Ouseburn Open Studios
at 36 Lime Street, NE1 2PQ
Sat 28 & Sun 29 March 2020 10.00 – 17.00 cancelled
Its our annual Spring Open Studios, when the doors at 36 Lime street will be open to the public for a mooch about and chance to meet the faces working behind the normally closed doors.
I will be in my studio on SUNDAY only! Pop by to see some silk screen printing and letterpress printing from some recent broadsides and artist’s books “Quartieri Spagnoli”.
I’ll have lots of prints, artists books and zines to look at and purchase – no doubt there will also be some fundraising for something going on as well!
Sheffield Artists Book Fair
Sat 5 Oct, 10.30am-4.30pm
Kommune/Kurious Arts,
Castle House, Sheffield, S3 8LU
Looking forward to taking part in this inaugural event with over 50 artist bookmakers and small presses. Sheffield Artists’ Book Fair is part of the Off the Shelf, Festival of Words 5 – 26th Oct.
SHIELDFIELD ART WORKS
presents
Community not Commodities.
Open Door Exhibition
19th – 20th Headway Arts, The Old Church, Waterloo Road, Blyth, NE24 1BY
Preview: Thursday 19 September, 5-7pm
27-28 September at St Nicholas Church, Cramlington
Preview: Thursday 26th September, 5-7pm
Vane
Preview: Friday 30 August 5-8pm
Dates: 31 August – 21 September 2019
Opening times: Wednesday – Saturday 12 noon – 5pm
First Floor, Commercial Union House, 39 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6QE
Open Exhibition
Check out the latest Open Exhibition at Gallagher and Turner.
22nd August – 5th October 2019
30 St Mary’s Place Newcatle upon TyneNE1 7PQ
It brings together a wide range of artists from the North under one roof. Check out the work on show and for sale HERE.
Thrifty Tips is on sale for £180. The type for ‘Thrifty Tips’ was printed using a Vandercook Press at Hole Editions, using original type from the Kirkleatham Museum collection as part of the project Latest Edition with Navigator North and the Festival of Thrift 2017. The age of the type displays the wear and tear of its original use in a jobbing press. The broadside contains original thrifty tips gathered from the visiting public during the 2013 Festival of Thrift. These tips relate to the objects, ephemera and print making equipment in the Stores Collection at Kirkleatham Museum.
Liverpool Artists’ Network
Tuesday 14th May 6.30-8.30 Liverpool Hope Creative Campus
I will be taking part in the Slide Slam talking about how Artists Union England came about, its development & achievements, why artists should be in a trade union and need to be organised.
Late Shows
Visit the Ouseburn’s original artist studios to get a rare glimpse into the working lives of some of the region’s best-known artists. In the gallery Bethan Maddocks presents The Fallen Forest: an interactive prehistoric forest developed in collaboration with Woodhorn Museum. Explore and add your own artwork to the growing installation throughout the night. Performances include She Choir (gallery, 7.15pm) and pitch black piano recitals from Steve Luck at half hourly intervals. Hole Editions will be running their presses and I will have squatters in my studio helping to make a zine for Artist Union England.
36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle, NE1 2PQ.
Friday, 17 May 2019 from 19:00-23:00
Uncharted Territory
Uncharted Territory is a group exhibition with artists from various backgrounds and artistic expressions. It uses art to trigger conversations and to build bridges and invites the audience to reflect on issues of human mobility, identity construction and political discourse about Brexit and migration.
Bradford Zine Fair
Look forward to taking part in Bradford Zine Fair for the second year running at City Library in central Bradford.
I will be showcasing a selection of hand printed & photocopied zines such as ‘Migration & Capital’ a series of three silk screen printed zines responding to the EU, immigration, the media and more.
There will be stalls, speakers, workshops and more, all on the theme of ‘zines with a message’, plus a special mini zine workshop next door with Impressions Gallery on the opening day of their exhibition ‘Our Plastic Ocean’
There will be an after party at Bread and Roses cooperative space on North Parade, with food, zine readings and more.
All welcome!
Saturday 29th June 11:00 – 16:00
Bradford Zine Fair 2018
Saturday 30th June 11.00-16.00
Bradford City Library
9 Aldermanbury BD1 1SD
Looking forward to taking part in my first Zine Fair in Bradford! I’ll be selling my Emergency Anti-Trump fold out Poster Zine, something everyone should have in the run up to his 13th July visit to the UK. I’ll also be showcasing my new zine, Book Gobblers, inspired by the Senate House Library, exhibition ‘Queer Between the Covers’ which featured an account of Gays The Word bookshop campaign and its fight against persecution by Customs & Excise.
Edinburgh Indie Book & Zine Fair
Saturday 21st July 12.00 – 17.00
Out of the Blue Drill Hall
Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh
Ouseburn Open Studios 24th & 25th November 2017 10-5pm
Head down and check out some of the latest projects I have been working on.
Senate House Library Commission or Latest Edition with Navigator North.
I will be selling a range of Anti-Trump Zines – make sure you pick one up – they are selling like hot cakes in Minnesota!
ASMbly Lab 2017, Leeds
ASMbly Lab is an annual pop-up studio/laboratory/workshop in Leeds city centre, facilitating cross-disciplinary collaboration between artists, scientists and makers.
ASMbly 2017 runs from Wednesday 26th July to Sunday 6th August.
“Over the 10 days, we will be hosting an art/ science exhibition, a series of 10 workshops, art/sci/maker drop-in activities, a superposition event and a performance night.”
I will be exhibiting The Principles of Divergence, made up of hand made books and enamelled glass.
The Principles of Divergence references Darwin’s research into Natural Selection in his book ‘On the Origin of Species’ 1859. Darwin’s detailed and methodical presentation of the animal kingdom provides a wealth of inspiration for interpretation in the form of a suitcase. The medium of printmaking and techniques in making artist’s books provides a fluid connection between idea and object. The suitcase acts as a metaphor and reflects Darwin’s experiment using a wooden frame, placed in garden soil to capture and record the plants and insects present over a controlled period of time.
Taking the historical obsession of classification and compartmentalises elements, creating a portable natural history museum. The work is designed to be physically engaging, allowing the viewer to explore the work and discover the tactile quality inherent in the book art.
I am organising this years annual Artists Book Market BALTIC, and will be showcasing my artist’s books, chap books & zines along with some amazing folk! Check out the list of those taking part, as well as the brilliant Foundation Press and Freelance Artists Bethan Maddocks & Nicola Singh’s “artists interventions”. I’ll have some freshly printed “Anti-Trump fold out poster zines”, pick one up for £7!
Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 May 10.00-17.00
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead plays host to an annual & national two day Artists’ Book Market. Over 40 national and regional artists, bookmakers, small press publishers, artist’s groups, zine artists and bookbinders will be exhibiting and selling their work direct to the public.
Exhibitors;
Kitbooks
Shoddy: a disability art project
GINNY
Tamsin Daisy Rees
BBB Book Collective
Gemma Lacey; Red Plate Press
Stroud Artist Books
Jessie Churchill
Andrew Robinson & Andrea Campomanes
Andrea Allan
Hestan Isle Press
Elizabeth Jardine Godwin
Eileen White
Chloe Spicer
Julie Macbean
Visual Arts in Rural Communities
Nancy Campbell
Newcastle University
As Yet Untitled
Stichill Marigold Press
Malcolm Gibson and Rachel Gibson
Roncadora Press
MA Book Arts, Camberwell College, University of the Arts, London
Heather Prescot
Michelle Holland
Z.A.M
Less Than Five Hundred Press
Greyscale Poetry Zine
Asterisk Collective*
Kate Jackson
POUR-ZINE
Anne Proctor Moonkwayk Studio
paperwallah
Hazel Terry
Sue Bennet
SideburnedPoet
Katie Forrester
Theresa Easton
Otter Bookbinding Ltd
Team Comics Tees
Artists Interventions:
This two day event is FREE and accompanied by a series of artists interventions:
BALTIC Freelance Artist, Bethan Maddocks will be delivering a free drop in 3D popup book workshop on Saturday. Sunday Nicola Singh plans to engage book market visitors with an evolving page projected onto the wall of the book-market.
Artists Interventions with Foundation Press
Saturday 13 May
Chooc Ly Tan
Chooc Ly Tan is an Artist, DJ & Voyager, in residence on Planet Earth. Her practice sets out to use systems or tools that are used to understand the world, such as logic or physics, but subvert them to suggest new visions of reality. Recently her work has been shown at Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China; StudioRCA, London; Artičok, Prague; Gasworks, London; ART Rotterdam; Neutral Ground Contemporary Art Forum, Canada; CCA, Glasgow; OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Austria; Festival of Ideas, Cambridge; CCCB, Barcelona; Fuso International Video Art Festival, Lisbon; Milano Film Festival; School Hut, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania; Carlos/Ishikawa, London; Whitechapel gallery. Last year, Chooc Ly Tan has performed a DJ set at the Tate Modern as well as at Apocalypse/Rave (Oslo, Norway).
Sunday 14 May
Rachel Aggs
Rachel Aggs is a London-based musician. Primarily known for her distinctive guitar work, influenced by both West African highlife and post punk, she also sings and plays the violin. She has been playing with the band Trash Kit since 2009, with Rosa Murray and Rachel Horwood, which released an eponymous debut album on the Upset! The Rhythm label in 2010 and a second album, Confidence, in 2014. She has also been a member of Shopping formed with Andrew Milk and Billy Easter, since 2012. Other bands have included The Madrigals, Covergirl, Golden Grrrls, and Sacred Paws, who released a debut EP in 2015. She writes zines, including I Trust My Guitar,[4] and was involved with the Power Lunches venue in Dalston, East London.
Foundation Press
Foundation Press is a platform for experimental publishing activity based within the interdisciplinary environment of the Art & Design Foundation Studies course at National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland. Based around a number of risograph printers and led by artists Adam Phillips, Deborah Bower and Joe Woodhouse, Foundation Press develops print projects through workshops with visiting artists and partner organisations, in collaboration with students of the Foundation course who act as co-creators, designers and producers.
I will be giving a talk ‘Print & Protest’ along with Matt Abbott from Firm of Poets performing Wednesday 24th August 2016 6pm – 8.30pm Art House, Wakefield
The Power of Print, politics and the latest zine ‘The Right & Freedom to a Home’ will be just some of the subjects covered during the evening. The event is FREE – book here.
‘The Right & Freedom to a Home’ commission with Book Works ‘Beyond Words’ a project with Freedom Festival Arts Trust, James Reckitt Library Trust, Hull Culture and Leisure Library Services and Book Works
Broadsides & Chap Books at Smail’s
Exhibition: St Ronan’s Wells, Wells Brae, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire EH44 6RB 01896 833583 25 March – 12 July 2-16
Artist Talk: St Ronan’s Wells, Thursday 14th April 7-8pm
Working with artist’s books, but based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne I have been Artist in Residence at Robert Smail’s Printing Works, a Scottish National Trust property. This year marks the 150 year anniversary of Smail’s , where I have created a series of Broadsides & Chap Books inspired by the wealth of material held in the archive at Smail’s. Broadsides & Chap Books embody a collection of quotes and paraphrases from Tales from Smail’s, handwritten responses from volunteers and staff connected with the printing works. The quotes reference personal experiences and stories set within the community of Innerleithen and beyond.
Articles from The St Ronan’s Standard, printed at Smail’s until 1916 have been reconfigured and woven into the Broadsides & Chap Books incorporating the geographical landscape of the Scottish Borders. The work draws on historical and social exploration using the archives to reference the regions rich tradition in textiles & mills, and the start of the First World War. Broadsides & Chap Books capture a window in the history of Smail’s in the past and the present and form part of a wider exhibition at St Ronan’s Well documenting the history of the jobbing press up until the present day.
Theresa Easton, an artist from Newcastle is exhibiting some of her work. She has created chap books and broadsides, which were all designed at the print works. Photographed holding a chap book
Broadsides: £70 p&p direct from the artist or Robert Smails Printing Works
Chap Books: £10 p&p direct from the artist or on sale at Robert Smail’s Printing Works
Robert Smail’s Printing Works
High St, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire EH44 6HA
http://www.nts.org.uk/Property/Robert-Smails-Printing-Works
Poppies Weeping Window – Woodhorn Museum
Poppies Weeping Window will be coming to an end soon (last day 31st October). Inside the Workshop Gallery at Woodhorn, visitors have been encouraged to leave their personal responses to the poppies. 
Using original archive material from Woodhorn, relating to WW1, I have designed a selection of stamps for visitors to illustrate their remarks and comments. The stamps document the tribunals set up to judge and order men from the North East to France & Belgium. Other stamps document the list of jobs women were allowed to do, the pamphlet increases in size as the years progress. 
Particpants were encouraged to leave their details.
A Polish visitor wrote “Good wishes for all the miners…from Poland” signed Piotrek.
PAGES Leeds | International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair
The Tetley, Leeds, 7th-8th March 2015
I will be taking part again at this fantastic event for anyone interested or curious about book making, artists’ books and small press publishing. Check out the whats happening Book Fair Flier
http://www.leedsartbookfair.com/portfolio/theresa-easton/
Ouseburn Open Studios
Spring Salon Sale
Sunday 29th March 10-5pm
An Encyclopaedia of Everything: Cheryl Penn
There are over 350 books in this collection and I am pleased to say I have been able to contribute to Cheryl Penn’s labour of love. ”Encyclopaedia’s are tomes of articles and subjects on any and every topic of accumulated, verifiable knowledge.” Cheryl Penn
Abscence & Presence: A Printmaking Response to the Bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street, San Francisco Center for the Book, USA.
12th December 2014 – 25th January 2015
In 2013, printmakers from around the world were invited to make prints for the al-Mutanabbi Street Project. Eash artist was asked to reflect and respond to the bombing of the bookseller’s quarter in Baghdad in 2007 and to be part of a global coalition of artists, poets and writers that states that wherever people talk freely and creativity breathes, al-Mutanabbi Street starts.
- Thrifty Tips heading over seas
Organised by Mikhail Pogarsky and Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol.
Artists’ Books Exhibition, UWE, Bristol 1st December 2014 – 31st January 2015
Venue: the State Historical, Architectural, Art and Landscape Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno, Moscow March 13 – May 18 2014. You can see a film of the work on show HERE
This exhibition brings together a collection of Russian & UK artists books. Theresa Easton represents the UK with Thrifty Tips just one of the hand bound books collating the Thrifty Tips provided by visitors to the Festival of Thrift, Lingfield Point, Darlington 21st & 22nd September 2013. Over 27,000 visitors to the weekend event were able to take part in thrifty activities, watch demonstrations and contribute to a thrifty, creative community. Theresa Easton & Kay Henderson spoke to over 200 visitors during the event at the Alternative Village Fete, encouraging printing participation and exchange of thrifty ideas. Visitors were encouraged to suggest and print their own typographic thrifty tip.
PAGES Leeds | International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair
The Tetley, Leeds, 7th-9th March 2015: Fri 7th (6-9pm), Sat 8th (11am-6pm) & Sun 9th (11am-5pm).
Sunday March 29th 10-5pm Ouseburn Spring Salon Sale 2015, Ouseburn venues are opening their studio doors for spring to offer special prices for end of line collections and one of pieces. Its a great opportunity to purchase affordable art and meet the artists. I will be opening the doors to my studio and showcasing some of the latest work from projects including World War 1 Trench Art Mail Art Project some latest Zines & prints.
Organised by Mikhail Pogarsky and Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol.
- Thrifty Tips heading over seas
Artists’ Books Exhibition, UWE, Bristol 1st December 2014 – 31st January 2015
Venue: the State Historical, Architectural, Art and Landscape Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno, Moscow March 13 – May 18 2014. You can see a film of the work on show HERE
This exhibition brings together a collection of Russian & UK artists books. Theresa Easton represents the UK with Thrifty Tips just one of the hand bound books collating the Thrifty Tips provided by visitors to the Festival of Thrift, Lingfield Point, Darlington 21st & 22nd September 2013. Over 27,000 visitors to the weekend event were able to take part in thrifty activities, watch demonstrations and contribute to a thrifty, creative community. Theresa Easton & Kay Henderson spoke to over 200 visitors during the event at the Alternative Village Fete, encouraging printing participation and exchange of thrifty ideas. Visitors were encouraged to suggest and print their own typographic thrifty tip.
Someone 3.0 #12 is a recent contribution to:
Collaborative Mail Art Artists’ Books
A group for all book artists who are interested in collaborating on international mailed book projects. Someone 3.0 #12 presents a selection of reflective images made using simplified printing processes, which act as a metaphor for the hand made tools used in the trenches to scratch the surface of the empty brass shell cases. The book is an edition of 18, with 9 being sent to the other group participants: Cheryl Penn, Stephanie Turnbul, Svenja Wahl, Christopher Skinner ,Anete Ulmane, Ken Ford, Ruth Shaw-Williams, Kensa Rescorla & Catherine Mc Cue Boes.
Originally designed & published for I Libri Liberi, a small publishing fair I took part in September 2013 in the Bovisa area of Milan, a set of zines are now on sale at NewBridgeBooks in Newcastle (December 2013)
- Go Gove…
These colourful zines follow on from a series of hand printed broadsides I created for Stevie Ronnies Dear Angel exhibition at Globe Gallery in June 2013. The broadsides present a collection of quotes and paraphrases, taken from handwritten responses from the public and are reconfigured into a series of zines. The work is an emotive exploration of historical, social and politically driven forms of printed material, referencing the North East’s rich tradition in commercial printing. Broadsides and Broadsheets historically were single sheets of paper printed on one side with either ballads, announcing events, proclamations or advertisements, often pinned in taverns and cottages.
- Gove zine
Ouseburn Open Studios: 23rd & 24th November 2013
- Gove zine
36 Lime Street warmly welcomes everyone to their annual Open Studios event, where over 25 creative practitioners show and sell their work. Glimpse inside, explore the building, talk to the artists and makers and maybe find that unique gift for Christmas. See an exciting range of paintings, prints, textiles, jewellery, furniture, glass and ceramics.
‘30|36 Thirty years of Making It in the Ouseburn Valley’ – An exhibition in the gallery celebrating thirty years of 36 Lime Street.
Ouseburn Warehouse Workshops & Studios,
36 Lime Street, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
T (0191) 261 5666
info@36limestreet.co.uk www.36limestreet.co.uk
Facebook: 36 Lime Street Ltd Twitter: @36LimeStreet
Opening times 10am – 6pm
Late @ The Biscuit Factory 24th October 6.30-8.30pm, I will be in the ‘shop’ at The Biscuit Factory, showing visitors how to make their own simple Chap Map book using ephemera & found materials. LATE is a monthly after hours evening held at The Biscuit Factory on the last Thursday of the month.
- Chap Map Book
- Chap Map Book
Books on Tyne Festival: Newcastle’s mini literary festival – celebrates a Sense of Place this year. We can look forward to much that is local and special. Michael Chaplin takes us on a trip along the river. Harry Pearson provides a personal view of twenty years of North East football. Chris Phipps re-lives the time when Newcastle was capital of cool – the years of The Tube. Live Theatre, a creative treasure that goes from strength to strength will be celebrated. There is a virtual tour of much loved Whitby and delicate meditations on Lancashire beaches. As an avid listener to BBC radio, I am particularly looking forward to Radio Postcards – producer Sarah Blunt’svivid sound pictures. Local historians look back to a time when the Tyne bustled with industry and further afield, Kate Adie views the First World War through the eyes of the women who struggled for admission into this world of men. Also in the mix we find crime with Ann Cleeves, Hazel Osmond and Mari Hannah, and master storyteller David Almond launches the festival in a new collaboration with Jack Arthurs. Throw in romance, poetry, humour and much more, in two fabulous and contrasting venues… what’s not to like? Anthony Flowers (author of An Innocent Eye: Jimmy Forsyth: Tyneside Photographer)
At City Library, Level 3 I will be showcasing new work celebrating the North East’s rich tradition in printed broadsides in a series of books (concertina style) reflecting quotes and rants collected from members of the public over the past year. Part of the mini-book festival, this mini-exhibition embeds the voices of the North East. For a full programme download HERE
I Libri Liberi coming up soon @ Arci Schighera via Candiani 131 Bovisa Polytechnic 28th & 29th September 2013. I will be showcasing some zines I have been working on, a selection of reconfigured emotive responses and comments by members of the public. The comments respond to the current austerity measures and the impact they have on the daily lives of ordinary people. The zines bring together these responses and have been catergorised according to the political figure. Current zines include Go Gove, Go Now, ‘We are all in this together’ Osborne and leader of the Council Nick Forbes = Tory. The zines will be on sale with all proceeds currently going to the NE Assembly, suggested donation £3 or 3 Euro’s.
Festival of Thrift @ Lingfield Point, Darlington Saturday 21st & 22nd September
Work in progress for the Alternative Village Fete explores the history of Broadsides and printed pamphlets utilising George Osborne’s now catch phrase ‘We are all in this together’ ( no we aren’t George!)
Visitors to the stall at The Alternative Village Fete will be presented with a selection of hand printed broadsides
recounting numerous home remedies, promoting self-help solutions which will captivate an audience in discussion and dialogue. Visitors will be encouraged to note down their own family remedy, ready to be printed into a handmade broadside using traditional wooden type. Pegged up on a washing line style drying system, the stall will present a colourful combination of Northern folklore and practical home grown customs.
The broadsides reference home grown tips and suggestions of everything to do and how to do it from ‘Enquire Within upon Everything’, of 1889, and ’Model Cookery and Housekeeping Book’, of the same year. Selected tips and guides will be chosen from the books for reproduction using hand printed type, silk screen printing and laser printing. For example, To render linen &c., incombustible – dip in a solution of tungstate of soda or common alum’ or ‘Dry bread should be pounded for puddings, or soaked for brewis’.
‘Broadsides and Broadsheets historically were single sheets of paper printed on one side
with either ballads, announcing events, proclamations or advertisements, often pinned in taverns and cottages.
Visitors will be given the opportunity to take a broadside away in return for leaving a suggestion of how the austerity measures can be best tackled or provide a home remedy idea. Visitors will be shown how to bind the sheets into a simple handmade book that they can complete at home or at a later date, thereby creating their very own contemporary Enquire Within upon Everything’, or ’Model Cookery and Housekeeping Book’
Easton & Henderson incite an emotive response to the current political climate, with
debate and dialogue a key to making tangible what is said using the printed form.
Taking part in this years I Libri Liberi in Milan, Italy. I will be showing a selection of hand printed broadsides referencing a number of events I have taken part in recently including Newcastle’s Late Shows @36 Lime Street and Stevie Ronnies Dear Angel exhibition @the Globe Gallery, Newcastle.
The events provided the visiting public with the opportunity to leave comments for a range of political and economic leaders. The messages have been transcribed into a series of self-published zines, ready for distribution at the self-publshing book fair. Alongside the zines I plan to exhibit some of the original broadsides from the North of England Institute for Mining and Mechanical Engineering as well as contemporary messages from the visiting public translated into traditional broadsides.
theresa easton 