Highland Print Studio

On Tuesday 2 July, Studio Manager, John McNaught, and Studio Director, Alison McMenemy, were both down in Newtonmore and Kingussie hanging the Shinty exhibition. Due to the rivalry between both teams, Tom Smith, John McNaught and Roddy Buchanan’s work was hung in the Iona Gallery, Kingussie. Where John presented a talk on his work and the who project. Deirdre Nelsons …

We had a new exhibition in the Studio with photographs from Drummond School Student, Michael MacKay. Michael was involved in printmaking classes that we hosted for Drummond School pupils, and following these, in 2018, he asked he could come to the Studio and get tuition in photography. Michael’s process was remarkable and he has an undoubted talent with the camera. We …

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

We had a Polymer Photogravure class on Saturday 23 February 2019, organised by The Arts Society, which is an annual event for High School seniors looking to expand their portfolio for their applications for Art Universities. All the students came motivated and learned a tremendous amount in such a short period of time and created such beautiful prints.

ThrowUp20.18 had its official opening night in March 2019 at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery and it had a great success. Opening night couldn’t of went any better, with many people joining us to take in the great range of prints that were created by all 4 artists. The night ended with a terrific Q+A session, commentated by Iain MacDonald. …

Over two days, we ran two screenprinting workshops organised by Highland Youth Arts Hub (HYAH) for young people. Hugh Miller was a lifelong writer and storyteller, keen fossil collector – and much more! Inspired by Hugh Millers work, HYAH offered two printmaking workshops for local young people. On 31 July 2018, we had a group of primary 5 – 7 …

We are pleased to announce that we are currently exhibiting the 20:20 printmakers exchange until September. Amongst all 545 prints hanging up on the walls, there’s work by our very own Wise guys. You can find out more about the exhibition here –https://www.hotbedpress.org/exhibitions/2020-print-exchange/ Pop in to the studio for a tour around the building to see the wide variety of …

Last week our Throw Up project artists Deidre Nelson and Roddy Buchanan were in the Studio experimenting with different printmaking techniques, including Polymer Photogravure, Screenprinting, Etching and Photoplate Lithography. Here’s a sneaky peek into what they were doing.  

Studio Member, Owen Hope, has an exhibition starting on 28 May until 29 June 2018. His exhibition features photographs taken during his time in India. These beautiful images were printed in the Studio by Studio Manager, John, with one of them being the largest we’ve ever printed. You will see in the photo below of Owen and his friend Ben …

This is Daniel today: 10 years ago; he learned photoshop from John. Today: he has almost 20,000 followers on his Instagram brixton_the_frenchie. Maybe he could teach us a thing or two!