Printmaking (24/25)
Course Overview
This
printmaking course will provide you with the opportunity to creatively explore
and develop visual studies through a structured range of printmaking processes
across the year. For new students, each term there will be an emphasis on
specific processes. Returning students progressively cover a wider range of
processes and experienced students have an opportunity to utilise the sessions
and facilities to extend and develop their practice. Continuous support,
guidance and constructive advice will be given throughout. The printmaking
classes provide a rich and informative opportunity to develop and share ideas
and processes.
Continuous support, guidance, and constructive advice will be provided throughout the course. The printmaking classes offer a rich and informative opportunity to develop and share ideas and techniques.
What Topics Are Covered?
The printmaking workshop
features a variety of methods and processes for generating imagery and enhancing
your creative practice. Here's what to expect each term:
- Autumn Term:
- Introduction to printmaking processes.
- Development of observation drawing skills and creative experimentation with monotype processes to create unique prints.
- Explore card printing, collographs, and linocuts for relief printing, producing either editioned or varied prints.
- An introduction to drypoint, a simple intaglio printmaking technique,
focusing on the expressive use of line, tone, and mark. You'll experiment
with monoprint and Chine coll to create various outcomes.
- Spring Term:
- Begin with visual studies through monotype print processes.
- Transition to intaglio printmaking, starting with drypoint and
progressing to a range of etching techniques on zinc plates, including hard
ground, soft ground, and aquatint, to expand your visual
vocabulary.
- Summer Term:
- Explore stencil-making methods and processes for screen printing.
- Techniques will include drawn, painted, and collaged photo stencils, photocopied photo stencils, paper stencils, and found materials.
- You'll also create unique, painterly monotype screen-printed
outcomes.
Returning students will progressively cover a wider range of processes, while experienced students can fully utilize the workshop facilities and tutor expertise to enhance their practice.
What topics are covered?
What topics are covered?
The printmaking workshop offers a wealth of methods and processes to explore and generate imagery and extend creative practice. As a result, for new students, each term there will be an introductory emphasis on specific processes:
Autumn term will cover a general introduction to Printmaking processes. Students will have opportunities to develop both observation drawing skills and creative play through experimentation with a range of monotype processes to produce a range of unique prints. The conceptual making and printing of card printing, collographs and lino cuts will allow the creative exploration of methods and processes involved with relief printing and to produce possibilities of either editioned or varied prints. Dry point is a simple introduction to intaglio printmaking. Students will be able to develop their studies through the expressive use of line, tone and mark, exploring possibilities with monoprint and chine colle to produce a range of outcomes.
Spring term will start with generating visual studies through monotype print processes. These outcomes will lead into intaglio print processes. First with dry point exploring line, tone and mark and then progress on to the introduction of a range of etching processes using zinc plate, including hard and soft ground and aquatint to develop a fuller visual vocabulary.
Summer term students will have the opportunity to embrace a range of stencil making methods and processes that could be used developing screen printed imagery. This will include: drawn, painted and collaged
photo stencil art work, photocopied photo stencil, paper stencils and found materials photo stencil. As well as unique, painterly monotype screen printed outcomes.
Returning students across the terms progressively cover a wider range of processes and experienced students have an opportunity to utilise the full extent of the workshop including the range of facilities and Tutor knowledge and experience to extend and develop their practice.
Who is the course aimed
Frequently asked questions
This
printmaking course will provide you with the opportunity to creatively explore
and develop visual studies through a structured range of printmaking processes
across the year. For new students, each term there will be an emphasis on
specific processes. Returning students progressively cover a wider range of
processes and experienced students have an opportunity to utilise the sessions
and facilities to extend and develop their practice. Continuous support,
guidance and constructive advice will be given throughout. The printmaking
classes provide a rich and informative opportunity to develop and share ideas
and processes.
Continuous support, guidance, and constructive advice will be provided throughout the course. The printmaking classes offer a rich and informative opportunity to develop and share ideas and techniques.
What Topics Are Covered?
The printmaking workshop
features a variety of methods and processes for generating imagery and enhancing
your creative practice. Here's what to expect each term:
- Autumn Term:
- Introduction to printmaking processes.
- Development of observation drawing skills and creative experimentation with monotype processes to create unique prints.
- Explore card printing, collographs, and linocuts for relief printing, producing either editioned or varied prints.
- An introduction to drypoint, a simple intaglio printmaking technique,
focusing on the expressive use of line, tone, and mark. You'll experiment
with monoprint and Chine coll to create various outcomes.
- Spring Term:
- Begin with visual studies through monotype print processes.
- Transition to intaglio printmaking, starting with drypoint and
progressing to a range of etching techniques on zinc plates, including hard
ground, soft ground, and aquatint, to expand your visual
vocabulary.
- Summer Term:
- Explore stencil-making methods and processes for screen printing.
- Techniques will include drawn, painted, and collaged photo stencils, photocopied photo stencils, paper stencils, and found materials.
- You'll also create unique, painterly monotype screen-printed
outcomes.
Returning students will progressively cover a wider range of processes, while experienced students can fully utilize the workshop facilities and tutor expertise to enhance their practice.
Suitable for all abilities beginners and those with experience.
The workshop offers a conducive, sharing learning environment.
The course also 'knits in' well for students who have experience in other art and design disciplines. It offers students the ability to adopt and apply an inter disciplinary approach to develop visual thinking and experience with processes. It can be used to make new work and refresh working practice.
Funding
If you are aged 19 or older, and are a UK
national living in the UK or EEA for the last three years, you should be able to
access government funding towards the cost of your course. Your course will
either be free, or partially funded with a small fee to pay.
Free - if you are unemployed, looking for work and claiming benefits; Also, if you are employed & earning below 25k per year.
Partially Funded - if you earn 25,000 or more per year.
Not Funded - if you do not meet the residence requirements. You may be required to pay the full cost of your course, and will not be able to claim any government funding.
We will be able to advise you on your funding eligibility after you
apply, but feel free to give us a call if you'd like to discuss your
circumstances.
The prices listed are the highest possible option - the final price would
be allocated depending on individual circumstances (according to the criteria
above).
Sally Gaden has been the Printmaking Subject Leader at Bath College for 29 years and has tutored students in their progressive Art and Design development through the levels across the range of courses and has been Level 2 Art and Design Course Leader. Trained in Illustration and Graphic Design, Sally has taught at a range of FE Institutions and is Visiting Lecturer at Gloucester and Falmouth Universities. Sally was Artist in Residence at The Museum of Rural Life, Waterperry House and Gardens, Oxford. She was awarded the Eaton Fund to facilitate her specialism in 3-dimensional mould making, casting and fabrication to complete her MA in Mulitdisciplinary Printmaking at UWE in June 2020 which she achieved with Distinction and was awarded the Clifford Moss 3D prize.
Recent Exhibitions have included:
2022 Showcase 2022, UWE Bristol Alumni Show Arnolfini, Bristol
2022 Engaged: MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking RUH, Bath
2021 Imprint: Critical Thinking and Making. MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking 44AD, Bath
2021 From the Heart: Juliet Duckworth and Sally Gaden 44AD, Bath
2020 Open Print 44AD, Bath 2020 Sally Gaden - Southmead Hospital, Bristol 2019 You Know You Want To Sally Gaden - Design Space, UoG, Cheltenham 2019 Where the Heart is... Sally Gaden and Juliet Duckworth - Wraxall House, Somerset
2019 Mini print: MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking - Arnolfini, Bristol
2020 MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking 44AD, Bath
2021 MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking - Arnolfini, Bristol