Helping recreate Warhol masterpieces

This was a fascinating project we worked on last year, that is finally getting publicity.

We were approached by the artist and screen printer Paul Stephenson who had acquired an extensive set of original Andy Warhol negative separations. Our task was to project them on our enlarger to create the positives required to recreate screen printed art as authentically as possible.

The attention to detail was extreme, even down to the fact that Paul had access to the notebooks that Andy Warhol used, so that he could ensure that the inks and paints were mixed to the exact same recipe as they were in the sixties.

The BBC have just featured an article on their website detailing Pauls endeavours, and publicising the fact that the works will be exhibited (and for sale) at the Buy Art Fair at Manchester Central in a couple of weeks.

Also being debuted at the event in Manchester on the 28th October is a screening of the documentary titled "Business of Making Art", featuring Paul Stephenson, and filmed partly in our workshop here in the Old Kent Road last year. Lets hope the camera is flattering.

Frank Kiely Exhibition

[caption id="attachment_640" align="alignright" width="400"] Film positives, ready for Frank Kiely to work his magic.[/caption]

We would like to wish the artist Frank Kiely every success with his new exhibition starting in January 2017 at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin.

Frank was inspired by the James Joyce autobiographical novel "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" when creating his set of screen prints for the exhibition. We were asked to produce the fine, tight registered films that he needed to create his stencils for these prints.

If you"re in Dublin next year, it would definitely be worth a visit.

Ted Baker Autumn Windows

This differed from previous projects in that the customer wanted the store staff to be able to completely change the backwall imagery halfway through the campaign.
We were able to source some ultra low tack adhesive that we could use on the top lamination meaning it could be peeled off to reveal the second image without damaging it or the Dufaylite board that it was stuck to.
The customer also wanted fluorescent internal decals for the window, something that vinyl suppliers do not produce. So we screenprinted our own vinyl that we could then cut in the normal way.

Giant films for Screenprint

We were able to produce these giant film positives for one of our screenprint customers, using our purpose built gantry camera to enlarge the negatives produced by our imagesetter.


The resulting film had crisp, high definition, high density halftone dots to create a lovely smooth fade from one end of the 3 meter film to the other.


The maximum size film we can produce if one piece is 4500 x 1600mm.