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BRP print show, by BlackRatPress on Feb 2, 2008 18:17:11 GMT 1, THE PRINT SHOW NEWSLETTER
*This newsletter is sponsored by global pharmaceutical companies responsible for the research, manufacture and marketing of mostly ineffective cold and flu palliatives
There comes a time in everyone's life, during those long dark nights of the soul, when you sit back, take stock, and ask yourselves deep, searching questions about printing techiques. Things like, could that giclee print really have been done as a screenprint? Or whether a two plate etching with screeprinted elements really is the pinnacle of all printing achievements. Or what about that 120 colour screeprint you overheard two craggy, carny-tanned shamans discussing on the nightbus through Dalston that time you were losing your mind on peyote? Did you really hear that? Could such a fabled thing really happen? Does a parallel dimension that's mostly the same, only with elves and goblins in it, really exist? What about the age old question, is it really wise to go with 410gsm paper as opposed to 300gsm with two varnishes? Just how dangerous would that extra 110gsm be if it fell on you, for example? Would you be able to drag yourself out from underneath it and crawl for help, or would it trap you there, in front of the TV, watching hopelessly, with mounting dispair, as the DVD display counted ineluctably down towards You've Been Framed... And finally, the Big One: is it really necessary to use a La Poupee when inking a zinc plate with a scrim or could you get away with a combination of spit bite and sugar-lift on a soft ground to avoid it? Most of these questions are the last thing we think about at night and the first things we think about in the morning but, until now, the answers have remained exasperatingly out of reach. But all that is about to change. Because for one day, and one day only, we will be unshackling our printers (and replacing those shackles with discreet electronic tags), and driving them (under armed guard) to the gallery where they will stand, blinking with wonderment at your London hairรขโฌยฆ ready to answer all these questions and more.
And that day, my friends, that day is Saturday 16th February. The opening of our first exhibition dedicated to the art of printmaking. In a show we're calling:
THE PRINT SHOW
But the show won't just give you an opportunity to speak to our stunned and slightly timorous printers, oh no. This is not a school trip. This will be a fight to the death (or maybe queue to the death! or maybe just a queue). For some of the finest new prints in all of Christendom (or maybe just Shoreditch).
New editions from such famed artists as these artists here: D*face, Swoon, Nick Walker, Slinkachu Blek Le Rat, and (if he can find a small window of lucidity) Matt Small.
AND unique trial proofs made over the past year by all the artists above.
AND prints on steel, prints on card, Blek monoprints.
AND new collages by D*Face and Nick Walker
AND other as yet undecided or temporarily forgotten stuff
PLUS!
Against our better judgement and the better judgement of health and safety, the local council and Matt's young son Dante, we will be letting the esteemed urban artist and sot extraordinaire, Mr. Matthew Small, loose on an etching plate right here, live, in the centre of the gallery beside bottles of noxious acid, a few feet away from an industrial fridge full of beer and just seconds from imminent disaster. Matt's aim is work with the BRP printers to produce a fresh new etching in a dramatic race against time and his own sobriety. Will he complete another soulful urban masterpiece or will the whole thing descend into a mess of squiggles, blotches and toxic clouds of acid?
Turn up and find out.
And now a bit of background on the new Swoon etching, and Mike Snelle
Way back in the October of last year, back when we were starting here, back when we were installing the Heap show, Swoon spent a week in the country at the secret underground lair of our printers. Working like some kind of very focussed and not particuarly dervishy dervish, she produced a number of editions. One of these editions became a thing of rare beauty, a fragile, ghostly edition, like a forgotten transcript on parchment, lost in the seas of time. We marvelled at them, our souls somehow leavened by their very existence. And then, Mike lost them. We're not kidding. He lost them. And not in the seas of time either. Returning from Swoon's Paris show, he basically left them behind on the Eurostar. He remembered his bag, his tepid half-finished cup of coffee, but left the entire edition behind on the overhead luggage rack. And they were never returned and never showed up in Lost and Found, either. So instead the entire edition, did we mention it was the ENTIRE edition? had to be redone. Only this time, and we're still not sure how this happened... they came back even better. Okay, we do know how this happened: Swoon took pity on Mike, why we don't know, but she did, and she lovingly hand-worked every single one of them. So that now each one of these 20 hand-painted etchings are completely unique and only available at the show. It also means Mike no longer has to fire himself. Out of a canon. At parliament. Wearing only a hollowed-out cantaloupe for protection.
Details
More details will be posted closer to the time, to receive an invite to the show please make sure you're signed up to our newsletter mailing list, by following the link on the bottom of our website. Although, thinking about it, if you're not signed to our newsletter mailing list you're probably not reading this advice now.
See you in a couple of weeks,
BRP
Oh, wait, one more thing.
Last night, our diligent, esteemed and apparently 'Titian-haired' colleague, Sarah Morgan, was out having a quiet dinner with her boyfriend. Things were going well. The food was good, the wine was good, and they were safe in the knowledge that they'd set Sky Plus to record Derren Brown. But then, as they were gazing into each other's eyes and toasting a successful day first day in Chris's dauntingly good new job, the romantic mood was broken suddenly when someone appeared out of nowhere and asked Sarah if she could reserve him a new Nick Walker print. We are not shitting you, Dear Readers, this happened. Last night. Now we pride ourselves on being a friendly approachable crew, and we're not saying this slightly unusual approach isn't worth trying. We're just saying that, you know, if you do see us out dining with our loved ones, maybe send a bottle of champagne over first. Bribery doesn't have to be a dirty word.
THE PRINT SHOW NEWSLETTER
*This newsletter is sponsored by global pharmaceutical companies responsible for the research, manufacture and marketing of mostly ineffective cold and flu palliatives
There comes a time in everyone's life, during those long dark nights of the soul, when you sit back, take stock, and ask yourselves deep, searching questions about printing techiques. Things like, could that giclee print really have been done as a screenprint? Or whether a two plate etching with screeprinted elements really is the pinnacle of all printing achievements. Or what about that 120 colour screeprint you overheard two craggy, carny-tanned shamans discussing on the nightbus through Dalston that time you were losing your mind on peyote? Did you really hear that? Could such a fabled thing really happen? Does a parallel dimension that's mostly the same, only with elves and goblins in it, really exist? What about the age old question, is it really wise to go with 410gsm paper as opposed to 300gsm with two varnishes? Just how dangerous would that extra 110gsm be if it fell on you, for example? Would you be able to drag yourself out from underneath it and crawl for help, or would it trap you there, in front of the TV, watching hopelessly, with mounting dispair, as the DVD display counted ineluctably down towards You've Been Framed... And finally, the Big One: is it really necessary to use a La Poupee when inking a zinc plate with a scrim or could you get away with a combination of spit bite and sugar-lift on a soft ground to avoid it? Most of these questions are the last thing we think about at night and the first things we think about in the morning but, until now, the answers have remained exasperatingly out of reach. But all that is about to change. Because for one day, and one day only, we will be unshackling our printers (and replacing those shackles with discreet electronic tags), and driving them (under armed guard) to the gallery where they will stand, blinking with wonderment at your London hairรขโฌยฆ ready to answer all these questions and more.
And that day, my friends, that day is Saturday 16th February. The opening of our first exhibition dedicated to the art of printmaking. In a show we're calling:
THE PRINT SHOW
But the show won't just give you an opportunity to speak to our stunned and slightly timorous printers, oh no. This is not a school trip. This will be a fight to the death (or maybe queue to the death! or maybe just a queue). For some of the finest new prints in all of Christendom (or maybe just Shoreditch).
New editions from such famed artists as these artists here: D*face, Swoon, Nick Walker, Slinkachu Blek Le Rat, and (if he can find a small window of lucidity) Matt Small.
AND unique trial proofs made over the past year by all the artists above.
AND prints on steel, prints on card, Blek monoprints.
AND new collages by D*Face and Nick Walker
AND other as yet undecided or temporarily forgotten stuff
PLUS!
Against our better judgement and the better judgement of health and safety, the local council and Matt's young son Dante, we will be letting the esteemed urban artist and sot extraordinaire, Mr. Matthew Small, loose on an etching plate right here, live, in the centre of the gallery beside bottles of noxious acid, a few feet away from an industrial fridge full of beer and just seconds from imminent disaster. Matt's aim is work with the BRP printers to produce a fresh new etching in a dramatic race against time and his own sobriety. Will he complete another soulful urban masterpiece or will the whole thing descend into a mess of squiggles, blotches and toxic clouds of acid?
Turn up and find out.
And now a bit of background on the new Swoon etching, and Mike Snelle
Way back in the October of last year, back when we were starting here, back when we were installing the Heap show, Swoon spent a week in the country at the secret underground lair of our printers. Working like some kind of very focussed and not particuarly dervishy dervish, she produced a number of editions. One of these editions became a thing of rare beauty, a fragile, ghostly edition, like a forgotten transcript on parchment, lost in the seas of time. We marvelled at them, our souls somehow leavened by their very existence. And then, Mike lost them. We're not kidding. He lost them. And not in the seas of time either. Returning from Swoon's Paris show, he basically left them behind on the Eurostar. He remembered his bag, his tepid half-finished cup of coffee, but left the entire edition behind on the overhead luggage rack. And they were never returned and never showed up in Lost and Found, either. So instead the entire edition, did we mention it was the ENTIRE edition? had to be redone. Only this time, and we're still not sure how this happened... they came back even better. Okay, we do know how this happened: Swoon took pity on Mike, why we don't know, but she did, and she lovingly hand-worked every single one of them. So that now each one of these 20 hand-painted etchings are completely unique and only available at the show. It also means Mike no longer has to fire himself. Out of a canon. At parliament. Wearing only a hollowed-out cantaloupe for protection.
Details
More details will be posted closer to the time, to receive an invite to the show please make sure you're signed up to our newsletter mailing list, by following the link on the bottom of our website. Although, thinking about it, if you're not signed to our newsletter mailing list you're probably not reading this advice now.
See you in a couple of weeks,
BRP
Oh, wait, one more thing.
Last night, our diligent, esteemed and apparently 'Titian-haired' colleague, Sarah Morgan, was out having a quiet dinner with her boyfriend. Things were going well. The food was good, the wine was good, and they were safe in the knowledge that they'd set Sky Plus to record Derren Brown. But then, as they were gazing into each other's eyes and toasting a successful day first day in Chris's dauntingly good new job, the romantic mood was broken suddenly when someone appeared out of nowhere and asked Sarah if she could reserve him a new Nick Walker print. We are not shitting you, Dear Readers, this happened. Last night. Now we pride ourselves on being a friendly approachable crew, and we're not saying this slightly unusual approach isn't worth trying. We're just saying that, you know, if you do see us out dining with our loved ones, maybe send a bottle of champagne over first. Bribery doesn't have to be a dirty word.
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stuey09
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BRP print show, by stuey09 on Feb 2, 2008 18:40:18 GMT 1, Sounds like a must, can't wait.
Another 600 mile round trip awaits for a couple of hours of enlightenment.
Sounds like a must, can't wait.
Another 600 mile round trip awaits for a couple of hours of enlightenment.
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BRP print show, by fartofthestate on Feb 2, 2008 19:38:11 GMT 1, I'll miss this by a few days, I'm gutted.
I'll miss this by a few days, I'm gutted.
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BRP print show, by mammal2 on Feb 2, 2008 20:01:53 GMT 1, Cannot wait for this show. Sounds mostly brilliant. I am concerned that I will spunk a load of money up the wall that should be going on a new Banksy, but I would really like a dface collage. Will there be beer, if not then im out. I only go to these things to get plastered. Oi Oi
Cannot wait for this show. Sounds mostly brilliant. I am concerned that I will spunk a load of money up the wall that should be going on a new Banksy, but I would really like a dface collage. Will there be beer, if not then im out. I only go to these things to get plastered. Oi Oi
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BRP print show, by speebe on Feb 2, 2008 21:55:16 GMT 1, I can't wait to see Mr M. Small in action, looking at the fear well up in the eyes of the BRP print crew.
I can't wait to see Mr M. Small in action, looking at the fear well up in the eyes of the BRP print crew.
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pezlow
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BRP print show, by pezlow on Feb 2, 2008 22:02:37 GMT 1, Matt Small + Beer + Etching Acid = Stand well back
Matt Small + Beer + Etching Acid = Stand well back
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scavos
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BRP print show, by scavos on Feb 2, 2008 22:26:53 GMT 1, Matt Small + Beer + Etching Acid = Stand well back
Yep, I'll not be on the front row for that. ;D
Matt Small + Beer + Etching Acid = Stand well back Yep, I'll not be on the front row for that. ;D
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guest2
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BRP print show, by guest2 on Feb 2, 2008 22:28:32 GMT 1, I can't wait to see Mr M. Small in action, looking at the fear well up in the eyes of the BRP print crew.
I hope they get him a Mic!
I can't wait to see Mr M. Small in action, looking at the fear well up in the eyes of the BRP print crew. I hope they get him a Mic!
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BRP print show, by melmoth on Feb 2, 2008 22:32:08 GMT 1, I'm in London on the Sunday, but not the Saturday. Gutted
I'm in London on the Sunday, but not the Saturday. Gutted
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BRP print show, by buffin on Feb 2, 2008 22:44:31 GMT 1, Matt Small + Beer + Etching Acid = Stand well back
Yeah and no-one mention Banksy! ;D
Matt Small + Beer + Etching Acid = Stand well back Yeah and no-one mention Banksy! ;D
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paulah
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BRP print show, by paulah on Feb 2, 2008 22:48:34 GMT 1, Cannot wait for this show. Sounds mostly brilliant. I am concerned that I will spunk a load of money up the wall that should be going on a new Banksy, but I would really like a dface collage. Will there be beer, if not then im out. I only go to these things to get plastered. Oi Oi
Couldn't have put it better myself!
Cannot wait for this show. Sounds mostly brilliant. I am concerned that I will spunk a load of money up the wall that should be going on a new Banksy, but I would really like a dface collage. Will there be beer, if not then im out. I only go to these things to get plastered. Oi Oi Couldn't have put it better myself!
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BRP print show, by mammal2 on Feb 2, 2008 22:50:37 GMT 1, Oh shit Paulah. I forgot to send you those pics. I will do so tomorrow. oi oi
Oh shit Paulah. I forgot to send you those pics. I will do so tomorrow. oi oi
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paulah
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BRP print show, by paulah on Feb 2, 2008 23:05:12 GMT 1, ta much
ta much
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BRP print show, by Sherlock Holmes on Feb 3, 2008 19:43:13 GMT 1, Why do these things always have to happen when I'm working?
Keep contemplating pulling a sicky or even being honest, and asking for time off, hmmmmm, decisions, decisions
For those Slinkachu fans, his piece is a 'little' treasure
Why do these things always have to happen when I'm working? Keep contemplating pulling a sicky or even being honest, and asking for time off, hmmmmm, decisions, decisions For those Slinkachu fans, his piece is a 'little' treasure
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danvnuk
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BRP print show, by danvnuk on Feb 13, 2008 14:04:14 GMT 1, oh man - I have a right dilemma....it's a friends birthday, and I agreed to go ages back - it's local, so not in London....
The show starts at 4pm - so don't know whether to goto BRP - then leave at 7pm'ish to get to my friends drinks for 8pm'ish.....but then, once I'm drinking and into the swing of things I won't want to leave early
What time are people planning on getting there?
I need to consider this carefully.
oh man - I have a right dilemma....it's a friends birthday, and I agreed to go ages back - it's local, so not in London....
The show starts at 4pm - so don't know whether to goto BRP - then leave at 7pm'ish to get to my friends drinks for 8pm'ish.....but then, once I'm drinking and into the swing of things I won't want to leave early
What time are people planning on getting there?
I need to consider this carefully.
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BRP print show, by bobbyt23 on Feb 13, 2008 14:06:51 GMT 1, oh man - I have a right dilemma....it's a friends birthday, and I agreed to go ages back - it's local, so not in London.... The show starts at 4pm - so don't know whether to goto BRP - then leave at 7pm'ish to get to my friends drinks for 8pm'ish.....but then, once I'm drinking and into the swing of things I won't want to leave early What time are people planning on getting there? I need to consider this carefully.
I'm going early cos I have to leave early to get the last train back up North!!!
Any Londonites fancy meeting for a few drinks before??
oh man - I have a right dilemma....it's a friends birthday, and I agreed to go ages back - it's local, so not in London.... The show starts at 4pm - so don't know whether to goto BRP - then leave at 7pm'ish to get to my friends drinks for 8pm'ish.....but then, once I'm drinking and into the swing of things I won't want to leave early What time are people planning on getting there? I need to consider this carefully. I'm going early cos I have to leave early to get the last train back up North!!! Any Londonites fancy meeting for a few drinks before??
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yapsey
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BRP print show, by yapsey on Feb 13, 2008 18:23:18 GMT 1, i think i'm going to early...... but that's because i'm desperate for an original!!!
i think i'm going to early...... but that's because i'm desperate for an original!!!
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eddiedangerous
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BRP print show, by eddiedangerous on Feb 13, 2008 19:23:12 GMT 1, theres about 6 people in the queue already!!!
theres about 6 people in the queue already!!!
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BRP print show, by arcam on Feb 13, 2008 19:32:23 GMT 1, Surely you jest?
Surely you jest?
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Vegas
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September 2007
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BRP print show, by Vegas on Feb 14, 2008 13:26:12 GMT 1, Does anyone know what time it all kicks off?
Does anyone know what time it all kicks off?
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BRP print show, by sahoria on Feb 14, 2008 13:39:42 GMT 1, 4 pm...s
4 pm...s
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BRP print show, by snakes on Feb 14, 2008 14:27:49 GMT 1, will this just be a bloody great big scrum down like the Walker release or will it be a civilised affair.
My concern is that there will be bloody great Q's after the D'Face collages and prints after having seen what chrissomerset flogged his for which will draw the interest from what the days really about. If so I shall be skipping this.
Why not release the prints on a separate day or is it again all about ยฃ$ยฃ?
will this just be a bloody great big scrum down like the Walker release or will it be a civilised affair.
My concern is that there will be bloody great Q's after the D'Face collages and prints after having seen what chrissomerset flogged his for which will draw the interest from what the days really about. If so I shall be skipping this.
Why not release the prints on a separate day or is it again all about ยฃ$ยฃ?
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BRP print show, by somerset on Feb 15, 2008 15:08:45 GMT 1, thanks snakes, do you want me to pick you up anything as you cant go?
thanks snakes, do you want me to pick you up anything as you cant go?
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BRP print show, by arcam on Feb 15, 2008 15:36:49 GMT 1, will this just be a bloody great big scrum down like the Walker release or will it be a civilised affair. That's one thing which is putting me off going..
will this just be a bloody great big scrum down like the Walker release or will it be a civilised affair. That's one thing which is putting me off going..
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Nuno
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BRP print show, by Nuno on Feb 15, 2008 15:42:52 GMT 1, I was going to go to this, printed my invite off the moment they dropped into the inbox. However, i think its going to be completely different to how it would have been two weeks ago. I would imagine some people have been sharpening their elbows for days in anticipation!
I was going to go to this, printed my invite off the moment they dropped into the inbox. However, i think its going to be completely different to how it would have been two weeks ago. I would imagine some people have been sharpening their elbows for days in anticipation!
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moonmorals
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January 2008
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BRP print show, by moonmorals on Feb 15, 2008 19:20:15 GMT 1, all it needs is one person in the queue, everyone else in the bricklayers swapping places every hour ;D
all it needs is one person in the queue, everyone else in the bricklayers swapping places every hour ;D
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yapsey
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November 2007
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BRP print show, by yapsey on Feb 15, 2008 21:12:54 GMT 1, i'm traveling quite a long way for this - is it really going to a scrum and will i have to get there really early?
i'm traveling quite a long way for this - is it really going to a scrum and will i have to get there really early?
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waveydavey
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BRP print show, by waveydavey on Feb 15, 2008 21:21:08 GMT 1, Its difficult to call this one. Maybe not that early with NW's print gone. I can't help thinking that even if I rock up at midday I will still get a print. But then again....
Its difficult to call this one. Maybe not that early with NW's print gone. I can't help thinking that even if I rock up at midday I will still get a print. But then again....
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gtf
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BRP print show, by gtf on Feb 16, 2008 0:29:45 GMT 1, This is not just about what prints, originals, etc you can get. This exhibition is meant to be "dedicated to the art of printmaking" No one is talking about anything but what is available/what time do I need to get to get something. All a bit depressing.
No mention about "Matthew Small, being let loose on an etching plate live" Is no-one interested in this?? What questions to ask the printers?
This could be a truly great event, the gallery has come up with a great concept, put on a brilliant line-up. This could be a good opportunity missed.........
Here's a question that has always intrigued me that someone could ask the printers providing a riot does not break out The Apish Angel was a 7 colour screenprint with 2 varnishes. What the heck were the 7 colours?? (black, bottomless pit black, grey, light grey, even lighter grey?)
Anyone care to add some more questions?
This is not just about what prints, originals, etc you can get. This exhibition is meant to be "dedicated to the art of printmaking" No one is talking about anything but what is available/what time do I need to get to get something. All a bit depressing. No mention about "Matthew Small, being let loose on an etching plate live" Is no-one interested in this? ? What questions to ask the printers? This could be a truly great event, the gallery has come up with a great concept, put on a brilliant line-up. This could be a good opportunity missed......... Here's a question that has always intrigued me that someone could ask the printers providing a riot does not break out The Apish Angel was a 7 colour screenprint with 2 varnishes. What the heck were the 7 colours?? (black, bottomless pit black, grey, light grey, even lighter grey?) Anyone care to add some more questions?
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retrome
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BRP print show, by retrome on Feb 16, 2008 0:54:27 GMT 1, so will I see you there then gtf?
so will I see you there then gtf?
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