Beyond the Frame Printmaking in Dialogue with Film – Brand New Exhibition at The Bath House Gallery Huddersfield

Beyond the Frame explores the possibilities of printmaking through its relationship with film, photography and the moving image. The exhibition brings together a range of new and recent work by Rozi Fuller, Layla Jabbari and Emma Jackson, three artists with highly distinct practices who respond to film in different ways. Presented together, their practices reveal unexpected correspondences and points of departure, showing how printmaking can move beyond its traditional boundaries and embrace new processes, media and approaches. Beyond the Frame offers a rare opportunity to see a strong selection of work by three artists who are rethinking what printmaking can do.

Across the exhibition, printmaking emerges as a fluid and transformative process. Based in Huddersfield, Rozi Fuller is an animation artist with a background in film and television who has expanded her practice into light installations, theatre projections and interactive artworks. In Ambiguous:02, Fuller combines animation with sound in an interactive work that allows viewers to choose the order of different audio and animation clips. Its ‘digitally handmade’ aesthetic retains the texture of the processes, including risograph printing, while the open-ended combinations invite viewers to make their own connections. Her recent experiments with risograph printing also explore how static prints can become animated, interactive and alive. Hero Weeds, a series of limited-edition risograph prints, draws on current research into insect habitats in the UK and Europe, alongside Fuller’s own experiments on her allotment. Combining collage, photography, hand tinting and riso techniques, the prints incorporate an element of chance, with each edition produced in very small numbers. Visitors are invited to use an augmented reality app to animate the prints.

 

 

Rozi Fuller, Hero Weeds: Borage, 2025, Risograph print and animation via AR, courtesy the artist.

The Hull-based artist, Layla Jabbari, combines printmaking and animation to capture the textures, gestures and observations of everyday experience. Her new audio-visual work, The Last Supper (2026), reflects on Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic painting while exploring the “hen do” as a rite of passage. Based on sketches made in pubs and nightclubs in Leeds and Hull, alongside conversations with the women she met, Jabbari constructs an expansive scene to illuminate one woman’s trajectory from one stage of life to the next. An interest in human narratives and journeys also informs Jabbari’s recent film, Fish Out of Water (2025). The film documents a highly ephemeral and collaborative method of printmaking, in which the artist and her associates use a fish stencil to transfer water onto the pavement, leaving only a temporary trace. The film

follows the fish from The Netherlands to Hull, Liverpool and New York, mirroring the route taken by her ancestors. The accompanying voice is Jabbari’s father, reflecting on his personal experience of migration.

 

 

Emma Jackson is an artist based in Manchester who works across printmaking, painting, objects and installation. She moves images between different forms and materials, dismantling and reassembling them as they shift between two and three dimensions. As Jackson has explained: “An image might begin as a photograph, become a print, be broken apart or made into an object, and later return to photographic processes such as photoetching.” After successive layers of transformation, a photographic portrait takes on the appearance of an expansive landscape, a suspended sculptural form, or even a toylike building block. Through sequential stages of making and unmaking, Jackson explores issues of memory, loss and recovery: ‘I am interested in what survives, what disappears, and what might be found along the way.’ 

 

Time & location

Bath House Gallery, University of Huddersfield

9 October – 14 November 2026

Weekdays: 10am – 3pm

Saturdays & Sundays: closed (Please check our exhibitions for some Saturday openings)

West Yorkshire Print Workshop (WYPW) is a leading centre for contemporary printmaking, supporting artists through access to specialist facilities, technical expertise, exhibitions and professional development. Based in Mirfield, WYPW has a long-standing commitment to exploring the possibilities of printmaking as a contemporary art form, working across traditional and experimental processes. WYPW also delivers the Flourish Award, celebrating and supporting emerging talent in contemporary printmaking. Emma Jackson was the 2025 Flourish Award winner, with Layla Jabbari shortlisted for the award.

The exhibition forms part of the University of Huddersfield’s Cultures of Film programme, which explores the broad cultural, artistic and critical dimensions of film and moving-image practice. Cultures Of_ is a place-based public realm programme that runs out of the Centre for Cultural Ecologies in Art Design and Architecture but serves as a School-wide initiative. Each academic year a new theme is introduced, collectively curated into a public programme, with this year’s focus being Cultures of Film.  

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