New Chorlton printmaking exhibition

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On Friday 1 December printmakers Carolyn Murphy and Cate Gibson opened their new printmaking exhibition at the World Peace Café on Chorlton’s High Lane in Manchester. The exhibition goes on until February 2018, in line with the café opening times.

Framed artwork and cards are for sale and can be taken away, ready for Christmas gifts. Unframed work by both artists was also available at the opening. Unframed work is now available at the new online Shop on this website. Cards can be purchased online from the website of ‘Love From The Artist’, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting artists.

Full details of the exhibition are below. The World Peace Café is inside the Buddhist Centre, opposite St John’s Church.

Image of Carolyn Murphy's 20:20 linocut 'Into the Woods' for the 2017 print exchange

20:20 linocut ready to deliver

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Carolyn Murphy’s 20:20 linocut for this year’s print exchange is ready – the edition of 25 original prints is all set to go. ‘Into the Woods’ is a multi-plate linocut 15 x 15cm in size and uses Caligo ink on Somerset paper. Carolyn is entering with Prospect Studios this year. Prospect is just one of around 40 printmaking workshops to take part in the 2017 20:20 Print Exchange, organised each year by Hot Bed Press.

Over 500 artists across the UK and further afield will take part in what has become a major event in the printmaking calendar. The exhibition of original prints tours the UK network of printmaking studios and the full collections will also be online.

Image of Carolyn Murphy's 20:20 linocut 'Into the Woods' for the 2017 print exchange
‘Into the Woods’ by Carolyn Murphy

Currently available work is on sale in the new on-line Shop.

Image of a woman viewing artist Carolyn Murphy's monoprint 'Hidden Depths' at Warrington Contemporary Open 2017

Warrington Contemporary now Open

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Carolyn Murphy’s monoprint ‘Hidden Depths’ is on display at the Warrington Contemporary Open Exhibition at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, as part of the Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival 2017.  The exhibition runs until 28 October and all work is for sale.

The photograph below was taken at the Exhibition Opening on 29 September, by photographer Phil Portus who is exhibiting in The Photography Open at The Gallery at Bank Quay House.

Image of a woman viewing artist Carolyn Murphy's monoprint 'Hidden Depths' at Warrington Contemporary Open 2017
Carolyn Murphy’s monoprint ‘Hidden Depths’ on display at Warrington Contemporary Open

This is the 7th Warrington Contemporary Open Exhibition. A selection of around 40 works by local and regional artists is on show. Works were selected by a panel of judges, including Paulette Terry Brien, director of The International 3, an exhibition and project space in Salford, and artist Louise Giovanelli.

Unframed work is for sale on-line via the new Shop on this website.

Image of a Carolyn Murphy fabric printing workshop in the Lake District

Fabric printing workshop

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On Saturday 23 September printmaker Carolyn Murphy shared her learning on linocut printmaking onto fabric with a small group at her first fabric printing workshop in the Lake District. It was a hands-on afternoon and the whole group created some lovely work. There were attendees new to lino cutting as well as experienced printmakers. The event was great fun and received some lovely feedback. A big thank you to Kendal artist Geraldine Walkington for organising the session.

Image of a Carolyn Murphy fabric printing workshop in the Lake District
Fabric printing workshop with printmaker Carolyn Murphy in the Lake District

Please take a look at Carolyn’s blog for more details and images.

Currently available unframed original prints are for sale in the on-line Shop.

Image of the selected semi-abstract monoprint by Carolyn Murphy

A contemporary monoprint

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One of Carolyn Murphy’s new monoprints has been selected for this year’s Warrington Contemporary Open art exhibition.  The original monoprint, entitled ‘Hidden Depths’ will be on display and for sale in the exhibition in Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, alongside a wide selection of contemporary art, all from artists based in Warrington and the surrounding areas.

The exhibition is part of Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival 2017 and opens on Friday 29 September, until Saturday 28 October.

Currently available unframed work is on sale in the new on-line Shop.

Image of the selected semi-abstract monoprint by Carolyn Murphy
‘Hidden Depths’ original monoprint by Carolyn Murphy
Image of a black and white collagraph 'Windswept' by printmaker Carolyn Murphy

Printmaker Carolyn Murphy in Stockport Open Art Exhibition 2017

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Printmaker Carolyn Murphy has 2 original prints in the Stockport Open Exhibition this year, a collagraph called ‘Windswept’ (below) and ‘Blue Tit’, a multi-plate linocut. The Stockport Open opens on 23 July and runs until 2 September.

Image of a black and white collagraph 'Windswept' by printmaker Carolyn Murphy
Collagraph ‘Windswept’ by printmaker Carolyn Murphy

“It’s always a lovely space to show work and a great exhibition, free to visitors. I hope you can get along” said Carolyn Murphy, who has exhibited regularly in Stockport since 2011.

Carolyn’s unframed work is now available in her new on-line Shop and cards of some of her linocuts are available to buy on the website ‘Love From The Artist.’

Image of Manchester Old & New II, a new linocut by Didsbury printmaker Carolyn Murphy

Art on the Railings

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Didsbury printmaker Carolyn Murphy had a great day today at Didsbury Arts Festival’s ‘Art on the Railings’ event in Fletcher Moss park with fellow printmaker Cate Gibson. Despite the threat of rain the two stayed dry and enjoyed the music, on day 1 of this year’s festival. It could have been a bit warmer – for June!

Carolyn unveiled a new ‘Manchester Old & New II’ linocut (below). The printmakers had a great location and enjoyed taking part in the local festival for a second time. New cards of Carolyn Murphy’s linocuts are now available from the website of ‘Love From The Artist. Unframed work is for sale in the new on-line Shop.

Image of Manchester Old & New II, a new linocut by Didsbury printmaker Carolyn Murphy
Manchester Old & New II, a new linocut by Didsbury printmaker Carolyn Murphy
Image of gecko linocut 'Sticky Feet' by Carolyn Murphy in the Twitter Art Exhibition 2017

Gecko linocut in charity sale

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Carolyn Murphy’s gecko linocut is now in Stratford-on-Avon at the Twitter Art Exhibition 2017, to help raise money for children’s charity Molly Olly’s Wishes. This year’s charity art sale on Saturday 1 April sees artwork from over 1000 artists from all over the world go on sale. Each artist contributed a one-off original postcard-sized piece of artwork to the exhibition and sale.

This is the first time that Carolyn has taken part in the Twitter Art Exhibition. Her two-plate reduction linocut of a gecko and butterflies, called ‘Sticky Feet’ sold on the opening night. For more ‘behind the scenes’ images and information on the complex process with stage images, see Carolyn’s blog

For unframed prints, please check out the website Shop.

Image of gecko linocut 'Sticky Feet' by Carolyn Murphy in the Twitter Art Exhibition 2017
Gecko linocut ‘Sticky Feet’ by Carolyn Murphy #TAE17

Clitheroe exhibition

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This week Carolyn Murphy visited the Longitude Gallery in Clitheroe, currently hosting an exhibition of work by Prospect Printmakers. Carolyn has 2 framed original linocut prints on show (one already sold) as well as a selection of unframed work in the browsers. The Clitheroe exhibition shows great variety and high quality printmaking in a great space close to Clitheroe Castle. It’s on until the end of March, so please do pop in if you are in the area.

To buy unframed work on-line, please visit the new Shop.

Image of a linocut called 'Darkness' by Carolyn Murphy which is part of the Bury exhibition

Bury Exhibition opens Friday

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A new Bury exhibition features a wide range of printmakers’ work under one theme. Prospect Printmakers are showing work at Bury Art Museum as part of the ‘Feared and Fanciful Futures’ exhibition. The exhibition opens on Friday 27 January and runs until 20 May.

Carolyn Murphy’s reduction linocut ‘Darkness’ will be included alongside other printmakers’ work.

Image of a linocut called 'Darkness' by Carolyn Murphy which is part of the Bury exhibition
‘Darkness’ by Carolyn Murphy

Inspiration for the work came from ideas of catastrophe, space exploration and her love of dark skies.

All are welcome at the opening on Friday (5-8pm).

Prospect Printmakers print at Alan Birch’s workshop at Prospect Studio in Waterfoot, Rossendale. A wide variety of printmaking techniques and some great interpretations of the theme are on show. The group also has unframed work in the Bury Art Museum Shop.

You can now buy available unframed original prints at the new on-line Shop.