Following the success of MiniPrint Cymru | Wales in 2023, Swansea Print Workshop and the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art are delighted to host MiniPrint Cymru | Wales in 2025/26.
MiniPrint Cymru | Wales is a biennial exhibition opportunity for professional and emerging printmakers who reside in Wales or are a member of one of the current Regional Partners: Royal Cambrian Academy of Art (North), Swansea Print Workshop (South), Aberystwyth Printmakers (West) and the Regional Print Centre (East) or are a member of a Wales-based printmaking facility.
- Submissions are invited from artists using any recognisable hand-produced printmaking technique, such as screenprinting, lithography, etching, engraving, collagraph, monotype, block printing, woodcut etc.
- Giclee prints will not be accepted. However, digital processes can be used to enhance prints that are traditionally printed
- The print image must be contained within a square area of 10cm x 10cm on a paper size measuring exactly 18cm x 18cm
- All entries must be original and created within the last 3 years
Work will be selected by a respected Selection Panel:
- Rhian Wyn Stone, Gallery Director, Mission Gallery, Swansea
- Jude Lau and Tom Whitehead, Directors, Printhaus, Cardiff
- Andrew Baldwin, Printmaker, Trefeglwys, Aberystwyth
- Ruth Thomas, Printmaker, Ruthin, Denbighshire
All selected work will be available for sale and exhibited at Mission Gallery, Swansea and at the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy. A bilingual publication will accompany the exhibition.
The exhibition at Mission Gallery, Swansea will run from Saturday 8 November 2025 to Saturday 10 January 2026 and will travel north to the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy in 2026 from Saturday 7 March 2026 to Saturday 25 April 2026.
Submission is via CuratorSpace where you will also find information about MINIPRINT CYMRU | WALES and the full Submission Guidelines. Submission Guidelines are available in Welsh from any of the Partner Organisations.
Closing date for entries – midnight 28 July 2025