Saturday, 22 June 2013
Voltaire & Melvyn Bragg visit Tom Paine Press
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Recent visitors to the Tom Paine Printing Press include Melvyn Bragg (not shown), who is doing a documentary about Thomas Paine, and Voltaire (pictured above).
Director of the Tom Paine Printing Press
18th century wooden common press
THE TOM PAINE PRINTING PRESS is now at 151 High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1XU, UK. It is Peter Chasseaud's project for a working 18th-century ‘common press’ in the environment of an 18th century printing house, with type cases, cabinets, frames and the compositor’s ‘stone’. Posters, broadsheets, pamphlets and books will be printed on the press, which will also be used to show the complexities of letterpress technology and the crucial importance of the printed word in disseminating ideas.
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To view the Tom Paine Printing Press website, go to
www.tompaineprintingpress.com
To view Peter Chasseaud's 'Artist & Writer' blog go to:
http://peterchasseaud.blogspot.com
www.tompaineprintingpress.com
To view Peter Chasseaud's 'Artist & Writer' blog go to:
http://peterchasseaud.blogspot.com
Peter Chasseaud
Director of the Tom Paine Printing Press
Tom Paine Printing Press
18th century wooden common press
Welcome to The Tom Paine Printing Press
The Tom Paine Printing Press is Peter Chasseaud's project to set up a working 18th Century style wooden Common Press in Lewes, Sussex. This press, which should be operational from early 2009, will be accessible to artists and writers to print their own works, and will also be open to the public for demonstrations and courses.
The town of Lewes will, in July 2009, be staging a big festival to commemorate the bicentenary of Paine's death, and The Tom Paine Printing Press will be on show and fully working during this important festival.
Peter Chasseaud - see http://peterchasseaud.blogspot.com
- is an artist, writer and producer of artist's books who has lived in Lewes since 1973. He has been a member of the Headstrong Club (founded in 1987 on the 250th anniversary of Paine's birth) for 21 years, has served on its committee for many years, and was a founder-member of the Tom Paine Project in 2000.
The town of Lewes will, in July 2009, be staging a big festival to commemorate the bicentenary of Paine's death, and The Tom Paine Printing Press will be on show and fully working during this important festival.
Peter Chasseaud - see http://peterchasseaud.blogspot.com
- is an artist, writer and producer of artist's books who has lived in Lewes since 1973. He has been a member of the Headstrong Club (founded in 1987 on the 250th anniversary of Paine's birth) for 21 years, has served on its committee for many years, and was a founder-member of the Tom Paine Project in 2000.
About Me
- peter chasseaud
- I work in many media: oil painting, lithography, etching, drawing, photography, film, installations, artists books. Generally figurative and landscape, and combining images with text - I write poetic (free-verse) texts for my artists books. The images and texts have equal weight. My Kings Cross (2004), Thames - The London River (2005) and Afghanistan - A Journey (2007) books are concerned with topography, history, human culture (especially art and literature), politics, and my own memory. I am concerned with the way in which changes in technology and politics have an impact on human society, on a micro-level as in Kings Cross and Thames, or on a more macro-level as in Afghanistan. In 2007-8 I showed my artists books in London, Leeds, Bristol, Marseilles and Oxford. I am working on an art project (painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, film, willow sculpture) on willow trees in the Ypres Salient in Belgium. Also new artist's books inspired by Isaac Rosenberg's poems, and by the Euston Arch and the Euston - Camden - Chalk Farm area, and in 2009 continuing work on the East London and Borough Market areas.