eine, who started out screen printing pieces for Banksy. They first began selling small batches (50-200) of signed prints for paltry sums just over a decade ago. By 2008, one of a print edition of 50 Banksy Kate Moss screen prints sold for £96,000 at auction.

Uzzell-Edwards is among several street artists to have been influenced, ‘You do the maths and realise the money from a print series would pay for a small house.’ says Uzzell-Edwards. ‘I’ve taken that model and run with it. It pays the rent for the gallery space.’ He typically sells a 100-150 edition run, for £200 a piece. Pure Evil, Nelly Duff, Stolen Space, Pictures on Walls and Lazarides are among the most prominent London galleries-cum-retailers specialising in ‘urban art’, where demand from first time buyers for street art print editions has been booming.

You might have heard by now that we have collaborated with Made.com for a couple of seasons to produce limited edition screenprints for their art category.

Here’s a video that they made of the process covering aspects of the planning and production of the prints with our director and curator, Kate, and our head printers, Marco and Sam.

Watch the video on Youtube!

Our awesome technician, Mr. Ben Rider, is on People of Print‘s website, featured as one of the 20 screen print artists you should all know about!

Benjamin Rider, a renowned print technician at Print Club London, is a London-based illustrator and graphic designer who specialises in various print techniques including an unconventional process such as Cyanotype printing which is regularly used by engineers and architects to create blueprints. His time-served expertise in print together with his sense of humour then results in a memorable series of eye-catchy prints.

Click here to visit Ben’s website and here to buy his latest print, the amazing ‘Firestarter’, produced for our Blisters: Sound Sessions 2014 show.

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Wanna know more about Ben and his colourful printing technique?
Check out his Interview for Hunger TV!

As a tribute to one of the most important Modernist German graphic artists who passed away aged 88 in May this year, Kemistry Gallery is holding an exhibition of Hans Hillmann‘s film posters until September 27th… The perfect show for those suffering from Summer Screen Prints nostalgia! ;)

This is the first presentation of Hillmann’s work in the UK, which gives a full overview of the evolution of his style. With his bold, daring creations, Hillmann transformed the art of film advertisement, but Germany’s equivalent of Saul Bass is not well-known in the UK. In the 1950s he used a painterly form of illustration, while throughout the 60s his designs increasingly included photography. Experimental motifs that often appear in his work include ripped paper and the use of multiple images, so the poster resembles a film strip. Meanwhile the designs he created in the late 1960s and 70s, show the influence that Minimalism had on him.

Hans Hillmann: Sturm über Asien

Hillmann had as much of a signature as the brilliant authors whose films he interpreted, cult directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Ingmar Bergman, Jean Cocteau, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini and Luis Buñuel.

He also designed the film posters for landmark films such as Akira Kurosawa’s ‘The Seven Samurai’, Robert Bresson’s ‘Pickpocket’ and Sergei Eisenstein’s ‘Battleship Potemkin’, which design was an audacious and distilled interpretation of the iconic Russian propaganda film:

Battleship Potemkin by Hans Hillmann

‘His most stark creations were for his poster for
Battleship Potemkin
 and for some of his designs
for Jean-Luc Godard’s films.’ – Isabel Stevens
(display curator and film critic)

Hans Hillmann: Das Lrrlicht

To accompany the exhibition the Goethe-Institut and the Institut Français in London will show a selection of films that Hans Hillman designed posters for, showing that fifty years on, Hillmann’s posters are still bringing new audiences to exciting and brave cinema. We certainly believe that his work will still be as great and modern and a true inspiration for our printclubbers in many years to come!

Hans Hillmann: Die Einsamkeit des Langstreckenläufers

Hans Hillmann Film Posters at Kemistry Gallery
43 Charlotte Road EC2A 3PD
Opening Hours: Mon – Sat 10:00 – 18:00 (Admission Free)

Hans Hillmann Films Screenings at the Goethe-Institut
Ciné Lumière – 17 Queensberry Place SW7 2DT
£3; free for Goethe-Institut language students and library members.

Good news for Printclubber Johnathan Reiner who will be showing his amazing screen-printed work at the upcoming Secret Art Prize show at Curious Duke and is now represented by the gallery!

He will be part of the group exhibition alongside winner Mohammed Sami and the other 9 runners up from September 4 until the 27th. With over 130 applicants in two months, Curious Duke Gallery wanted the best of new artistic talent that celebrates the urban and surrealist art and launched the inaugural Secret Art Prize with the view to bring surreal and street art together and to give this niche the support and attention it deserves from the London scene.

Kid Spirit II - Zoro by Johnathan Reiner

“I wished to mix fine art with the current street art trend that we are currently experiencing and put the physical piece of art onto the streets, one that is removable and can then be put into a home or gallery context, and really bridge the gap between fine art and street art.” – Eleni Duke
(Founder of Curious Duke Gallery)

The group show will present the display in the East End gallery at 173 Whitecross Street, with the winning entries and new work, alike, celebrating the strange, beautiful, urban and undiscovered secret talents.

Private View: Thursday 4th September 6–9pm
To RSVP, as this event is invite only, contact:
[email protected]

Fancy buying a print by Johnathan right now? This way please…

A big thanks to ‘People of Print’ for this feature in the first edition of ‘Print Isn’t Dead’

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You can’t really say Print Club London is situated on Miller’s Avenue because in reality, Miller’s Avenue is Print Club London. Just off the side of Kingsland High Street in Dalston exists a cobbled and beautiful street that is bursting with creative energy, and that’s all thanks to Print Club.

Mag and Romain were kind enough to show me around every aspect of Print Club London. Mag’s position is Studio Manager and Romain is in charge of PR. Started in 2007 by Rose Stallard and Fred aigginson as a place to carry on screen printing after university, but with affordable memberships. Kate Higginson joined the team as a director later. They became 24/7 access and eventually home to every aspect of print; screens, equipment, exhibitions, curating and a studio management team. They’re currently going through a refurbishment but that doesn’t hinder anything, the print studio has a beginner’s t-shirt workshop taking place. I’m told the usual workshop calendar is two beginners workshops a week and beginner’s workshops for t-shirts and tote bags twice a month. There’s also a deluxe workshop twice a month. What’s interesting is that the beginner’s workshops never have over 13 people and they have 2 or 3 tutors in attendance, meaning that everyone gets a lot of quality time with a tutor.

Print Club London is based on the very essence of screen printing. All prints are unique, they’re signed and numbered. All artists are under one roof, together. Romain explains there’s a real sense of collaboration and a close knit environment and I can really feel it as I’m taken through all the different rooms. Even parts of the space that aren’t technically Print Club London, for example Absorb Arts, the fine art studio and Millers Junction, the creative desk space. all feel like part of the same family.
The passion runs through everything. I’m lucky enough to have the Gallery Manager Sarah Mei, talk me through the gallery space. She explains that all the founders are still active in design and that everything that appears in the gallery was printed in the studio next door. A very impressive feat considering the amazing work on show. She speaks about the member’s show and just the sheer vastness of applications, how she’s always in the studio looking for potential work to fill the walls of the gallery.
At Print Club London, screen printing is a timeless medium, there’s nothing they can’t do with it and they’re always pushing it further and further. For instance, Print Club London’s realisations range from screen printing bags for Stella McCartney and bespoke pop-up workshops for John Lewis to edible screen prints for Saatchi X. Print Club London want to use the gallery space to show this off too, to show the skills of screen printing.
I don’t even need to prompt them into talking about how involved they get with shows. Every year Print Club London organises a screen print show called Blisters. Every year has a different theme and this year’s is Sound Sessions. The show will take place from the 12 – 14 September. In a nutshell the format is 40 artworks of 40 editions from 40 artists for £40. To decide who goes in the show the Print Club London team have to view over 500 submissions. Pretty daunting stuff, but none of them see the negative side, it’s a chance to have a good detailed look at all the best of the work made that year.

Art on the Underground‘s first pop-up retail outlet appeared in the main concourse at Piccadilly Circus station during 8–19 April selling specially commissioned, limited edition prints celebrating 150 years of the Tube.

The 15 signed and numbered prints, called ’15 for 150′, came from 15 international artists including Sarah LucasGillian Wearing and Wolfgang Tillmans and were priced from £60.

Money from print sales will help support Art on the Underground’s future programme. You can now see and buy the artwork collection online.

Who hasn’t taken a Selfie yet? And who doesn’t love chocolate? So what about combining both things? What about your very own edible version of yourself?

The future of 3D printing still remains pretty thrilling but never more palatable than last month at Harvey Nichols’ fifth floor, where you could print your very own chocolate selfie.

The concept was the result of a collaboration between Rococo Chocolates, the award-winning British luxury chocolate brand, and iMakr, a British 3D printing firm, and the process was simple: Customers stepped inside the printing booth for a 5 minute scan, then waited for 10 days to get their own mini-you chocolate version gift-wrapped and delivered at home.

Behind-the-scenes, the iMakr specialists printed out a plastic model of either a bust or full figurine, after which a food-safe silicone mould of a body or head was cast from the scan, and melted Rococo chocolate was poured in and cooled.

If anyone tried it, please do send us some pictures of your yummy you at[email protected] …We’re already drooling! 😉