
2020 FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
Monday 23 November
available from 9am
Part of the Press Showcase Collection, each day throughout Leicester Print Festival there will be a new video giving you a glimpse inside the studio and a chance to see each press in action.

Demo
Studio Showcase:
Screenprinting
Thursday 26 November
available from 4pm
Join LPW technician, artist and tutor Serena Smith in learning how to create and print using a transparent polymer plate.

Activity
Pop Up Print - How to make transparent polymer plate print
Tuesday 24 November
available from 12pm
Part of the Pop up Print Collection. Join Leicester Print Workshop Education Manager, artist and tutor Kate Da'Casto in learning how to make a simple folded book.

Activity
Pop Up Print - Bookmaking
Monday 23 November
available from 2pm
Whilst creating a printed and stitched sampler, experiment with 'mindful markmaking' techniques and explore the meditative qualities of repetition with Leicester Print Workshop artist and tutor Augusta Philippou.

Activity
Mindful Markmaking with Augusta Philippou
Tuesday 24 November
available from 4pm
Join Leicester Print Workshop artist and tutor Peter Clayton as he takes you through the process of creating a multi-layered monoprint using recycled materials found around the home.

Activity
Monoprint with Peter Clayton
Wednesday 25 November
available from 10am
Join Leicester Print Workshop artist and tutor Sally Stephens to learn how to create a collagraph plate, which can be printed at home without a press.

Activity
Pop Up Print - How to make a big hug
Friday 27 November
available from 5pm
Be inspired by Japanese woodblock techniques to create your own prints at the kitchen table. Learn how to adapt this historic technique using the things you have to hand

Activity
Recycled Japanese Woodbock
Friday 27 November
available from 6pm
Join us as we look back through Leicester Print Workshops' community project Printing Parks with artist and tutor Sally Stephens.

Artist Talk
In Conversation with Sally Stephens
Thursday 26 November
available from 8pm
Join Leicester Print Workshop technician, artist and tutor Serena Smith in conversation with Illinois based artist Michael Barnes.

Artist Talk
In Conversation with Michael Barnes
Thursday 26 November
available from 2pm
Claire is one of the founding members of Leicester Print Workshop. She worked as educator & curator at Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery and Leicester City Gallery.

Artist Talk
The Path Project -
Claire Morris Wright
Wednesday 25 November
available from 5.30pm
Emma Fitzpatrick’s work draws influence from people, architecture and landscapes. She is interested in the theme of time and man’s inventiveness in creating environments to live in.

Artist Talk
In Conversation with Emma Fitzpatrick
Tuesday 24 November
available from 2pm
Watch Leicester Print Workshop studio manager Nichola Hingley take you through the processes of monoprinting.

Demo
Monoprint with Nichola Hingley
Monday 23 November
available from 6pm
Watch Leicester Print Workshop tutor Karoline Rerrie take you through the process of how she creates a colourful two layer screenprint.

Demo
Silkscreen with Karoline Rerrie
Friday 27 November
available from 11am
Watch LPW technician Serena Smith share her top tips on laminating thin papers - a technique used for attaching delicate calligraphy tissue to a more robust paper.

Demo
Coffee & Print: LIVE
Monday 23 November
available from 10am
Watch Leicester Print Workshop technician Katy Goodrich take you through the process of creating a mono screenprint with a photographic top layer.

Demo
Mono Silkscreen with Katy Goodrich
Friday 27 November
available from 12pm
Watch Leicester Print Workshop artist and tutor Gregory Millar take you through his process of printing multi-layered linocuts using a SLAMA hand press.

Demo
Linocut with Gregory Millar
Tuesday 24 November
available from 10am
Watch as Leicester Print Workshop technician, artist and tutor Serena Smith takes you through one of the many ways to ink and print a collagraph plate.

Demo
Inking a Collagraph Plate with Serena Smith
Wednesday 25 November
available from 2pm
Join the California based artist as she takes you through her process of creating vibrant drawings & paintings onto draughting film.

Demo
Painting and Drawing onto Draughting Film - Marisa Sayler
Wednesday 25 November
available from 8pm
Watch Leicester Print Workshop artist and tutor Sally Stephens take you through the process of drypoint etching an aluminium plate.

Demo
Drypoint onto Aluminium with Sally Stephens
Monday 23 November
available from 4pm
Join Leicester Print Workshop artist, studio holder and tutor Peter Clayton on a journey through basic colour theory, a skill useful for all printmaking techniques.

Demo
Colour Theory with Peter Clayton
Wednesday 25 November
available from 12pm
To mark our 5th anniversary here in the Cultural Quarter of Leicester, watch a timelapse film of Our Big Move project, that tranformed a warehouse into a fit for purpose printmaking studio.

LPW Archive Films
Our Big Move Building Time Lapse from 2015
Wednesday 25 November
available from 4pm
Watch Leicester Print Workshop Education Manager, artist and tutor Kate Da'Casto take you through the process and thinking behind her etchings made during a residency at Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park.

LPW Archive Films
Etching with Kate Da’Casto
Friday 27 November
available from 9.30am
Part of the Leicester Print Workshop Archive, filmed by Bill Newsinger. Join Leicester Print Workshop artist Theo Miller who will take you through the process of restoring a Columbian press.

LPW Archive Films
The New Custodian Film
Thursday 26 November
available from 12pm
Join Leicester Print Workshop stone lithography fellow 2013-15, tutor and West Yorkshire Print Workshop technician Kathryn Desforges taking you through the process of printing a stone lithograph print. Creating and demonstrating the process along the way.

LPW Archive Films
Stone Lithography with Kathryn Desforges
Tuesday 24 November
available from 9am
Watch Leicester Print Workshop technician Serena Smith using the Hydraulic press to print a collagraph plate.

Studio Showcase
Studio Showcase - Hydraulic Press
Thursday 26 November
available from 9am
Watch Leicester Print Workshop artist and tutor Sumiko Eadon using the Rochat press to print a photo lithography plate.

Studio Showcase
Studio Showcase - Rochat Press
Friday 27 November
available from 2pm
Watch Leicester Print Workshop technician Serena Smith using the Galley and Adana presses to print letterpress.

Studio Showcase
Studio Showcase - Letterpress
Friday 27 November
available from 9am
Watch Leicester Print Workshop artist and volunteer Kate Fortune Jones using the Columbian press to print a lino plate.

Studio Showcase
Studio Showcase - Columbian Press
Thursday 26 November
available from 10am
Watch Leicester Print Workshop artist and volunteer Kate Fortune Jones create a lithographic print.
