The first five were brilliant, I've no doubt these will match or exceed them.

This sentence dropped me into a rage: “while recognising AI models need to be trained on work such as writing, music and video.” They don’t. There is no “need”. Writing, music and video are created by human beings. Not AI. We DO NOT NEED AI to make these things. Stop feeding AI stolen art.

Linocut. TheTrainingGround (detail) - Jeff Perks 2009 #linocutartists

Some of the 200 pieces received for World Book Night 2026 The Mountains Are Calling… Our exhibition opens in April at UWE Bristol Bower Ashton Library and is on show until 31st July. Works here by: @rareautumn.bsky.social @nickwhimster.bsky.social @porcovolente.bsky.social @markleahy.bsky.social 🗻⛰️

📢 THE 404 INK BURSARY FOR UK-BASED SMALL PRESSES NOW OPEN Applications are now open for our bursary to support small presses in the UK. There are 2 strands you can apply for: donating £1,000 towards creative projects, or £500 towards hosting an intern. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Not sure where to begin when planning overland travel? We’ve gathered our top recommendations for finding routes, destinations and journey ideas. Read the guide on our blog: flightfree.co.uk/post/how-to-... #ClimateCrisis

A new #linocut #print based on a screenshot from Trek to #Yomi a #ps5 #game I've played way too many times. It's such a beautiful game. #printmaking #japan #trektoyomi

Linocut. Janusz Benedyktowicz, date unknown, 20th Century #linocutartists

Looking forward to the States of Independence one-day festival and book fair in Leicester on Sat 28 March. Stallholders inc. @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social and Longbarrow Press, and there's a varied programme of talks and events (further details to follow). 10am-4pm, all welcome, admission free.

Newly restored online: Leonardo da Vinci's Notebook, also known as the Codex Arundel (Arundel MS 263), written in his characteristic mirror-writing with diagrams, drawings, brief texts, and personal notes. You can consult the entire manuscript online now: searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...

Out today on zimzalla: Colour / Grammar by Greg Thomas, a set of colour-coded eco-poetry postcards, in a mandarin orange box. Each box contains two copies of each card: one to keep, one to send. The reverse of each card has a space for an address, a message and a stamp. More at zimzalla.co.uk

✂️e(i 8: Collage is live!✂️ Our #spotlight is on evelyn bauer's @trve-evie.bsky.social untitled hybrid piece. Check out their work at buff.ly/E6d26Y2! Sourced from art, poetry, & public domain imagery in Issues 2, 3, 6, & 7: buff.ly/KYc0o5s. #poetry #WritingCommunity #litmag #poetrycommunity

🚨ICYMI🚨 Our 8th Issue is LIVE: engineidling.net/current It's a grand experiment in which many of our prev contributors allowed their work from our past 7 issues to be cut-up, scrambled & reimagined. The writers/artists in # 8 took on this remixing challenge w astonishing spirit & creativity!

INTO THE FOLD is tomorrow - Friday and Saturday. Here are some of the books I’ll have. The Winchester School of Art Artists’ Book and Zine Fair is on Friday 6 March 2-6pm and Saturday 7 March 10-4pm FREE ENTRY @unisotonlibrary @wsalibrary @unisoton_wsa @unisouthampton

I love this book - a good day to get yourself a copy.

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social : notes from the field : Letter from Manchester periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/03/tom-...

Excellent guide here for weaning yourself off US tech. disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

Exhibitor Call: Made Anywhere (3) invites artists, publishers, and art professionals to exhibit and sell artists' editions, from artists' books to archives, multiple art objects… 18 – 20 September 2026 at the Fondation Fiminco, Romainville, France. Apply by 17 April. Info at: madeanywhere.fr

Linoprints 2025

Lovely day for @slowwaysuk.bsky.social walk. AMECHO2 from Amersham to Chorleywood, plenty of mud and some terrific views. #SlowWays

NOW OPEN - Applications for 6-week research residency at the British School at Rome for a Scotland-based artist the time & space develop bold new work. Applicants must be of British or Commonwealth nationality and resident in Scotland. Deadline: 1 May 2026. Details - buff.ly/besMOHK

Linocut. Margaret Burroughs, 'Abstraction' c1962 #linocutartists

Launching on Monday! 100 years of incredible ethnographic recordings from @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social's extraordinary sound collections, reimagined into brand new compositions by sound artists, musicians, composers, poets and producers from all over the world.

www.facebook.com/share/p/1Hh1... keats-themed papercraft this saturday in hampstead. get, quite literally, stuck in

WIP, linocut again.

INTO THE FOLD is coming up soon and I will be launching new things. The Winchester School of Art Artists’ Book and Zine Fair is on Friday 6 March 2-6pm and Saturday 7 March 10-4pm FREE ENTRY #intothefold #intothefold26 @unisotonlibrary @wsalibrary #bookarts #artistsbooks #smallpublishers

Louise Hayward, contemporary UK printmaker who often explores London's brutalist architecture in her work #WomensArt

The initiative will provide €325 (£283) a week to 2,000 eligible artists based in the Republic of Ireland. This follows a pilot (for which 2,000 artists were randomly selected from 8,000 applicants). ‘The scheme recouped more than its net cost of €72m’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Discover books as art - walking, making, thinking in pages - in a recent blog post and in a wonderful exhibition of #ArtistsBooks from the collections of the #ArtAndDesignLibrary. The exhibition is on show Edinburgh Central Library until 28 February - don't miss it! zurl.co/XdjsM

NEW: Dear Washington Post journalists, I’ve written this for you. Last year @theguardian.com gave away our news title & binned 100+ journalists. It sucked! But we fought back & you can too. First a strike, then a new masthead @thenerve.news Fuck Bezos. There is another way 👊👊👊 1/

‘everything is so very much connected’ is an exhibition at Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK by myself & Roelof Bakker on show until 31/03/26. Creating art as a space to think and write about nature, the environment and climate collapse through physical making. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/everythingis/

Members Show Spotlight: Anupa Gardner Anupa's beautifully coloured and delicately carved woodcut reduction print, Summer Bright, features in our current exhibition, Our Shared World: Castle Mills Members' Show 5, on until 15 March. #woodcutprint #reliefprint #contemporaryprintmaking

The wood engravings of @johnaltringham.bsky.social speak to me, often in the form of a poem. So I was happy when John agreed on a project, in which we show his and my work side-by-side. Share our joy in creating & savouring nature-inspired art. Free at blots.substack.com/p/light-and-...

Kat Flint - The Shoals of Herring. #Linocut

#printsky #printmaking #mokuhanga #watercolor Attempted my first multi-block moku hanga print. The pigment/water/nori ratio eluded me the first two blocks, but by block 3 I understood it. I did cut some things away that I meant to print, but not bad for a first try.

Lovely dryoint. This maybe has a hint of Diebenkorn to it?

The latest Book Arts Newsletter No 171, February – March 2026 is available at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ 55 pages of exhibitions, courses, conferences, lectures & workshops, opportunities, book fairs and events, internet news, new artists' publications, announcements and stop press!

Louise Hayward, contemporary UK printmaker who often explores London's brutalist architecture in her work #WomensArt

Building Blocks Work in progress.

We need COVER ART for our Collage issue! Details: engineidling.net Deadline Jan 31

Clare Leighton, 1937. From: “Country Matters” #printmaking #1930s #woodengraving #ClareLeighton

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

From 1967 'Apropos of nothing' #WhateverWednesday m.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5J...

Application fees are one of the least examined but most pervasive forms of class stratification in the arts.

In the wake of the storm. Reduction linocut 32x50cm. Caligo Safewash on Somerset Satin. #printmaking #linocut #scotland #printmakersofscotland

You're cordially INVITED to carve up our issues for source material! Guidelines: buff.ly/W6Q0BoP Deadline Jan 31. Bring your friends. #writingprompt #collage #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #artcommunity #artists #indielit #indiemag #litmag

Linocut. 'View From Wapping - Surrey Docks' Roy Willingham 1980 #linocutartists

Two small works showing at the Royal Scottish Academy with the Society of Scottish Artists. 🕊 Dove Companions — warm peach and coral tones, a quiet moment of domestic peace. 🌸 Floral Tribute to Gertrude Hermes — a personal homage to an inspiring wood engraver. RSA, Edinburgh | 11 Jan – 4 Feb 2026