Printmaking with fresh fish! Ed Adlington will be demonstrating one of the oldest printmaking techniques and inviting visitors to have a try themselves.
Printing Press Takeover: Screen Printing
Try your hand at block printing and contribute to a communal piece of artwork of the riverside. Draw and print buildings both real and imagined to a long river scene based on Kethi Copeland's Riverscape screen-prints.
Printing Press Takeover: Silk Screen Press
Your very own tote bag hand screenprinted by you!
Join Bainbridge Print artists as they demonstrate the key techniques required for screenprinting onto fabric. You will have the opportunity to print your own bags choosing from a range of designs and fonts.
Great fun for all age groups and abilities, no previous printing experience necessary!
Printing Press Takeover: Etching Press
Emily Crookshank has explored many forms of printmaking. Her approach to making work is to be experimental and considered, bringing together multiple techniques in printmaking, painting and drawing. Recently she has been drawn back to etching in its purest form and will be printing etchings based around her current test plate series, 'Testing The Water'.
Printing Press Takeover: Silk Screen Press
Make-Ready will produce a 3/4 colour print of an artist's work, using water based inks, so members of the public can see the silkscreen printing process in it’s entirety (excluding exposure screens of course). Staff from Make-Ready will be on hand to answer questions and curiosities about the process that anyone might have.
Make Ready is a silkscreen printing studio for contemporary art and design, providing a consultancy-driven bespoke printmaking service.
Etching meets 3D Printing
Dekkle is demonstrating their new 3-D printed relief and intaglio plates: the only truly ‘safe’ Intaglio platemaking as it requires no chemicals or mordents to etch. They will have a selection of plates available showing visitors how both photographs and pen and ink drawings can be converted to this medium.
As Dekkle is also a traditional studio they will also be demonstrating Mezzotints, traditional copperplate and letterpress, boxwood wood engraving and a hands-on experience of a working Adana!