Artweeks

Don't forget to call into the studio from 16th-26th May for Oxford Artweeks, an opportunity to 'enjoy the visual arts in a relaxed and friendly way'.

This is an artist's proof copy of Printess & the p, one of the very few books left that are bound in silk and come with extra prints. There were no extra prints of this page, only trial ones on my studio pinboard at 2 Essex Road. 

I heard that Philae Lander is ready to come awake again from it's sleep on a meteor...... Same here. 

Come to the The Bristol Artists' Book Event, BABE, on April 11th and 12th. I will be there with p's & q's Press possibly wearing this beautiful hat made for me by Louise Pocock who has just opened a shop. 

http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/babe-2015-bristol-artists-book-event

'Hatbox' (the tiny ones are all A/P copies) is now completely editioned and I am working on something for a lifesized hatbox. The constructed print below shows 'where you hang your hat' and for two weeks is with other works by 'Sparksartists' at Aylesbury Queens Park Centre. It extends the earlier “Hatbox”; recreating the café in whose cellar the germinal newspaper women’s pages were found. 

Leonie's City Cypher: London is in progress....only a couple of weeks to go before BABE

Happy New Year. Here are stars that were etched by children from Milton Keynes 30 years ago, with Rosetta and Philae Lander as I imagined them. The mission was recently explained to me by a scientist. She described them as mother and child. 

I spent most of 2014 printing 'Printess & the p'. The latest copy to be posted off has gone to Mount Holyoke College Collection and Archives, who have all of my books. 'Printess & the p' is in some exciting new collections, including the Royal Academy of Arts Library. 2015 will be a time to play again with new ideas. 

The Winter issue of Printmaking Today includes a short write up on the results of Leonie's Balfron Tower residency and exhibition 'The Ordered Shell'. 

The image above shows the title piece from the exhibition, a carborundum and drypoint print. The work was produced in a temporary print room Leonie set up in flat 132 in September. 

Leonie in Venice

Leonie has been in Venice throughout October undertaking a fellowship with the British Council at the Architecture Biennale. During her stay Leonie was given the keys to a an amazing print studio in an old glass factory on the island of Murano. 

Here are some of the collagraph plates she made photographed in the window of the studio.

Leonie in Balfron Tower

Leonie has been very busy in the run-up to her fellowship at the Venice Architecture Biennale. On Monday she moved her print studio to flat 130 in Balfron Tower, 2 doors down from where it's architect Erno Goldfinger lived in 1968. 

Throughout September Leonie will be drawing and printing Balfron Tower, and the resulting work will be on show at her exhibition 'The ordered shell' during Open House weekend on the 20th and 21st September. www.balfronseason.com

As a part of the work, Leonie has been offering printmaking workshops in her pop-up studio. The first of these, for young artists aged 11-16 took place yesterday to great success. 

Next Saturday (15th Sept) sees the second of these, where Leonie hopes to continue to pursue a dialogue with the formal qualities of the building through the medium of print. 

This one day workshop offers 10 people the opportunity to work with artist Leonie Lachlan to produce a series of drawn and printed works in Balfron Tower, responding to the modernist icon’s formal characteristics and its surroundings. Throughout September Leonie will be artist in residence in Balfron Tower and will establish a printroom with intaglio and relief facilities in one of the building’s flats.

This workshop, suitable for beginner printmakers and those with more experience, will explore drawing as a means of looking at space and interpreting its structure and printmaking as a means for understanding its layers and construction. The printmaking techniques explored will include drypoint, relief, collagraph and embossing.

For more information and to book please visit www.printingbalfron.eventbrite.com

The Artweeks robot is up ready to welcome you from the 3rd to the 11th of May to our open studio at 2 Essex Rd Thame OX9 3LT (leaving Thame, towards Chinnor, turn left before the bridge, park at the end of the road.)