InPrint logo graphic

InPrint

InPrint was founded in 2003 to tour Norfolk with a highly successful exhibition facilitated by Creative Arts East. It is an innovative group of artists and poets from Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex working in collaboration across a range of art forms - print, text, sculpture, digital and traditional image making, readings and performance. We exhibit our work together and in 2005 launched the first Poetry Vending Machine (PVM - see photo below) which dispenses quality boxes of images, words, sculptural forms and more from converted vending machines.

Poetry Vending Machine

We are also involved in the community through teaching and performing, and have received an Arts Council Grants for the Arts award to develop and expand the collaborative work of the group. For more information see the InPrint website (see the link below).

For the last couple of years I have been involved with a group of poets and artists called InPrint.

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redDragonfly_photoAs well as designing the InPrint logo (left) I have collaborated with some of the writers and created several items for the Poetry Vending Machine (the 'PVM' ), such as the 3 dimensional poem I did for Rupert Mallin's poem 'Breaking Echo' (right) and the 'Red Dragonfly' poem of Caroline Gilfillan (left). These are cigarette box-size and vended by the PVM for a few pounds, they cover a miscellany of subjects and formats and the InPrint members have all done at least one.

'Keeping in Touch' poem by Caroline Gilfillan illusration by Mike FentonRecently, some of the writers have written poems in response to some of my paintings. I too have illustrated some of their poems, and these are all available as posters and cards. 'DIY Stonehenge Poem Postcard' poem by Lisa D'Onofrio illustration by Mike Fenton'Keeping In Touch' a poem by Caroline Gilfillan, (left) and 'DIY Stonehenge Poem Postcard', and 'Amarylis' poems by Lisa D'Onofrio (right and below left) are shown here (not to scale!).

'Amarylis' poem by Lisa D'Onofrio painting by Mike Fenton