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and art to create an immersive experience.
Assistant professor of graphic design and co-curator of the gallery James Quigley has been practicing letterpress since 2012. Quigley said when he was contacted for the gallery, he used the opportunity to reach out to pros in the letterpress community.
“I reached out to people I knew and people I didn’t know who work in the letterpress industry,” Quigley said, “And to my delight, they all said yes.”
Of the artists showcased, Lead Graffiti and Jen Farrell from Starshaped Press are just some of the prominent U.S. artists featured. Letterpress printing includes many different styles which are embraced in the community.
Though locked down in London, this exhibition of letterpress protest posters has plenty of messages for the world If the past few years have felt like one long trail of division, doom and injustice, followed by the deadly silence and devastating death toll of the pandemic, then ‘Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters’ is the exhibition for you,
writes John L. Walters. The 204 protest posters on display form a protracted howl of rage and anguish about nearly everything you can think of, from Trump to fracking, from inequality to global warming. There are 188 artworks from 105 printers in sixteen countries, plus 26 collaborations between New North Press (NNP), the initiators of the exhibition, and a variety of people who do not usually make letterpress work, including Peter Kennard (see