Devonport Guildhall, Plymouth

Explore Devonport Guildhall in Plymouth - a creative space for artists, makers, and printmakers. Discover our studios, print facilities, residencies, creative programmes, and the Print in Action festival, along with opportunities to collaborate and connect with Market Hall’s digital technologies.

Welcome to Devonport Guildhall.

A creative space for artists, makers and printmakers. Devonport Guildhall in Plymouth is home to artists' studios, print facilities, a year-round creative programme, artist residencies and Print in Action festival. We are interested in building community, creative practice development and creative intersection opportunities in collaboration with Market Hall's digital technologies.

Create. Print. Discover.

400+
people attending community events at Guildhall
2,500+
individuals participating in creative activities at our previous site in Ocean Studios
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Print Studios

A dedicated Print Studio providing access to specialist print facilities for artists and printmakers at all stages of their creative practice.

The Print Studio is equipped to support a range of traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques including Relief, Intaglio, Letterpress and Screen printing.

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Studio Space

At the Devonport Guildhall we offer a range of spaces for artists studios, with exciting residencies opportunities and a great creative community. Get in touch if you would like to learn more about the spaces we have available.

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Opportunities

Devonport Guildhall is at the heart of a thriving creative community, offering dynamic spaces for exhibitions, collaborative projects, and public events. Located within the historic Guildhall and the innovative Market Hall, these spaces host a diverse programme of artist-led exhibitions, printmaking showcases, and interdisciplinary collaborations. From solo shows to group exhibitions, workshops to community events, the spaces provide a platform for emerging and established artists to connect, create, and share their work with wider audiences.

Discover our opportunities below!

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Residencies

Our residency programme supports artists seeking opportunities to develop creatively, explore new directions and make connections.

We offer space, mentoring, access to facilities and professional support as well as opportunities to showcase work at larger events. Based in Devonport Guildhall and the Market Hall, residencies are designed to foster collaboration, innovation, and community engagement.

Our 2026 Residency is now live!

What's on at Devonport Guildhall.

With our Print Studios and artist residencies, we host a range of exciting workshops and exhibitions.

Studio Print Session - Relief Printing
24 Sep 26
9:30
24 Sep 26
9:30
Other available dates:
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Session

Our Studio Print Sessions are designed for individuals who want to develop their printing skills in a supportive, professional environment.

Weekly Life Drawing Classes with Emily Chung: Experimental Drawings
24 Sep 26
18:00
24 Sep 26
18:00
Other available dates:
Devonport Guildhall
Workshop

Discover the art of life drawing in these supportive, exploratory classes led by practicing artist Emily Chung.

Studio Print Session - Intaglio Printing
25 Sep 26
9:30
25 Sep 26
9:30
Other available dates:
Devonport Guildhall
Session

Develop your printmaking practice in a relaxed, supportive studio environment with artist printmaker Barton Hargreaves.

Drawing A Head with Ruby Bradshaw
26 Sep 26
10:00
26 Sep 26
10:00
Other available dates:
Devonport Guildhall
Workshop

Develop your observational drawing skills and explore new ways of seeing the human head in this practical and engaging drawing workshop with artist Ruby Bradshaw.

Studio Print Session - Screen Printing
29 Sep 26
9:30
29 Sep 26
9:30
Other available dates:
Devonport Guildhall
Session

Our Studio Print Sessions are designed for individuals looking to develop their printmaking skills in a supportive and professional environment.

Studio Print Session - Relief Printing
01 Oct 26
9:30
01 Oct 26
9:30
Other available dates:
Devonport Guildhall
Session

Our Studio Print Sessions are designed for individuals who want to develop their printing skills in a supportive, professional environment.

Weekly Life Drawing Classes with Emily Chung: Tones and Erasure
01 Oct 26
18:00
01 Oct 26
18:00
Other available dates:
Devonport Guildhall
Workshop

Discover the art of life drawing in these supportive, exploratory classes led by practicing artist Emily Chung.

Studio Print Session - Intaglio Printing
02 Oct 26
9:30
02 Oct 26
9:30
Other available dates:
Devonport Guildhall
Session

Develop your printmaking practice in a relaxed, supportive studio environment with artist printmaker Barton Hargreaves.

Lino Club
04 Oct 26
10:00
04 Oct 26
10:00
Other available dates:
Devonport Guildhall

Monthly Lino Sessions on a Sunday Morning with Jess Van Baalen

Studio Print Session - Screen Printing
06 Oct 26
9:30
06 Oct 26
9:30
Other available dates:
Devonport Guildhall
Session

Our Studio Print Sessions are designed for individuals looking to develop their printmaking skills in a supportive and professional environment.

Print & Prosecco: Gelli Plate Printing
07 Oct 26
18:00
07 Oct 26
18:00
Other available dates:
Devonport Guildhall
Workshop

Using gel printing plates, you’ll create your own unique monotype artwork by building layers of colour, experimenting with textures, and exploring playful compositions

Studio Print Session - Relief Printing
08 Oct 26
9:30
08 Oct 26
9:30
Other available dates:
Devonport Guildhall
Session

Our Studio Print Sessions are designed for individuals who want to develop their printing skills in a supportive, professional environment.

4 Week Reduction Linocut Course
08 Oct 26
18:00
08 Oct 26
18:00
Other available dates:
Devonport Guildhall
Short Course

Across four weeks, participants will learn how to plan, carve and print their own reduction linocut design, building up layers of colour through a step‑by‑step approach.

Weekly Life Drawing Classes with Emily Chung: Colours
08 Oct 26
18:00
08 Oct 26
18:00
Other available dates:
Devonport Guildhall
Workshop

Discover the art of life drawing in these supportive, exploratory classes led by practicing artist Emily Chung.

Studio Print Session - Intaglio Printing
09 Oct 26
9:30
09 Oct 26
9:30
Other available dates:
Devonport Guildhall
Session

Develop your printmaking practice in a relaxed, supportive studio environment with artist printmaker Barton Hargreaves.

Creative Intersections Day 2026

Creative Intersections Day brings together artists, makers, designers and creative technologists to explore the exciting possibilities emerging at the intersection of analogue and digital practice.

Taking place on Saturday 7th November 2026 at Market Hall, Plymouth, this one-day event will feature a dynamic programme of talks, discussions, live demonstrations and hands-on experiences that showcase innovative approaches to contemporary making.

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Print Club Membership

Devonport Guildhall Print Studio welcomes creatives with printmaking experience to apply for our Print Club Membership offer and join our print community.

Who is Print Club Membership for?

Print Club Membership is for Students, Graduates, Emerging Creatives through to Professional Printmakers who want access to a Print Studio facility.

If you have never printed before or have had a go but want to learn more, we suggest starting with one of our Intro to courses or our supported weekly morning sessions and print clubs.

We welcome printmakers to develop their practice, create new work, and become part of a thriving and supportive printmaking community.

Our print facilities.

We have a range of specialist equipment available, including intaglio, screen, relief and riso for our members to hire. Simply choose your facility below to get started.

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Intaglio Print at Devonport Guildhall
Intaglio processes include copper and aluminium etching, photo etching, photopolymer gravure.
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Relief Print at Devonport Guildhall
Relief print studio for linocut, woodcut, letterpress, monoprinting and other printing processes.
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Risograph at Devonport Guildhall
Risograph printing is popular among artists for its unique textures and vibrant colours.
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Screen Print at Devonport Guildhall
Screenprinting techniques include halftone printing, CMYK printing, stencil printing and mono printing on paper and fabric.

Our creative community.

Learn about the artists, makers and creatives in Devonport Creative Quarter

Barton Hargreaves
Barton Hargreaves
Printmaker

Barton Hargreaves is an artist printmaker working across digital and traditional methods, blending etching, screen print and digital processes in installations and prints. Recent projects include ‘Sentinels’, etchings of Dartmoor hawthorn, and ‘Glitch’, charcoal screenprints of an abandoned market garden. An RCA graduate, he has taught at the RA Schools, now teaches at Arts University Plymouth, and exhibits widely, including prize-winning work at the RA.

Beth Munro
Beth Munro
Printmaker & Illustrator

Beth Munro lives in in SE Cornwall. She uses a diverse range printing processes to reflect her love of the sea and what lies beneath. Developing a series of hybrid monotypes using man made and organic materials found on her local beach. The act of printing becomes a conversation between the physical process, the reveal and creative response. Beth enjoys collaborating with marine scientists, digital tech and creatives to explore our ability to make meaningful connections with the ocean.

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Carl Lucas
Carl Lucas
Painter

Carl Lucas is currenly a student at Arts University Plymouth, studying his MA in Fine Art. Lucas is inspired by such subjects as Philosophy, Psychology, the 80s, pop culture, Music and the experiences of life. Lucas's recent work explore the self within the confined mask of the persona known at The Music Man. This persona allows him to explore his own personal experiences of the world which translates to a set of stories.

George Meyrick
George Meyrick
Sculptor & Draughtsman

George Meyrick has been creating innovative sculptures since the mid-seventies, transforming flat geometric forms into striking three-dimensional works. His elegant, colourful wall constructions explore the boundaries between line, plane, and solid, often offering multiple ways of interpretation. George’s art invites viewers to question perception, as his pieces can be reoriented to reveal new spatial relationships and meanings.

Grace Beswick
Grace Beswick
Printmaker

Grace Beswick is a Plymouth-based printmaker originally from Staffordshire. She graduated from Arts University Plymouth in 2024 with a BA (Hons) in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking. Her practice centres in contemporary printmaking. Grace works primarily with linocut and screenprint to explore process, colour, shape, layering and composition.

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Jess Van Baalen
Jess Van Baalen
Artist, Printmaker & Illustrator

Jess Van Baalen is an artist and printmaker inspired by nature, folklore, and storytelling. Since graduating from Brighton University in 2022 with a degree in Illustration, she has focused on combining the natural world with narrative and myth. Drawn to the tactile process of lino printing, she creates bold, textured work that celebrates landscape, cultural stories, and everyday magic.

Llyr Davies
Llyr Davies
Artist

Llyr Davies is an artist from Porth Tywyn, South Wales, and has been working in Plymouth, Devon since 2012. He works predominantly in painting, drawing and printmaking.  

His practice draws inspiration from the landscapes of South Wales and South Devon, everyday objects and Folklore Tales to create works which exist in the space between figuration and abstraction, capturing the emotional and psychological context of a place, object or tale.

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Matt Holmes
Matt Holmes
Designer, Maker & Researcher

Matt Holmes is a Designer, Maker & Researcher working at the intersection of letterpress printing and digital manufacturing. He's undertaking a PhD in Digital Arts and Technology, focusing on digital fabrication's impact on heritage crafts. His research explores craft authenticity in the digital age and how technology can protect or evolve traditional practices. Matt creates accessible tools to preserve and democratise letterpress, and has presented internationally.

Rosie Allen-Perdikeas
Rosie Allen-Perdikeas
Artist

Rosie works as a multi-disciplinary artist and performer with a professional theatre, dance and arts background. Professional engagements include the Royal Opera House, Sadlers Wells Theatre and English National Opera,  La Monnaie Theatre and La Scala.

Rosie’s practice is based on the interdisciplinary expression of rhythm and movement within the body from both a  functional and sensory  perspective, working experientially and utilizing a wide variety of mediums and mixed media.

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Ruby Bradshaw
Ruby Bradshaw
Painter & Printmaker

Ruby is a painter and printmaker whose practice is based on observation of materials. A graduate of Arts University Plymouth and present student of the Royal Drawing School, her work intersects illustration and fine art, working across printmaking disciplines and painting in egg tempera and oils. Her work draws upon natural history and literature, cross-pollinating with written practice. Ruby's work often uses responsibly sourced natural pigments, including those foraged from Devon and Cornwall.

Sian Bonnell
Sian Bonnell
Photographic Artist

Sian Bonnell aims to challenge our ideas around the nature of art and its subject-matter.She is concerned with photography and its relations with performance/performing for the camera; sculpture/the object and the camera and the dissemination of the photographic image and its function regarding curation, publishing and the book. Working with available objects and spaces, she sees her camera as her “partner in crime – my provocateur; it dares me to do things.”

Suzanne Drummond
Suzanne Drummond
Printer, Artist & Maker

Suzanne Drummond is a Printer, Artist, and Maker working primarily in screen printing. After completing a BA in Textile Design and an MA in Fine Art Printmaking, she developed a practice exploring relationships between architecture, memory, and place. Her work uses layered colour and form inspired by buildings and urban environments. Through transparency, repetition, and surface, her prints are contemplative, methodical yet intuitive, and invite close observation of the built world.

Viki Starmore
Viki Starmore
Painter & Printmaker

Viki is a painter, printmaker and teacher. She keeps a "drawing journal" that contains sketches, doodles, and reflections on her life, thoughts, and reflections on her life, thoughts, and experiences. Most of Viki's larger works are a further exploration of this journal. These pieces often reflect the darker aspects of living with ADHD and anxiety in a chronically catoic and sometimes frightening world, thought they also touch on the lighter, more joyful moments of life as well.

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Contact

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Devonport Guildhall

Ker St, Devonport, Plymouth PL1 4EL

FAQs

We have tried to include all of our FAQs here but if there’s something you don’t see – please let us know via our contact form.

Does Devonport Guildhall have a cafe?

Sadly not, however you can visit Market Hall which is just a 3 minute walk from Devonport Guildhall! They have a selection of drinks, hot food and cakes.

Check out their opening times and café menu here.

Do you offer work experience for 16–18 year olds?

Yes! We work with our other site, Market Hall, to offer a week-long creative careers experience. This includes:

  • Shadowing staff members who run our creative buildings
  • Working alongside the Printmaker team
  • Getting involved with the Immersive Dome team and digital technologies
  • Learning how creative spaces operate day-to-day

If you’re interested in applying for work experience, get in touch here.

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How can I volunteer at Devonport Guildhall?

We’re always looking for friendly, enthusiastic people to help during open days, exhibitions, and Print in Action weekends. Volunteering is a great way to:

  • Support our creative community
  • Gain experience in event hosting and visitor engagement
  • Be part of exciting art and printmaking activities

Interested? Get in touch here.

How do I find Devonport Guildhall, and where can I park?

You'll find us at Ker Street, Devonport, Plymouth, PL1 4EL. Nearby car parks include Mutton Cove, Granby Way, Brickfields, and limited on-street parking on Ker Street. We have a very small space for bike storage within the building under the main floor stairwell.

You can also catch the train to Devonport Station which is only 10 minutes walk.

There are also a great amount of bus routes that go through Devonport, you can find bus stops on Chapel Street and Cumberland Road, both a short walk from Devonport Guildhall.

What’s new at the Devonport Guildhall?

Over the last few months, we’ve been busy re-imagining the Devonport Guildhall as a new, creative space supporting the relocation of Ocean Studios. Our team have been working to continue the momentum created over the last 9 years in Royal William Yard, making sure we have a studio provision for creatives in Plymouth and the development of our Print facilities.

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Is Devonport Guildhall accessible?

Devonport Guildhall is accessible via the back of the building entrance – with lift access to upper floors as well as accessible toilets. If you require further assistance, please get in touch prior to your visit.

Is the Devonport Guildhall open to the public?

No, Devonport Guildhall is not open to the general public. Access is available exclusively to:

  • Studio holders
  • Print Club members
  • Individuals who have booked onto a course or public event

However, we run a creative programme throughout the year when the building is open to everyone. To find out more about these events, please visit our What’s On page here.