what is the ukpa?
The UK Poster Association (UKPA) is a collective of independent designers and screen printers who have been creating exclusive, limited-edition gig posters at Green Man Festival and End of the Road Festival for over a decade. Each year, artists come together to celebrate the festival lineup through beautifully crafted screenprints that have become highly collectable pieces of music and design.
Through our partnership with both festivals, we aim to:
Create unique, high-quality souvenirs of the festival.
Build an ongoing gallery archive
Celebrating the acts who’ve played.
Promote gig posters as collectable art.
Celebrate great music through great design.
Engage festival goers through screenprint
demonstrations.
GET IN TOUCH - ukposterart@gmail.com
WHAT IS A GIG POSTER?
Gig posters, or concert posters, are limited edition prints created by graphic artists to commemorate a particular musical event, gig, or tour.
They are often silkscreen printed (screenprinted) and usually signed and numbered, making for unique and collectible pieces of art.
Gig posters are different to promotional posters in that the time intensive and limited nature of their production means they are commonly sold as band merchandise as well as traded and sold by collectors, making them a unique memento of a live gig in a way that cannot be downloaded or shared digitally.