Leicester PrintWorkshop

Leicester Print Workshop was founded in 1986 by a group of artists including Laurence Wood and Ian Carmichael, initially working from a small house before becoming a registered charity in 1993. It moved through sites in Highfields before settling in 2015 into a purpose-built home on St George Street in the Cultural Quarter, designed by Takero Shimazaki Architects and shortlisted for RIBA awards. The building holds a ground-floor gallery, a shop selling prints and materials, a framing room, education space and eleven artist studios above, alongside etching presses, screen printing and letterpress equipment. Printmakers can hire studio time or join courses in techniques from drypoint to relief printing, and the gallery shows changing exhibitions of members' work. It remains a single charitable organisation rather than part of a wider network.