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Dates to remember

Thursday 31st October will be an evening opening along with most other businesses in the street to have a fun Halloween evening,This starts at 4pm with street events.

Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd November, our Winter Exhibition opens, lots of new artwork and our range of quality gifts, all UK made or Fair Trade. We do not handle mass produced Chinese goods, the Garden Centres can keep them!

Thursday 21st November is the usual Newport Christmas Festival, shops open in evening, Lights switch on and many street events

Winter Exhibition

We will be reopening with our Winter Exhibition along with Christmas Gift Selection on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd November. All welcome. We will open 11.00am until 4.00pm each day.

There will be new artwork by several contributing artists as well as new works by gallery owner, Sheila Borthwick. We also host work by members of Edinburgh Lofi Photography Group on theme "Construct"

No 13 Press

Sheila also runs via the Gallery a self publishing venture, producing a small range of handmade books and zines as well as low edition printed books. Once we reopen we plan to display some artist books and zines for sale. These will all be limited editions and many are handmade.Current books are on this site under Gallery Shop- books and zines

Temporary Closure and Reopening

Please note the Gallery has been  closed for some much needed refurbishment as well as the Tay Bridge roadworks which impacted summer footfall..Roadworks now finished then we are on holiday. and preparing for the Winter Exhibition. We may be impacted by other works, 2 months at Glencarse on our way from home then ongoing Swallow Roundabout so we may at times be delayed getting from home to Newport

We will reopen in Autumn with our Winter Exhibition. Please follow this blog and social media ( under printspace dundee). This will run over Christmas and will include photography by Edinburgh Lofi Group in addition to work by our established artists..

We plan to be open Thursdays and Saturdays, 11am to 4pm, if making special journey, we may often be earlier subject to traffic!

 

Definition of a Print

Many of our artists are printmakers, their work is all their own " by the hand of the artist". Editions are hand pulled and low, many just do monoprints ie 1 of 1. They are all inked up, a long process when there are several colours, then run through the process be it etching, screenprint, relief print, lithography and several processes.

There are now a proliferation of outlets selling "original prints" These are reproductions, done photographically usually by ink jet, or giclee as often referred to. They tend to be in large or open editions, often in poor quality frames and bear no relationship to true printmaking. Most reputable galleries do not handle these, 

We do stock digital art, this is different again, being created in computer from many elements, almost a collage. They are produced in low numbers.

We are happy to explain the various processes to any callers