Print Studio workshops

Print Studio at the Bluecoat offers a range of short courses, workshops, guinea-pig sessions and talks from regular monthly and biweekly sessions to special, one-off workshops and talks.

With an emphasis on "safe" printmaking, we are keen to build a community of printmakers who can share skills and research as well as using the facilities. The two studio spaces are also available to hire for experienced groups who have undertaken an induction.

Courses

Short courses in Safe Etching 


Tuesdays 23 February – 30 March 6.00 – 9.00pm

 

Introductory level taught by Hannah Fray A.R.E.

£100 / £95 concessions

 

Thursdays 25 February – 25 March 10.00am – 1.00pm

 

Intermediate level taught by Tracy Griffin Hill
£92 / £87 concessions

 

Wednesdays 24 February – 29 March  6.00 – 9.00pm


Short course in Water-based Screen Printing
Introductory level taught by Jane Spencer

£120 / £115 concessions

 

Workshops

Once a month a specialist workshop for a maximum of 6 printmakers only, guaranteeing you a learning experience of the highest quality:

 

Saturday 13 March 10.00am – 4.00pm

 

 Etched and Incised Lino with Martin Kochany

 

Versatile and still relatively cheap, lino is traditionally cut to create a relief print, but increasingly printmakers are ditching their cutters in favour of etching the linoleum. Here Martin Kochany (Hot Bed Press) teaches how to combine cutting and etching to produce a block which can be printed relief or intaglio style, or both simultaneously.

 

£60 / 55 concessions

 

 

Saturday 17 April 10.00am – 4.00pm

 

Gum Arabic Transfers with Justin Sanders

 

Print lithographic-type images from photocopies of your photographs or drawings, layer them up in different colours to create composite prints. This is a quick and easy way to add another dimension to your work.

£60 / 55 concessions

 

Saturday 22 May 10.00am – 4.00pm

 

Relief Printing Vinyl with Wuon-Gean Ho 

 

An introduction to reduction printing and multi-block printing and how to exploit the qualities of intaglio printmaker’s Japanese vinyl.

 

£60 / 55 concessions

 

 

Printmakers in Residence

 

Neil Morris, Reader in Contemporary Printmaking at Liverpool John Moore’s University is in residence during April and May. His large-scale works mix printed, painted and drawn elements, and he will respond to the Global Studio exhibition, showing the results 26 May – 3 June. At the end of May Wuon-Gean Ho, who spends her time between London and Kyoto and whose sensual and exquisite mask series is in Global Studio, will join Neil. 

Printmaking Residencies Open Studio

Friday 28 May 2.00-5.00pm

Meet residency artists Neil Morris and Wuon-Gean Ho as they talk about their work.

 

Gallery Mode

Print Studio workshops