The People Powered Press – home of the largest letterpress printing press of its kind in the world – is opening its workshop once again for this year’s Saltaire Arts Trail.

As part of its contribution to Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, this indoor and outdoor exhibition will feature handprinted works from the People Powered Press’ HOPE/ACT project and works made on the Press by some of its Associate artists.

There’ll also be a bar, some glimpses behind-the-scenes, and your chance to make and take away a print of your own.

Upstairs, artists Sarah Parr, Mike Bentley and Saira Baig will be exhibiting their work.

Sarah's discipline incorporates developed and experimenting geli plate transfer imagery, mark-marking crossed with elements of paper or yarn weave. The geli plate transfer process allows for spontaneous and unpredictable imagery, which could then be enriched by these tactile, woven components.

Mike concentrates on turning one-off pieces working with more difficult or unusual pieces of timber, making use of the natural shape of the tree by exposing the grain or 'defects' within it.

Saira's artwork brings together textiles, screen printing, linocut, hand embroidery, and machine stitching to distort and manipulate the natural forms of age rings created by trees, with some becoming almost unrecognisable.