Glasgow Print Fair 2022

We cannot tell you how thrilled we were to be able to have an in-person Glasgow Print Fair again - you can see a full list of artists on our website.

With our co-organisers Maraid Design, we invited over 50 artists and printmakers together for a day of printmaking fun at The Lighthouse - a venue that had been closed since lockdown. We brought with us yummy food and drinks from Us V Them Coffee and Big Bear Bakery.

We were back at pre-pandemic levels with our counters topping out at over 2000 visitors and more than 70% of our stallholders making over £1000 on the day!

We also received sponsorship from Kickstarter to help make our billboard dreams come true with Build Hollywood as we took over 6 locations in Glasgow with our bright colourful billboards that celebrated our print artists.

We were featured in Creative Boom, The List Magazine, The Metro and took over the middle pages of The Skinny! What an absolute joy running Glasgow Print Fair is.

Glasgow Print Fair 2021

We couldn’t let another year in semi-lockdown pass without another Glasgow Print Fair at Home. We invited 25 artists from Europe and beyond to create a print for us on the theme of Travel. The theme of travel is something I think everyone can connect with as we slowly emerge from lockdown. Our eyes are on the horizon with the world opening up and feeling that we will soon be able to get out there and explore.

We ran for one week this year and featured work from DR.ME, Lou Rowland, Alice Dansey Wright, Tess Smith Roberts, Conor Nolan, Eleni Kalorkoti, Kieron Redmond, Linn Fritz, Thomas Hedger, Adam Higton, Sanna Hellikki Turunen, Supermundane, KMGYeah, Andreas Samulesson x Raclet, Katie Smith, Wild Press, Dominika Lipniewska, Ruan Van Vliet, Concrete Nature Studio, David Lemm, ploterre, Michael Driver, Lauren Morsley, Hollie Fuller and Risotto Studio.

Each artist explored travel in a different way from imagining time travel to daydreaming, to a summer full of sunshine as well as many other things that we’re yearning for. With the pandemic, many fairs have not been able to run. It was really important for us to do all that we could to continue to shout about print.

This year all proceeds went straight back to the artists with many of them sharing their profits with charities close to their hearts, like Glasgow-based Refuweegee. We’ve had huge support this year with features in It’s Nice That, Creative Boom, Design Week.

Big shout-out to co-organiser Jane McDevitt and her partner Peter Byrne for taking all the photography.