4th Annual On PAPER Printmaking contest 2018

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4th ANNUAL ‘ON PAPER’ INTERNATIONAL PRINTMAKING AWARD 2018

This year 260 artists from 48 different countries have participated in the ON PAPER contest.  All the submisions are visible online at onpapercontest.com.  The show with the shortlisted artists take place every year in a different location.  This year we have the pleasure to show ON PAPER shortlisted artists in the Spike Print Studio.  An international jury have chosen the selection that is shown in this exhibition. Among this selection, there is the winners of the award.

ON PAPER is a project based in Barcelona, with the aim of promoting the art of printmaking and developing connections between printmakers around the world.

The shortlisted artists for the On PAPER Award 2018 will be exhibited in the Spike Print Studio at Spike Island, Bristol (UK) in July 2018. The On Paper Award first prize is 1000€.  The second prize, 300€, will be for the print with the most creative printing process.  The Awagami Factory sponsors The Awagami Paper Award – 100 sheets of Awagami editioning paper worth 500€.

Private View

Friday 20 July 6-9pm

Exhibition runs from Sat 21 July to Friday 17 August

Sat & Sun 12-4pm

Monday – Friday 10am-4pm

Juan Antonio Masoliver, Professor, Literary Critic, Poet and Fiction Writer,Barcelona, Spain will announce the prizewinners at 6pm at the private view.

JURY

JACO PUTKER
The Hague, Netherlands
Visual Artist and Printmaker. Winner of ON PAPER contest 2017

FRIEDHARD KIEKEBEN
Chicago, US
Associate Professor Fine Art (Columbia College Chicago)

JUAN ANTONIO MASOLIVER
Barcelona, Spain
Professor, Literary Critic, Poet and Fiction Writer

IRENA CZAPSKA
Bristol, UK
Studio Director of Spike Print Studio at Spike Island

AMANDA THOMSON
Glasgow, Scotland
Dr, lecturer, Painting and Printmaking Department, The Glasgow School of Art

(taken from https://www.spikeprintstudio.org/events/on-paper-contest/​ )