PUSHING PRINT 2011 - NEWSLETTER

NEWSLETTER 2011
MARGATE, KENT
From the organisers

Plans are now well under way for this year’s events and we thought it time to update you all. Full details will be on the website soon www.pushingprint.co.uk. Please pass this newsletter on to anyone you think may be interested.
It is going to be an exciting year for Margate with Turner Contemporary – the new international art gallery – due to open on April 16th. With this in mind we are developing a programme of events throughout the year starting with:

Measur-ism

Exhibition of work by Jenny Weiner
April 16th – May 14th 2011
Pie Factory Project Space, Broad St, Margate

Jenny was one of our solo prize winners in 2010 and we are excited to be organising this exhibition. In celebration of the opening of Turner Contemporary, Measure-ism will feature a new work made specifically for Margate in response to the Turner painting ‘Margate Pier’.
Jenny will be giving a talk about her work on Sat 30th April at 2pm. Places are limited so booking is essential. For full details about this exhibition and Jenny’s work please go to www.pushingprint.co.uk
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Measuring Margate is a participatory event that will run alongside Jenny’s exhibition and will provide an opportunity for anyone to get involved in a collaborative work inspired by Jenny’s exhibition. We invite you to come along and give us your own ‘measur-ism’ of Margate. For example, how many colours there are between Pie Factory and Turner Contemporary, how many cracks in the pavement from the Margate Gallery to the station. A system for measuring can be creative or scientific and only limited by your imagination.
The measur-isms you provide will be added to a database and projected on to a wall throughout our various exhibitions over the course of the year, providing a constantly changing work of creative information about Margate. We intend to use this information to develop an interactive website (subject to funding) that will constantly change as new measure-isms are added.
We hope to also develop a series of postcards and posters based on Measuring Margate that can be sold to raise funds for future Pushing Print events.

So why not come and spend a day in Margate – there is plenty to do!

Exhibition of work by our second solo prize winner Helen Brooker 5th – 27th November 2011. More details on our website soon.

Open submission exhibition
8th – 29th st Oct (private view 7th Oct 6-9). Call to artists will go out on 1st June with a deadline of 22nd August

GIANT PRINT EVENT - Back by an ever increasing demand
Sat 8thth Oct 12 - 4.

We are currently holding fundraising events to raise funds to make this a two day event so we will keep you informed if we acheive this.

HERITAGE EXHIBITION
This years October event will take a different form to previous years as we are also developing a heritage exhibition celebrating Margate’s association with print that will support and provide the education programme for the open exhibition.

The heritage exhibition (title yet to be thought of) will focus on letterpress, and feature photos, stories from people who have worked for or been involved in local print, books and pamphlets that have been printed in Margate. Margate has a long association with print – our local newspaper dates back to the mid 19th century, and Margate was the home of Eyre and Spottiswoode, one of the oldest print houses in the country and once designated as the King’s Printer. We will also be exhibiting works by artists who use letterpress or text in their work.
Our programme of talks will be by contemporary letterpress artists with a series of workshops to enable people to have a go at traditional letterpress techniques. Full details will be available soon on our website.
If anyone is interested in putting in a proposal for a workshop please email the address below

Volunteers If you or anyone you know would be interested in getting involved in Pushing Print as an invigilator, assisting at the Giant Print or just to see how we do things please email pushingprint@hotmail.co.uk