With its layers of paperboard, polyethylene and aluminium foil, Tetra Pak not only has an immediacy which other collagraph materials lack, but also a satisfying tactility when cutting, scoring, peeling and printing with this distinctive material.

During this advanced two-day Tetra Pak collagraph print workshop, the course tutor, Stephen Fowler, will facilitate the exploration of multi tetra pak plate prints which explore colour overlay, and the combination of intaglio and relief collagraph print processes.

This course price includes all materials, PPE and catering. 

Price: £249.00 Full Price / £199.00 Concessionary & UWE Alumni Price

Date: 25th - 26th July 2023

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This 2 day workshop focusses on 35mm black and white film photography and darkroom processes, using analogue cameras and working in a traditional darkroom. Participants will explore the ins-and-outs of manual analogue cameras, how to correctly expose and develop traditional 35mm film, making contact sheets and prints in the darkroom from their negatives to archival exhibition standards. 

Aimed at printmakers, this course will also teach participants how to integrate analogue photography into photomechanical print processes, such as etching and silkscreen, through the making of enlarged film positives.

Who is it for?

This course will re-engage artists and printmakers with traditional 35mm film photography and maybe even with their own cameras that have lain   dormant for a while. It is as much an introduction to analogue photography for newcomers as well as a refresher for lapsed photographers wanting to return to darkroom days of years gone by.

This will be a physical course, delivered in person at our UWE City Campus (Bower Ashton)

The course price includes all materials, PPE and catering. 

Price: £249.00 Full Price / £199 Concessionary & UWE Alumni Price

Date: 11th - 12th July 2023

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Nearly everyone has the means of rubber stamp production in their pencil case: an eraser, scalpel, pencil and maybe even a stamp pad, all that’s needed is something to print on. When choosing an eraser the common misconception is 'the bigger the better’ but this is an error. Unlike linocut printing and other forms of relief printing, it isn’t purely a means of reproducing a motif, picture or design.

Working with small to medium sized erasers forces stampers to be creative & inventive. A brick stamp can print a wall, a house, street, town and even a city. Stampers aren’t confined to the print room/studio. Stamping is a portable medium, you can take it anywhere, print anywhere, not just on paper but walls, food, and human bodies for instance.

The course price includes all materials, PPE and catering.

Price: £129.00 Full Price / £103.00 Concessionary & UWE Alumni Price

Date: 27th July 2023

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The Zone System provides photographers with a method to evaluate the tonal range in composition and guides the photographer to adjust the camera’s exposure settings and film development times to best record an image the way the photographer imagines it.

Developed by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer in the late 1930’s originally for use with black & white sheet film the Zone System is applicable to black & white roll film in all formats, but elements of the Zone System can also be utilised when using colour film and digital photography.

An Introduction to the Zone System will explore the concept of ‘visualisation’ a method by which the photographer can anticipate the final result before making an exposure. We will look in detail at exposure, how a light meter works and how to accurately interpret light meter readings and how to apply this knowledge to exposure what effect exposure has on film.

This course price includes all materials, PPE and catering. 

Price: £249.00 Full Price / £199.00 Concessionary & UWE Alumni Price

Date: 7th - 8th August  2023

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Woodburytype was the first commercially successful photomechanical reproduction method. It was replaced by lithography in commercial printing. It is continuous tone and gives a very special image quality. The continuous tone Woodbury Gravure is even more obscure and has never taken off commercially.

On the course we will use the laser cutter to make plates for Woodburytype and Woodbury Gravure and print with gelatine inks and relief inks.

Participants will learn how to prepare images for Woodburytype and Woodbury Gravure. They will learn how to use the laser cutter, how to prepare inks for Woodburytype and what inks to use for Woodbury Gravure.

This course price includes all materials, PPE and catering. 

Price: £249.00 Full Price / £199.00 Concessionary & UWE Alumni Price

Date: 27th - 28th July 2023

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This course is Lino Printing 101. It will give an overview of the whole lino printing process, including drawing designs, transferring designs onto lino blocks, carving and printing. There are many methods of printing to explore: single colour, multiple block, reduction lino printing: the possibilities are endless and importantly, very exciting.

This course will enable any beginner to understand the fundamentals of lino cutting, mark making and translating images into print. It will equip you with skills and techniques needed to continue making your own prints at home.

This course price includes all materials, PPE and catering. 

Price: £399.00 Full Price / £320.00 Concessionary & UWE Alumni Price

Date: 17th - 21st July July 2023

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This one day course will give participants a chance to learn about the history of screen printing, learn various techniques - from artworking to coating your own screen, but most importantly to have fun, get inky and engage with the printing process.

Participants of the course will leave with their own hand printed artwork. They will also have a good understanding of the process of screenprinting which would give them the confidence to return for future workshops, or to enter any print room and know what to do.

This course price includes all materials, PPE and catering. 

Price: £129.00 Full Price / £103.00 Concessionary & UWE Alumni Price

Date: 28th July 2023

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The two-day practical course will give participants the time and opportunity to engage with many different creative book-making techniques in order to overcome any creative block. In the first half of the course we will make three completely new books using a variety of generative methods and then in the second half we will concentrate on making a final personal book project using the participants ideas and after consultation with the tutor.

This course is ideally suited to Book Arts practitioners, students, professional artists, amateur artists, and book-makers, seeking to learn completely new skills, or to brush up/develop existing ones and to then proceed to working on their own projects once the course has finished.

Participants would complete the course learning new skills and techniques of working that they could take forward and develop in their own time.

The course price includes all materials, PPE and catering.

Price: £249.00 Full Price / £199.00 Concessionary & UWE Alumni Price

Date: 12th - 13th July 2023

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