1.Beautiful book for children about printmaking ‘Le Typographe’ by Editions MeMo - link
2. St Bride Foundation Wayzgoose 2023, 21.05.23, 11am - 4pm - link
3. Kunstroute door Coupee Collage Collective tijdens Memento. Memento Woordfestival is een multidisciplinair stadfestival dat vertrekt vanuit het woord. Het wordt elk jaar ingericht door Openbare Bibliotheek Kortrijk samen met tal van andere partners. Een uitgelezen moment om 10 collagekunstenaars aan de slag te laten gaan met typografie, stickers, woorden en poezie. Het resultaat? Te zien op 18 en 19 maart op diverse locaties in Kortrijk. Meer info op de website van Memento.
4. Workshop Linogravure - Greetings Cards at the Grafik (Brussels), 15.04.2023 - link
Quick links
1.Workshop Lino & Letterpress in het Industriemuseum (Gent), 11.03.2023 - link
2. Workshop Letterpress: ontwerp je eigen poster. Industriemuseum (Gent), 22.04.2023 - link
3. Workshop Letterpress: ontwerp je eigen poster. Industriemuseum (Gent), 20.05.2023 - link
4. Workshop ‘Meet the artist’ at the Atelier T (Bierbeek), 28-30.04 - link
Quick links
1. Masterclass Linocut with Chrudoš Valoušek. Event by Czech Centre Brussels and Grafik. 02.10.2021 - link
2. The artist turning Nick Cave songs into wood engravings - link
3. If you are in Berlin. Solo exhibition of Olesya Dzhurayeva at the ArtEast, 24.09-24.10, Berlin - link
4. Boekkunstbeurs 2021, 06-07.11, Leiden - link
Quick links
1. Online classes by Brody Neuenschwander - link
2. Linocut contest by TYPA museum in Tartu (EE) - link + rules
3. The last trained typecaster in Europe, Rainer Gerstenberg has announced his retirement by the end of this year - link + video
4. Hamilton Wood Type& Printing Museum online poster gallery - link
DRKPSTRT 6. 23-24.09.2017. Dok-Gent
For one more time Topo Copy and the MIAT bundled their forces to organise the 6th edition of DRUKOPSTRAAT steamroller printing festival, as part of the annual SORRY, NOT SORRY street art festival with murals, graffiti, performances and art installations, spread through the city of Gent.
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Quick links
1. Letterpress Workers 2017, 28.06-02.07.17, Milan. Come and say 'hi' if you are around ;)
2. The René Carcan International Prize for Printmaking is open to printmakers and students of printmaking, of any nationality and with no age limit - link
3. Lovely work by Dmitry Sayenko (btw, one of his works is currently on display at the V&A)
4. Letterpress summer workshops at the Ink and Rolling, Paal (BE)
Touch of Genius, Sam Scarpulla
Lightning Guitar, a graphic novel in 34 linocuts by Sam Scarpulla
Last Sunday I attended an exhibition of the artist Sam Scarpulla (Ghent, BE), who presented his recent work, the 'Lightning Guitar', a graphic novel consisting from 34 large square linocut illustrations.
Mounted in transparent frames and exhibited in a row on the rough brick wall at the Kapow headquarters in Ghent the large black and white prints formed a striking contrast with the venue. I arrived just in time when Sam Scarpulla enthusiastically led the group of visitors explaining the (partially autobiographical) story behind the novel. 'Lightning Guitar' graphic novel is about the career and the road to success of a guitarist with all associated challenges, ambitions, failures, self-destruction and love. Each of these 34 illustrations was carefully cut by Sam out of lino and printed on Albion or Columbian handpress by Erik Desmyter at the Iron Handpress Studio and published by Sous-Sol Editions in Ghent.