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The Firestation Print Studio is a dynamic hub of arts activity, with printmaking at its core, yet open to a wide range of projects and practices. As a community based organisation, the curatorial strategy supports artists with diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds at various stages of their career, by providing a supportive environment in which to create and exhibit their artwork. This is a unique element of the Firestation, as we provide facilities for all stages of artistic development in printmaking, from the inception and execution of artwork in the print workshop, to its presentation and display to the public in the gallery. |
WORKSHOPS |
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June 28 & 29, From Plant to Paper, with Gail Stiffe
Gail Stiffe
From Plant to Paper
Paper making with Plant Fibres
A 2 day, weekend workshop.
28th and 29th of June, 11am - 3pm.
Firestation Print Studio back room and acid room
$295 plus gst
$255 plus gst members
materials supplied
Maximum of 8.
Day 1 Learn how to select common garden plants and weeds into paper. Learn techniques for harvesting, preparation, cooking, beating and sheet forming. Paper can be made from cumbungi, NZ Flax, grasses, red hot poker and many barks. This session will be spent preparing and cooking fibre from Mulberry bark and ginger lily. Other pre-cooked fibres will be processed in preparation for making paper on the second day. The class is suitable for beginners and those who have done some papermaking.
Day 2
Learn to make sheets of paper from the pulps prepared on day one. You will learn what additives can be added to the vats to ease sheet formation, various ways to press and dry the papers and how to add dimension.
What to bring if you have them
Wooden or rubber mallet or a 60cm long piece of thick dowel (3-4 cm diam) (day 1)
Secateurs and scissors (day 1)
A clean paint roller standard size (20+cm) (day 2)
ABOUT GAIL STIFFE
Gail started her creative life in knitting and crocheting before discovering hand papermaking in the early 1980’s. Quickly becoming addicted to hand papermaking and the many possibilities it offers for creative expression led to a build up of paper supplies that in turn led her to investigate bookbinding as a way of presenting her work. She hasn’t looked back since then and her books are held in many public and private collections.
Gail has held several solo exhibitions and participated in many group shows both in Australia and overseas. She is currently President of Papermakers of Victoria and has been both President and Bulletin editor for the International paper association IAPMA and convened the Australian Women’s Art Register. She has had a web presence since 1997 and her current websites are www.gailstiffe.info and www.papergail.blogspot.com.
Although she has been making paper and books for over forty years she still finds joy in discovery of new structures and effects. Her work has appeared in several International books and magazines and she designed two books Lark Books’ “Eco Books”.
AUGUST 23 & 24 Kay Watanabe Introduction to Mokuhanga
KAY WATANABE
INTRODUCTION TO MOKUHANGA
Weekend Workshop Aug 23 & 24
$445 / $395
Mokuhanga, is the Japanese woodcut printmaking technique.
Prints are typically hand-printed in water-based ink on Japanese "washi" paper.
About
Kay Watanabe is a Brisbane-based Japanese visual aritist, mainly in the field of printmaking. She has diversified into painting, drawing, photography, cyanotype, small sculpture and artist books.
She extensively exhibits her works both in real and virtual shows in Australia and internationally and has received numerous awards. She is passionate about spreading the joy of printmaking and sharing her skills at workshops for children, schools, community groups and other organisations.
See more about Kay via her Website and Instagram
pictured:
Kay Watanabe
In the woods, thinking, triptych, 2020
Japanese mokuhanga woodblock prints on Japanese paper
30 cm x 21 cm each print or 30 cm x 63 cm for the triptych
The triptych is a finalist at the "Sumi-Fusion: 2021 International Mokuhanga Exhibition" in Nara, Japan.
Sat SEPT 13th Intro to Drypoint with Liz Millsom
Introduction to Drypoint
Liz Millsom
Date: Saturday SEPT 13th 2024
10am to 4.00pm with 1hr lunch break.
$290 / $250 members
Materials provided
Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio family.
An image is incised into an acetate plate with a hard pointed needle. The process is almost identical to an engraving.
This workshop is perfect for the beginner to produce a drypoint print using one or your own images/sketches, a collaged or a photo. Simply placing a clear acetate plate on top of your image and scratching incisions into the plate using a metal needle.
You will learn techniques such as hatching, cross hatching, stippling and scumbling to create interesting mark making.
Next will be the process of intaglio printing, you will learn how to register your paper and ink up your plate.
Experimentation is encouraged.
Bring an A5 image of a photo/ magazine image or your own drawing. There will be plenty of photo copies you can use to create your own unique drypoint.
Liz Millsom has been printing and painting for 20 years and has worked in Arts Education for 11 years. Liz won our Summer Salon Grand Prize in 2019, and was a finalist in the National Monoprint Prize 2023.
Fri Aug 29th ANASTASIA KOTZAPAVLIDIS Introduction to Linocut
Intro Linocut Workshop
One day workshop
Friday Aug 29th 2024 10am to 3pm
Instructor:
Anastasia Kotzapavlidis
$290 / $250
All Materials Provided but we will have lino cutting sets available for purchase if you would like your own set.
Linocut is one of the most direct forms of printmaking.
It is simple to learn and has the potential to produce
works of great subtlety and complexity.
ParticiLinocutpants will create prints using black & white.
Participants will work with press and hand printing to
demonstrate the versatility of the medium,
its immediacy and portability.
Working from your own ideas, students will experiment
with image, tone and mark-making to explore the
visual possibilities of linocut printmaking.
Each method is introduced by considering its
technical possibilities and health and safety considerations.
This course is an excellent choice for beginners or
those who need a refresher in the area of linocut printmaking.
Outcomes
Students will gain an understanding of techniques
introduced and develop practical skills in order to create
and print their own linocuts.
Oct 23 & 24 Kathy Boyle Etching Aluminium - Copper Sulphate and Salt
Thurs & Friday 23rd and 24th Oct
Two day 10am - 3pm
Working on several plates each you will explore a variety of mark making techniques; linear, painterly and aquatint images. These plates can then be can be printed separately and layered together. This workshop will be great for beginners as well as experienced printmakers who wish to explore a different approach to etching.
MATERIALS INCLUDED .
$355 members
$395 non members
Oct 19th Kathy Boyle "Plastered: printing single and multiple objects"
Kathy Boyle
Plastered: innovative approaches to printing single and multiple objects.
Sunday Oct 19th
One Day workshop 11am - 4pm
$295 / $255 for members
Kathy Boyle is a New Zealand printmaker who is exploring techniques for printmaking on a plaster surface
This workshop will explore a range of techniques using plaster to create single or multiple objects that can then be carved or further enhanced using a variety of mediums.
It will use the traditional intaglio, relief and collograph printmaking, chine colle techniques and you discover how this method of printmaking can expand the artist’s repertoire from the two to three dimensional.
What to bring ( students)
Woodcuts, etching plates, collagraphs you have already made, a variety of sizes, no larger than about A4
Flexible, straight sided (as straight sided as possible) plastic containers for moulds, eg small take away bottles
old woodcut tools
Scissors
GALLERY
LIFE DRAWING |
PRINT CLUBS |
Every Tuesday evening 7-9pm drop in!
IMPORTANT: New Lifedrawing time will be 6:30-8:30 from Tuesday 22 April . EXCLUDES SCHOOL HOLIDAYS Bring paper & drawing materials. Easels provided. Members $23 Non members $25 Concession* $23 *Concession price is available for Pension or Student card holders More info here |
PRINT CLUBS are OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
5 sessions per month, $11 - $30 per session 3 hour sessions with ink provided and supervisors on hand Proudly supported by the City of Stonnington Dates and more here BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL |
WORKSHOPS, SUPERVISED ACCESS OR PRINT CLUBS
YOU MUST BE AWARE OF THE FOLLOWING
Our qualified printmakers:
FPS members who have completed their induction, and pay access fees, are able to make bookings, and come in to use our presses and the backroom, before you do so, please read our FPS Covid Safe Plan HERE
