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About InPrint
Formed in 2003 to tour Norfolk with a highly successful collaborative exhibition facilitated by Creative Arts East, the InPrint group of four visual artists and four poets stayed together to extend their professional and creative boundaries. Working mainly in pairs, we have exhibited together several times in Norwich, as well as at Welborne, Southwold, Colchester, Halesworth and Lowestoft, and separately elsewhere.
We are also involved in the community through innovative use of our skills, as well as traditional teaching and performing. We are particularly interested in the way that juxtaposing visual art and poetry can create unexpected sparks leading to new ideas. We have received an Arts Council Grants for the Arts award to develop and expand the collaborative work of the group.
Three of the original members - artist Marilyn Jeffries and poets Caroline Wood and Rupert Mallin - have now stepped down but still retain ties. Caroline has recently published her first novel, Noah Quince, which received a £1000 award. Artist Katarzyna Coleman also worked with us for a time, as did sculptor and artist Tonia Jillings.
Poet Caroline Gilfillan and artists Mike Fenton and Joan Murray have joined the group, which now consists of five artists (Annette Rolston, Mike Fenton, Bronwen Edwards, Jayne Knowles and Joan Murray) and three poets (Lisa DOnofrio, Caroline Gilfillan and Tim Lenton).
This year the group is involved in the Paston Project, which aims to create works of art and poetry relating to the 15th century Paston Letters, centred on the village of Paston in North Norfolk. These should result in more than one exhibition, several workshops and a hand-made book in collaboration with the Paston Heritage Society.
We have also pioneered the ground-breaking Poetry Vending Machine ©, first exhibited at the Norwich Fringe in 2005 and subsequently at the Wells poetry festival; in the Norwich Playhouse; at Borders Bookshop in Chapelfield Mall, Norwich; and at Firstsite arts venue in Colchester.
The PVM is the brainchild of poet Lisa D'Onofrio, a founder member of InPrint. Members of the group collaborate to produce unique and striking art-and-poetry combinative work in boxes that can be purchased from a slot machine and as individual items.
For a while InPrint had their own studios in the Bally Art Factory on Hall Road, Norwich, but are now a looser non-studio group working as and where opportunities arise. Annette Rolston still has a studio at Bally, where she offers workshops. Rupert Mallin also has a studio there.