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Print Courses at the Bluecoat – A Few Places Left

Published by Ian Jackson on February 18, 2010 13:55 in Course / Workshop. Closed Tags: , .

There are just a  couple of places left on each of the following courses starting next week at the Bluecoat Print Studios

Tuesday 23 February – Tuesday 30 March 2010 evenings 6.00pm – 9.00pm
Short course in Safe Etching taught by Hannah Fray A.R.E.
£100/£95

This course will give you basic etching techniques allowing you to progress in the studio at your own pace subsequently. In addition to the safe etching skills you will be offered a chance to Drypoint with card and aluminium. You will print your own work using the Bluecoat’s press, thought to date from 1914 or thereabouts. Suitable for beginners. Based in the intaglio studio.

Wednesday 24 February – Wednesday 31 March 2010 evenings 6.00 – 9.00pm
Short course in Water Based Screen Printing taught by Jane Spencer
£120/115

Based in the new screen printing studio: this course will teach you basic stencil making techniques and how to prepare and expose your own screen to a photographically produced positive. You will learn all you need in order to carry on in the space working independently. Have a look at the space on line by following this link:  www.liverpoolprintmakers.blogspot.com. It’s really very special. Or find out more about your teacher: www.janespencer.co.uk.

Thursday 25 February – Thursday 25 March 2010 10.00am – 1.00pm
Short course (only five weeks) in Safe Photo-Etching taught by Tracy Hill (a.k.a. Griffin)
£92/87

This is an intermediate level course: it will work well for you if you have some etching experience. The course will focus on the use of photopolymer film to create photo-etchings. You can use computer-produced artworks, made in Photoshop for example, or photocopies of your own drawings as a starting point. Tracy teaches both etched and non-etch methods. Tracy runs Artlab; she is one of UCLAN’s print technicians (based in Preston) and an artist in her own right. See http://tracygriffinprint.co.uk/

If you would like to book a ticket please call 0151 702 5324.

www.thebluecoat.org.uk

Published by Ian Jackson on February 18, 2010 13:55 in Course / Workshop. Closed Tags: , .

‘Urban Evolution’ by Anne Desmet at Cornerstone

Published by Ian Jackson on November 5, 2009 14:20 in Art Review. 2 Comments Tags: , .
c. Anne Desmet. British Museum Series 4, 2005

c. Anne Desmet. British Museum Series 4, 2005

c. Anne Desmet. Deserted Pool VBM, 2007,

c. Anne Desmet. Deserted Pool VBM, 2007,

This is an excellent exhibition by one of the country’s leading printmakers. We are really fortunate to have the show here in the city where Desmet was born.

The skill is amazing but so is the invention as she is forever looking for new challenges, new materials to print onto and improved methods.

There are many lovely and detailed pieces, its worth taking some time to study and enjoy them all.

‘Urban Evolution’ by Anne Desmet
at the Cornerstone Gallery, Hope University
9 October – 20 November 2009

Also – Closing Private Viewing – Friday 20 November 18-20.00
‘Urban Evolution’ features a broad range of work made by Anne Desmet in the last ten years demonstrating her fascination with the built environment. Her remarkable depictions of buildings and cities contain recurring themes of urban decay and renewal.

Her work also alludes to the deep time-cycles of the natural world, whilst her series of collages, distorting and reconfiguring her own engravings of the British Museum’s Great Court, refer to the processes of disassembly, regeneration and renewal that this renowned urban interior has undergone.

Desmet is renowned for pushing at the boundaries of printmaking practice, combining technical skill and architectural vision with great inventiveness. Her large-scale works – incredible in their detail – take months to complete. Equal to its technical excellence, her work ischaracterized by a fascination with process; there is conceptual game play around the methods and history of printmaking. Her collages play with the idea of the multiple and the unique work; for example, she creates prints, tears or cuts up some impressions and re-assembles them to make a finished one-off piece.

This exhibition was curated by the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, in association with Hart Gallery, London which represents Anne Desmet’s work. www.hartgallery.co.uk

c. Anne Desmet. Small Ripple, 2008

c. Anne Desmet. Small Ripple, 2008

Published by Ian Jackson on November 5, 2009 14:20 in Art Review. 2 Comments Tags: , .

Artist Talk: Nana Shiomi at Bluecoat. Sat 16 May

Published by Ian Jackson on May 15, 2009 11:27 in Talks. Closed Tags: , , .

Still some tickets available for this artist talk tomorrow. We saw the exhibition last night and its excellent, the talk should be fascinating as Nana Shiomi will illustrate her technique with prints and blocks.

ARTIST TALK: Nana Shiomi
imageSATURDAY 16 May 2009, 11.00  at the Bluecoat
To coincide with the ‘One Hundred Views of Mitate’ exhibition at Editions, the artist Nana Shiomi talks about her work, career to date and answer questions.
Tickets cost £3/£2 concessions and are bookable on 0151 702 5324.   Venue details

Published by Ian Jackson on May 15, 2009 11:27 in Talks. Closed Tags: , , .