Hot Bed Press
Hot Bed Press Printmakers' Studio | The Casket Works, Cow Lane, Salford. M5 4NB | Tel: 0161 743 3111 | Email: info@hotbedpress.org
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  • February11th

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    Job Opportunity – Exhibitions, Events & Marketing Officer

    Posted in: Announcements, Exhibitions, News, Opportunities

    Hot Bed Press is looking for a new Exhibitions, Events & Marketing Officer (22.5hrs /week)

    Working hours:                           Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays 9.30am – 5.00pm

    Pay:                                                   £12.00 per hour        £14,040p.a.  (£24,960 pro rata)

    Applications in by:                    Monday 14th March

    Interviews:                                  w/c 28th March (dates and times tbc.)

    Start date:                                   Wednesday 20th April 2022

     

    Length of Employment

    This position is a 2year post and is funded by Arts Council as part of organisational development of Hot Bed Press and planned expansion. It is intended that the post will continue past the 2 years and become a permanent position. The continuation of the role of Exhibitions, Events & Marketing Officer past 2024 is intended to be part-funded by income generated through increased sales & income through events and increased capacity of Hot Bed Press as a whole. Further funding may be sought to supplement increased income to enable roles to continue.

    About this part-time post

    We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic person keen to add their energies, experience, and knowledge to the team at Hot Bed Press at an exciting time of development and planning for the future. The post-holder will be responsible for strengthening and expanding the exhibitions programme, working on existing annual exhibitions and events; The 20:20 Print Exchange, (including annual international touring show), annual open studios and external art/print fairs such as Manchester Art Fair and The Hepworth Print Fair.

    The Exhibitions, Events & Marketing Officer will also research new opportunities to represent our print members, promote printmaking and the work of Hot Bed Press at print & art fairs nationally. New exhibition space and display areas installed at Hot Bed Press in 2021 add the capacity to programme 4 exhibitions upstairs in the print studio annually and a programme of events and hired exhibitions on the ground floor.

    The post-holder will also be tasked with promoting exhibitions and events through bulletins, social media and targeted leaflets and posters. They will be responsible for helping develop the Hot Bed Press website online gallery representing members’ work and to work in liaison with other staff to promote the new Hot Bed Editions initiative which aims to promote and sell specially commissioned and editioned works by invited artists and designers.

     

    Please click here for an application form:

    Exhibitions Events Marketing Officer – Application Form – April 2022

     

    Please note this is a re-advertising of the position. Previous applicants need not apply.

  • January18th

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    The Complete Book Artist 2022 – Now Open for Bookings

    Posted in: Announcements, News, Opportunities

    Hot Bed Press is very pleased to announce that we return to running Complete Book Arts. Over a total of 30 weeks this course is aimed at anybody looking to learn how to make books and explore and develop ideas through the form of the artists’ book. The course is not accredited, but students will ‘graduate’ with a Hot Bed Press certificate in Book Arts.

    Complete Book Arts will be tutored on Tuesday evenings between 6pm and 9pm. The course fee includes an additional 4 hours access to the workshop throughout the week where you can work independently. [Open hours are Mondays to Fridays 10am – 5pm plus Thursday evening to 9pm and the last Saturday of every month 11am – 4pm.] All students wanting more than 4 hours access per week will also be able to ‘top-up’ their hours with usage in the workshop at any time during open access throughout the week at the hourly rate.

    Complete Book Artist 2022 – Tuesday Evenings – 6-9pm

    Call the workshop on 0161 743 3111 to book your place.

  • January10th

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    Starting the year as we mean to go on

    Posted in: News

    It’s good to be back. After a short break for Christmas and New Year we are now reopen for business.

    We are looking forward to seeing members steadily coming in, and Complete Printmaker courses continuing on for the next 5 weeks. (New Complete Printmaker and Book Arts courses start in March.)

     

    We are really pleased to be welcoming 2 new members of staff: Craig Atherton as new Technician; Wednesday to Friday, plus some Saturdays, and Andrea Westall as Education Officer. We were hoping to also welcome a new Exhibitions, Events & Marketing Officer, but the person offered the role was unable to take it up… so we will be re-advertising and looking forward to adding to our staffing in coming weeks.

     

    We are now opening Mondays to Fridays, having shut on Fridays in 2020 due to covid challenges and staffing. With new staff, [which has been made possible with a 2 year grant from Arts Council England /National Lottery funding], we are able to open on Fridays again, plus Thursday evenings plus we are planning to open alternate Fridays from 29th January. We aim to be making up for lost time and missed opportunities to print, giving members more hours and more access, plus increased support.

     

    We are continuing to do everything we can to stay safe during the ongoing pandemic, and are sanitizing and cleaning every day, shutting at 4.00pm each day to carry out a thorough clean, keeping to a strict mask wearing policy and continuing with a booking system to limit numbers. We hope to ease off on this as weeks go by, and get back to a more casual and easy going open access, but are closely monitoring all news and updates to stay safe and on top of all necessary precautions.

     

    We hope to see you all soon.

     

    Sean Rorke

    Artistic Director

  • August17th

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    Getting back to normal

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    It’s been great to have members back in printing and to start having the buzz of creativity around the workshop. Everyone has been noticing all the big and little improvements we’ve made whilst everyone was away. We’ve not been putting our feet up. We’ve also got lots of new kit, such as 5 new Kippax screenbeds, a new water-bath, a bespoke large acid cabinet, new benching and inking tables and lots of smaller tweaks and improvements, plus the place has had a lick of paint making it brighter and looking even more spacious.

    We are now steadily welcoming members back in. We have a booking system to limit numbers and make sure we are staying safe with that pesky coronavirus still lurking in the background. We shut at 4.00pm every day to be able to clean and sanitize the workshop top to bottom including all equipment and tools used. We also have windows open to keep an airflow and good ventilation and still have the rule of everyone wearing masks whilst in here, (unless you are on a screen bed or relief press facing away from anyone).

    We will slowly and carefully open up to more members coming in and getting to the carefree way and creative way we were before March 2020 and we are looking to announce new courses and lots more exciting events in the coming weeks and months.

    The great news is that we are still here, and going strong, and we look even better. Absence has made the heart grow fonder and we all realise a little more of what we have here at Hot Bed Press, this unique hub of printmaking in all it’s guises and manifestations. We aim to grow stronger and even better from here with ambitious plans for the future. Look out for news of our first exhibition of work by last year’s Complete Printmaker graduates on the ground floor, and also come up and see our current display of prints from the India Print Exchange Programme currently on show around the workshop.

     

    Please keep supporting us in whatever way you can.

     

    Best wishes to all

     

    Sean Rorke – Artistic Director

  • June1st

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    The ongoing situation

    Posted in: News

    I am sorry , but we are still closed. We had planned to reopen early in June. However, Greater Manchester has seen rapid rises in covid 19 cases, and it is spreading from area to area. It would be unwise to reopen with cases increasing as they are. We also cannot afford to bring staff back from furlough if there is even a remote chance of having to close again.

     

    We remain closed until further notice. We had hoped to be open from 21st June, but cannot say for certain whether this will be the case, with more Government announcements, (due on 14th June), and talk of the third wave, with the new strain/s of coronavirus, plus Medical Advisers/SAGE advising a delay in full easing of lockdown.

     

    We are doing everything we can to keep the workshop strong and to be ready to welcome everyone back, but we have to be very careful how we do this. Reopening too early could seriously damage Hot Bed Press. We have done amazingly to stay viable and have even made lots of improvements, (all without calling upon Arts Council Emergency Funding or loans), but it’s a delicate balance and we cannot take another financial hit.

     

    We hope to reopen shortly after 21st June, but are also braced for the fact that this now may be July. We will announce more after 14th June.

     

    So sorry for any inconvenience.

     

    Sean Rorke – Artistic Director

  • April6th

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    Spring update

    Posted in: News

    Hot Bed Press is still closed during the coronavirus pandemic. The latest easing of lockdown announcements are great news; a beer in a pub garden, meeting outside in more than one household, shops to reopen etc. However, due to the nature of our business we are not allowed to reopen to members just yet.

    There will be more announcements from the Government on further easing or restrictions to come into place no earlier than 17th May. We will be following the news closely and looking to reopen as soon as it is practical, to do so.

     

    Of course there’s more to it than just opening the doors again and welcoming everyone back. We have to plan and get booking systems back in place, clean the workshop thoroughly again and make sure we have done everything we possibly can to make the workshop safe.

     

    We currently have some staff on furlough or flexi-furlough [and when we are back in are back down to 4 staff now that Kate has moved on]. Planning for the whole staff team to be back in and able to work in a safe working environment is something we are taking every precaution to get right.

     

    When we do reopen it is going to be a steady and gradual reopening to make sure we don’t go to quickly and have to shut again. We are working hard to get things right and be confident on everything running smoothly, but there’s complex decisions and planning to be done over coming weeks.

     

    We will be back better and stronger as an organisation ready to welcome everyone back into an improved Hot Bed Press.

     

     

     

    It is likely that we will not reopen until June.

     

  • January7th

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    Lockdown #3

    Posted in: News

    Here we go again.

    Hot Bed Press will remain shut until the end of February. We are currently assuming we will be able to reopen around 22nd February but await government announcements. Brace yourself… it may end up being clear to reopen in March.

    We will not be beaten

    We will return

    We will come back stronger

    Watch this space

     

    Stay safe out there everybody!

     

  • November26th

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    Interspaces Exhibition at Hot Bed Press

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    We hopefully (fingers and toes crossed) have something very exciting happening next month…
    Hot Bed Press member Kamila Kasprowicz will be showing work in ‘Interspaces’.
    Kamila will be joined by artists Aleksander Ostrowski, Wojciech Osuchowski, Justyna Stefariczyk and Ryszard Pielesz who are all based in Poland.
    We are really excited to invite international artists to show in our workshop – even if they can’t be here in person!
    Look out for more details soon.

  • November2nd

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    Hot Bed Press – on lockdown

    Posted in: Announcements, News

    With the announcement on Sunday 1st November that England is to be put into national lockdown from Thursday 5th November until Wednesday 2nd December, Hot Bed Press will close it’s doors to members once again for a month.

     

    We are really sorry for any inconvenience. It had been so good to have members coming back in and seeing new prints being created, and just as importantly having the community of artists together and a buzz around the place again.

     

    We will continue to run the Complete Printmaker and Book Arts courses as for this we fit under the educational facilities allowed to carry on through lockdown like colleges and adult education centres. We stay committed to fulfilling these year-long courses.

     

    Unfortunately we cannot run the weekend and evening courses as we have already had too many people pull off the courses, even before lockdown, meaning that we were running courses at a loss. We will postpone all weekend and evening courses until further notice and look to announce courses next year. (For those booked on the already rearranged Copper Sulphate courses we will be in touch.)

     

    Sorry to all members who had got back into the swing of coming in and producing new work. We will keep all screens for an extra month.

     

    Please look out for announcements on our re-opening which will be Wednesday 2nd December as long as lockdown is not extended.

     

    All the best

    Stay well.

    Sean and the team at Hot Bed Press

  • June24th

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    Hot Bed Press is re-opening

    Posted in: News

    We will be re-opening to members from Wednesday 1st July!

     

    Unfortunately we cannot take on any new members at this time.

    Use of the workshop will be on a strictly limited basis and with slightly different opening hours.
    We will be opening between 10.00am and 4.00pm, Monday to Friday.

    Each day after 4.00pm there will be a full clean down and sterilisation of the whole workshop ready for the next day.
    Numbers will be limited to 12 members per day until further notice whilst we slowly get back to normal.

    This will be split to 4 people per area; screenprint, relief print/letterpress and etching.
    You may only book one session per week to enable us to accommodate as many members as we can; sorry, no block booking.
    We will only be taking bookings by phone on Wednesday and Thursday mornings between 10.00am and 1.00pm, and only for booking spaces the following week. We will not be taking bookings by e-mail.

    We will constantly review the booking and numbers allowed in and will hope to increase availability as long as we feel it is safe for you as members and for staff working here.

    Stay safe! We will see you all soon

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