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ELP Annual Exhibition
Private View: Thursday 1 October, 6pm
Exhibition: 2–11 October, 11am–5pm daily
The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, Clinton Road, E3 4QY
Festival of Print 2026 is East London Printmakers’ annual exhibition and the highpoint of its creative year, celebrating contemporary printmaking by around 100 established and emerging artists. Visitors have the rare chance to see and acquire original prints, alongside this year’s Box Set of forty original works. The show spans a wide range of techniques — woodblock, screen print, etching and relief, as monoprints and limited editions — and reflects ELP’s values of community and co-operation.
Member and Festival organiser Inga Eičaitė said: ‘Our goal for this show is to explore how different perspectives interact within a shared space. Every piece tells a unique story, and I encourage visitors to take their time, start conversations and really connect with the work.’
A highlight this year is a live event on Thursday 8 October: ‘The Dreaming of Butterflies’, an evening of performance exploring how printmaking communicates through dance and music, ending with a collaborative collage led by ELP artist duo Jairo Zaldua and Nicola Jane Green.
East London Printmakers is pleased to be joining this year’s Imprint Art Fair, the contemporary fair dedicated to original print and editions, at Lawrence Hall in Westminster from 29 October to 1 November.
We’re bringing work by forty artists from across our studio — a body of work that reflects the full range of print, from screen and etching to relief and woodblock, and the spirit of experiment that runs through everything we make. Our artists span established printmakers and those at the very start of their practice, shown side by side, which is exactly how ELP works: an artist-led studio built to give makers the space, the tools and the platform to bring their work to a wider audience.
Original prints will be available throughout, framed and unframed, offering both seasoned collectors and first-time buyers the chance to discover something new and take it home.
Come and find us at the fair. We’d be glad to talk about the studio, the work, and everything happening at ELP.
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Gift vouchers can be exchanged against any of our workshops, open access sessions or memberships and come in a range of values, from as little as £25 to upwards of £200.
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