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Installing 29 prints today at West Yorkshire Print Workshop gallery with Samantha Manton.
The show opens tomorrow at 6 if anyone is near Yorkshire a really beautiful space.

International Print Exchange (IPE)

Did you know? Over the past 6 years (IPE 2009-2014) of running the exchange, there have been 8 artists who have taken part every single year? You can view their impressive IPE portfolios on our website:John Bergmeier http://bit.ly/1CBDroi

Harriet Brigdale http://bit.ly/1EQi8D8
Elizabeth Burton http://bit.ly/1GRLZuk

Haig Demarjian http://bit.ly/1Go74vJ
Benjamin Gross http://bit.ly/1F8K8Na
Michelle Keegan http://bit.ly/1CBDu3nand our two organisers:
Anna Johnson http://bit.ly/1Go7rXb

Pandora Johnson http://bit.ly/1xI3UBt

Art-Athina, Greece

Please join us at HMS before the show tours to Art Athina in Athens for the largest Art fair in Greece.

Studio holders past and present, plus artists who have shown in HMS EXHIBITION SPACE were invited to make work on the theme of 'INBOX', dimensions :30cm x 30cm. 

Thirty artists responded to the invitation by making 40 works. These will form a grid structure which reference pigeon holes – also an inbox.

David Ainley     Lori Amor      Jackie Berridge      Richard Boyle     Fi Burke   

Mary Ellen Croteau     Lisa Denyer     Sue Disley     Flore Gardner     Louise Garland    Sue Greenaway  Terry Greene     Rob Hart     Carole Hawthorne     

Michelle Keegan Maggy Milner     Polly Parker      Andy Parkinson       Kerri Pratt   

Patrick Prentice     Rachel Pinks     Ed Sellman     Sheila Ravnkilde    

Steffie Richards   Beth Shapeero   Dee Shiels   Clay Smith   Kate Smith

Helen Stevenson     Helen Sutherland    Rob Van Beek   Paul Warren    

Alison Whitmore      Chris Wright 

Bespoke Drypoint Workshop

Teaching a workshop for Chris Smith of the 5 Dot Collective Cobden Chambers

Private View West Yorkshire Print Workshop 10th April

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Michelle Keegan – solo exhibition [i'd better get busy!!!!!]
11 April – 16 May 2015

Printmaker Michelle Keegan is the winner of this year’s Flourish Award- for excellence in printmaking- and one of our newest members at West Yorkshire Print Workshop. A Slade School of Art graduate, Michelle’s work in multi-plate etching is minimalist and monochromatic, depicting a series of abstract layers, memories of spaces, places and landscapes.
West Yorkshire Print Workshop
75A Huddersfield Road
Mirfield
WF14 8AT

Flourish Award Winner by Hilarie Stelfox Feature Writer Huddersfield Examiner

Printmaker Michelle Keegan is the winner of a national print-making award.

The West Yorkshire Print Workshop, based in Mirfield, has a national following in the art community.

Its Flourish Award for Excellence, now in its sixth year, attracts entries from both Yorkshire and further afield.

This year’s winner Michelle Keegan, a Slade School of Art graduate, is course co-ordinator for fine art at the Central College in Nottingham. She acquired connections with this area when invited to be part of an art show in Barnsley this summer to celebrate the Grand Depart of the Tour de France in Yorkshire.

But she learned of Flourish through her membership of Printmakingonline, an internet organisation that brings together print-makers to show their work.

Three of her prints can currently be seen at the workshop’s gallery on Huddersfield Road in an exhibition of short-listed artists (ending on November 15).

Part of Michelle’s prize is use of the workshops’ studios and she is now planning to make regular forays to Mirfield to develop her etching techniques. She will also be staging a solo exhibition at Huddersfield Art Gallery next year – another Flourish reward.

Michelle describes her minimalist, monochromatic work as “abstract landscape” and says it is influenced by her nomadic lifestyle.

“I have lived in a lot of places,” she explained, “and my work is to do with memory and transit between places”.

She has been etching in black and white for 30 years and specialises in multi-plate printing but says that winning the chance to use the print workshop’s facilities might encourage her to try using some colour. But she’s not making any promises.

West Yorkshire Print Workshop is a charity and was founded in 1981 as the Kirklees Arts Space Society. It opened to the public as a gallery space in 1984.

In 1995 it became Eastthorpe Visual Arts and adopted its present name in 2004. It is a Regularly Funded Organisation of the Arts Council England, Yorkshire.