MiniPrint Cymru | Wales is open for submissions!
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 during Conwy during 2025/6, 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.
