Explore the beautiful photographic process of cyanotype to create your own cyan-blue prints.

You will learn how to produce a set of cyanotypes where thin objects or acetates are placed directly onto specially-coated paper and then exposed to UV light. When these objects are removed and the paper is washed with water a blue image remains. You will also learn how to use a variety of effects called toning, intensifying and reducing which alters the blue-ness of the prints.

A fun and expressive approach to screen printing for any experience level.

Mono screen printing involves applying or painting colour directly onto an open screen in order to create unique prints with painterly marks. You will experiment with the application of paint and pastels exploring how different effects can be achieved. You will work in a spontaneous manner, creating a series of prints. There will also be opportunity to see how this method can be combined with the use of stencils.

Spend a day working with traditional wood type and metal type to create prints using letterpress techniques.

You’ll have the opportunity to use our wood type collection to create text and backgrounds on our Albion and galley proofing presses. You’ll then work with our metal type to set your own smaller lines of type and use our Adana presses and equipment.

The aim is to briefly introduce you to a couple of approaches to using letterpress and enable you to think about next steps.

On this one day workshop you will explore the basics of etching metal printing plates such as zinc and aluminium using hard wax grounds and copper sulphate solution.

Etching is an intaglio printmaking process where etched lines or grooves are created on a metal surface which are then inked up and printed from using an etching press. Using copper sulphate to etch is a much safer and less toxic alternative to using traditional nitric acid to etch copper plates.

Join us for a fun printmaking taster session to make a series of prints using the intaglio printing process of drypoint etching.

You will learn how to use drypoint etching tools on plastic and aluminium sheets, oil based inks and our two etching printing presses in the workshop. At the end of the session you will have a series of similar, but increasingly more complex, prints.

Explore printmaking using tetra pak and recycled materials to create beautiful intaglio prints using drypoint and collograph methods.

On this taster session you will experiment with mark making on recycled tetra pak and packaging using a variety of different tools such as dry point needles, craft knives, and roulette wheels.

You will learn how to use our traditional etching presses in the workshop, how to prepare soaked paper and how to transfer your chosen design onto the Tetra Pak.

Have you ever wondered what’s below the surface?

Little M reimagines The Little Mermaid for anyone swimming against the tide. When Little M and their friend Punk the Puffer Fish discover a suitcase of mysterious treasures, drawing them to the ‘world above,’ they set off on an epic adventure in this coming of age story!

You may know her as  Bake-Off Sue, Taskmaster Sue, Just A Minute Sue, or the Sue that gives you travel envy - but stand-up Sue is full of surprises.

In this brand-new show, she shares the unlikely happenings from a career in the spotlight.

What’s the fallout when your pituitary gland goes haywire on live TV?  How do you convince the public you didn’t really fall onto that hoover attachment? And when intimate photos get splashed all over the internet, how do you switch the shame to dignity and joy?

Spend a day exploring the jigsaw method of linocut to create an edition of multi-colour prints.

Printing a linocut jigsaw style is an easy way to print a design in multiple colours. You cut the lino block into pieces, ink them up separately, then put the lino block back together to print.