Upcoming Workshops
Due to Covid 19 numbers are limited to ensure we comply with social distancing.
The workshop will be sanitised prior to, during, and after the class.
Please bring your own personal PPE for hygiene purposes.
All workshops are held at the Newcastle Printmakers Workshop unless otherwise stated.
Address: 27 Popran Road, Adamstown (opp. playing fields)
Cost: $180 current NPW Members | $200 Non Members. Plus materials fee $65 payable on Day 1 to the tutor
Enquiries: gary@garyshinfield.info
This workshop runs over 2 Saturdays.
Initially, brush and ink sketches will be made on thin paper exploring your connections to the subject. You will then be shown how to transfer images onto blocks & introduced to carving tools and techniques. Multi layer prints will also be discussed. At the end of the workshop you will have made single prints from each woodcut and, various versions of both blocks printed together, or layered in different colour combinations.
Materials provided by the tutor: includes 2 Shina plywood woodblocks, each 22.5 x 30 cms; 2 sheets of printmaking paper, printing inks, black ink for painting, Asian brush and Sumi paper, and tracing paper. Further detail and what to bring on the booking site.
Cost: $210 current NPW Members | $240 Non Members
Enquiries: valerie.vincent@bigpond.com
The focus of this course is to broaden your knowledge, extend & hone your skills, and to further explore this exciting medium. It is aimed at printmakers with some knowledge and experience in creating and printing collagraph plates. The tutor will discuss your ideas with you, suggest and advise ways to implement those ideas, as well as provide technical assistance in inking and printing your plates, and demonstrate plate preparation based on the needs of the group.
This course is limited to 4 participants. Minimum 3 to proceed. What students need to bring: Images & ideas to work with, or work on ideas during day 1; any plates you may wish to print, re-use, modify or recycle; your own printmaking paper suitable for intaglio. The tutor will also have some available for purchase; any printmaking inks you wish to use; disposable gloves for printing sessions; apron and wear closed-in shoes for safety.
Materials: The tutor will provide mat board, PVA glue, a selection of art mediums, an assortment of textured papers, some plant matter, a small selection of inks and other materials. Participants are also encouraged to bring along any materials for plate making.
Cost: $0 current NPW members | $10 non NPW members. NB Places are limited - bookings essential
Enquiries: newcastleprintmakers@gmail.com
Pamela Griffith’s will share techniques and stories about how to survive as a printmaker. Pamela will bring along some plates & prints and talk about etching techniques. Pamela will bring two newly published books on her work. Pamela Griffith: Etchings 1965 – 2014 and Pamela Griffith a biography.
Both the Griffith Studio & Graphic Workshop & the Newcastle Printmakers Workshop were created at about the same time in the seventies. Pamela & NPW founding member Patricia Wilson-Adams both studied etching at the National Art School. Both dreamt of creating workshops specifically for printmakers. It is with great delight that Pamela is at last visiting Newcastle Printmakers Workshop, & she looks forward to the opportunity to congratulate NPW members on the workshop’s longevity & success.
All bookings are made through Humanitix.
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Ticket Policy: In the event of the workshop being cancelled, your booking will be refunded in full. In the case of you not being able to attend a workshop you will be refunded as follows:
Cancellations less than 24 hours before and no-shows on the day will not be refunded and a credit or transfer will not be issued.
Cancellations within 1 week will receive a 35% refund.
Cancellations between 1 and 2 weeks of the workshop will receive a 50% refund.
Cancellations more than two weeks before the workshop receive a full refund less any third party booking fee.
If Newcastle Printmakers, or the student, has to cancel due to Covid lock downs enforced after booking, a refund will be issued. This may be for a whole course, if there is more than one class in the course, dependant upon whether the course has started. For example if we go into lock down part way through a 5 week workshop a pro rata refund will be issued. Alternatively the student may choose to retain a credit for a future course with Newcastle Printmakers.