Summer Workshop
Dates: JANUARY, 9:30am to 4:00pm, Mon to Fri
Tutors: ADELE OUTTERIDGE and GEOFF THOMPSON (Week 1)
COST: $1,995, (3 weeks), $1,350, (2 weeks), $695 (1 week)
Summer Workshop
Join us for one, two or three weeks in January for this exciting, intensive multi media workshop run by two internationally recognised artists. The workshop will include printmaking, book arts, drawing, painting and sculpture. Participants may specialise in one medium or work with several. Individual project based work is also encouraged. As the class size will be limited, there will be plenty of flexibility.
Suitable for all levels, no drawing experience needed. .
Printmaking
This workshop will cover intaglio and relief printing techniques. These will include line, aquatint, sugarlift, drypoint, engraving, mezzotint, embossing and collagraph using copper, zinc, acrylic or board plates. Multiple plate and viscosity colour printing will also be covered. Participants will design personal artists' stamps. Participants may choose a theme or personal experience, photographs or drawings as a source of in- spiration.
Book Arts
Participants will be introduced to the book arts through several binding techniques for making single and multi section books with soft and hard covers including Concertina, Coptic, Single sheet Coptic, Japanese/ Oriental, Drumleaf, Tapes and cords, Longstitch, One, Two and three section sewing, Simple leather binding, Snake books, Celtic weave, Piano hinge, Slot book. Other exercises will include making a slip case or clamshell box, and experimenting with surface design (rusting, inks, paints, shellac, dry media etc) to create decorative papers. We shall explore the sculptural properties of the book form as well as designing folios and containers for prints, drawings etc. Individual projects will be encouraged.
Mixed Media Drawing
A series of exercises on paper using wet and dry media. Collage and found objects may be included. The aim is to produce larger works on good quality paper, can- vas or board. Subject matter will include the landscape, figure, still-life and text.
The Tutors
Adele Outteridge, book artist, printmaker, sculptor, gained her BSc in 1967, and graduated from the School of Colour and Design, Sydney. She runs Studio West End, and travels widely, lecturing and teaching work- shops. She has participated in many Artist-in-Residence programmes. She taught at the Arrowmont School, Tennessee and Women’s Studio Workshop, New York in 2003. Her work in artists' books, printmaking, sculpture and drawing has been exhibited widely, is held in private and public collections nationally and in- ternationally, and has featured in books and magazines in Australia and overseas.
Geoff Thompson is an entomologist, scientific illustrator, printmaker who specialises in deep-focus digital photography. He has worked at Queensland Museum for 37 years, currently as a Collection Imager. He was awarded a Queensland Smithsonian Fellowship in 2005, Geoff learned printmaking with Wim de Vos. Work- ing with him for 20 years. Geoff has participated in many group exhibitions. He has participated in photo- graphic projects with international artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso; two of these images were made into art- works jointly acquired by London's Tate gallery and Sydney's MCA.