- Masterclass in Large Format Camera Photography and Printing Silver Gelatine Darkroom Prints
Date: 13 July - 16 July 2020
Venue: Centre for Fine Print Research, Bower Ashton Campus
In this four day masterclass, participants will work with course tutor Frank Menger to learn about and use vintage and modern 5x4 large format cameras, making best use of camera movements, such as shift, tilt and swing, as well as the Scheimpflug principle to control depth of field.
- Idea as Machine: Random Rules & Imperfect Systems
Date: 15 July - 16 July 2020
Venue: Centre for Fine Print Research, Bower Ashton
This course will examine how rules and systems can be used to generate ideas within a visual arts or writing practice.
You will explore concepts of unoriginality, the influence of context and the use of appropriation to create content and meaning. Students will work with drawing, writing, collage or a mixture of all three.
- Masterclass in Early Photographic Printing Processes
Date: 20 July - 24 July 2020
Venue: Centre for Fine Print Research, Bower Ashton Campus
This Centre for Fine Print Research course led by Dr Peter Moseley will introduce participants to five important early photographic processes - you will be able to make at least one print with each processes using your own images. All the specialist materials and fully stocked darkroom are provided, all that is necessary is to bring along those special images ready to be made into stunning and unique prints.
- Japanese Scroll (maki-mono) & Accordion (ori-hon) Book Making
Date: 23 July - 24 July 2020
Venue: Centre for Fine Print Research, Bower Ashton
This is an intensive two-day workshop on the traditional Japanese art of scroll making and accordion book making.
Participants can expect to complete the course with two structures of approx. A5 size, both a cloth-covered scroll and a cloth-covered accordion book to take home.
- The Poetry of Artists' Books
Date: 29 July - 30 July 2020
Venue: Center for Fine Print Research, Bower Ashton
Join Jeremy Dixon, the poet and artist's book maker, for two days of inspirational, practical work devoted to producing your own unique poetic artists' book.
- Easily Adaptable Boxes and Slipcases
Date: 03 August - 04 August 2020
Venue: Centre for Fine Print Research, Bower Ashton
In this two-day intensive workshop participants at the Centre for Fine Print Research will learn the fundamentals of box making that is both archival and decorative. In this two-day intensive workshop students will learn the fundamentals of box making that is both archival and decorative.
- Masterclass in Alternative Photography - Photogravure: An Early Photographic Printing Process With A Modern Twist
Date: 17 August - 21 August 2020
Venue: Centre for Fine Print Research, Bower Ashton
Photographic printing processes from the mid and late nineteenth century offer a wide variety of printed surface, colour and texture that differ markedly from the clean, sometimes almost sterile appearance of modern digital images. The early photographic processes (aka alternative photography) require a real hands-on approach in the choice of paper, chemistry and coating, and provide every opportunity for the printmaker to produce individual and beautifully aesthetic work.
