MINIPRINT CYMRU | WALES – ANNOUNCEMENT – CHANGE OF VENUE IN THE NORTH
We were devastated to learn of the closure of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art in August 2025. However, we are very pleased to announce that MiniPrint Cymru | Wales has secured Mostyn in Llandudno as an alternative venue in the North.
We are delighted that MINIPRINT CYMRU | WALES will be displayed at this prestigious gallery from 14 March 2026 until 2 May 2026 and we look forward to seeing you there to celebrate printmaking in Wales.
For more information on the Exhibition venues and dates, please visit MINIPRINT CYMRU | WALES EXHIBITIONS.
Congratulations to all those selected for MINIPRINT CYMRU | WALES
We received an exceptional number of submissions and we are incredibly grateful to our Panel who deliberated for days over the selection. We want to thank EVERYONE who submitted work – every entry supports us in making MINIPRINT CYMRU | WALES a sustainable biennial event. We encourage you to keep creating and we look forward to meeting you all as we celebrate printmaking in Wales at the Exhibitions at Mission Gallery, Swansea and RCA Conwy.
MiniPrint Cymru | Wales is now closed for submissions.
Thank you to everyone who submitted work and supported this Wales-wide printmaking opportunity.
We have had an amazing number of entries and our Selection Panel now have the difficult but enjoyable job of making their choices.
Artists whose work has been selected for the Exhibitions held at Mission Gallery, Swansea and Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy will be notified in August.
We wish everyone Good Luck!
Submit your small-scale prints to be part of Wales-wide MiniPrint Cymru | Wales and a chance to show your work in a prestigious touring exhibition!
This is a fantastic opportunity for any artist to exhibit and sell work, and raise your profile. In 2023, the exhibited prints were by emerging and established printmakers alike, and many sold work. Read more about the project here.
And, by taking part, you will be contributing to the success of Mini Print Cymru | Wales so that it can become a sustainable Wales-wide biennial event, connecting printmaking and artistic communities across the regions, showing the creativity and versatility of Wales-based printmakers and printmaking.
Submission is open now until midnight on Monday 28th July 2025
Submission is via CuratorSpace. Full Submission Guidelines are available on CuratorSpace and here.
Artists – Printmakers – SPW Members – Get involved!
We encourage all Wales-based emerging and established artists and printmakers to submit work and be part of this exciting opportunity which connects artistic communities across the regions and showcases the creativity and quality of printmaking in Wales.
Any artists who reside in Wales or are a member of one of the Regional Partners – such as Swansea Print Workshop – or who are a member of a Wales-based printmaking facility are eligible to submit work.
Any small-scale prints which have been created in the last 3 years are eligible but if you are thinking of creating new work, you might like to book on one of the mini prints focused workshops we are offering on our Current Workshop Programme with lead artists: Marian Haf, Vinita Voogd and Sian Barlow.
Work will be selected by a panel of respected artists/printmakers:
- Rhian Wyn Stone, Gallery Director, Mission Gallery, Swansea
- Jude Lau and Tom Whitehead, Directors, Printhaus, Cardiff
- Andrew Baldwin, Printmaker, Trefeglwys Print Studio, Aberystwyth
- Ruth Thomas, Printmaker, Ruthin, Denbighshire
The exhibition will show first at Mission Gallery, Swansea in 2025 and the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy during 2026, The selected work will also be included in a high-quality, bi-lingual publication to accompany the exhibition. Read more about the exhibition and venues here.
About MINIPRINT CYMRU | WALES
MiniPrint Cymru | Wales is a collaborative, Wales-wide initiative which supports and celebrates artistic talent and participation in printmaking in Wales through small-scale artwork.
The initiative was created in 2023 led by Swansea Print Workshop to raise the profile of printmaking in Wales. You can read about the initial project in our Archive pages – MiniPrint Wales 2023.
Working together in 2025/6 Regional Partners – Swansea Print Workshop, Aberystwyth Printmakers, the Regional Print Centre and the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art – are encouraging their members and the Wales-based wider printmaking and art community, to create high quality, small-scale affordable artwork with an opportunity to be part of MiniPrint Cymru | Wales. Read more about the Exhibitions here.
The initiative in 2025/6 is supported by funding from the Arts Council of Wales which is also enabling each Regional Partner to run a series of workshops in 2025 designed to engage underrepresented communities across Wales who wouldn’t ordinarily access the medium or a printmaking facility community workshops in 2025. Find out more about Community Participation here.
MiniPrint Cymru | Wales in 2025/26 is led by Swansea Print Workshop and the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, representing the South and North regions. The ambition of MiniPrint Cymru | Wales is to create a sustainable, Wales-wide biennial event with regional partner organisations hosting the programme and exhibition on a rotational basis.
Part of the longer term vision is to develop meaningful and supportive partnerships with print studios and arts organisations across Wales.
Using MiniPrint Cymru | Wales as a vehicle for wider discussion, the benefits of a Welsh Print Collective as a collective body is being considered to champion and promote Welsh contemporary fine art printmaking and to raise the profile of the print centres and printmakers of Wales on a national and international platform. Find out more about the Collective here.
MiniPrint Cymru | Wales is supported by funding from the Arts Council of Wales
Swansea Print Workshop would like to thank the Brecknock Trust and Swansea Council for their support.
