All Boxed Up Step into a pocket-sized print adventure where ancient printmaking techniques meet modern innovation. Visit Rochester’s smallest art gallery during the festival for a special print artist takeover.
The Printers’ Process A celebration of printers and the many varied processes that are part of their armoury. Fifteen of the country’s most respected and celebrated printmakers’ wonderful work will be exhibited in the Halpern Gallery in Chatham for Medway Print Festival.
Rewilding: Louise Pettifer Louise Pettifer’s work combines painting and gilding with a monoprinting technique based on block printing, building up extremely thin layers to create beautiful images on a rewilding theme.
Young at Heart linocuts Medway Diversity Forum (MDF), & local Community Artist-Educator Jay M. Patel, present their latest intergenerational collaboration, featuring first time lino prints by MDF’s Medway Hindu Parivar ‘Young At Heart’ seniors’ group, with grandchildren also invited to take part. Community members & volunteers appreciated the creative opportunity to try a new craft,…
Dockyard40: Hazelnut Press on Tour As part of the 40th anniversary of the closure of the Dockyard and the formation of Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust, the Hazelnut Press artists are on a print-based journey through popular Dockyard landmarks and mysterious hidden history in unexpected spaces.
Whittle and Daub: an exhibition of printmaking by Paul Jerome Paul’s beautiful prints are often inspired by nature and British folklore, he specialises in linocuts, but also etchings, collagraphs and screen prints. Why not pop along to see critters, creatures and characters from Kent and further afield, including the hare, Hooden Horse and the…
The Art of Mono Printing with Suminagashi Join artists Nicole and José at a fun and easy workshop to a create a monoprint using a marbling technique called suminagashi (floating ink). The art of paper marbling originated in China about 2,000 years ago. Originally, it was a secret technique. It became popular in the 12th…
Cyanotypes on the Meadow Discover the flora and fauna on Watts Meadow whilst trying out a Victorian form of photography that uses the sun’s rays to produce ethereal blue prints. They say it’s science but it feels like magic! It’s so simple to do that anyone can have a go, even children with a…
Introduction to Gelli Plate Printing with Medway Adult Education Join us in our Rochester studios to explore the wide and varied techniques associated with Gelli Plate printing and produce at least 2 prints. Basic tools and materials will be provided but please bring your own apron, range of textured items for experimentation (such as leaves,…