Jan–July 2020

JAN –JULY 2020

STUDIO • EXHIBITIONS • COURSES • EVENTS • SHOP • FRAMING

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THE MIDLAND’S CENTRE FOR FINE ART PRINTMAKING Leicester Print Workshop (LPW) is the regional LPW has a long history of working strategically with development centre for printmaking. Established communities, festivals, schools, colleges and universities by artists in 1986, we are a registered charity and to introduce printmaking to new audiences. part of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio of Organisations. SMALL PRINT INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES For this year’s Small Print International we are inviting Our RIBA award-winning building is situated in artists working in any printmaking technique to submit Leicester City Centre’s cultural quarter and is home work before the deadline of 23 February 2020. Artists to a large, well equipped open access Printmaking are invited to submit up to three prints, each available Studio (for screenprinting onto paper and textiles, in an edition of at least 6 prints, so we cannot accept stone and plate lithography, etching, engraving, monoprints, monotypes or variable editions. See our relief and letterpress), alongside our Galleries, Shop, website for full details on how to apply Education Space, Framing Room and 9 Artist Studios.

CVAN EM is the Contemporary Visual Arts Network for the East Midlands, working to strengthen the region’s sector and safeguard the future of its artistic community. It seeks to be a catalyst for new practices, opportunities and experiences, contributing to a visual arts habitat where artists, organisations and audiences prosper. EXHIBITIONS 3

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ReForm Peter Clayton Peter 5 FEB 2020 5 FEB 2020 to Saturday, 1 1 y LPW MEMBERS’ SHOW LPW MEMBERS’ UNTIL 1 UNTIL THE ENDLESS JOURNEY Find out more at www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/exhibitions Please note: The Print Room ( Please note: The Print Room

Sue Baker Kenton, Hatty Buchanan, Peter Clayton, Beate Dehnen, Clayton, Peter Hatty Buchanan, Kenton, Sue Baker George Sfougaras, Soraya Smithson, Mita Solanky, Sally Stephens. Mita Solanky, Soraya Smithson, George Sfougaras,

Rapp, Peter Emma Powell, Theo Miller, Véronique Mermaz, Fortune-Jones, Kate

Our Galleries are open Tuesda EXHIBITIONS Wednesdays. Wednesdays. for meetings, please check with LCB before visiting ( for meetings, please check with LCB Over the past six years Peter Clayton has been making a visual record of the Leicester Print Workshop studio Print Workshop Leicester Clayton has been making a visual record of the Over the past six years Peter For this year’s Members’ show we invited responses to our Print/Process/Performance exhibition, which show we invited responses to our Print/Process/Performance Members’ For this year’s featured work by Fluxus and Concrete poetry artists from the De Montfort University Art Collection. Fluxus featured work by Fluxus and Concrete poetry artists life, undermine hierarchies between artists and audiences aimed to collapse the boundaries between art and and Concrete poetry shared an interest in the interplay and between artforms, to open up dialogue. Fluxus the artists in between text, image and meaning. In response, on public transport and observations of exchanges everyday life around them: from overheard conversations gardens and choreographic movements in printmaking. or walkways, to music by John Cage, miniature zen is used in its visual form, as poetry, and how we create The artists have also focused on the way language music and live art performance alongside print in meaning and memories. The exhibition includes sound, of the artist, as audiences are invited to become all techniques. The work explores the role and presence curators or coproducers. collaborators through interacting with the work, as environment. He has taken hundreds of photographs of the traces left in the process of making artwork and has environment. He has taken hundreds of photographs The resulting collages are a way of ordering and making made prints directly from the surfaces of the studios. and, by extension, of our world at large. the Workshop sense of the ever-changing, dynamic environment of EXHIBITIONS & SHOP 4 Our shopoffersauniqueselectionoforiginal prints,greetingscards, Graphic DesignattheUniversityofLincolnandisauthorTypewriter Art:AModernAnthology . This isaNationalCentreforCraftandDesignTouring exhibition.BarrieTullett isProgrammeLeader for narrative, andusedletterpresstodepictDante’s passagethroughtheInferno. the soul’s journeytowardsGod.Tullett createdthesetypographicworksasavisualresponsetotheunfolding by DanteAlighieri,whichdescribesDante’s journeythroughHell,PurgatoryandParadise, andrepresents Comedy, usingletterpress,typewritersandLetraset. TheDivineComedyisapoemwritteninthe14th Century Over thelast30years,BarrieTullett hasbeenworkingonaprojecttodepictall100Cantros of theDivine of mouldings,stains andmountsatreasonableprices. paper. We offeramuseumstandard framingservice,withachoice their wellestablished andhighqualityframingservicefor workson framing teamhaverecentlyjoinedus, allowingcontinuedaccessto NEW! We arehappytoannouncethattheCankStreet Gallery support Leicester PrintWorkshop andourcommunityofartists. The perfectdestinationforprintmaking presents.Allshoppurchases gifts, publications,printmakingmaterials, homewaresandvouchers. LPW ShopandFramingSe James Hugonin’s workiscourtesyofInglebyGallery. the slow, precisenatureofprintmakingprocesses. such asletterpress,geometriclinesandgrids, in contrasttotheuseofformalstructuraldevices, layers createashiftofmovement,shiftingallure, fluctuates betweenorderandtheincidental.The through layersandtonalmodulations.Thework spaces andtheeffectoflighttransparency three artistswhoseworkexplorestheinbetween infiltrate hiscompositions.Thisexhibitionfeatures themselves, asthisallowedincidentalsoundsto musical noteswasasimportantthe For JohnCagethesocalledsilenceinbetween silence, wecannot.” JohnCage(Silence,1961). something tohear. Infact,tryaswemaytomakea empty time.Thereisalwayssomethingtosee, “There isnosuchthingasanemptyspaceor EXHIBITIONS Hatty Buchanan,Rachel Duckhouse,JamesHugonin Drop inwith yourartwork orphoneuson 01162514174 to getaquote THE TYPOGRAPHICDANTE 29 FEB– 29 FEB LAUNCH EVENT: Friday28Feb,6pm LAUNCH EVENT: Friday28Feb,6pm. LAYERED SPACE 16MAY 2020 –

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– Nancy Power Friday 29 May, 5pm 30 MAY – 30 MAY Meet the Artist EVENT: LAUNCH . LPW GALLERIES 1 & 2 1 & . LPW GALLERIES linocuts, printed from dark to light, which depict scenes from the local countryside, coastal views, plants and animals. Nancy Power is a self-taught printmaker living in the is a self-taught Nancy Power East Midlands. She mainly produces reduction

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Y Friday 29 May, 6 Friday 29 EVENT: LAUNCH (Head of Fine Art, De Montfort University) (Head of Fine LPW SHOP SHOWCASE 30 MA 16 MAY 2020. 16 MAY THE PRINT ROOM AT LCB DEPOT LCB THE PRINT ROOM AT Small Print International 2020 Small Print International Find out more at www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/exhibitions SMALL PRINT INTERNATIONAL SMALL

Richard Jarvis Friday 28 Feb, 5pm 29 FEB –

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Gbadamosi and Raimi and Art Gallery) Bristol Museum (Curator, Judges: Julia Carver linocut prints have been exhibited locally and nationally, including The Society of Wildlife Artists and the RSPB. Richard Jarvis’ work is based on field sketching and Richard Jarvis’ observation. His hand tinted linocut and reduction EXHIBITIONS communication, In this age of immediate and widespread In this age of immediate See Page 2 for Call Out Information. printing directly onto the aerogrammes. See Page taking us back to a time of personal, hand drawn taking us back to a time correspondence. work inspired by the are inviting artists to create We had been introduced into first Aerogramme, which in 1933 by the Inspector the Iraqi postal service Self-adhesive and Telegraphs. General of Posts the paper allowed it to be strips along the edges of private, without the folded and sealed, and therefore The original form added weight of an envelope. 124mm x on thin paper, (depicted right), was printed years, the aerogramme 99mm in size. For many went to extreme lengths to of international communication, and people often remained the cheapest form in different directions, and space available, including writing in different colours, make the best use of the TALKS & EVENTS 6 SUMMER SCHOOLTALKS EVENTS 1 4 5 2 2 2 across theCulturalQuarter. Joinusforlateopenings,exhibitionlaunches andspecialevents. On thelastFridayofeverymonth,LPWisopenlatefrom5pm–8pm,aspart anopportunitytovisitexhibitions Wednesday 22 July 5:30pm–7pm.£5 DRAWING ASAVERB–JAMES STEVENTON SATURDAY 1 considered asdrawings. contemporaries, whichmayornottraditionally be will shareexamples ofhisownpracticeandother experiences canfindtheirwayintotheworld.James process ofdrawingandhowpersonallymeaningful James Steventon willdiscusstheimportance ofthe These talksareopentoeveryone,theyaccompanyourweeklongSummerSchoolsinJuly(seepage15). Following thesuccessofourfirstannual IN CONVERSATION CULTURAL QUARTER LATES LEICESTER PRINTFAIR second time. stalls takingoverthewholeLPWbuildingfora cards andotheruniquegiftswillbeforsale,with work, includingoriginalprints,textiles,greetings by artistsfromacrossthecountryagainin2020. All contemporary printfair, wewillbeshowcasingwork

Apr Mar Feb 4 7 8 Apr Mar Feb LayeredSpaceLaunch Event,LPW Late Opening Late Opening MeettheArtist:RichardJarvis,LCB Depot SallyStephens Pasha Kincaid SueBakerKenton Book and ﬁndoutmore at www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/events 1 JULY 1

1 AM –5PM.FREEEVENT of themonth,5.30pm– In ConversationtakesplaceatLPWonthefirstWednesday Join usforFREEearlyeveningdiscussions withLPWArtists.

Thursday 23July5:30pm–7pm.£5 THE KEYS TO EXPRESSION–PETERCLAYTON 1 3 6 critique yourown. and material.Learn toanalyseothers' workand work moreexpressive;colour, contrast,composition throughout historyandtheelementsthatmaketheir Peter Claytonwilldiscusstheworkofartists please checkourwebsite. information tobeannouncedclosertheevent, affordable, originalanduniquepieceofart.More learn moreabouttheirwork,beforepurchasingan Visitors willbeabletomeetparticipatingartistsand 3 2 2 SmallPrintIntlLaunch Event,LPW July June May 1 6 9 July Jun May EmmaFitzpatrick MitaSolanky Late Opening Veronique Mermaz Late Opening MeettheArtist:NancyPower, LCB Depot 7pm.Everyonewelcome.

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This introductory session will teach you how to use This introductory session change in colour after heat thermochromic inks, which a screen and to print how to create is applied. Learn surfaces. The session will onto a range of different using touch-sensitive ink explore the possibilities of design element. and its potential as an interactive Tutor: Augusta Philippou. £ Augusta Tutor: Tutor: Sally Stephens. £ Sally Stephens. Tutor: popular print exploring this Spend a morning technique. You will learn how to create a suitable will learn how technique. You block; cut the block and design; transfer it to the lino relief press but will be using the Britannia print it. We printed by hand. A good the blocks can also be to printmaking or linocutting. introduction for those new Tutor: Sally Moret. £ Sally Moret. Tutor: Be inspired to create natural, abstract, textural onto mono backgrounds using stencils to create multi- layer designs. landscapes using a mono screenprint technique on landscapes using a mono screenprint technique both A3 card and A3 sized fabric. Fabric inks & binders will be used including gold, silver and bronze. Cut & beautiful, unique images by creating ﬁnely detailed Apply your designs cut stencils using waterproof paper. Saturday 30 May STENCIL SCREENPRINT & MONO TEXTURAL STENCIL LINOCUT Sunday 16 February THERMOCHROMIC INK SCREENPRINTING WITH Saturday 7 March LANDSCAPES

35 35 10am – 1pm 35 to make end papers for books or cut –

5 February 10am – 1pm am – 1pm 1 January 10 1 1 Book on www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/courses or phone Book on www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/courses

Sat Kalsi Gulizar Subay Our taster courses are a great way to experience printmaking for the ﬁrst time and learn ﬁrst time for the printmaking experience way to are a great courses Our taster about different techniques. about different Tutor: Gulizar Subay. £ Gulizar Tutor: at This is great for anyone wishing to have a go of Marbling Art as a stand alone technique or as part a wider practice will learn about the history, into decorative works. You materials and techniques of this beautiful and hand-mixed decorative art and use authentic Turkish inks and rose stem and horsehair brushes. Tutor: Emma Gardner. £ Emma Gardner. Tutor: This drypoint using copper plates. and explore Learn used to look at the history and methods workshop will will prepare their produce a drypoint print, participants own plates and develop an image for printing. own plates and develop an

demonstrations and try your hand at how to set and proof demonstrations and try your up to A5 you press. Working print lead type on our galley prints and postcards. will create a small edition of A taster session for letterpress. Watch a series of Watch A taster session for letterpress. Tutor: Sat Kalsi. £ Sat Kalsi. Tutor: MARBLING Saturday LETTERPRESS Sunday 2 February

DRYPOINT ON COPPER DRYPOINT Saturday TASTER COURSES TASTER INTRODUCTION FOLLOW ON TO PRINT PRINT New to print? Want to get back into This popular follow on course is perfect for making work? Have you done a course those who have completed Introduction to or taster and want to ﬁnd out more? Print or those with previous printmaking experience to develop their skills further. Introduction to Print is a fantastic way to explore printmaking and get a good idea of the most • Reduction Linocut. popular techniques: • Hard Ground and Aquatint Etching. • Photographic Screenprinting. • Drypoint. • Monoprint. • Two weeks on each technique. • Linocut. • All materials included. • Etching. • Written technique sheets to take away. • Mono Screenprinting. • Fantastic way to sample the studio prior to membership. • All materials included. • Full technical demos. INTRODUCTION + FOLLOW ON PRINT INTRODUCTION + FOLLOW • Written technique sheets to take away. • Fantastic way to sample the studio There will be plenty of time to experiment with prior to membership. the techniques, have 1-2-1 guidance and get • Full technical demos. best practice tips on each technique.

There is plenty of time for learning, Tuesday 2 June – Tuesday 7 July development and experimentation for 11am – 2pm beginners, those who wish to refresh their £ 200 understanding or just simply for those who want an enjoyable challenge.

MORNING Tuesday 25 February – Tuesday 31 March 11am – 2pm £ 200 “Fabulous tutor. Really

EVENING well structured sessions. Tuesday 25 February – Tuesday 31 March Excellent support, 6pm – 9pm £ 200 technical advice and encouragement. Thank you so much!”

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20 10am – 5pm Lucy May Schofield Lucy AND FRAMING techniques for mounting your prints and artworks, techniques for mounting and framing options introduce the different mounting choosing them. and explore the reasons for Tutor: Stefan Redfern. £ Redfern. Stefan Tutor: be window mounting or Not sure whether you should back sure of the difference? This float mounting? Not teach you conservation to basics session will CLAMSHELL BOX MAKING CLAMSHELL BOX Saturday 20 June A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO MOUNTING GUIDE TO A BEGINNERS 5:30pm 1 April Wednesday Lucy will guide you through hand crafting a clamshell Lucy A perfect vessel to house a collection of prints or box. a special book edition, the process of creating boxes is both skilled and satisfying. This course provides to participants with the confidence and ability will You construct made to measure bespoke boxes. to be guided step-by-step through the techniques a measure, cut, construct, sand and cloth cover beautiful clamshell box. Tutor: Lucy May Schofield. £ Lucy May Tutor:

courses for more detailed information and to book. more detailed information courses for / BIRDS! pm FOR EARLY OFFERS Early Bird are eligible SPECIAL 70

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for a 5% discount when booked online by 1st for a 5% discount when booked Courses marked with the Courses marked with the skills. All of our courses can be booked via our online Shopify store. Visit our online Shopify be booked via of our courses can skills. All m www.leicesterprintworkshop.co Our studio is a welcoming, relaxed and supportive environment to learn or refresh learn or to environment supportive and relaxed welcoming, is a Our studio Sumiko Eadon CONCERTINA SKETCHBOOK OWN MAKE YOUR

BOOK MAKING Saturday DEVELOP A TECHNIQUE A DEVELOP Tutor: Sumiko Eadon. £ Sumiko Tutor: This course will introduce you to making artist books and show you how to create a one off handmade book of your own. Choose to make either a hardback and/or soft back concertina book in your preferred format with cloth cover and decorative papers. COURSES 10 HARD ANDSOFTGROUNDETCHING observe, gatherandeditinformation. wishing tofreeuptheirpracticeandlearnways direct andexploratoryprintworks.Idealforthose given awideselectionoftoolstorealisethemin ideas andobservationsbacktothestudiobe drawn informationasagroup,youwillbringthese printmaking. Start withexploringthecitytogather A greatcoursefortranslatingsketchesinto Tutor: SumikoEadon&SallyStephens. £ start toyouretchingjourney. press tocreatesoftershapesandtextures.Agreat more delicatemarksusingnaturalobjectsandthe to useacid‘bite’intoyourplateandhowachieve grounds tocreatebeautifullinedrawings.Learn how You willetchontozincusingtraditionalhardandsoft Tutor: EmmaGardner. £ Saturday 21&Sunday22March10am SKETCHES INTO PRINT Sunday 12January10am INTAGLIO Sumiko Eadon Emma Gardner Book on www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/courses orphone

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techniques toproducebeautifulprints. in combinationwithothertraditionaletching ﬁne detailofphotographicimages.Itcanalsobeused photo-sensitive emulsion,whichcancapturethevery Hydroplate isazincetchingplatepre-coatedwith LITHOGRAPHY WEEKEND hand drawnorphotographicimagesintoetchings. A weekendcoursetolearnhowtransformyour Tutor: EmmaGardner. £ line drawingstotonesandtextures. dedication, arangeofeffectsarepossible,from image, inkthestoneandprintlithograph. With over oneweekendtoprepareastone,drawthe their knowledge.You willworkcollaboratively printing theirownlithographsandwanttorefresh who havesomeexperienceofdrawingand of stonelithography,andalsoperfectforthose This courseisagreatintroductiontothebasics Tutor: NoraHammenberg.£ Saturday 14&Sunday15March10am LITHOGRAPHY Saturday 28&Sunday29March10am PHOTO ETCHING WEEKEND Nick Mobbs LPW photographofVeronique Mermaz

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Course participant work Course participant work LINOCUT INTRODUCTION TO Saturday 22 February 10am FOR BEGINNERS PRINTING WOODBLOCK 10am Sunday 9 February RELIEF A great introduction to the art of linocutting. Design how to cut the your image and transfer it to lino. Learn Tutor: Sue Rowland. £ Sue Rowland. Tutor: design to leave a relief surface. Ink up and print using home your hand burnishing and the press. Take original linocuts at the end of the day. Tutor: Sumiko Eadon. £ Tutor: printing. introduce you to woodblock This course will multi- tactile materiality and has a natural, Wood quiet mindful which encourages a sensory quality experience during the making of the prints. You will be You the making of the prints. experience during onto a woodblock, ink up shown how to cut your image by hand. and print using a press and

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Tutor: Emma Gardner. £ Emma Gardner. Tutor: colour and to experiment with A great opportunity as ‘paper plate technique is also known collage, this from a because images are transferred lithography’ resulting prints another surface and the photocopy to In addition, painterly quality. have an appealing, can be added drawing and photographs text, colour, to develop the work. INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOLITHO INTRODUCTION TO Saturday 2 May 10am PHOTOPLATE GUM ARABIC TRANSFER GUM ARABIC 3 May 10am Sunday

Tutor: Sumiko Eadon. £ Sumiko Tutor: to make a photoplate lithograph, which can how Learn express subtle tones using photographs and drawing. will learn how to transfer images onto pre- You sensitised plates, and how to develop, ink up and print your plate using many of the principles of traditional lithography, to create a small edition of prints. COURSES 12 Course participantwork experience. is equallysuitedtonewprintmakersandthosewith surface beforeprintingitonapress.Thisworkshop stencils, andalsomanipulatinginkontheplate's cut papershapesandotherfoundmaterialsas images. We willbeusinglayersoftransparentink, a collectionofunique,experimentalandcolourful will learnavarietyofmonotypeskillsanddevelop An adventurewithpaperandink!Duringthedayyou Tutor: SallyStephens. £ Sunday EXPERIMENTAL PRINTMAKING Sunday 8March10am SHARP CUT&STRAIGHT TEARCOLLAGRAPHS edge! beginners andthoselookingforarefresherwithan and colour. Thisistheperfectprintmakingsessionfor prints usingcutline,multipleshapedplates,collage You willhavetheopportunitytocreatecollagraph Tutor: NicholaHingley.£ Sally Stephens 1 5 March10am–4pm Book on www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/courses orphone – 4pm 70 70

the medium. the solid,graphicimagesusuallyassociatedwith produce strongreliefprintswhicharedifferentfrom subtle texturesandvariousmaterialscanbeusedto Gregory willshowparticipantshowdelicatemarks, texture toreliefprintsmadewithsoftJapanesevinyl. The aimofthiscourseistoexplorewaysadd Tutor: GregoryMiller. £ precision andcleanexecution. an emphasisoncontemplativedesign,detail, and drypointtomakesimpleattractiveprintswith sense ofaestheticpleasure.You willlearnkamihanga that appearsimple,consideredandhaveaplayful Martin, thetutorwillworkwithyoutocreateimages approach inthefootstepsofartistssuchasAgnes series ofabstractshapesandlines.A‘lessismore’ deals withﬁndingtheessentialcompositionfora Inspired byourexhibitionLayered Space,thiscourse Tutor: SumikoEadon.£ Saturday SOFTENING LINOCUT: THEARTOFSURFACE Sunday 5April10am THE MINIMALPRINT Gregory Millar Sumiko Eadon 1 6 &Sunday2 – KAMIHANGA&DRYPOINT – 4pm 130 70 3 May10am–4pm 011 6 25 1 4 1 7 4

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Combining elements of mark-making, screenprinting of mark-making, Combining elements will show you techniques this workshop and heatpress (paper, a variety of surfaces how to manipulate onto them to materials) and print acetates, found explore the contrast will images. You create layered and marks using both between different lines and create an amazingly monochrome and colour samples. varied set of experimental Tutor: Augusta Philippou. £ Augusta Tutor: of layering, colour and collage to produce new Develop your screenprinting skills and experiment with composition. Using stencils, painterly effects and photographic images, you will explore the techniques images. This is a great way to extend and challenge in your current artistic practice or learn new skills screenprinting. Tutor: Emma Gardner. £ Emma Gardner. Tutor: SCREENPRINTING PRINT LIKE WARHOL: EXPERIMENTAL PHOTO EXPERIMENTAL PRINT LIKE WARHOL: Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 June Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 April 10am & Sunday 26 April 10am Saturday 25 SCREENPRINTING WITH 2D AND 3D PAPER WITH 2D AND SCREENPRINTING MANIPULATION

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130 Book on www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/courses or phone Book on www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/courses Barry D Bulsara Ralph Kiggell Ralph screenprinting. You will learn how to transfer an image screenprinting. You This course is to a silkscreen and print onto paper. ideal for beginners with no previous experience. Tutor: Barry D Bulsara. £ Barry D Tutor: of This one-day course introduces the basic principles SCREENPRINTING SCREEN INTRODUCTION TO Saturday 4 April 10am WOODBLOCK WEEKEND WEEKEND WOODBLOCK 10am 14 June 13 & Sunday Saturday

Tutor: Ralph Kiggell. £ Kiggell. Ralph Tutor: woodblock will introduce water-based This course Japanese technique traditional printing, a non-toxic will learn about the need a press. You that doesn’t method, as well and tools used for this wood paper, make your image to a woodblock, as how to transfer and how to various knives and gouges, marks using ﬁrstly in black and register and print your image, This course second colour. white, and then adding a and those who have some is great for both beginners knowledge of this technique.

COURSES 14 enjoyable daytobeginyourtextilesjourney. and printavarietyoftextilessamples.Aproductive, learn howtoexposethemscreen,mixprintpastes screenprinting. Usingyourownhanddrawndesigns, The perfectintroductiontotheworldoftextile Tutor: AlexPalmer. £ Saturday 29February&Sunday1March REPEAT PATTERN FORTEXTILESCREENPRINTING Saturday 8February10am INTRODUCTION TO TEXTILESCREENPRINTING TEXTILES into aprintedlampshadetotakehome. participants willhavethechancetoturntheirdesign length offabric.Aswellasproducingsamples, translate yourdesignontoscreenandprinta using yourownimagery.You willbeshownhowto Learn howtoconstructasimpleblockrepeatpattern Tutor: ZaraShepherd.£ 10am –4pm Zara Shepherd Alex Palmer Book on www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/courses orphone

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off piecesoftextileart. foiling, embellishfabricsandaddtexturetocreateone techniques rangingfromdispersedyestoﬂockingand areas oftextilesprintmaking.Usingheatpress An exciting daytoexplorethemoreexperimental Tutor: AlexPalmer. £ Saturday 4July10am PRES Saturday 27&Sunday28June10am COMPOSITION CONTEMPLATING DESIGN:COLOUR AND learning aboutcolourandcomposition. that capturesyourownpersonalaestheticwhilst making techniques,createamulti-directionalA3print, design. Usingyourowndrawingskillsandmark- producing atwo-layeredscreenprintedtextiles An inspiringweekendlookingspeciﬁcallyat Tutor: AlexPalmer. £ SURFACES Alex Palmer Jennie Pritchard S/DYE: ADVENTURES WITHTEXTILE 70 130 – 4pm 011 6 25 1 4 1 – 4pm 7 4

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340 340 – Saturday 25 July 10:30am – 4:30pm July 10:30am – 4:30pm – Saturday 25 He will share all his processes and best Kevin Holdaway Kevin David Armes process starting with a single colour, black and white process starting with a single colour, image to understand the basic linocut process. Then quickly expand your toolbelt by exploring the reduction method of cutting and using CMYK colour separation to create detailed, multi-layered and has been a Holdaway multicolour linocuts. Kevin for 30 years and has a long at DMU Print Technician of history of working with artists to create editions work. practice with participants, ensuring your next prints will be polished and confident. Tutor: Kevin Holdaway. £ Kevin Tutor: Journey through the traditional relief printing Spend a week with artist David Armes using letterpress with artist David Armes using Spend a week Tutor: David Armes. £ Tutor: (Literally: small edition of chapbooks. to create a think about how to use will You ‘cheap book’.) as image and type can be considered language, how narrative. This a simple container for the book as between printmaking, course sits in a sweet spot but you don’t need to be poetry and graphic design, only ask those forms. We experienced in any one of and a willingness to that you come with ideas experiment. THE COMPLETE LINOCUTTER 21 Tuesday LETTERPRESS AND BOOKS AND LETTERPRESS 21 Tuesday

The price www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/courses 340 Read more details about the tutors online and book at more details Read – 4:30pm – Saturday 25 July 10:30am

Kathryn Desforges Kathryn Linocut in our week-long Books and small in Learning Summer Schools. plenty of will have groups, participants support to receive one to one opportunity new skills, experiment, as they learn make new work. focus and & TEXTURE – LINE, TONE ETCHING 21 Tuesday

includes all materials and a place on our materials and a place includes all School Artist accompanying Summer (page 6). Talks WEEK LONG SUMMER SCHOOLS SUMMER LONG WEEK and Letterpress from Etching, Choose This week will cover all the basics of etching, with a This week will cover all the using hard ground to create focus on creating images will be using tone. We line, and aquatint to create to alternative (a less toxic copper sulphate solution, and steel plates, with nitric acid), to etch zinc and varnishes. Participants traditional etching grounds plate-making techniques will be shown advanced such as sugarlift and spit-bite, colour inking and printing techniques, and advised on paper preparation will ﬁnish the week with a solid and registration. You understanding of the etching process, 2-3 etching plates, lots of experimental prints and a small edition of a chosen plate. Tutor: Kathryn Desforges. £ Desforges. Kathryn Tutor: TECH SURGERY, PRINT CLUB+ LAKESIDE 16 collaborative environment. will developandfurtheryourskillsinasupportive used toworkinginthestudiospace,eachweekyou membership. Agreatwaytomeetpeopleandget gap betweenparticipatinginacourseandfullstudio is perfectforthosereturningtoprintorbridgingthe Previous printmakingexperienceisrequiredandthis sessions, usingthetimetoexploreandexperiment. group. You willhaveself-directed,guidedpractical build printmakingskillsaspartofasmallfriendly practice anddevelopyourwork. it's timeforyoutohoneyour Friendly andfocussedsessions, that youfaceasaPrintmaker. help workthroughanyissues session withthestudioteamto with technique? You can booka or perhapswantalittlehelp images? Decidingonnextsteps SURGERIES of £25fora1:1session) £ hour between1 Bookable slotsofhalfan January PRINT CLUB TECH SURGERIES Print Clubisanopportunitytogainconﬁdenceand Tuesday 14 WINTER WARMER TECH Do youneedhelpeditingyour (2 hourseachsession)£ Wednesday 1April6pm–8pm Thursday 30April MORNING PRINTCLUB Wednesday 26February TWILIGHT PRINTCLUB (3 hourseachsession) £ 10:30am –1:30pm FOR LPWMEMBERS • • • • • •

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– Child with Parent/Carer 20 – Child, £35 20 2pm – 4pm 5 – 12 AGED FOR PRINTMAKERS February 10am – 1pm Thursday 20 £ fun activity of printmaking with this Explore the world – a great technique for can be printed onto paper rolling out colours and discovering monoprint and discovering monoprint – rolling out colours that drawing and painterly gestures markmaking, relief printing in a young people to learn about workshop. friendly and collaborative forms, you will ﬁnd exciting ways to explore stories forms, you will ﬁnd exciting and work with will look at examples and pictures. We mark making and collage techniques, giving you plenty of tips on how to carry on at home afterwards. LET’S MAKE BOOKS 16 10 – FOR PRINTMAKERS AGED Thursday 28 May 10am – 1pm £ folded and stapled book a variety of simple Taking MINI MONOPRINT MINI 1am – 2pm 1

5 Feb 1 1 Drop in, no need to book LOVE TO MAKE PRINTS TO LOVE Saturday 8 Feb ARTS PRINTMAKING THE SPARK Saturday PLAYGROUND Join in with the fun and games at LPW ‘Printmaking Playground’ and take away your colourful prints as souvenirs.

FREE POP UP PRINT ACTIVITIES pm pm Book online at www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/youngpeople

20, including Arts Award Certiﬁcate Arts Award including 20,

FREE family activities across PRINT MAKING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE YOUNG FOR MAKING PRINT point for young people to make their own prints, and experiment with space, light, form, and tone. A tour of the Layered Space exhibition is the starting £ Tuesday 14 April 10am – 1 Tuesday with an artist, children will use a variety of Working print techniques, and present their work to family at the end of the session to achieve their certiﬁcate. Subsidised by Arts Council England, our Discover Printmaking is a wonderful opportunity to experience environment and learn Print Workshop the Leicester about how professional artists make work. 8 – 1 FOR PRINTMAKERS AGED 5 – 8 FOR PRINTMAKERS AGED 7 April 10am – 1 Tuesday DISCOVER PRINTMAKING DISCOVER every month. We work in partnership work in every month. We Depot, Phoenix & Two with LCB Queens and deliver free drop in printmaking at LPW. of taking Cultural Quarter, Leicester’s place on the second Saturday of Cultural Quarter Earlies is a series NEW! VISITING ARTISTS CAN NOW USE THE USING THE STUDIO STUDIO Our fully equipped studio is open 5 days a week, Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm with late night opening until 8pm on Wednesday.

USING OUR STUDIO/GROUP LEARNING Everyone with experience is welcome to use our Studio. We are set up for the following: • Screenprinting; onto paper and textiles. • Intaglio processes including Drypoint, Etching, Engraving. • Relief processes including Letterpress, Linocut, Woodcut. • Stone and Photoplate Lithography. • Monoprint and Collagraph.

We can also support the following techniques: • Gum Arabic Transfer, Caustic Soda, Sugar Lift and Carborundum. • Textiles; Disperse Dyes, Foiling and Flocking. • Photography based techniques such as Solarplate and CMYK.

LPW Members receive many beneﬁts, such as a lower hourly rate to use the Studio, exclusive opportunities to show new work in our annual exhibition and to take part in LPW projects, ongoing artistic support, as well as discounts on courses and materials. Our new Visiting Artist offer is designed to enable artists to use the studio on a short-term basis.

If you would like to book a tour of the studio and learn more about making work at LPW please get in touch. You can read more and download an application form from our website. We are always happy to welcome new members and Visiting Artists.

Want to be part of our community but don’t need to use the studio to make work? Artists can join as an Associate Member in order to take part in LPW exhibitions and projects and buy materials at a discounted rate. Associate Membership costs £25 a year.

PRICES For LPW Members: For Visiting Artists: To Join: £85 (ﬁrst year includes £20 Induction), Induction: £20. £65 thereafter. Studio Use: £20 (half day) plus materials. Studio Use: £3.60 per hour plus materials. £40 (full day) plus materials.

GROUP LEARNING & ONE TO ONE TUITION Do you want to experience and learn printmaking with a group of friends or colleagues? Or would you like to learn or refresh a particular technique with one of our tutors on a one to one basis? We offer tailored courses for individuals, groups and organisations both here at LPW and offsite. Perhaps you are looking for a unique and creative team building experience, away day or hen party? Group teaching can be arranged in any printmaking technique, at a time and venue to suit you. Please email [email protected] for more information and to discuss prices.

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MEMBERS Surgeries Tech Winter Warmer First Edition Fridays Mini Monoprint For Printmakers Aged 5 – For Printmakers Aged 8 – Make Books Let’s Mono Silkscreen People Mono Silkscreen for Young PEOPLE PRINTMAKING FOR YOUNG PRINT CLUB Print Club Twilight Morning Print Club LAKESIDE ARTS NOTTINGHAM LPW AT Etching – and Books Letterpress The Complete Linocutter Clamshell Box Making Clamshell Box Contemplating Design: Colour and Composition Surfaces Press/Dye: Adventures with Textile SUMMER SCHOOL Gum Arabic Transfer Softening Linocut: The Art of the Surface Experimental Photo Screenprinting Print like Warhol: Weekend Woodblock A Beginners Guide to Mounting and Framing Introduction to Screen The Minimal Print Manipulation Screenprinting with 2D and 3D Paper Introduction to Photolitho Lithography Weekend Experimental Printmaking Sketches into Print Photo Etching Weekend Introduction to Textile Screenprinting Introduction to Textile for Beginners Printing Woodblock Introduction to Linocut Screenprinting Textile for Pattern Repeat Collagraphs Tear Sharp Cut & Straight Stencil Screenprint & Mono Textural Landscapes Taster Landscapes & Mono Textural Screenprint Stencil & WEEKEND COURSES DAY Hard and Soft Ground Etching Own Concertina Book Make Your Letterpress Taster Letterpress Marbling Taster Linocut Taster Ink Taster Screenprinting with Thermochromic Introduction To Print Introduction To Follow On Print COURSES TASTER Taster Drypoint on Copper INTRODUCTION TO PRINT COURSES PRINT TO INTRODUCTION Print Introduction To

HOW TO FIND US

ACCESS Getting to our studio is easy. We are a 10 minute walk from the train station and 15 minutes from St Margaret’s Bus Station. We have a secure bike shed or if you are coming by car, there is pay and display TWO QUEENS parking on the street and a NCP car park close by.

Our building is on the ground ﬂoor and is wheelchair accessible. If you plan to visit and have any special requirements or needs you’d like us to be aware of please contact us.

If you would like to receive future copies of the brochure please phone or email us with your address. SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER For regular updates and the latest news on our courses, exhibitions and events, sign up to our LPW OPENING HOURS digital newsletter, The Scoop. To have it delivered 10am – 5pm Tuesday to Saturday. Late night opening direct to your inbox, just send an email to Wednesday until 8pm. [email protected] CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR OPENING LPW closes for Christmas at 5pm on Saturday 21 December 2019 and reopens at 10am on Tuesday 14 January 2020.

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Special Offers for Early Birds on bookings made before 1 January 2020 Courses marked with the Early Bird are eligible for a 5% discount when booked online by 1 January 2020. Don’t delay, book today! www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/courses

Course Cancellation Policy We will only refund your booking, minus a 10% admin fee, when the course is fully booked, and if we are able to reﬁll your place. If you cannot attend the course, we are happy for you to resell your booking and will swap participants’ names at no charge. We can also transfer a booking to another course within 6 months of the date of the original course, if cancelled over a month before the course start date, for a 10% admin fee. Please see our website for full Terms and Conditions.

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