Sheffield Print Fair 2023 - Thanks!

 

We wanted to say a huge thanks to everyone who took part in, and who visited Sheffield Print Fair 2023!

It was the busiest fair we've ever had, with around 1500 visitors during the day. With it being our tenth year, we were super-happy with the turn-out, and the printmakers clearly were too.

Extra thanks to Sheffield Museums for hosting our event, ASAP and Hunk Print for supporting us with printed matter (posters, banners, flyers, tote bags), Folksy for the online push, Hawthorn Printing Supplies for being so generous with their prizes, and Kid Acne for providing us with such a great poster image!

Printmakers' Printmaker this year was Jim McElvaney, who received a box of goodies form Hawthorn!

The Print Raffle was amazing this year, with such a bounty of pieces given by the attending artists/printmakers. The lucky five winners have been informed to collect their prizes from The Millennium Gallery.

So to next year!

The date for Sheffield Print Fair 2024 is Saturday 9th November 2024, so put that in your diaries! We will be open for applications late June 2024.

J&S x

Sheffield Print Fair 2023 - The Line-up!

 

We're very glad to be able to reveal the line-up for Sheffield Print Fair 2023!

We have 43 artists and organisations taking part, plus Hawthorn Printmakers there with their inks, pressed and printing apparatus. The full line-up is as follows:

Paul Simm
Clare Phelan
Jim McElvaney
Abby Sumner
Elodie Gainsbourg
Thought Press Project
James Bywood
Gareth Barnes
Sally Adkins
Ruth Green
Angela Hall
Emily Ketteringham
Richard Foster
Kid Acne
Laura Knight
Alison Diamond
Su France
Angus Vasili
Iain Perry (Print Garage)
Fireater Letterpress
Nikki Williams (The Print Lass)
Georgia Green
Evelyn Polk
West Yorkshire Print Works
David Armes
Sue Clegg
Joanna Allen
Steph Renshaw
Shirley Stevenson
Ellie Cliftlands
OR8 Design
Sheffield Hallam University
Graeme Reed
Carousel Print Studio
Lianne Mellor
Louise Ann Wright
Jonathan Wilkinson
Joanna Rucklidge
The Owlery
Kate Brooks
Laura Slater
Suzi Thompson
James Green

plus Hawthorn Printmakers, with their selection of printing equipment for sale.

In addition to this there will be print demonstrations/workshops by the following:

Jo Rucklidge - stencil screen printing with home-made botanical ink

Joanna Allen - collagraph printing

Angela Hall - monoprint screen-print

Sheffield Museums  - kids print workshop

Finally, there will be a print raffle (free entry with £1 entry price) for all visitors, and the first 50 people through the door get a free screen-printed tote bag, designed by Kid Acne, who also designed all of the posters/flyers!

The SPF totes were printed by Hunk Print

The SPF posters/flyers/banners were printed by ASAP 

Sheffield Print Fair 2023 will take place again at:

The Millennium Gallery
48 Arundel Gate
Sheffield City Centre
Sheffield
S1 2PP

The venue is in the centre of Sheffield, and will run from 10am to 4.30pm on Saturday 11th November 2023, so get that in your diaries!

We have a Facebook event too, so why not let us know if you are coming?

Sheffield Print Fair 2023 Facebook Event link 

S & J x

Sally Adkins

Evelyn Polk

Gareth Barnes

Graeme Reed

Clare Phelan

Sheffield Print Fair 2023 - Call for applications!!

We are very happy to announce the tenth Sheffield Print Fair! We can't believe it has been ten years since we started putting on fairs, time has really flown. It is really great to see so many other great print fairs pop up over the UK too. 

SPF2023 is happening at The Millennium Gallery, Sheffield Museums on Saturday 11th November 2023. 

We are offering 43 stalls at this year’s event for artists/printmakers and are now looking for applications from Sheffield and beyond; woodcut, mezzotint, linocut, screen-print, wood-engravings, digital prints, monoprints and more! We are also looking for people who are interested in doing a demonstration of their print technique (to whom we will offer a free table).

Please note - We cannot accept prints that are simply reproductions/scans of artworks created in other media.

The event will run from 10am until 4pm, and will feature printmaker stalls as well as print demonstrations throughout the day.

The print fair will be in one big exhibition space, and the demos/workshops will take place downstairs in the large workshop room (you can state on the form if you'd like to do a demo). As before we will also be having a print raffle for our visitors and our annual ‘Printmakers' Printmaker Award’ for exhibitors.

This year we are being generously supported by print house ASAP, screen-print wizards Hunk Print, online craft-selling gurus Folksy, Sheffield Museums and print-meisters Hawthorn Printmaker Supplies, who will be at the fair with their presses and other printmaking goodies.

This year's poster design has been created for us by the artist, printmaker, muralist and rapper Kid Acne.

The application deadline is 3rd September 2023, and we will inform all applicants of the result by 19th September 2023.

Stalls are £65 each (a 6ftx2ft table), or £32.50 for a half-table. There is space behind each table for a display board if you wanted to bring one, and some room by the side for small print browsers.

Application Forms and Information Sheet 

Application Form (Word Format)

Application Form (pdf)

Information Sheet (Word Format)

Information Sheet (pdf)

Please read the 'Information Sheet' before completing the Application Form, and send your completed form as a .doc or .pdf file to sheffieldprintfair@gmail.com, and remember that we cannot consider applications if they are not accompanied by images of your work.

Any questions, drop us a line.

Cheers!

J&S

SHEFFIELD PRINT FAIR