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Sunday Tickets Available Sat 22nd & Sun 23rd October
Pop-up Print Shop
Pressing Matters New released Magazine: 20th Edition just for Print in Action
Truth Wall Print your own Action with Kiss and Bite LetterPress
Print in the dome Transform your circular print
Hands On Submissions are open!
Market Stalls Exploring printmakers and suppliers
The Car Parks Project
Peter Ursem Fabulous Fables Taster Session
Bristol Print Collective Collaborative Demonstration
The Printery
Monoprinting on Clay with Tweeny Van Mierlo
Impact 12 Screenings Watch lectures from Impact 12
Talk with Peter Ursem Landscape in linocut
Talk with Anita Reynolds Printmaking, walking and working in the landscape
Fragments in Landscape Workshop with Sarah Gregory
A Plankton Linocut and Etching Demo with Debby Mason
Food with Hedgerow Hound
National Marine Aquarium Join the crew rock pooling or create a rock pool print!
Print your patch workshop with Ismay Berncastle

Festival Submissions – now open!

Whether you’re creating prints on your kitchen table, in isolation, in the studio or even outside with friends we want to hear from you!

We’re launching three open submissions for Print in Action Festival 2022. Apply to exhibit for Hands On, an exhibition showcasing handmade original prints from South West print makers, apply for a stall for our original print fair or submit to display prints of any size in browsers during the festival weekend. 

Submissions are now open and we invite print artists at any stage of their creative journey to submit, artwork could be made on the kitchen table, in isolation, in the studio or even outside with friends. Best of luck!


Hands On Exhibition

Hands On Exhibition

Hands On is an open submission exhibition at Ocean Studios, a busy vibrant hub for Plymouth’s artists and makers. The Exhibition will run throughout the festival and will showcase handmade original prints from South West print makers.

Browser submissions

Browser submissions

Join the Real Ideas Pop-up Print Shop, open for all local, national and international artists and makers to submit and sell work during the Print in Action Festival! The Pop-up Print Shop runs throughout the festival. A busy vibrant hub for Plymouths creatives, and aims to celebrate the talent of print makers from Plymouth and beyond.

Apply to have a stall

Apply to have a stall

We are on the hunt for Printmakers and suppliers supporting printmaking to join us at our original print fair as part of Print in Action Festival 2022. Join us from 22nd-23rd October at Ocean Studios, a busy vibrant hub for Plymouths creatives for a weekend celebrating Print in all it’s forms!