Highland Print Studio

Mirror Images is a collaboration of international printmaking led by Connections North: featuring three identical ‘mirror’ exhibitions presenting new work by forty printmakers from four countries, with Ratamo Printmaking and Photography Centre. Jyvaskyla, Finland, Algarden Printmaking Centre: Boras, West Sweden and Highland Print Studio: Inverness, Scotland. Working on a theme ‘A Sense of Place’, artists representing the Highland Print Studio ...

Black Isle Youth Development Group is run by High Life Highland's Youth Services team and includes young people on supported study leave from Fortrose Academy. Highland Print Studio has worked on several projects with this group. In 2016, our Studio Manager John McNaught taught the group over several weekly sessions about the printmaking techniques,  polymer photogravure and screenprinting. The group took photos in their local ...

We were delighted to welcome pupils from Drummond School to the Studio in 2016-17, for regular sessions learning woodcut with John. The boys worked really hard and produced some terrific work, it was great fun having them here. Well done to all involved!

Highland Print Studio works with schools, youth and community groups across the region, both in the Studio and on an outreach basis, and including both primary (aged 7+) and secondary schools. Activities provided can range from taster sessions to large-scale projects lasting over several months. Projects are often based around a theme and have included cross-curricular projects, using creative learning to teach subjects ...

Photo: Highland News This project was initiated by Highland Print Studio in 2011-12 in response to research by Age UK and other organisations, which demonstrated that older men do not appear to engage with social activity to the same extent as women, and in some circumstances could be at risk of loneliness and isolation. The concept was simple. Men. Aged ...

The Camanachd Cup on display in Highland Print Studio Highland Print Studio has commissioned four professional artists to create a series of artworks inspired by the contemporary culture and heritage of Scotland’s iconic indigenous sport of shinty. The artists involved are Roddy Buchanan, John McNaught, Deirdre Nelson and Tom Smith. They will work respectively with Fort William Shinty Club, Skye Camanachd, Newtonmore Camanachd and ...

"Highland Youth Arts Hub (HYAH), a project which aims to encourage young people across the Highlands to get involved with creative activity ... anything from music, dance and drama to visual and digital art, film and creative writing." - Highland Youth Arts Hub From 2016, HYAH organised printmaking workshops with the Studio for young people with no experience. Each workshop ...

Throw Up 20.18 Blog: https://throwup2018.wordpress.com Football has its 'kick off', shinty it's 'throw up'. 'ThrowUp 20.18' is a visual arts project devised by Highland Print Studio in consultation with the Camanachd Association, Shinty’s governing body. Four professional artists were commissioned and partnered with four clubs, resulting a series of original artwork inspired by the culture and heritage of Scotland’s iconic ...

Highland Print Studio, along with four other Scottish print studio’s worked in collaboration with the Glasgow-based design collective, Lateral North on this WW100 project funded by the Scottish Commemorations Panel. The project involved each studio working with 20 young people, who created their own original print inspired by a significant story or memory from World War 1. Lateral North devised ...

Face to Face was a lovely intergenerational project in collaboration with High Life Highland's Black Isle Youth Development Group. Pupils from Fortrose Academy's Learning Support Department attended photography sessions with our Studio Manager and visual artist, John McNaught. John taught the young people both digital and film photography, with the theme of the learning being portraiture. The participants learnt techniques ...