Highland Print Studio

WW100 Project The project ‘What do We learn from th1s’ had its first launch tonight at the Scottish Parliament with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop. Inverness High School Students have travelled all the way down to see the exhibition themselves. Pride oozing out of them as their work takes central stage. Thanks to them for making …

On Wednesday 14 August 2019, Studio Manager, John McNaught, made his way down to Oban to hang up our Throwup20.18 exhibition in the Oban Communities Trust – The Rockfield Centre. The voice of Shinty, Hugh Dan MacLennan, delivered two spectacular talks. One was on the Shinty Memories Project, which aims to use sport as a vehicle to help those living …

We were pleased to announce that we exhibited the 20:20 printmakers exchange May – August 2019. Amongst all 545 prints hanging up on the walls, there was work by our very own Wise guys and Studio Members. You can find out more about the exhibition here –https://www.hotbedpress.org/exhibitions/2020-print-exchange/

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 …