From Plate to Page - Reading Group: Public programme connected to 'Story' and 'Impression' Exhibitions

5 Jun 2025 
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As part of our current exhibitions (Story: Selected Works from Edinburgh Printmakers Collection and Impressions: Selected Works from Jerwood Collection), we invite you to join the first instalment of our reading group ‘From Plate to Page’ to reflect on some of the many histories within the medium of print. 

 

Printmaking holds an important place in the history of art as a medium, revolutionising artistic practices and accessibility. Since the 16th century, printmaking has played a significant role in fine art, enabling the mass production of artworks and making creativity more accessible.  

 

Join us on Thursday 5th June from 6-7pm for a relaxed, non-academic conversation engaging with texts that look at printmaking’s role within social justice, emancipation, identity and self-expression.

 

All readings will be shared with attendees when purchasing a free ticket. 

 

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Reading material: 

  • Baines, Jess. ‘A Darn Good Idea: Feminist Printers and the Women Liberation Movement in Britain’, in Natural Enemies of Books: A Messy History of Women in Printing and Typography. Edited by Maryam Fanni, Matilda Flodmark , Sara Kaaman. Published by Occasional Papers, 2020. 

  • Bockis, Asnate, Karin de Jong, Ash Kilmartin and Abhaya Mistry, Paper, zine published by PrintRoom in 2020 www.printroom.org 

  • Harding, Richard. ‘Print as Other: the future is queer’ in Perspectives on Contemporary Printmaking. Edited by Ruth Pelzer-Montada. Published by Manchester University Press, 2018. 

 

Extra reading: 

  • Herman, Daniel F. 'Edinburgh Printmakers and the notion of the workshop', in Perspectives on Contemporary Printmaking. Edited by Ruth Pelzer-Montada. Published by Manchester University Press, 2018. 

 

While some of the readings might be of an academic nature, this reading group is open to all and we will support each other, exploring the material together in an informal conversation. 

 

If you have any issue accessing the reading material or question relating to the material, please email EP Heritage Engagement Officer:  ilaria.casini@edinburghprintmakers.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

This event is part of our heritage project Castle Mills: Then & Now supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.