Katherine Anteney makes work about the places she has been and where others have been before. She likes standing stones, Wiltshire hills, chalk figures and the weirdness of the English countryside whilst chucking in a bit of Folk Horror and the Peasants Revolt for an eclectic body of work.
Typochondriacs is Gen Harrison from the Scottish Borders. Words are the muse, letterpress the mistress and ink the way to think. She designs and produces artists’ books, posters and print ephemera. Gen is delighted to be returning to the Shipley Wayzgoose this June. “It was top fun last time!”
The Letterpress Collective like most modern letterpress establishments have spent ten years trying to work out what they are doing and (mostly) failing. But they’ve had some fun along the way. They are Ellen Bills, aged thirty and three quarters and Nick Hand, aged sixty five and one half.
Sue McLaren left teaching in 2011 and became involved in the Printmaking Studio at the Bluecoat in Liverpool where she became one of the founding members of Juniper Press and began to learn about letterpress. In 2018 she established Verso Press Liverpool where she produces books, pamphlets and broadsides.
Incline Press is run by Graham Moss from Oldham who tries to stick to printing illustrated books and pamphlets, but all sorts of other things seem to send him off at tangents. “Ah well, never mind.” Hand printed by letterpress, and hand-bound to complete the work properly, all such simple tools for the artisan to use.
Angie Butler / ABPress (Bristol, UK) utilises the letterpress process and the book as collaborative spaces — to connect people and language through a haptic environment. Angie will show a number of printed works from projects over the past few years that investigate collaborative approaches to subjects such as ‘touch’, ‘repair/recover’ and a publication from the Printed Poetry Project.
