Explore screen printing using paper stencils on this one-day workshop.
Get to grips with our fantastic screen printing facilities and learn the basics of screen printing onto paper.
You will use paper stencil methods to print multi-layered prints, experimenting with transparent inks to produce interesting layers and outcomes. Handcut stencils allow you to work quickly and you’ll make a handful of layers throughout the day.
Explore the basics of letterpress and work with traditional wood type and metal type to create a series of printed posters and postcards.
You’ll have the opportunity to use our wood type collection to create text and backgrounds using our historic Albion press and galley proofing presses. You’ll also work with our metal type to set your own smaller lines of type and use our Adana presses and equipment.
Develop your skills in bookbinding on our 3 week intermediate course. Running over 3 sessions on Thursdays 8th, 15th & 22nd May 6:30-9:00pm.
This course will explore slightly more complex forms of bookbinding, including hardback books. You will also gain ideas for future projects to try at home. You will produce some books which take a bit more time, but still at an easy pace and with plenty of support.
Explore screen printing onto blank tote bags and t-shirts. This one day workshop will cover;
Preparing imagery for screen printing,
Coating & exposing screens,
Mixing inks,
Screen printing methods,
Heat setting/fixing inks to make them washable,
You’ll come away from the session with some finished products with your own design screen printed onto them and a whole lot of knowledge to continue with your own projects.
On this one day textile screen printing workshop you will learn how to prepare imagery for screen printing, and how to coat and expose screens using the photo emulsion method. You will explore colour using textile pigment inks and learn how to mix colours for screen printing. You will be encouraged to develop a range of surface pattern prints using layering techniques with a focus on colour, shape and pattern.
Explore the reduction method of linocut to create your own multi-layered lino prints. On this two-session evening course you’ll learn how to create a multi-colour lino print. You will develop an edition of lino prints with 2-3 layers of colour using the reduction method of linocut. Your tutor will guide you step by step through the process and you will use oil based inks and our traditional Albion and Imperial presses in the workshop.
Explore a range of exciting portrait processes on this five-week course. During the course you will explore and be guided through a variety of techniques for representing the portrait including drawing, monoprint and painting. You’ll explore chiaroscuro in both drawing and monoprinting, will add decorative elements to your prints and learn how to observe and create accurate facial proportions.
Wielding an ethereal croon and masterful whistle crafted from a lifetime chasing lizards through the Ozark hills, Nick Shoulders is a living link to the vocal roots of country music...with an undeniable weird streak. Combining his family's deep ties to regional traditional singing with years of playing to crowded street corners (and empty bars), Nick has created a hybridized form of raucously clever country music; born of forgotten rocky hollers and bred to confront the tensions of the 21st century South.
“We are all 60something - but if we have the energy to do things, let’s go. To keep this motivation after 40 years, it’s like, ‘Envoyé, go for it and fuck off!”
The Smyths return to the Brudenell for their annual residency.
Playing all hits, but also celebrating 'Meat Is Murder' on its 40th anniversary year.