Printshop! is both an exhibition of collaborative work, by Edwin Pickstone and Giles Round, and a functioning studio for visitors to participate in artist-led print. The large scale work produced within the Caseroom of The Glasgow School of Art provides a setting for introductory workshops to techniques such as screenprinting, bookbinding and letterpress. Through the act of printing and reprinting, the gallery becomes a site for the production of print.

Print and punctuation are the starting point for the collaboration between the artists as they reflect on the process of printing, the creative potential of the repeat and the restrictive technology of the letterpress. Through the sheer act of printing and reprinting, the inherent value of production for printing’s sake is explored, as is the essential quality of the collection they form. In stretching [expanding] the framework in which they are producing, Pickstone and Round seek to oppose the idea of a unique edition in favour of a cohesive and large scale graphic artwork.