• The Love of Print: 50 years of Glasgow Print Studio

    The Love of Print: 50 years of Glasgow Print Studio

    Exhibited at Rozelle House, Ayr, and the McKechnie Institute, Girvan from Saturday 27th May to  September 17th 2023.

     

    First exhibited at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum from Friday 18th November 2022 to  March 12th 2023. 

     

    The Love of Print is a celebration of 50 years of printmaking at Glasgow Print Studio. Over five decades, thousands of artists have made prints at GPS, from Turner Prize winners and nominees to recent graduates and complete beginners.

     

    The main body of the exhibition broadly follows a chronology by decade and comprises of archival and loaned work, studio publications and members prints. There are specific selections made by the Print Studio Master Printers - Collaborative Printers - and a section entitled Here and Now, a commission of 50 new editions by a selection of member-artists currently working in and using the printmaking facilities at GPS.

     

    Artists on display include Ciara Phillips, Martin Boyce, Alasdair Gray, John Byrne, Ken Currie, Adrian Wiszniewski, Claire Barclay, Barbara Rae, Alison Watt, Elizabeth Blackadder and John Houston among many others.

     

    We wish to thank everyone who helped to make this exhibtion possible, including all of the exhibiting artists, D8 design, the current staff and board of Glasgow Print Studio, the staff, curators and technical team at Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow City Council and Glasgow Life, Creative Scotland, Willam Grant Foundation and all our industry partners and colleagues.

     

     50th logo courtesy of D8

     

     

     

     

  • 'This exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, despite the inclusion of over 200 works is a snapshot of the...

    "This exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, despite the inclusion of over 200 works is a snapshot of the amazing work made at Glasgow Print Studio over the years and the section called Here and Now by 50 of our current members illustrates the amazing breadth of quality and the confidence we should have in the future of printmaking in Scotland."

     

    John Mackechnie, Director.

     

    "The members are integral to Glasgow Print Studio and form the heart of the organisation. Working across different print mediums such as screenprint, etching, photopolymer gravure, relief printing on wood and lino, digital printing and laser cutting, creating a varied and vast output, much of which can be seen on display in our beautiful gallery spaces and at art fairs. Not only do they make artwork of outstanding cultural and creative value, the sales of their work go back into running Glasgow Print Studio as well as creating a livelihood for the artists themselves."

     

    Claire Forsyth, Studio Manager.

     

    We Love You promotional logo features the edition 'We Love You', 2022, Jim Lambie. Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow. Published by Glasgow Print Studio.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Image courtesy of Fiona Watson and John Mackechnie, with thanks to Murray Robertson.

    Image courtesy of Fiona Watson and John Mackechnie, with thanks to Murray Robertson.