RISOTTO

☀️ Throwback to this time last year, when we packed up RISOTTO and transported the studio to the Beach for 🌴

Pinterest invited us to deliver a week of rapid-fire workshops, with around 200 people making custom artworks each day. It was hot, and there was lots of sand, paper and ink 🌀

For the workshops, I designed hundreds of custom stickers, lettering and collage elements for guests to play with, alongside a suite of pre-printed RISOTTO backgrounds they could layer up and make their own.🎢

It was a tightly designed playground: fast-paced enough to keep the queues moving, but structured enough to make sure every first-time RISO enthusiast went away with something joyful, bold and satisfying 🏓

So much of the work was in designing a system that felt loose, playful and spontaneous, while being very, very organised behind the scenes. My favourite medley! 🕹

I dont need much of an excuse to design a - so I got to work on a breezy summer special - craftfully brought to life from and .garments 🤲

I got to bring along some brilliant humans, workshop pros and fellow print techs: .studio and

Huge thanks to Sean, Nadia, Ariel and the rest of the team, who are always such a joy to work with, and amazing supporters of our work 🌷

And to Caroline from - an absolute dream producer 🌈

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Introducing our RISO CLUB 100 Catalogue 💥

A physical snapshot of 100 issues, 9 years, and 400+ postcards from around the world 🌍

Printed with the wonderful - it’s a very colourful riso archive you can hold in your hands. Each spread features the artists and curators behind each issue, spanning over 45 countries worldwide 🏓

£16 = Limited copies remain! Link in bio 🔗

🏰 A legacy piece for the Club, plus more free, digital tools to let you explore risography in full 👀



📷 1 & 5 =
📷 2 - 4 =
📸 6 = .mearns

RISOTTO HQ: my new North Pole 🎢

It’s not just a print but a playground for art, experimentation and hosting. Everything moves or stacks. Curtains open, tables roll, and projects expand and collapse depending on the day. 🎨

Whether it’s printing, making stationery, or developing and modular sculptures, it’s a space where production and play sit side by side. 🏗️

My latest furniture collaboration with runs throughout the studio. I used their modular steel units as building blocks, patterning and reworking them into something both practical and sculptural. It’s storage, but also a way of thinking about structure, colour, and composition in 3D. 🎯

The space has naturally opened itself up to hosting too; workshops, launches, dinners, and shared projects, where people can step into a world I’ve been imagining for a long time, and make something within it. 🎭

After 14 years of RISOTTO, it feels like a big milestone. Creating a space that’s generous to the next chapter, more ambitious, and able to hold bigger projects alongside our regular prints! ✨

🧱 … if you’re reading! 💚

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🛠️ Big thanks to the many hands that helped bring this to life including:

Still time to catch our RISO CLUB 100 💌

The show is on until Sunday 19th, so there’s a few days to come by, have a look, and lose yourself in 400 postcards from artists around the world 🌍 Link in Bio! ✨

We’ve had so many lovely visitors through the doors already, thanks so much to everyone who’s come by, sent a postcard, bought a catalogue, or just had a good nosey. It’s been such a joy seeing people spend time with the archive ❤️

While you’re here:
→ Explore the Atlas
→ Enter our competition by picking your favourites 👀
→ Buy and send postcards from the kiosk
→ Pick up one of our new catalogues, printed and supported by

Come see what 100 issues of RISO CLUB looks like in real life 💥

Open daily at until Sunday 19th April, 6pm

📸 .mearns &
Brought to life, thanks to generous support from ❤️

FINAL CALL 🎞️💥

Everything in our RISO CLUB 100 workshop programme has now sold out, apart from the final 2 tickets for our Riso Animation Workshop!!

Spend the day turning hand-drawn frames into a playful looping animations, with thrown in the mix. You will create dancing graphic delights - true to Angela's style!

This one’s ideal for illustrators, designers, artists and curious creatives - with no animation experience needed. Just a willingness to make things move 🌼

Sunday 19 April, 10am–5pm
RISOTTO HQ, Glasgow

If you can't make a workshop, you’ll still be able to visit the exhibition (April 11th-19th), and there are still slots to book into our free daily studio tours!

Book via the website 🎟️ www.risottostudio.com

ONLY A FEW TICKETS LEFT 🚨

Riso Workshop (full day) ✂️🖨️

I'm so delighted to say - Anthony’s going to be joining us for a special workshop at the new studio! He's bringing a juicy suite of backgrounds + foregrounds from his archives, which will provide the best foundation for the workshop. He'll share insight to his approach, and how these shapes and text can be mixed up and combined in infinite ways.

What you’ll leave with:
✨ Two A4 riso editions (20 + 20 prints)
✨ A proper toolkit for composition, type, and playful constraint-led making

Expect bold building blocks, and lots of room to cut, collage, shuffle, and make new compositions.

Details:
🗓️ Sat 11 April 2026
⏰ 10:00–13:00, break, then 14:00–17:00
📍 RISOTTO Studio, The Glue Factory, Glasgow

Part of our RISO CLUB 100 🌍 Tickets via link in bio!

ACCESS PLACES: OPEN CALL 🌷

We’re offering a limited number of free workshop tickets for 18–25s, where cost is a genuine barrier to access.

Join in with one of our amazing artists sessions, where we blend the art of print with each one of these maestros ✨ https://www.instagram.com/anthonyburrill/✨ https://www.instagram.com/marina_willer/ ✨ https://www.instagram.com/raissa_pardini/ ✨ https://www.instagram.com/angelakirkwood/

To apply:
→ Fill in the short form
→ Share one link to an image of your work (phone photos, instagram links etc welcome)
→ Tell us in one sentence what you’d like to explore in a risograph workshop

You’ll need to be available for at least one of these dates: → Saturday 11 / Sunday 12 / Saturday 18 / Sunday 19 April 2026

Deadline: Thursday 19 March 2026, 23:59 (UK time)

Link in bio 💌 🌟

Big thanks to for supporting this project 😎

🟢 RISOTTO HQ, in all its poppy newness. [Swipe for the before + after ➡️]

This build started over 5 years ago ⏳ and finally, its moment in the sun is here ☀️.
The Big Green Beast was custom-built with furniture maker Alexander Garthwaite 🛠️

So many hands have helped along the way, but Alex really took this project on, engineered it, and somehow made my dreams a solid, cantilevered reality ⚙️📐

He built me a room within our warehouse space, with no standard walls 🚫. The result is a stepped form that eats dead space from the inside and gives it back to the outside 🟩

The result = giant steps on the outer shell are for storing my sculptures 📦, and the inside’s negative creates perfectly sized, cantilevered paper shelves, that serve the print room’s productive needs ⚡️

🎢🔧 It’s both hardcore playful and ultra practical (how I'd like to think of myself 😅) which can be a hard-working balancing act, but here, they're both in service to the other 🤍

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And now you can come nosy around it! 👀

→ Daily Studio Tours: 11–19 April, 1pm. Free, but ticketed Link in bio 🔗
→ Private group tours: Studios, schools, and larger groups can request a private tour (subject to availability). Email us 📩

Come for a look 👋
Stay for the postcards 💌
Or Book onto a workshop if you fancy getting hands on inky 🏓

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