Short courses from the Centre for Print Research

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The Centre for Print Research (CFPR) offers a series of dynamic continuing professional development courses (CPD) aimed at a wide audience including artists, designers, craftspeople, communicators, photographers, teachers and managers. CPD courses offer the opportunity for professional updating, learning new skills and techniques, and for intellectual stimulus.

CFPR is a research centre within UWE Bristol. It has links and partnerships with world leading academic institutions; an outstanding track record in working with industry; and works collaboratively with high profile artists, studios, contemporary makers and galleries.

More courses will be added in the next couple of weeks.

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Upcoming courses:

Introduction to Analogue Black and White Photography for Printmakers – 11 & 12 July

This two-day workshop focusses on 35mm black and white film photography and darkroom processes, using analogue cameras and working in a traditional darkroom. Participants will explore the ins-and-outs of manual analogue cameras, how to correctly expose and develop traditional 35mm film, making contact sheets and prints in the darkroom from their negatives to archival exhibition standards.

This course will re-engage artists and printmakers with traditional 35mm film photography and maybe even with their own cameras that have laindormant for a while. It is as much an introduction to analogue photography for newcomers as well as a refresher for lapsed photographers wanting to return to darkroom days of years gone by.

Unblocking your Artist’ Book Block! – 12 & 13 July 2023

The two-day practical course will give participants the time and opportunity to engage with many different creative book-making techniques in order to overcome any creative block. In the first half of the course we will make three completely new books using a variety of generative methods and then in the second half we will concentrate on making a final personal book project using the participants ideas and after consultation with the tutor. The emphasis will be on the enjoyment of creative energy, sometimes working in collaboration with the other people on the course. You will go away with a selection of new books you have created and with the skills and confidence to carry on making in your own time. This course will take place at UWE Frenchay Campus.

Let’s Lino! Workshop – 17 – 21 July 2023

This course is Lino Printing 101. It will give an overview of the whole lino printing process, including drawing designs, transferring designs onto lino blocks, carving and printing. There are many methods of printing to explore: single colour, multiple block, reduction lino printing: the possibilities are endless and importantly, very exciting.

This course will enable any beginner to understand the fundamentals of lino cutting, mark making and translating images into print. It will equip you with skills and techniques needed to continue making your own prints at home.

  • Full Price £399.00 / Concessionary Price £320.00 – Price includes all materials, PPE and catering
  • Course Tutors: Ellie Rose & Carinna Parraman
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Advanced Tetra Pak Printmaking – 25 & 26 July 2023

With its layers of paperboard, polyethylene and aluminium foil, Tetra Pak not only has an immediacy which other collagraph materials lack, but also a satisfying tactility when cutting, scoring, peeling and printing with this distinctive material. During this advanced two-day Tetra Pak collagraph print workshop, the course tutor, Stephen Fowler, will facilitate the exploration of multi tetra pak plate prints which explore colour overlay, and the combination of intaglio and relief collagraph print processes. This course is ideally suited to for artists, educators, printmakers, and illustrators who have some experience in collagraph printmaking, or have attended one Stephens previous Tetra Pak printmaking courses before. This course will take place at UWE Frenchay Campus.

Introduction to Woodbury Type and Woodbury Gravure Prinkmaking – 27 & 28 July 2023

Participants will learn how to prepare images for Woodburytype and Woodbury Gravure. They will learn how to use the laser cutter, how to prepare inks for Woodburytype and what inks to use for Woodbury Gravure. Particiapants will use the laser cutter to make plates for Woodburytype and Woodbury Gravure and print with gelatine inks and relief inks.

Woodburytype was the first commercially successful photomechanical reproduction method. It was later replaced by lithography in commercial printing. It is a continuous tone and gives a very special image quality. The continuous tone Woodbury Gravure is even more obscure and has never taken off commercially. Participants will learn about both techniques.

  • Full Price £249.00 / Concessionary Price £199 – Price includes all materials, PPE and catering
  • Course Tutors: Susanne Klein and Harrie Fuller
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Introduction to Rubber Stamping – 27 July 2023

Stamping is a portable medium, you can take it anywhere, print anywhere, not just on paper but walls, food, and human bodies too. A brick stamp can print a wall, a house, street, town and even a city. During the workshop you will learn how to carve and print stamps. You will leave with a number of stamps, prints and a limited edition publication containing the groups stamp print impressions. This course is ideally suited to for artists, educators, printmakers and illustrators who have some or no experience printmaking.

  • Full Price £129.00 / Concessionary Price £103.00 – Price includes all materials, PPE and catering
  • Course Tutor: Stephen Fowler
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Screenprinting Beginners Workshop – 28 July 2023

This one-day course will give participants a chance to learn about the history of screen printing, learn various techniques – from artworking to coating your own screen, but most importantly to have fun, get inky and engage with the printing process. Participants of the course will leave with their own hand printed artwork. They will also have a good understanding of the process of screenprinting which would give them the confidence to return for future workshops, or to enter any print room and know what to do.

  • Full Price 129.00 / Concessionary Price £103.00 – Price includes all materials, PPE and catering
  • Course Tutor: Laura Clarke Oaten
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Introduction to The Zone System – B&W Photography 7 & 8 August 2023

An Introduction to the Zone System will explore the concept of ‘visualisation’ a method by which the photographer can anticipate the final result before making an exposure. We will look in detail at exposure, how a light meter works and how to accurately interpret light meter readings and how to apply this knowledge to exposure what effect exposure has on film. The Zone System provides photographers with a method to evaluate the tonal range in composition and guides the photographer to adjust the camera’s exposure settings and film development times to best record an image the way the photographer imagines it.

  • Full Price £249.00 / Concessionary Price £199 – Price includes all materials, PPE and catering
  • Course Tutor: Marc Arkless
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Concessionary rate prices: CFPR offer a 20% discounted concessionary rate to UWE Bristol staff, alumni (including previous CFPR CPD attendees), anyone reliant on state benefits for their income, anyone currently in full-time education (worldwide) or part-time higher education (UK), and those who are retired.

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