Hot Off The Press
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New Teacher Training Courses now booking up Continuing Professional Practice We are very pleased to announce that throughout August we will be running 3 courses especially for teachers to bring you bang up to date on new developments in printmaking.
Etching For Schools running for 4 days from Monday 10th to Thursday 13th August; 10am - 4pm, will not only introduce new approaches to drypoint with drypoint card and acrylic sheet, but also to show new non-toxic methods of etching with copper sulphate. This is the latest innovation to printmaking and allows a safe and easily provision for etching to secondary schools. It will revolutionise the art classroom.
Expressive Printmaking for Schools is an evening course over 3 sessions, (Wednesday 12th, 19th & 26th August; 6.30pm - 9.00pm), which will introduce painterly carborundum, which dries in minutes and can be inked and printed simply and quickly. Combined with cheap and available aluminium drypoint and painterly monoprint to layer image making to create stunning effects this really will bring a new expressive quality to printmaking to key stages 4 and 5.
Create Your Own Warhols, (Thursday 20th August; 9am - 1pm),is a unique bespoke workshop developed specifically to fit the modern curriculum and already delivered to schools of all age groups and abilities, (including special needs groups and adults with learning difficulties). Screenprinting without all the fancy equipment the results are quite simply stunning and can be done in one session. The project can be set to match with self portraiture or the cult of celebrity. Substituting silkscreens with card stencils and working in 4 colours the final images are brought together with a very simple monoprint technique that adds that special photographic quality.
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Summer courses going fast The next course at Hot Bed Press is Box Making with Lucy May Schofield. The course is full, but we are considering putting another one on in the next programme, (if you are interested let us know and we will tell you about it directly as soon as dates are confirmed!).
Our other new courses of Plein Air Printmaking with guest tutor Jane Cockayne and Creative Intaglio with Emma Gregory are booking up nicely, but we still have a few places left.
Japanese Woodblock Printing with Rebecca Salter has now fully booked up. We are also looking at another course possibly in December. All our courses are very popular and we expect to fill most, if not all courses, so get in touch early if you want to avoid disappointment.
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Hot Bed Press Bookstars We attended the Liverpool Artists Book Fair at the weekend at The A Foundation which was a great success. It was our first showing as a group as Hot Bed Press Bookstars which we set up in January. It was a busy weekend and the A Foundation is a great new venue for the event. Our stand looked good with 9 Bookstars showing their wares. There were around 30 other stands ranging from the established names such as Carrson & Miller to big stands representing Wirral College. We sold a few books and made lots of contacts in the book art world, so all in all a good first outing. We are now planning to have a stand at Manchester Book Arts Fair which we expect to be around November; [awaiting confirmation from the organisers of the fair]. We aalso hope to set up exhibitions/displays around Manchester and Liverpool.
To be Hot Bed Bookstar you can join as an Associate Member of Hot Bed Press for just £15 a year, (or obviously as a Full Print member), to get the benefit of coming in to print for your books and mix with like minded individuals, (and of course people completely left-field of your own thinking). Anyone interested should contact Sean Rorke or andy Magee at the workshop via info@hotbedpress.org
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Looking upwards Latest developing news We are just waiting to hear about a full and detailed costing from Salford City Council, which is expected any day now.
We would plan to put 9 studios in initially on the top floor. Eventually this will enable us to open up some studios downstairs to expand the print room, but this may take some time, and is a long term aim rather than an immediate plan. We have put together a business plan and think it is a viable option, if we can rent out all studios for £80 - £85 a month. However it will need a relatively small grant to be able to refurbish the top floor and make it fit for new studios etc. We are also looking for the council to let us have a period of rent free lease to give us time to fit the top floor out.
We will keep everyone updated when we know more. Watch this space!
Sean Rorke - Development Manager
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