The Printing Girls (TPG) is an empowered community of 83 diverse female printmakers from all corners of South Africa. Together, our creative voices resonate with each other as well as the contemporary printmaking community at large. At the heart of TPG we believe in supporting and encouraging each other to keep pushing the creative boundaries of printmaking within our own studio practices. We strive to produce contemporary prints that embody an excellence in technicality and conceptuality. Our exhibitions are celebrations of printmaking and the female voice.
TPG aim to develop a strong professional network of female South African printmakers, to cultivate a generous culture of sharing skills and information among the TPG members, Equip and enhance the printmaking skills of the TPG members, help advance the TPGs as a credible community of female printmakers within the art world, grow a network of galleries, promoters, and suppliers who are supportive of our aims and will facilitate our exhibiting goals, and provide information to the public about the processes of printmaking by facilitating interactive workshop engagements at TPG exhibitions.
The ethos behind The Printing Girls is, essentially, each of us makes original prints as a significant part of our ongoing creative output. And as women we are flexible, innovative and encourage each other to follow our own paths β no taboos. Some of us use traditional printmaking methods β etching, relief printing, screenprint - while others exploit contemporary digital, and when in an adventurous mood we'll try out combinations of both.
We are committed to the idea of the multiple β except of course for monotype and experimental one-off prints β¦ as we said, flexible! But β and no exceptions here β we are committed to the professional presentation of prints and to scrupulous documentation.
The Printing Girls (TPG) is an empowered community of 83 diverse female printmakers from all corners of South Africa. Together, our creative voices resonate with each other as well as the contemporary printmaking community at large. At the heart of TPG we believe in supporting and encouraging each other to keep pushing the creative boundaries of printmaking within our own studio practices. We strive to produce contemporary prints that embody an excellence in technicality and conceptuality. Our exhibitions are celebrations of printmaking and the female voice.
TPG aim to develop a strong professional network of female South African printmakers, to cultivate a generous culture of sharing skills and information among the TPG members, Equip and enhance the printmaking skills of the TPG members, help advance the TPGs as a credible community of female printmakers within the art world, grow a network of galleries, promoters, and suppliers who are supportive of our aims and will facilitate our exhibiting goals, and provide information to the public about the processes of printmaking by facilitating interactive workshop engagements at TPG exhibitions.
The ethos behind The Printing Girls is, essentially, each of us makes original prints as a significant part of our ongoing creative output. And as women we are flexible, innovative and encourage each other to follow our own paths β no taboos. Some of us use traditional printmaking methods β etching, relief printing, screenprint - while others exploit contemporary digital, and when in an adventurous mood we'll try out combinations of both.
We are committed to the idea of the multiple β except of course for monotype and experimental one-off prints β¦ as we said, flexible! But β and no exceptions here β we are committed to the professional presentation of prints and to scrupulous documentation.
