about us
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Printmaking for all Hot Bed Press is the largest open access print workshop in the region. With 170 members and rising we provide specialist printmaking equipment and expertise in printmaking and related media, (such as bookmaking). We are open 5 days a week, with technical support on hand.
We welcome new members; beginners or experienced printmakers, and run a range of popular courses throughout the year, which suit complete beginners as well as the more seasoned printmakers.
Now in it's 15th year Hot Bed Press is now well and truly settled into it's new home at the Casket Works. We moved here 4 years ago and have not looked back.
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More about us.... Hot Bed Press (HBP) is a not-for-profit open access print workshop, dedicated to supporting anyone with an interest in printmaking, and in promoting printmaking to a wider audience. The studio is located in the Chapel Street Cultural Quarter of Salford where it shares premises with two other studio groups, (Cow Lane and Suite) and a very handy metalsmith (J. Cocker).
Our facilities include equipment for screen printing, etching, drypoint, collagraphs, relief printing and other related processes. Our screenprinting is waterbased with two light boxes for photo-screenprinting and a darkroom facility for coating and exposing screens. In our etching area we have nitric acid for steel and zinc plates as well as ferric chloride and now also saline sulphate. Our aquatint is 'traditional' resin. At Hot Bed Press we have incorporated recent innovations in printmaking into normal studio practise, such as the use of vegetable oil, new degreasants and mordants for etching. We will continue to improve and innovate on health and safety and environmental issues and to enhance creative printmaking practises making us a centre for excellence in the North West. We welcome new members and and our courses are open to everyone. Come and join us! Within the workshop we also have 9 artists studios. They are 24 hour accessable and independently locked spaces with good lighting and access to all facilities. We are also planning to take over the top floor and install another 9 artists studios there. We hope you find the site useful and informative. If you need further information about anything you find in these pages, please don’t hesitate to contact us (follow the link on the left). |
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Equipment at the studio
Opening times
studio hire /materials
The Staff and Volunteers