Caitlin Akers (Manchester, UK) is an artist working across, artist books, letterpress printing, Risograph printing, workshops, discussions, zines, billboards and photography.
Akers’ is a graduate of MA Book Arts at Camberwell College of Art (2018). She has recently created commissioned work for Kingsgate Project Space, London and Manchester International Festival.
For b-side 2021
AJ Leibling famously wrote “The freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one”
For b-side 2021 a radical art printing press is coming to Portland.
The press is a special Japanese Risograph printer from the 1980s - cheap to run and environmentally friendly, with low energy costs and vegetable-based inks.
A series of workshops over the festival period will offer b-side festival goers the opportunity to take part in the art of activism and learn how to print their own posters and zines.
What do Portlanders want to protest about? Hospital closures? Climate change? Socks with sandals? Kimberlins?
