City Lit Printmaking course: stage 2
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In London
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Location
London
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Different dates available
You will, by regular study in the studio, explore how print making informs or expresses your ideas and its relationship to your personal practice. You will consider its position within contemporary art practice.
Printmaking is a vital, constantly evolving medium and over the period of the year you will learn how different processes collide with your own practice. As you develop personal projects, with guidance, you will build on the core skills of drawing, manipulating photographic imagery for use in print and personal/critical research, this will broaden your knowledge and enable you to progress as an artist printmaker.
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About this course
• Have studied in depth at least one printmaking process to a good standard.
• Have an awareness of how to manipulate and use photographic imagery and digital technology to expand your work within a printmaking context
• To have gained an understanding of what it means to be an artist printmaker today and to have built networks with other like-minded individuals.
• Have begun to use research and critical thought as key elements of your practice.
• Have learned about possible professional or educational paths utilizing your printmaking skills.
• Have realized at least one project in collaboration with an external organisation.
All basic materials such as paper and inks will be supplied, however if you need more specialist materials you can purchase some of these at cost in the printroom; fine papers and some plates. Alternatively you may have to supply them yourself, but you will receive guidance from the tutors on ways to do this.
You will be receive one to one and group tuition, via tutorials/ assignments/ practical research and workshops.
There will be demonstrations, opportunities for discussion, skills swaps and peer evaluation. You will be working as part of a group, yet expected and helped to maintain personal projects throughout.
Because of the ambitions of the course there is an expectation that you will commit to additional study outside the session hours for research, technical development and production.
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Course programme
In your weekly sessions you will have the full print studio on hand, and expert guidance from different tutors in the use of equipment and skills development. Additionally we will help you to discover what printmaking can really offer you, which processes are suitable to your artistic growth and what best way to take them forward. We will encourage you to push your image making and technical skills within the course to help you achieve exhibition standard work. The expectation is an outcome/ outcomes for exhibition/s at the end of the course. The programme also includes sessions that focus upon building networks within the wider printmaking community, professional practice and strategies for sustained practice as you go forward. This course concerns contemporary practice and debate. As such you can expect to be stimulated and challenged by some of the projects offered.
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City Lit Printmaking course: stage 2
