Calls for entries for Wolverhampton's first Print Fest.

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Newhampton Arts Centre will hold the first Wolverhampton Print Fest event.  Its a call for entries now with the event in November. We chat to the organiser to find out more.

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00:00So we're here with Newhampton Arts Centre and Jackie I know that face from Fizzogs

00:04fame. So you're also an artist? I am an artist I've got a studio at Newhampton

00:12Arts Centre which is here obviously and I'm a printmaker as well so I do a lot

00:17of printmaking workshops in the community for people. When did you get

00:21into your art then? Is it something that's been through all your life? So I've

00:24always been interested in art but then come kind of about 2014 I knew I'd been

00:31with the Fizzogs for a while but I just wanted to explore a different part of

00:34the art so I went to Stowbridge College and did a foundation and then

00:40that kind of led naturally on to me doing a degree at Wolverhampton and the

00:45two things I didn't want to do was photography and printmaking and they're

00:48the two things that I did. That you ended up doing? Yeah and I'm passionate about it now so yeah it's great I love it.

00:54And you've done workshops with all kinds of people schools different community

00:58groups? Yeah so we've been doing workshops for about the last eight years

01:01we do a lot of children's workshops we do workshops for all members of the

01:07community there's no one trust me there's no one that can't access an art

01:13workshop anybody can do it. Well we've got a special event coming up but before

01:19we talk about that I'm just going to ask you what is it about printmaking then

01:22that's that's kind of turned you on to it what is it? So for me it's just the

01:26process I mean when I was at uni I started looking for ideas to do

01:30printmaking and it's a bit philosophical but I always used to think that you know

01:37sort of what you expect your memories really from the things that you

01:41remember from your childhood are completely different to the things when

01:44you go back and you look at things and you think well I remembered it and it

01:48was a lot bigger but now it's a lot smaller but and printmaking the process

01:52is pretty similar I used to think that you know you'd have a matrix you'd have

01:56a plate and you think oh that's going to look exactly like that and then you

01:59print it off and it could look completely different so it kind of

02:02reminded me of that you know sort of kind of like childhood memories. That's

02:06interesting. And then I just fell in love with the process there's so many

02:09variables you never is sometimes you can be really disappointed sometimes you can

02:14be and you can be really pleasantly surprised but you never know what you're

02:19gonna get so I love it. So like you say you're based at the new

02:23Hampton Arts Centre now this is just an untapped gem isn't it it's there's so

02:26much going on here you know we've got this whole music the theatre side of it

02:30there's there's quite a number of artists that are based here as well

02:33aren't they? Yeah so I share the studio this studio with Lindsay Pritchard we do

02:37completely different things she's an oil painter I'm a printmaker a mixed

02:41media artist but we do get together to do all the workshops most of the

02:46workshops I do are with Lindsay but it is the most I can't even tell you it's

02:51the most amazing place the studio I'll you take some photos of the studio Steve

02:56it's the most beautiful place and everybody that walks into it it's just

03:00got this energy and it's not like some people think well it's just a studio but

03:05it's part of the fabric of what you do because you just love to be here the

03:10the energy of the place is amazing and it draws people in so people come in and

03:16they'll sit and I'll have a cup of tea I run a Sunday group and they're just

03:22people I charge seven pounds just for tea coffee that pays for your biscuits

03:27and we only get the best quality biscuits yeah and it's not nothing's

03:31taught they're just coming with a piece of work that they're working on and

03:35they just sit with like-minded people and I get returners all the time people

03:40come back all the time and it's just such a lovely atmosphere and people are

03:44quite generous when they want to share their own their own practice and and

03:51sometimes you get inspired by other people's and we'll yeah we just sit and

03:55talk about nothing and everything yeah it's great so what's this event that's

03:59coming up we're putting a call out for people for entries aren't we really for

04:03a special event go on this is the first time because this is kind of the

04:09reopening of Newhampton after all the problems with the boilers and everything

04:13but it's all opened and we you know Newhampton has got the most amazing

04:17gallery and it should be there should be something in that gallery every single

04:21month so first I want to plug the space because the space is amazing if you've

04:25got an exhibition that you want to put on then Newhampton is the place to be

04:29but so we're doing a printmaking exhibition and that when I say

04:34printmaking you don't have to have an etching press you can do printmaking a

04:38lot of people work on a what they call like a gelatin plate and they do

04:42monoprints or if you paint on something and then you put a piece of paper over

04:46the top and pull a print that's a print so so it can be it can be etching it can

04:52be it can be dry point it can be relief printmaking like lino printmaking it can

04:59be screen print so any kind of print as long as it's a hand-pulled print then

05:04you're eligible for the exhibition it's it's we're only charging 10 pound for a

05:10hanging fee 15 pound a three and over and that's just literally to pay for the

05:15hall but then you there's no Commission on sales you can either have a stand

05:21which is 50 pound for the stand or you can just be part of like a single piece

05:26part of an exhibition yeah yeah and the entries need to be in by 30th they do

05:32need to be in by the 30th of September so the end of this month if you're

05:38running a little bit late just get in touch with us and we can give you a bit

05:41of breathing space but and that'll be to a gift to an exhibition November so it's

05:47November the 8th 9th and 10th the opening night is the Friday night on the

05:518th and then the 9th and 10th you'll have artists here who are running

05:56workshops we've got Jenny Gunning who I bought my press off yeah he's got a

06:00fabulous exhibition at Ironbridge Framers at the moment and and she she's

06:07going to be here demonstrating and and sort of showing everybody there the

06:12Gunnings presses and also yeah we've got other people doing other workshops or

06:17other printmaking workshops and they've it's free to come along so so if

06:23people want to get involved yeah how do they get in touch with you or get their

06:27entries in yeah so they can get they can go to

06:32Printfest Wolverhampton www.printfestwolverhampton.co.uk

06:39or you can get in touch with me at Jackie.fellows that's j-a-c-k-y

06:46j-f-f-e-l-l-o-w-s at gmail.com awesome thanks ever so much Jackie

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