Devonport Guildhall, Plymouth

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.