Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: 14 prints by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the Penfold Press

Beginning in 2015, the artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins and Dan Bugg of the Penfold Press worked together to produce a sequence of original screenprints inspired by the medieval verse drama Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Since 2018 the images have illustrated Faber & Faber’s Revised Edition of the acclaimed translation of the poem by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.

This expanded edition of the fully illustrated catalogue of the 14 prints contains an updated introductory essay and commentaries by art historian James Russell, discussions of the processes of making the prints and a new foreword by actor Maxine Peake.

Contents
Foreword by Maxine Peake
From Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
Introduction by James Russell
Mapping the Tale by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
The prints
Commentaries by James Russell
1 Christmas at Camelot
2 The Green Knight Arrives
3 The Green Knight Bows to Gawain’s Blow
4 The Green Knight’s Head Lives
5 The Armouring of Gawain
6 The Travails
7 Gawain Arrives at Fair Castle
8 The Three Hunts
9 The Temptations
10 The Exchange
11 The Green Chapel
12 Gawain Staunches the Wound to His Neck
13 Morgan le Fey
14 The Stain of Sin
An interview with Daniel Bugg
Clive Hicks-Jenkins
The contributors

First published in 2018 to accompany the exhibition Clive Hicks-Jenkins: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight at the Museum of Modern Art Machynlleth; revised edition published in 2025 to mark a decade since the beginning of the project.

Softback, 62 pages, 245mm by 170mm

ISBN 978-1-9996474-0-7