Things in the Studio
Screen printing, workshops and artist-led print projects in Cardiff.
Hi, I’m Shaun James. I’m a Cardiff-based visual artist and screen printer, and I’m currently updating the Things in the Studio website.
Things in the Studio is my screen-printing studio. I work across textile garment printing, paper prints, fine art editions, workshops, small-batch projects and artist-led print work. I’m open to enquiries for print runs, editions, workshops and projects of varying scopes and sizes, from straightforward T-shirt jobs to more exploratory print-based projects.
For print enquiries, workshop bookings or project questions, please get in touch.
Email me about a project at shaun@thingsinthestudio.co.uk
Upcoming workshop
I’m running a screen-printing workshop called Drawing Into Print: An Introduction to Screen Printing at Spit & Sawdust on Sunday 19 July, 10am–4pm.
This is a relaxed, hands-on one-day workshop where you’ll learn how to turn your own drawings and hand-made marks into a one-colour screen print using mark-resist film. No previous screen-printing experience is needed; all materials are provided, and you’ll print and take home 5 copies of your own one-colour screen print.
The workshop is suitable for ages 16+ and costs £90.
Book through Spit & Sawdust:
About
I’ve been interested in and working with screen printing since my Fine Art Foundation course, all those many moons ago, way back in 2006.
Once I got to university, I specialised in printmaking during my Fine Art BA in Cardiff, at the fantastic and sadly missed Howard Gardens Campus just off Newport Road in the city centre, a hub of creative energy and a rich and supportive arts school. It was here that I really began to explore what the method and technique had to offer, pushing and playing with the process to deepen my understanding of it. I later broadened my practice through my MFA, developing work across sculpture, installation, video and print.
Alongside this, I began working in the commercial textile screen-printing industry, and I’ve now spent around 16 years working professionally as a screen printer across different companies, job roles and studio contexts.
The jobs I take on are approached with deep technical knowledge, but with the client’s needs at the forefront of my mind, and with an openness and desire to make the process as accessible as possible in order to realise the best possible print. I’m always keen to take time to understand what a client, whether they are an existing customer, someone new to print, an artist, designer or organisation, wants and needs, whether that means exploring ideas, advising on artwork and materials, or delivering carefully handled, high-quality print work.
The name Things in the Studio, and the T-shirt label it originally encapsulated, emerged back in 2017. It came out of my wider visual art practice and the way I generally approach making my own work: a studio full of materials, objects, offcuts, tests, tools and accumulated things that become starting points for making. It is not the only way I work, but it remains a central part of my approach.
The T-shirt label developed from that same practice, as an affordable way to put part of my work out into the world, something edition-like, wearable and accessible, which could introduce people to my wider studio practice as it developed.
Today, Things in the Studio acts more broadly as an umbrella for the different creative and practical things that happen in and around the studio: commercial screen printing, workshops, fine art editions, print projects, my own artwork and my continuing visual arts practice.
