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Theresa Easton

Newcastle upon Tyne
Theresa Easton is a printmaker and lecturer in Fine Art based at Newcastle University
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Printmaking is central to my studio, teaching, and community practice. I use print processes as a way to critically examine new approaches to education, while creating meaningful connections with participants and students. As an accessible medium, print operates as a tool for cultural democracy—enabling, empowering, and activating both individual and collective agency.

In my practice, I make prints across a range of techniques and forms, using collaboration and co-production to build social bonds. Letterpress and zine-making become spaces of experimentation, dialogue, and intervention. They offer what I think of as a pedagogy of process—where learning and making are inseparable, and where collective creativity opens up possibilities for new ways of thinking, teaching, and acting together.

Lived Experience

I am one of the founding members of Artists’ Union England, a trade union for visually & applied artists and artists with a socially engaged practice, formed in 2014. The austerity cuts of 2012 imposed by the coalition government resulted in job losses, closures of libraries and Surestarts, many of these buildings were my place of work. The results were devasting for communities, including the council estate where I live. It was a wake-up call to get organised. Since then I continue to support grass roots activism in my local community, using my skills as an artist and privilege as a lecturer in Fine Art.

 

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