Let It Reign - Blue

Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas. Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface. It is also known as silkscreen, seriography, and serigraph. We are a collective of artists based in the North East of England. From an area steeped in a volatile history of unions, struggles and movements we create fast, hard-edged, stripped down artwork; often political, sometimes anti-establishment, always beautiful. Weaving small bites of modern popular culture, vintage NME headlines, pure British rock ‘n rebellion into traditional iconic British imagery. Our work has never felt so relevant as it does now, media coverage of student riots, hung parliaments and rising taxes have brought our themes and subject matter to life.