Part of Sunny Bank Mills Print Festival 2025.
During this session, Saba will guide you through the process of preparing your own your lino plate to print with. You will learn the skills to create a design, carve into the lino and apply ink to create prints to take away with you.
You could be inspired by Saba's work in our new exhibition, Ones to Watch 2025, or design a pattern or make an illustration of your own.
This session is suitable for complete beginners and all materials will be provided.
Please note - inks can stain clothing, and sharp tools will be used throughout the session.
Suitable for ages 14+. Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Artist bio:
Saba Siddiqui [b.1999] is a British Asian artist from Sheffield who has recently completed her BA in Art and Design at the University of Leeds gaining a first-class degree with honours. Her degree show installation, ‘Defiance My Way’, won the People’s Choice Award for the FUAM Graduate Art Prize 2024 and she is a recipient of the 2024 Berkofsky Award.
Her work is full of colour, pattern and texture, representing how her culture and upbringing shapes her personal style. Being of South Asian heritage and spending part of her childhood in Dubai, she creates work and subsequent dialogue around the cultures and experiences of Global Majority people. Her work is often described as educational and thought provoking.
She is passionate about the inclusion of underrepresented groups in higher education and art and community engagement. As part of her gallery intern role, she worked with a group of asylum seekers to create a collaborative cookbook ‘Cook Up Recipe Book’ which has been published, entered the University of Leeds Special Collections and was a part of Sunny Bank Mills summer exhibition 2024 ‘Don’t Play With Your Food’ where the book was sold raising money for the charity LASSN (Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network).
Saba currently has work in Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds Art Gallery, Serf Studios and has co curated a display in the ‘Fashion at Play’ exhibition at Lotherton Hall. Saba is also making work for an exhibition part of Bradford 2025 City of Culture and is on a curatorial fellowship at Barnsley Museums
Sunny Bank Mills
Farsley Town Street
Farsley
Leeds
LS28 5UJ
United Kingdom
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The venue of the Print Festival is on the first floor of the 1912 Mill, which is accessed via one flight of stairs or a wheelchair accessible lift. We will have attendants on hand to offer assistance.
The Market will be loud and busy at times, but areas of the Mills, including the Gallery and Tea Room will be open throughout the weekend for a more relaxed shopping and seating experience.
Free parking, included limited accessible parking is available around the Mill site and on Farsley Town Street. We strongly encourage visitors to use alternative methods of transport for this event, including walking, bus and train travel, and car sharing. Parking is limited on site and you may me turned away during busy periods.
If you need any assistance throughout the weekend, find a Mill Host in a pink hi vis vest, or visit the information point outside the 1912 Mill for support.
For visitor and animal welfare, this is NOT a dog friendly event. This is due to the high numbers of expected visitors.
Assistance dogs are permitted.
