Zoom Session One - Thursday 11th April 7pm - 8.30pm
Zoom Session Two - Tuesday 16th April 7pm - 8.30pm
Studio Sessions - Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 10am - 4pm
$795 (Includes most materials)
This workshop will take a maximum of only 5 participants
Sophia Szelagyi & Belinda Fox making a large scale photogravure with Chine Colle
This is a three part workshop which includes two online sessions and a full weekend.
You have previously made a small photogravure plate and print and now you want to take it to the next level. This is a unique opportunity to work with Silvi Glattauer, an internationally recognised photogravure innovator, on a project of your choice.
This 3-part workshop will help you develop a significant body of work with advanced photogravure techniques that focus on larger scale, multi-plate prints. It will explore multiple ways to add colour layers, how images can work in sequence and the interface between digital file preparation and fine art print techniques.
The workshop will consist of 2 online zoom sessions, followed by a week-end hands-on studio intensive.
This workshop is for people who have experience or have completed a beginners Photogravure workshop and are familiar with Adobe Photoshop. It is the perfect way of beginning an exhibition scale project under the expert guidance of a leading artist-printmaker.
THURS 11 April 2024 – 7pm – 8.30pm – via zoom
Silvi will introduce you to the rich world of large scale multiplate photogravure and give examples of potential ways of expanding your image making through working in series and varying scale, colour, layering and framing.
You will have the opportunity to show and discuss your ideas for creating a body of work that expands on your current practice.
TUES 16 April 2024 7pm – 8.30pm – via zoom
Getting ready for the hands-on studio workshop, this second online session will cover essential digital skills to prepare your black & white file as well as digital workflows for preparing colour layers. Silvi will demonstrate:
• The critical role of contrast – how to bring in the smooth gradation of tone from the deepest black, through all the shades of grey, and up to the brightest white.
• Digital toning: how to take advantage of black & white conversions using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom and Nik Silver Efex software.
• Tips and tricks for localized digital enhancements to accentuate drama.
• The digital steps for preparing colour files used in techniques like digital chine collé or ink jet colouring your etching papers.
Notes will be provided so that you can use them to prepare files at home.
SAT & SUN 20 & 21 April 2024 - Studio practice
After the initial zoom sessions you will have a plan and a series of digital files that will allow you to maximise the two days of hands-on studio time.
Bring your ideas and your prepared digital files to the studio and let’s turn them into beautiful prints. We will concentrate on multiple ways of working with a single image or series of images, so that you leave the workshop with a set of resolved prints. We will concentrate on advanced studio practices such as:
· Etching press set up and considerations for large format printing
· Complex registration methods for multi-plate printing
· Digital chine collé: creating an additional layer of imagery to embed in your print
· Inkjet printing direct etching paper colour
· A la Poupée: a painterly technique for inking your plate with multiple colours
· Working in series with triptychs or diptychs
· Using different papers to get different print effects
· Strategies to continue developing your work in your home studio
Limited to 6 students to ensure plenty of time for individual attention for each student where Silvi will work with you to help you realise your artistic vision.
Silvi Glattauer is a professional practicing photographer with a particular interest in non-silver alternative processes. Specialising in the photogravure process using non-toxic photopolymer plates, she finds that the combination of traditional printmaking with photographic images gives her work an added dimension that further develops the use of photography in fine art practice. Glattauer also has a background in the adult education sector with extensive experience in co-ordinating and running workshops. Alongside running workshops at The Baldessin Press for the past 15 years, she has taught photographic fine art printmaking at RMIT and Melbourne Polytechnic in Melbourne.
You are advised to book early to avoid disappointment.
Price: $750– including all materials
The workshop fee covers one A2 and two A3 size plates - these can be cut down to smaller sizes if desired.
Additional plates are available for purchase during the workshop should you wish to make more plates.
What you should bring:
Digital files
Extra paper (optional)
Apron - or buy a Baldessin Studio apron for $45.
Disposable gloves
Your laptop if you have one
A USB stick
Lunch (tea & coffee provided)
Workshop Cancellations & Refunds
We understand that circumstances can change. A full workshop refund will be offered:
· if a workshop in which you are enrolled is cancelled or deferred to a date unsuitable for your attendance. This may be the case if a Covid lockdown is announced.
· upon receipt of an email indicating your intention to withdraw your enrolment when notice is provided to us at least three weeks in advance of the workshop start date.
Workshop Credit - Transfers
We are happy to transfer your enrolment to a future workshop, but this will depend on availability of studio space and three weeks notice being given to us.
