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Fife (Dunfermline) Print Workshop
 Street address: Basement, Del Farquharson Centre, Nethertown Broad Street, Dunfermline, Fife KY12 7DS, Scotland, United Kingdom
Telephone: 44 (0) 1383 852977
Fax: 44 (0) 1383 852977
Contact: Sandra Baxter Co-ordinator
Telephone: 44 (0) 771 205 1501 (mobile)
E-mail: [email protected]
Opening hours: Public: 10am-4pm Tue, other times by appointment; Members: at all times
Accessibility: Wheelchair access, disabled parking, assistance available on an untrained volunteer basis, provision for guide dogs
 Fife (Dunfermline) Print Workshop was founded in 1981 as an artist-run co-operative. It provides facilities for etching, water-based screenprinting, relief printing, stone lithography and other associated printmaking methods. The facilities are run by members for members with technical support in all areas of printmaking available on a voluntary basis or provided via structured courses for members and non-members.The workshop administers a regular programme of exhibitions throughout local region, and travelling exhibitions which are initiated and promoted throughout Scotland. It initiated an Artist-in-Residence project which ran in 2003. Its members deliver courses and workshops for adults and children both in the workshop and outreach, for which the workshop has on occasion received funding and support from Scottish Arts Council, Fife Council and the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust.
This is a comparatively small workshop that is wholly artist-run, so future plans for international arts activity are necessarily limited, except for individual artist initiatives. However, the workshop is interested in opportunities for reciprocal exchange of ideas via artists themselves or their work, and has in the past collaborated with other, larger workshops, eg the Japanese Iwate project (1998). Likewise, the workshop has previously welcomed visiting artists from both Australia and Canada, and would be happy to repeat the experience in the future.
The basement workshop (c 225m²) is divided into preparation and acid area; etching, relief printing, framing and studio area; screenprinting area; and office area. Equipment includes starwheel etching press, portable etching press transfer litho press, 2 x screenprinting beds, relief press, book press, grant projector, light box, mount cutter and computer with scanner.
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