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.
