We are 100 UK printmakers creating prints on the theme of childhood memories and imagination, to be sold in aid of two charities - Mind, supporting mental health issues and awareness, and Heart Felt Tips, providing art materials and enabling creative learning opportunities for disadvantaged children. (For more information about these charities and what they do, please visit www.mind.org.uk and www.heartfelttips.co.uk)
Follow the hashtag #thoughtpressproject on social media to see the project in action and development of designs for final prints! Visit the Shop to order a print.
If you'd simply like to add to the funds raised, please donate here: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/tpp2021
Exhibitions
It's been a journey this year from idea stage to gathering printmakers' work to organising exhibitions! Take a look at where the project is heading to next...
Tanat Theatre, Llanrhaedr-ym-Mochnant, Wales.
Thought Press Project Exhibition opens 6th August 2021
Llanrhaeadr’s Tanat Theatre has had an overhaul! The newly refurbished theatre will be open for the public to come and have a look in August and this will tie in with a National Print Exhibition. Two local artists, Jonny Scarramuzza @jonny_scarramuzza & Ben Clifton @ben_idris_art involved in the #thoughtpressproject - are bringing an exhibition of the work to Llanrhaeadr on the first weekend of August 2021.
All 100 prints will be displayed at the fabulously newly refurbished theatre on Friday 6th August from 6-9 pm and then over the weekend from 10am-1pm. The bar will be open for refreshments throughout and people will be on hand to answer questions about the work on display, the theatre and all of the projects that go on there. FREE ENTRY.
A big thanks to Jonny, without whom this exhibition would not be possible!
The Hold, Suffolk Archives, Ipswich.
Thought Press Project Exhibition 6th Sep - 3rd Oct 2021
September is the month to visit The Hold! A community space dedicated to the arts and part of the Suffolk University Archives.
Planning is underway for selected works to represent the UK Southern Regions of printmakers involved in the Thought Press Project. The exhibition will run from 6th September until 3rd October 2021 at The Hold in Ipswich @suffolkarchives
Limited numbers of people will be admitted into the foyer area to view original prints by the artists involved. FREE ENTRY.
Future Exhibitions
We 100 printmakers are still searching for any other spaces to exhibit our work in the Northern and Midlands regions, or any space large enough for the entire body of work if possible!Any curators out there with a gallery on open call, if you can give this project a free exhibition space, any time from this month onwards, please let us know! Email me using the contact form through the website. Thank you!
Sanira Emon, Thought Press Project Manager