Advanced Photopolymer Photogravure: Colour - Scale - Sequence with Silvi Glattauer
This workshop is delivered in a hybrid format, with Zoom sessions in advance of a weekend workshop.
Zoom Session One - Thursday 29th October | 7pm - 8.30pm
Zoom Session Two - Wednesday 4th November | 7pm - 8.30pm
Studio Workshop Sessions - Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th November | 10am - 4pm
This workshop will take a maximum of 5 participants.
$990 inclusive of GST
(Includes most materials)
The Advanced Photopolymer Photogravure Workshops book out quickly – we advise booking in early to avoid disappointment!
Zoom Sessions: Thursday 29 Oct 7pm – 8.30pm & Wed 4th Nov 7pm – 8.30pm
Studio Sessions: Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th Nov 2026 10am - 4pm
Afterpay available at checkout
Belinda Fox & Sophia Szilagyi making a large scale photogravure
Take your photogravure practice to the next level in this in-depth, three-part workshop led by internationally renowned artist and innovator Silvi Glattauer on a project of your choice.
Designed for those who have previous experience with photogravure plate making and printing, this unique program offers the opportunity to develop a more ambitious project of your own. Across two online sessions and a full weekend of hands-on studio time, you'll dive deep into advanced techniques focusing on either larger format, sequencing, multi-plate printing, adding colour or any of these in combination.
Explore a range of approaches to colour layering, sequencing images, and refining the relationship between digital file preparation and traditional printmaking methods. With Silvi’s expert guidance, you’ll be supported to produce a cohesive and significant body of work.
The workshop consists of 2 online zoom sessions, followed by a week-end hands-on studio intensive.
This workshop is for people who have experience with the Direct to Plate Photopolymer Photogravure process – participants must have completed a beginners Photogravure workshop and be familiar with Adobe Photoshop.
If you are unsure about your previous experience, please contact us prior to booking your place.
It is the perfect way of beginning an exhibition scale project under the expert guidance of a leading artist-printmaker.
Zoom Session One - Thursday 29th October | 7pm - 8.30pm
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.
Zoom Session Two - Wednesday 4th November | 7pm - 8.30pm
Getting ready for the hands-on studio workshop, this second online session will offer you the opportunity to present your project and seek feedback from Silvi and the group.
Specific to your project, we will discuss techniques that you may need to adopt prior to the studio session.
This may include:
• Essential digital skills to prepare your black & white file with advanced black & white conversions using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom and/ or Nik Silver Efex software.
• 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.
Studio Workshop Sessions - Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th November | 10am - 4pm
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. Depending on your project, you will learn 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
· Duo Tone techniques using a second plate
· Strategies to continue developing your work in your home studio
What is included
The workshop fee includes one A2 and one A3 size photopolymer 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)
This workshop is limited to 5 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.
About Silvi Glattauer
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.
Workshop Cancellations & Refunds
We understand that circumstances can change.
A refund will be offered in the following situations:
· if a workshop, in which you are enrolled, is cancelled or deferred to a date unsuitable for your attendance. This may happen in event of a High Fire Danger day, or in the event a tutor is unwell.
· 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.
From the 1st of January 2025, due to merchant processing fees, all refunds will be incur a $35 administration fee.
Workshop Credit - Transfers
In the event you cannot attend a booked workshop, and with at least three weeks notice being given to us, we are happy to transfer your enrolment to a future workshop, dependant on studio availability and within 12 months of the booked workshops date.