Black Lamp - Screen printing

Black Lamp are a DIY screen printing collective, printing artwork on garments and on paper. Based in Easton, Bristol. Where possible they print on eco-friendly, ethically sourced garments.

They run a solidarity print series. The aim is raise money for political projects or campaigns, chosen by the artist whose work they are printing.

Black Lamp takes their name from a secretive revolutionary organisation made up of political and industrial militants from 1801. At the time it was illegal for any group of working people to come together (combine) and negotiating wages or conditions at work, due to the combination act of 1799, making all union activity illegal. If you did organise you’d soon be shipped off to one of the colonies breaking rocks in indentured servitude… E P Thompson credits Black Lamp as ‘integral to the birth of British working-class consciousness’.