Our Work

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

— Poet Ian McMillan on printing on the PPP

People Powered Press x Hot Bed Press

2025

A collaboration with communities across Salford, leading to a major exhibition at Hot Bed Press

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

A great project with a great client that went well

— Poet Ian McMillan on printing on the PPP

HOPE/ACT

2025

A series of collaborations celebrating Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Another great project with a great client that went well

— Poet Ian McMillan on printing on the PPP

Salts Mill Exhibition

2024

An exhibition of new and recreated works at Salts Mill, Saltaire, to mark the fifth anniversary of the creation of Brico.

Exhibition of letterpress murals in the roof space of Salts Mill, Saltaire

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

And yet another great project with a great client

— Poet Ian McMillan on printing on the PPP

Leeds Industrial Museum

2024

A mural for the new flood defence wall created in collaboration with volunteer gardeners from Hyde Park Source

Wide mural pasted onto flood defence wall at Leeds Industrial Museum

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

— Poet Ian McMillan on printing on the PPP

Temple Newsam

2023

A collaboration with local writers and textile artists for Temple Newsam House Leeds

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

— Poet Ian McMillan on printing on the PPP

Together

2023

A collaboration with groups from eight different wards of Bradford

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

— Poet Ian McMillan on printing on the PPP

Nothing For Us Without Us

2023

A collaboration with Born in Bradford and young people from across the district

Large mural pasted to a white wooden box-wall, in the roof-space of historic Salts Mill, Saltaire. Mural reads, 'Nothing For Us Without Us'

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

— Poet Ian McMillan on printing on the PPP

Bradford Murals

2022

Letterpress murals and poetry made in collaboration with the people of Bradford

Large mural in Bradford's Centenary Square which reads, 'I Have Heard the Ice Cracking'

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

— Poet Ian McMillan on printing on the PPP

Brico Workshops

Type design by everyone, using the Brico system in the People Powered Press

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

— Poet Ian McMillan on printing on the PPP

Brico 1.0

2019

Giant Letterpress Prints by Oli Bentley, Anthony Burrill & Thomas Mayo

Detail of a freshly-printed letter H, using the Brico system on the People Powered Press.

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

— Poet Ian McMillan on printing on the PPP

Mural Poems

Large-scale hand-printed murals for the Poetry & Print Garden and elsewhere, using the PPP's own typeface, GRAFT, designed by Oli Bentley

A workshop participants rolls gold ink onto the steel letters of typeface GRAFT, spelling the word KIND.

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

— Poet Ian McMillan on printing on the PPP

Early Works

2018 – 2020

The first letterpress works created on the People Powered Press, built by JKN Oiltools, Batley

Five large letterpress prints hanging from scaffolding frames, stand in a row in an industrial building. The prints read, 'III / There's a divide / up here / We don't believe in ourselves / enough' and are printed in copper-coloured ink on white paper.