Badger Press

A little off of the Island but sure to be of interest, Badger Press got in contact the other day about changes and new course plus an open evening tonight:

“A new team is taking over management of The Badger Press, an open-access printmaking studio in Bishops Waltham. We’re having an open evening next Friday 5th February between 4 – 9pm and inviting people to join us for a cup of tea and a slice of cake, visit the studio and find out about the courses we’re running.

The studio itself was founded in 1982 and covers screenprinting, collagraph, monoprint and Intaglio processes. The new team will continue to provide facilities and courses, and will work to support artists in Hampshire with exhibitions, guest speakers, trips and arts events. We’re keen to establish ourselves as a creative voice in the region and talk about printmaking, which we love and cherish, with everyone we meet.”

You can find out more about Badger Press at www.badgerpress.org and directions for the open evening here. Badger Press also have a Facebook page and are on Flickr.

Best of luck to Badger Press from us at Strong Island.

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LJRs Christmas Indoor Market

Gather round ladies and gents, after continuing success, Little Johnny Russells is hosting its second Christmas Indoor Market. There is a wide range of products such as CDs, Records, Vintage Clothing, Prints, Jewellery on sale from Edgeworld Records, Bored of Southsea, Dress Code, Deluded Clothing, Rokii, Style In The City, top fashion queen Beau Franklin Savage, Parmiters Antiques, artwork by Ramsey Sheriff, Tristan Savage, Paul Gonella, Laura Gracie Woo selling handmade cards and even Southsea’s finest baker Jill Gate.

Opens at Midday, with a wide range of refreshments including a licensed bar (obviously!)

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Volcom & Geoff Rowley at Bored

The Volcom Stone Age t-shirt screen printing tour visit to Bored by Geoff Rowley, Ben Raemers and crew went off with a bang last Friday. With well over the originally planned 100 t-shirts being printed and given away, the huge crowd of people that came through were obviously stoked to be a part of such a high profile skateboarding event in Southsea. Not to mention how nice both Geoff and Ben were too and how hard the crew worked as well in the heat. Good work to Kev at Volcom, the guys at Bored, Geoff and Ben, Stu from Lovenskate, the rest of the crew and everyone who came down and popped in. Check below for some photos and see more at Forever Circling. Also check out the Sidewalk blog post and the Bored blog too.

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475: New Website

It’s like buses I guess, but another Southsea crew have a brand new website, the Four Seven Fives screen printing studio. Up at 475-nm.com, you’ll find details of all of their screen printing services plus a blog with details of what they are up to, including their official launch party on the 28th of this month (see the website for full details).

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Four Seven Fives

Kelly Blampied and Craig Atherton are the brains behind the new Four Seven Fives open access design and printing studio, whose doors will be open to the public in August 2009. Kelly and Craig are the designers at the four seven fives design studio and they specialise in the beautiful art of silk screen printing. As well as being designers available for all design and screen printing work they also offer tutorials about the screen printing process for beginners and run regular workshops and activity days. The Four Seven Fives also offer their printing studio space for designers and artists who know how to screen print and want to be left alone and just get on with making their magic. The studio itself is 1000 sq. ft open access printing studio at Unit 12 The Victory Business Centre Sommers Road North Portsmouth PO1 1PL. Within the studio they have two large format screen printing beds available plus hundreds of screens, light box, exposing unit and oven plus plenty of gallery space to hang and sell your work. All this is available to rent to all artists, designers, the general public. If you think your uncreative go and visit the Four Seven Fives for a day and prove yourself wrong with one of their workshops. They also have flexible hours, perfect for all students who have a deadline due and the screen printing studios close early.

For more details contact them at kelly@475-nm.com or call 07969539082 craig@475-nm.com or call 07800758666.

If you wish to make it along to the opening party email your postal address and they’ll send a hand screen invite your way. Best of luck to the Four Seven Fives from us at Strong Island!

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Local Printer – Roland @ ArtChroma

ArtChroma is a Southsea business that provides fine art printing for artists, photographers, gallery owners and design agencies. They also provide a large format poster service which many of the strong island community are using to promote local events. Drop Roland an line, he’s a really nice guy and will be able to answer all your printing questions.

Clients include ilovedust, McFaul, Jon Burgerman, TADO, LJR, SUMO, COR, Southseafest, Wallspace to name a few. Some pretty heavy clients right there, and keeping alot of Albert Road establishments in fresh new banners and prints.

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