UK Poster Association

The UKPA (UK Poster Association) is an umbrella organization created to help support and promote the work of UK poster artists.

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UKPA & GREEN MAN 2017

We had another great year at Green Man Festival. Great music, people and booze. Thanks to all that bought prints or just swung by for a chat. And massive thanks to the festival and bands for letting us work with them again.

All the posters from this years festival are now online on the artists webstores. Here’s the links:

Green Man Festival, Lift To Experience and Sleaford Mods by Luke Drozd are HERE

Lambchop and Johnny Flynn by Telegramme are HERE

Big Moon and Oh Sees by Tommy Davidson are HERE

Richard Dawson by Army of Cats is HERE

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ROYAL TRUX BY LUKE DROZD

Luke Drozd has made a poster for one of the best and most unpredictable bands out there, Royal Trux, for their recent show at Primavera Porto. 3 colour, A2 screen print which captures the kinetic and off-kilter nature of the band.

Grab one HERE

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MAXIMO PARK BY TOUCAN TANGO

Maximo Park by Toucan Tango

Toucan Tango are a Merseyside print duo spreading all the positive vibes. They have just produced another great gig poster, this time for Maximo Park.

Check out more of their work including gig posters, pins, homeware and more here: https://www.toucan-tango.com/

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LUKE DROZD GIG POSTER EXHIBITION, LONDON

UK gig poster lad, Luke Drozd, is putting on a show of 13 years of screen printed gig posters. That’s a lot of poster, more than 70 apparently. It should be a goodun. Here’s the blurb: Friday 12th - Sunday 14th May 2017 91 Peckham High Street London, SE15 5RS Opening event: Friday 12th May, 6 - 9pm Exhibition continues Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th May 12-6pm For the last 13 years Luke Drozd has been designing posters. Mostly for bands and musicians, sometimes for art events or comedians, but always posters. Many of these were made as limited edition screen prints; part advert, part artefact. This exhibition looks back over that body of work, exhibiting this archive of around 70+ screen printed posters together for the first time. A mid-career grand folly that includes work for the likes of Adam Buxton / Adam & Joe, Andrew Bird, Belle & Sebastian, The Black Keys, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Dinosaur Jr, Graham Coxon, The Handsome Family, The Melvins, Michael Rother, The National, New Order, Spoon, Stewart Lee, St. Vincent, Tortoise, Queens of the Stone Age, Yo La Tengo and many more. This exhibition is generously supported by British Underground, Awesome Merchandise, Northern Monk Brewery and UK Poster Association. For more information please email [email protected]

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BIRD BRAINS FOR PUSCIFER

Bristol screen print duo Bird Brains (Tape Ears & Rosie Lea) have released a pair of new Puscifer prints. Each is Lucha Libre themed, but with a tweak to tie it to the city of the gig. For London we get a regal addition, and for Oslo we get a spot of Black Metal. Good work guys!

You can grab the London Roundhouse one HERE

And the Oslo one HERE

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QUARTERMASS BY STAG & SERPENT

It’s been a while since we at UKPA HQ let out a genuine ‘Woah!’ upon seeing a print BUT as big fans of both Quartermass & the Pit and the work of Stag and Serpent, this bashed our socks right up to our knees, as the saying goes. Here’s the details on the print and how to grab one via London based Flood Gallery:

The Flood Gallery are releasing my poster for the 1967 British film version of Quatermass & The Pit. This was originally commissioned a good while back but fell into into the void until surfacing now just in time for either a) the films 50th anniversary or b) the end of humanity. (cue nervous laughter…) -20 x 29.75", 2 colours on Cougar Natural Paper. -Regular numbered edition of 50. £45. -Variant numbered edition of 10 on silver foil. £60. -Both prints come with signed certificate of authenticity On sale Thursday 9th February at 5pm UK via thefloodgallery.com

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ADAM & JOE LIVE AT BFI BY LUKE DROZD

We love Adam & Joe here at UKPA. If you don’t, frankly, we simply don’t trust you. With that in mind, it’s lovely to see there is a screen printed bit of Adam & Joe merch now in the wilds courtesy of Luke Drozd. It’s the official print for their two shows last December at the BFI in London and it’s jam-packed with references to their comedy history.

Grab a copy from Luke HERE or from the Adam & Joe merch store HERE

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NEW WETHREECLUB TEES

Those good cats at WeThreeClub have got a lovely new tee design up on their site. Pocket print? Check! Back print? Check? Swanky dark heather colour scheme? Checkity check.

Grab one and join the club HERE

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LEARN TO SCREEN PRINT WITH JACKNIFE & FRIENDS!

Want to learn to screen print and get sucked into the heady and foolish gig poster game? Well now you can with our chums Jacknife Prints. They are holding monthly printing courses in Bristol starting next week. Email [email protected] for more info.

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UKPA at Northern Craft Fair

Northern Craft Fair is a new series of curated craft and art events that has it's inaugural show this Saturday 15th October in Leeds. Hosting a vibrant mix of artists and makers, it should be a grand day out and what's more it's FREE.

The UKPA will be there with a range of posters, prints and more, and fellow UK poster pals Sean Mort and Drew Millward will also be in attendance, alongside US poster heroes DKNG. Here's the vital info: When: Sat 15th Oct 2016 from 11am - 5pm. Where: The Chapter Hall, 2nd floor of Northern Monk Brewery, Leeds How much: FREE http://www.northerncraft.co.uk/

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YUCK PRINT HOUSE SHOW

A show of risograph prints opens tomorrow at Home in Manchester and features both UK gig poster artist Luke Drozd, and also Euro poster friends Palefroi. Also features amazing talent like Kate Gibb, Atelier Bingo and William Edmonds. Should be a great show

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DREW MILLWARD FOR PHISH

Another new print for Phish by Drew Millward. It looks like Drew has already sold out of his copies but we liked it so much, we thought we share it.

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POBIAK FOR GOV’T MULE

New Adam Pobiak print for Gov’t Mule is now available from his site. These will probably go fast so grab one while you can: http://shop.pobiak.com

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The two prints produced for the UKPA stall at Green Man Festival are now available in our online store HERE

Made collaboratively by Graham Pilling, Luke Drozd & Tommy Davidson and with full permission from Green Man, they capture the wonderful, weird and positive vibes of everyone's favourite festival.

Also available are the official posters for a selection of bands appearing at the festival. This year that was:

BEAK> (by Luke Drozd) - Available HERE

Belle & Sebastian (by Graham Pilling) - Available HERE

Songhoy Blues (by Tommy Davidson) - Available HERE

Wild Beasts (by Tommy Davidson) - Available HERE

A huge thanks to the Green Man Festival team again for having us onboard for another excellent year. See you next time!

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UKPA AT GREEN MAN 2016

UKPA are returning to Green Man Festival and exhibiting and selling printed again. This year it will be Luke Drozd, Graham Pilling and Tommy Davidson at the helm. Between them they have produced a series of limited prints for Belle & Sebastian, Beak>, Songhoy Blues and Wild Beasts. In addition to this they have produced an official screen print for the festival and will be doing a spot of live printing. Go and check out that stall if you are at the festival. 

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MUDHONEY & MELVINS PRINTS BY DOMINIC SOHOR

Dominic Sohor has two new prints available for rock heroes Mudhoney and The Melvins. 

Both can be bought from his site HERE 

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INK & PAPER 2 - BUYING PRINTS

Interested in buying prints from Ink & Paper 2? Email [email protected] for a price list or visit the Stour Space Shop and enquire.