Leicester Print Workshop

Leicester Print Workshop (LPW) is the Midlands centre of excellence for fine art printmaking. We are at the forefront of printmaking practice and we ensure it continues to be a thriving contemporary art form. We nurture talent and support creative practitioners to develop their skills and achieve their creative ambitions. Our large, open access studio is in a RIBA award-winning building, providing specialist facilities for stone and plate lithography, etching, engraving, relief, letterpress, screenprinting, and artist studios. Open to members, it is used by people from around the world and around the corner, and supported by a community of artists to thrive and grow.    LPW is shifting to be more closely aligned with our local context of inner city Leicester and serve a civic agenda to make culture work meaningfully for our constituents and city and as tools for social and cultural change. We are committed to responding to urgent contemporary issues which are rooted in our local context of a culturally diverse, post-industrial East Midlands city and approach these from a multidisciplinary and global perspective.   LPW was first established in 1986 and became a registered charity in 1993. In 2015 it moved to its new RIBA award-winning building situated in Leicester's Cultural Quarter, where alongside the studio space, it benefits from a gallery, shop, education space, framing room and 10 permanent artist studios. Leicester Print Workshop is an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation (NPO).