Current News & Events
On this page you will find details of the following:
Exhibitions
74th Annual Exhibition
75th Annual Exhibition
AGM and SWE Archive
SWE Christmas Card
SWE Mug
Box 25
A Being More Intense – The art of six wood engravers
Courses and Workshops
Two by Two, A Noah's Ark
SWE Leaflet
The Newsletter and Multiples
The Christmas Book
Foreign Currency Payment
Exhibitions
4th February 2012 – 13th May 2012:
June Crisfield Chapman – Wood Engravings
The Bowes Museum
Barnard Castle
County Durham DL12 8NP
Telephone 01833 690606
Email info@thebowesmuseum.org.ukk
Website www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk
Open 10.00am – 5.00pm daily
14th March 2012 – 5th May 2012:
Wool in Winchcombe
A mixed exhibition to celebrate Winchcombe’s wool town heritage. British Wool products will sit alongside sculpture and wood engravings including work by Hilary Paynter, Sarah van Niekerk, Howard Phipps and others
Winds of Change Gallery
8 High Street,
Winchcombe,
Gloucestershire GL54 5HT.
Telephone 01242 603836 or 07531 844823
Email jane@windsofchangegallery.co.uk
Website www.windsofchangegallery.co.uk
Open Monday– Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm Closed Sunday
May 2012:
Bewick in Gateshead – An exhibition to celebrate the work of the great 18th century master wood engraver Thomas Bewick
All through the month of May, Gateshead City Council is commemorating the 200th anniversary of Thomas Bewick’s move from the Forth, Newcastle to his house in Gateshead.
St Mary's Church Heritage Centre
Oakwellgate
Gateshead NE8 2AU
St Mary’s Church will be leading the celebrations.
Events will include a Bewick inspired blackstitch workshop with Linda Morris and a Wood Engraving Workshop with local wood engraver, Christ Daunt on Saturday 12 May, 9.00am – 4.00pm. Booking required, £20
For more information and more events:
Telephone 0191 433 4699
Email heritage@gateshead.gov.uk
Website www.gateshead.gov.uk
Open Tuesday – Sunday 10.00am – 4.00pm
Bank Holiday Mondays 10.00am – 4.00pm
7th May 2012 – 18th June 2012:
74th SWE Annual Exhibition
The Marle Gallery
Victoria Road
Axminster
Devon EX13 5NQ
Telephone 01297 639970
Email art@themarlegallery.co.uk
Website www.themarlegallery.co.uk
Gallery opening times: Tuesday – Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm
At other times including Sunday, by appointment.
Private view on Saturday 5th May 3.00pm – 7.00pm
74th Annual Exhibition
The venues for this years exhibition are:
Bankside Gallery, London
27th January 2012 – 9th February 2012
For details click here …
The Yarrow Gallery, Oundle
25th February 2012 – 24th March 2012
For details click here …
The Marle Gallery, Devon
7th May 2012 – 18th June 2012
For details click here …
75th Annual Exhibition
You are invited to submit 1 or 2 relief prints (woodcuts, wood engravings, linoprints etc). The submission dates are 11th – 18th June 2012.Submission forms are now available:
To download the main submissions form click here …
For UK submissions click here …
For International submissions click here …
The exhibition opens at the Art Jericho Gallery, Oxford on 20th September and will tour venues around the country, including the Victoria Gallery, Bath and the Bankside Gallery, London, until Summer 2013.
All prints to be sent unmounted and unframed. Selected prints will be framed by the Society.
To download the poster opposite click here …
Please send this on to whoever might be interested.
AGM and SWE Archive
The SWE AGM was held on 30th October 2010 at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. This was preceded by the opening of the SWE Archive. To see some slides from the event, please click here.
The SWE Christmas Card
How Silently, How Silently
The image for the Society's Christmas card this year was been engraved by Simon Brett on a block inherited from George Buday, that great celebrator of Christmas, and received by him from T. N. Lawrence & Son in February 1974. It is inspired by lines from the carol O Little Town of Bethlehem. The card, which is designed to fit the small envelope format of the post office, is now available from:
Sheila Hönigsberg
12A Dove House Close
Upper Wolvercote
Oxford OX2 8BG
Telephone 01865 553545
Email sheila.honigsberg@saclib.ox.ac.uk
The cards cost £10 for one dozen cards and £45 for five packets of twelve, including p & p in the UK.
To place an order, please send a cheque made payable to The Society of Wood Engravers.
The SWE Mug – SOLD OUT
The SWE Mug with Eric Gill's logo and Pete Lawrence's engraving 'Chairman Miaow' is now available for only £5.50 + £2.50 p&p (UK) or £3.50 p&p (overseas)
To place an order, please send a cheque (made payable to The Society of Wood Engravers) to:
Peter Lawrence
The Society of Wood Engravers
48 Lonsdale Road
Oxford OX2 7EP
Box 25 – SOLD OUT
Twenty-five prints, each 5 x 5 inches, each based on a number 1 to 25 by members of the Society of Wood Engravers to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the refounding of the Society.
Edition sold out but individual prints are available priced at £100
To view the prints, please click here.
Please make cheques payable to 'The Society of Wood Engravers' and send to:
Pete Lawrence
Oxford Designers & Illustrators Ltd
Aristotle Lane
Oxford OX2 6TR
Telephone 01865 512331 or
Telephone 01865 559 193
Fax 01865 517999
Email pete@odi-design.co.uk
A Being More Intense – The art of six wood engravers
By Jenny Pery. Essays on the formation and inner worlds of the six artists who have led the Society over the past twenty-five years.
Richly illustrated in black & white and colour with 155 illustrations.
Published by Oblong ISBN 978 0 955 6576 1 0
Price £28.50 (UK), €43.00 (EU), $60.00 (US), £31.00 (Non-EU/Non US)
For further details or to order a copy contact:
Oblong Creative Ltd.
416B Thorp Arch Estate
Wetherby LS23 7FG
Email mail@oblongcreative.co.uk
Website www.oblongcreative.co.uk
Courses and Workshops
Please click here to view a comprehensive list of 2010/2011 UK wood engraving workshops.
For information on courses and workshops, contact Kate Dicker:
Telephone 01962 869617
Email kd-zappypod@talktalk.netWebsite www.katedicker.com
Two by Two, A Noah's Ark
This book is the second part of a unique project that the Society began with its highly successful Millennium Print. For further information please click here to download the leaflet.
Society of Wood Engravers Leaflet
The Society has produced a new leaflet in two versions showing details from larger engravings.
Version One
For artists' credits and to see their complete engravings click here. To see an online version of the leaflet click here to download.
Version Two
For artists' credits and to see their complete engravings click here. To see an online version of the leaflet click here to download.
To receive a copy, contact SWE General Secretary Geri Waddington on 01832 275028 or email g.waddington@dial.pipex.com.
The Newsletter and Multiples
The Society's monthly Newsletter brings details of current and forthcoming exhibitions, lectures and courses. The quarterly Multiples includes articles, features, plus exhibition and book reviews. To find out more click here.
The Christmas Book
Snippets by N F Simpson, engravings by Peter Forster, Raymond Gloeckler, John Lawrence, Miriam Macgregor, Hilary Paynter and Jim Westergard and an afterword by Simon Brett.
Click here to read more about the Christmas Book
Foreign Currency Payment
It is now possible to pay the Society by using PAYPAL. You have to register with Paypal.com and then instruct Paypal to make a £ sterling payment to: woodengravers@hotmail.com
Paypal will charge your nominated credit card or account in your local currency.
We do not accept cheques denominated in currencies other than sterling. The costs of presenting them to the bank are prohibitive, and some are not accepted at all. This costs us a lot of money each year. Paypal is a simple and secure system for those who use the internet.