The artist Luke Carter is a friend and one-time cooperative neighbour at Centrespace (before his move to Germany). This original three-colour lino illustration was crafted in his studio and in our printshop and we are very pleased to print a second edition of the work with the addition of a hand-set victorian type and wooden border title.
This print commemorates the working people who formed an uprising to protest the rejection of a reform bill in the House of Lords which would have enabled working men to have a vote. The Queen Square riot, with other protests, led to the formation of the Chartist and Suffragette movements.
The text has been printed on the Albion Press that was made one year after the Riots in 1832. It was bought new by Burleigh Press in Broad Street, Bristol: just a couple of minutes from where it sits now in our printshop. The press would have almost certainly printed stories connected to the riots and the Great Reformation Act of 1832, where working men first got the vote.
