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	SPW GROUP SHOW - PAKISTAN ‘51.34 North 1.46 West’ Swansea Print Workshop Group Show ’51.34 North 1.46 West’, the first group show from the Workshop to be seen internationally was open to our Full members. The exhibition catalogue is available for download (pdf file approx 1.5Mb) Taking part were: Lynne Bebb Sheila Clark Rose Davies Elissa Evans Ayesha Farooq Alan Figg Jackie Ford Sarah Hopkins Veronica Gibson Zena James Rhian Jarman Aleem dad Khan Sameera Khan Robert Macdonald Lorna Packer Ruth Parmiter Carys Roberts Judith Stroud Kara Seaman Alan Williams The exhibition toured: Swansea Print Workshop Group Show at the Alhambra Arts Centre Gallery May 2007: ’51.34 North 1.46 West’ Alhambra Arts Centre, Lahore, Pakistan April 2007: ‘51.34 North 1.46 West’, Swansea Print Workshop Printmakers: Nomad Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan Alhambra Arts Centre, Lahore, Pakistan	HOME ABOUT US CONTACT US EXHIBITIONS contemporary welsh printmakers spw group show pakistan 2006 dylan thomas print project: pakistan festival of muslim cultures print project contemporary pakistani printmakers FACILITIES GALLERY OPPORTUNITIES PRINTMAKING PROCESSES PROJECTS STUDIO ACTIVITIES
	Robert Macdonald: Chair of The Welsh Group Foreword by Robert Macdonald: Chair Welsh Art Group Director: Swansea Print Workshop Wales is a Celtic nation with very different traditions to that of its larger neighbour, England, to the east. Artistically it has always been famed for its musicality, and known in the past as, ‘The Land of Song’; but little has been heard of its visual arts. This has begun to change. For various reasons, (some of them economic), the number of painters and sculptors making their home in Wales has grown dramatically in the past 20 or 30 years. Alas, the artistic infrastructure to support them has not expanded in a similar way. There is no Welsh gallery of contemporary art; no Welsh Visual Arts magazine; little tradition of criticism. But for painters and printmakers like myself the arrival of the Swansea Print Workshop has been an enormous boon. Throughout Britain such workshops have kept alive the vital traditions of printmaking that many art schools have abandoned in their rush to embrace modern technologies of computer-based imagery and the digital revolution. This is not to say that the print workshops have remained stuck in the past. Many new techniques have been introduced, and the Swansea workshop has been in the forefront of moves to use new and safer materials and methods. For an artist like myself, privileged to have worked in my early years in the grand printmaking department of the Central School of Art in London when the tutors included some of Britain’s best-known experts in etching, block printing and lithography, it is a joy to discover a new generation of younger artists working in Swansea and using old techniques to give voice to new ideas and points of view. I have not been back to the Central School for years and I suspect that its printmaking department is now a computerised shadow of its former self, but in Workshops like Swansea artists can encounter again the unique romance of presses, hand made papers, woodblocks, inks, tools and rollers that add an incomparable magic to the process of artistic expression. Swansea: January 2007
	PRINTS Click for larger images, click BACK to return - artwork can also be seen in the Gallery Leila Bebb Dad Collagraph - 51cm x 38cm Lynne Bebb Lovespoon Collagraph -57cm x 75cm Sheila Clark Butter Burr Leaves Collagraph - 83cm x 63cm Rose Davies Divi III Silkscreen - 45cm x 65cm Elissa Evans Song for ‘O’ Monoprint – Ayesha Farooq Falling leaves Monoprint - 60cm x 25cm Alan Figg And all the angels in heaven did sing Linocut - 45cm x 45cm Jackie Ford Qualia: Discourse I Digital print - 81cm x 61cm Sarah Hopkins Home and Away Monotype (multiblock)- 79cm x 60cm Veronica Gibson Glyn Colwyn Woodcut – 30cm x 28cm Zena James Untitled Screenprint – 47cm x 53cm Rhian Jarman Body Print Intaglio – 61cm x 33cm Aleem dad Khan Ying Yang Wood cut - 49cm x 39cm Sameera Khan Fusion Intaglio - 27cm x 39cm Robert Macdonald The Romans in Britain Etching with aquatint - 43cm x 49cm Ruth Parmiter Bay Barnacles Photo etch with ink wash - 48cm x 38cm Lorna Packer Disrupted Grid II, Etching with chine colle - 8 x 6 cms Carys Roberts Light at Mumbles Photo etch - 46cm x 36cm Judith Stroud Endless round II Collagraph - 74cm x 53cm Kara Seaman Occupants Cyanotype - 21cm x 31cm Alan Williams Gecko shirt Woodcut - 52cm x 42cm
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