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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 1d

⭐Opportunity: Paid internships and artist residencies for PhD researchers at Edinburgh Printmakers via SGSAH to study: Value of Printmaking and the Arts

Applicants must be a 2nd or 3rd year PhD student in the arts & humanities, registered at a Scottish HEI.

Read more: https://f.mtr.cool/gszfszgutz

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 2d

The sessions are structured with two play areas: one playing mat on the floor for babies and small children and a table with materials and instructions for older children to engage in more structured creative activities with their parents.

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 2d

In Messy Play we will employ different materials to craft, draw, paint and discover textures, sounds, colours and shapes together. The sessions focus on early years foundational aspects of sensory development, giving babies and toddlers a space to engage freely with different sensorial stimuli.

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 2d

🎨 Calling all creative babies and toddlers!

Messy Play is a new workshop series designed for babies and toddlers aged 0-5 and their parents. The sessions will meet every other week starting Tuesday 4 November from 10:15-11.

£6 admits one wee one and one adult. https://f.mtr.cool/cvjsqrjrdo

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 4d

During the course, each participant will work on their own print, creating 3-4 layers of colour onto paper. The process is explored through hands-on practice where participants learn the practical skills involved in making a screenprint.

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 4d

✨Screenprinting Weekend
25&26 October

There are a few spaces left on our upcoming Screenprinting Weekend Course: https://f.mtr.cool/gipnicvhgy

Photo: James Harrison

#screenprinting #screenprint #silkscreen

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 6d

Cutting images into wood or linoleum and inking up with colour produces bold dramatic effects. This course will explore the diverse range of ways which artists use this process, experimenting with reduction printing (printing multiple layers from the same block, revealing colours through carving).

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 6d

✨Relief Printing Weekend

18&19 October

There are a few spaces left on this course coming up next weekend!

https://f.mtr.cool/aystfnjomq

#reliefprint #linoprint #linocut

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 7d

The class will cover the use and maintenance of Japanese tools for carving, the kento registration system, asian papers, printing with a baren and the use of waterbased pigments.

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 7d

This form of printmaking was know as 'Ukiyo-e', or 'prints from the floating world'. Birds and flowers were extremely popular themes at that time, as were landscapes, women, actors and historical figures.

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 7d

What is Mokuhanga, and what are Ukiyo-e prints?

Both terms refer to Japanese woodblock prints: images one associates with Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Utamaro and Hokusai, who produced beautiful prints of luminous colour around 150-200 years ago during the Japanese Edo (present-day Tokyo) period.

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 7d

✨Last minute space available: Mokuhanga Weekend Course
This weekend, 11&12 October

https://f.mtr.cool/pznaphpnyw

Join us to develop beautiful contemporary prints using the Japanese traditional process of Mokuhanga.

#mokuhanga #japaneseprintmaking

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 8d

The course will explore making plates using different types of materials such as wallpaper, feathers, leaves, and string, sticking them down onto a piece of card which is then varnished. When ready, the ‘plate’ is then inked up and printed onto paper, creating rich textures and an embossed surface.

Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 8d

A collagraph is a print taken from a collaged plate. This weekend course allows ample time and opportunity to explore this deceptively simple and versatile technique.

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 8d

✨Collagraph Masterclass with Gillian Murray

11&12 October

https://f.mtr.cool/sgdwqoaefa
There are a few last minute spaces on this popular course, coming up this weekend!
#collagraph #collagraphprint #printmaking

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winchesterprint.bsky.social @winchesterprint.bsky.social · 9d

Winchester Print Fair 2026 takes place on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May.

Apply now to take part!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Applications close end of November and we will let everyone know if they are successful by the end of December (if not earlier).

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John Bloor Printmaker @johnbloorprint.bsky.social · 9d

Winchester Print Fair 2026 takes place on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May.

Apply now to take part!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Applications close end of November and we will let everyone know if they are successful by the end of December (if not earlier).

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Eleanor Buffam @eleanorbuffam.bsky.social · 9d

Siberian Purslane Flowers
Cyanotype on Arches Aquarelle

#cyanotype #siberianpurslane

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 9d

Though our main doors are closed on Tuesdays, onsite cafe KUBA is still open and ready to welcome you with incredible food and a creative atmosphere!

KUBA celebrates a fusion of Pan-African and Scottish flavours, Rwandan coffee, and locally sourced speciality teas.

https://www.kubaedinburgh.com/

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 10d

Meanwhile, the mostly working-class residents, refugees and asylum seekers, were displaced and rehoused in other Glasgow high-rises.

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 10d

They were moved again by local authorities to facilitate the production of Sony Bravia’s 2006 Paint advert, an extravagant campaign requiring 1,500 explosive charges and 70,000 litres of paint. Directed by Jonathan Glazer with a reported budget of £2 million, the advert became an iconic spectacle.

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 10d

At the core of the exhibition lies the story of Arif’s own arrival in the UK from Pakistan as an asylum seeker. Her family was initially placed in a high-rise council flat in Prospecthill Circus, on Glasgow’s Southside, by the Home Office.

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 10d

✨Aqsa Arif: Raindrops of Rani
Until 2 November
Edinburgh Printmakers
Free to Enter

Photos by Alan Dimmick

#edartfest #edinburghartfestival #edinburghexhibition #scottishartist #contemporaryscottishart

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 11d

✨Etching Weekend Course✨
22 & 23 November
https://f.mtr.cool/rlqhwieoor

The perfect introduction to etching, introducing innovative techniques that encourage spontaneous and diverse methods of mark-making.

#etching #intaglio #printmaking

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 12d

Deadline for applications: 18 January

Please see the RSA's website for full details and how to apply: https://f.mtr.cool/gvaztxmwdk

#printmaking #residencies #artistresidency #contemporaryprintmaking
#royalscottishacademy #rsa

Royal Scottish Academy

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