Key details
Time
- 12pm – 6pm
Location
- External (UK)
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Exhibition Road, London SW7 2HF
Price
- Free
Who can attend
- Everyone
Type
- Workshop
In celebration and recognition of the 175th anniversary of the Great Exhibition of 1851, the RCA have commissioned Tamsin Loxley, a MA Print graduate, to lead print workshops at the Great Exhibition Road Festival in South Kensington.
The workshop is inspired by the John Haddon Etching Press which dates from the Great Exhibition of 1851 and is still in daily use in the RCA’s Battersea Print Hall. The press is also known fondly as the ‘Hockney press’, as RCA alumnus David Hockney used it to create his Rake’s Progress etchings in 1961.
Tamsin invites you to invent, draw and print playful, imaginary machines in a hands-on workshop, open to all ages and levels of experience. Evoking the Great Exhibition’s celebration of new thinking, design and human ingenuity, this workshop will encourage visitors to imagine machines as expressions of creativity, humour and instinct as well as tools of efficiency.
You’ll be able to take a print home and contribute to a collective exhibition which will grow over the course of the festival.
Tamsin graduated from the RCA in 2025, her practice explores the language of the land through materiality, memory and sense of place.
