PROJECTS
Swansea Print Workshop has completed a wide range of very successful projects to date. Although we receive no revenue funding, we have been able to extend our programmes through the delivery of a range of project-based activities. These were designed to build on the expertise and experience of our members and provided them with the opportunity to gain additional skills in printmaking, arts administration, marketing and curating exhibitions as central activities of the workshop.
These projects varied in both scale and content but all of them have added unique skills to our portfolio. They have also much enhanced our connection with the community at large and specific target groups.
2009-10: New Creative Dialogues Project
Swansea Print Workshop was awarded an Arts Council of Wales Grant of £15,000 in February 2010 towards our New Creative Dialogues project.
The New Creative Dialogues project gives the organisation an opportunity to work with a Liz Jackson as a Printmaker in Residence who will lead us into a new area of practice through exploring a different perspective on printmaking.
The colour of nature/the nature of colour provides the theme for a series of Masterclasses that took place over June, July and August.
The project will also deliver the theme to community and other Outreach groups over the summer led by our experienced Workshop Leaders.
2008-9: Changing Swansea Project
This year long project supported by the Arts Council of Wales involved printmakers from all over the city and beyond in both challenging and interesting ways, responding in a personal way to ‘Changing Swansea...’ through the medium of printmaking.
Support was given to new and very young printmakers to learn the basic skills through a programme of subsidised workshops supported by a programme of visiting artists and masterclasses demonstrating more advanced techniques.
Over 300 people took part in all. Many of the prints were produced in small editions and these are for sale through the Workshop.
The project culminated with an exhibition in the Arts Wing at the Grand Theatre in Swansea in August 2009.
2008 August: Ever Changing Swansea Project
This was a project for the immediate locality funded by Communities First [Castle Ward]. Exhibition of Prints from the project were exhibited at the Arts Wing, Grand Theatre Swansea in November.
2007-8: Information and Resource Coordination Project
This project is designed to bring all the expertise we have accrued over the past few years into a coherent and accessible form. The grant has enabled us to offer a 12 month consultancy post to an experienced printmaker to coordinate the project.
Additionally digital development consultancy and marketing support will be supplied by Lorna and Nigel Packer of Business for Business
2007: The Equal Project
The EQUAL workshops were geared towards minority groups based in
Widely advertised and highly successful, the project attracted participants from Spain, Iran, Czech Republic, Latvia, Pakistan, Wales, India, Canada and Scotland as well as successfully targeting those with Chinese, Filippino, African and Arabic backgrounds.
2007: Contemporary Welsh Printmakers
Contemporary Welsh Printmakers represents 20 artists living and working in
2005-8: Programmes, Projects and Administration Coordination
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Swansea Print Workshop were awarded a grant to put in place an administrative support structure. This has a quarterly review of targets and outcomes. New systems of book keeping, financial control and database were set up initially and the collection of other statistics refined. Targets included: Strategic Planning, Financial Control, Programme Co-ordination, Volunteer support, Marketing -
2004-7: Workshop Development Project
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation Award: £60,000 over three yearsThe support from the Foundation was a vital catalyst in moving the organisation forward in very significant ways. In providing core funding for the central activity of the organisation and a period of stability and development. It has facilitated increased expertise in our staff and members profile thereby progressing the professional profile of all participants.
2006: Artes Mundi Outreach Project:
Artists Sameera Khan and Sarah Hopkins initially led a collagraph workshop, for a group of Muslim women in
As a direct result of the success of this workshop, the Trustees of Artes Mundi funded a series of workshops in
2005-6: Festival of Muslim Cultures: UK 2006
Arts Council of
Under the banner of the Festival of Muslim Cultures:UK 2006, Swansea Print Workshop established the Festival of Muslim Cultures Print Project; a year-long programme of printmaking activities, artist residencies, workshops and exhibitions.
2005: The Contemporary Pakistani Printmakers exhibition,
Arts Council of Wales and part funded by Swansea Print Workshop
Curated by Sarah Hopkins and Sameera Khan, showcased the work of the country’s best printmakers. The exhibition was brought to
2005: The 'All About Me' Photographic Project –
An exploration of identity devised and taught by Gaynor Hansen-Jones facilitated by SPW. The projects’ aim was to target people who attend community centres, who specifically suffer with mental health problems and was developed to explore personal and cultural identity.
2004: Print Auction
Held at the
2004: Invited Artists Project:
Five local artists were invited to work with Sameera Khan to develop an aspect of printmaking new to them and then produce a limited edition of a print
2004: Volunteer Participation Project:
Arts Council of
2004: Photo Screenprint Project
You & Your Community: WCVS Millennium Award Scheme:
Aims of the Project: to upgrade the skills of the four artists using the photoscreenprint process and introduce it into the workshop programme in an accessible way.
2003: Dylan Thomas Print Project
Arts Council of
This was a collaborative print project by twelve printmakers to produce a limited edition boxed set of prints.
especially when the october wind
TWELVE ORIGINAL PRINTS
Collectors item to mark the 50th anniversary of Dylan Thomas’ death
2003: Access Project
2001-4: PrintWorks: Outreach Project
Arts Council of
This project made printmaking available to any group in the community who wanted to get involved. With a core group of experienced workshop leaders we were able to take our mobile presses out to community venues on a wide ranging basis. The project was extremely successful in raising the profile of printmaking, not only in the voluntary sector, but also in mainstream education, where we can make significant contributions to curriculum requirements, outreach community college programmes and small art groups.
We worked with over 50 groups, nearly 500 workshops and over 6,000 attendances by the end of the project.
2000: CASW Editioning Project
Contemporary Art Society for
Swansea Print Workshop were commissioned to work with Glenys Cour to produce a limited edition print for the portfolio.
2000: Print Auction
1999:
Millennium Award:
The award enabled the purchase of a mobile press and printmaking materials to explore the viability of printmaking activities in the local area and to build up community contacts whilst the main studio was being refurbished.
