On Double Elephant
Provider description
Double Elephant Print Workshop is a not-for-profit open access printmaking resource based in Exeter. It was established in 1997 at The Old Bakery Studios, Spicer Road 1998 by Simon Ripley & Lynn Bailey (both graduates of the University of Plymouth Faculty of Fine Art) and the name Double Elephant taken from the large Imperial paper size used in printmaking.
The aims of DEPW are to:
* provide open access to fine art printmaking resources and equipment
* to encourage and support people to discover their creativity
* offer a range of courses in printmaking including outreach to schools and hard-to-reach community groups.
* provide high quality exhibitions, print sales and an editioning service.
* be committed to maintaining an enjoyable, accessible, environmentally healthy and solvent-free working environment.
DEPW currently has over 50 artist members from Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset. We support professional and semi professional artists as well as those new to printmaking. In addition we work with groups of people normally excluded from mainstream arts activity, both on site in our premises and off-site through our portable workshop facilities. We work with an average of 700 children and 500 young people and adults through the outreach programme each year. Around 200 adults attend DEPW courses each year. Most of our work is based throughout Devon, but our outreach extends across the South West.
Our facilities include:
* Bewick and Wilson 30inch etching press
* 1830s Albion relief press
* Acrylic resist etching facilities
* Portable Rollaco etching presses
* Equipment for photographic screenprint stencils and photo etching
* A wide range of rollers, cutting tools and all other plate-making materials
