Firestation Print Studio

CURRENT AND UPCOMING CLASSES

Sara Amos Master Classes November - December 2008

November 22nd-23rd-24th and November 29th-30th-1st December.

Additional Sara AMOS master class Saturday 6th December.

Learn how to seam images together to make much larger images or Paper Murals however a general outline of Collagraph and Mono printing techniques will be demonstrated and discussed in this class and artists will be able to explore this dynamic duo in collaboration with a Master Printer Sarah Amos. (link)

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New Classes Schedule

Kitchen Table Lithography(link)
One day workshop Sunday 7th December, alternatively Sunday 18th January 2009, Sunday March 22nd 2009
Teacher; Roderick Mc Donald

Introductory Etching (link)
Wednesday evening 6.30 pm until 9.30pm
Commencing February 4th 2009
Six week course; $330
Teacher; Bronwyn Rees

Introductory Etching(link)
Thursday classes 10.30- 2.00
Commencing February 12th 2009
Six week course $330
Teacher; Cherie Winter

Introductory Etching(link)
Monday evening 6.30 pm until 9.30pm
Commencing March 2nd 2009
Six week course; $330
Teacher; Damon Kowarsky

Relief Printmaking Without a Press - Cards for all occasions (link)
Weekend Saturday 31st January - Sunday 1st February 2009
Weekend course; $260 including materials
Teacher; Christine Gates

Photogravure(link)
Expressions of Interest taken for March 2009.
10am- 4 pm $385 for week-end course
Teacher: Silvi Glattauer from Baldessin Press.
More information on all workshops by Silvi Glattauer see
http://www.silvi.com.au/
www.baldessinpress.com

Life Drawing(link)
Every Tuesday 7-9pm. $15 class members
$18 non-members. Untutored / Easels provided / variety of models / short and long poses. No bookings required.

Book Binding / Paper Dyeing(link)
Fridays 10am till 3.30 pm
Cost $110 including materials
Classes every 2nd @ 4th Friday of the month. Phone re class content
Teacher: Joss Farmar-Bowers

Supervised Access
Thursday evening 6.30-9.30pm $35.00
Thursday 11.30- 3.00pm $35.00
Please ring or e-mail to book. Ring during office hours for an assessment of your competency / relevance of the supervised access.
Supervised access teaches artists who have done an introductory class to print independently in the workshop unsupervised. New artists to the Firestation Print Workshop need an orientation session and this can be done in this particular workshop.

Kitchen Table Lithography
Polymer Lithography; an inexpensive way to create lithographic prints using pen, crayon or photocopied images.
Cost: $130
Workshop includes materials and specialist information about the purchase of materials on-line etc.
Date: Sunday 29th June 11-4pm
Venue: Firestation Print Studio
2 Willis Street
ARMADALE 3143
Prerequisites
Please bring an idea ready to put down on paper.
This Polymer Lithography Workshop is designed for novices and master printmakers alike. Transparent polymer sheets allows prepared images to be traced using pens and particular crayons supplied, as well as an introduction to the use of photocopied and printed images.
NO PRESS required with this portable / inexpensive printmaking technique.
Economical / safe print technique
Minimal clean up with vegetable oil and water.
Excellent for large and extensive works.
Introduction to techniques developed further in Japanese Mokolto workshop, or Lithography on wood.

Content

Using Photocopiers and printers to make lithographs

Outcomes

Create your own original works.
Learn to press by hand
Use ink pens or crayons to create an image for printing
Use one or multiple colours
Transparent paper to work upon, allowing the tracing or copy of a prepared image.
Suits art teachers as a new print medium for students to work upon at home, or schools without press facilities.

Roderick McDonald is a Melbourne graduate of RMIT Bachelor of Graphic Arts and printmaker who worked in Tokyo from 2002 to 2006, teaching English while printmaking at the Tokyo Printmaking Atelier under the tutelage of master printmaker Makoto Ishihara.
The Polymer lithography workshop has been developed for inexpensive lithographic printmaking by hand pressing with a variety of simple and home grown equipment, eradicating the need for a press or reliance upon a print workshop to print.
Roderick Mc Donald will run follow-on workshops at the Firestation Print Workshop with a Japanese technique, ‘Mokolito’ or lithography on wood developed by traditional woodblock printmaker Ozaku Seishi in the 1970’s. The technique combines Japanese wood block printing and lithography making large-scale coloured / monotone prints. See samples of Roderick Mc Donald ‘Mokolito’ prints exhibited at the Firestation Print Studio back gallery. If you like to have the wood grain showing in your work, this is an excellent pathway to the ‘mokolito’ workshop, or a stand alone class in a contemporary lithographic technique.

For more information contact the Firestation print Studio between 11-5 Wednesday – Friday, 9509 1782 or by e-mail firestat@firestationprintstudio.com.
PAYMENT DETAILS; Westpac Malvern Branch Firestation Print Studio
033 059 13 8224
Alternatively a cheque can be posted, hand delivered or cash payment at the FPS
Firestation print Studio 11-5 Wednesday – Friday, 9509 1782 firestat@firestationprintstudio.com www.firestationprintstudio.com
Firestation Print Studio; 2 Willis Street ARMADALE 3143

Introduction to Traditional Printmaking

Teacher: Bronwyn Rees
Wednesday Evening; 6.30-9.30pm
6 weeks consecutively: Fee: $330.00
Commences Wednesday 21st May 2008
Bookings confirmed 11-5 Wednesday to Friday.

Content
You will be introduced to the fundamentals of etching, including aquatint, hard and soft grounds. Working from your own ideas, students will experiment with image, tone and mark-making to extend the visual possibilities of etching.
Each method is introduced by considering its particular technical possibilities and the health and safety considerations. This course is an excellent choice for beginners or those who need a refresher in the area of intaglio printmaking.

Outcomes
Students will gain an understanding of techniques introduced and develop practical skills in order to create and print their own plates.
Additional costs of $25.00 to purchase 4 copper plates from FPS. All other course materials including specialist paper and inks supplied.

Boxed Set 10
Bronwyn Rees, 2008

Teacher
Printmaker Bronwyn Rees first trained with master printmaker Basil Hall before working on staff at the Glasgow Print Studio in Scotland. A studio artist-in-residence at the Firestation Print Studio since 2003, Bronwyn also curates shows exploring contemporary printmaking practices, including a recent print exhibition The Acid Truth at Hawthorn Town Hall Gallery September 2007 with other prominent Melbourne Printmakers. See www.boroondara.vic.gov.au for further information. Bronwyn Rees’s work and past student work is currently exhibiting at the Firestation Print Gallery’s profile of courses and class content that runs until late February 2008.

Boxed Set 5
Bronwyn Rees, 2008

PAYMENT DETAILS; Westpac Malvern Branch Firestation Print Studio
033 059 13 8224
E-mail firestat@firestationprintstudio.com.au
Firestation Print Workshop
2 Willis Street, Armadale 3143
Phone 9509 1782

Teacher: Cherie Winter
Classes: Thursday 10.30am - 2.00 pm (commencing 5 June 2008)
Alternative Class: Saturday 10.30am - 1.30pm (commencing 13 June 2008)
Six-week course; $330

Content
Participants are introduced to the fundamentals of etching, including aquatint, hard and soft grounds. Working from your own ideas, students will experiment with image, tone and mark-making to extend the visual possibilities of etching.
Each method is introduced by considering its particular technical possibilities and the health and safety considerations. This course is an excellent choice for beginners or those who need a refresher in the area of intaglio printmaking.

Outcomes
Students will gain an understanding of techniques introduced and develop practical skills in order to create and print their own plates. Classes are limited to eight, tailored to the level of the students with extensive professional skills and knowledge from our teachers. See over page for details about teacher Cherie Winter
See Cherie's NAVA page at http://www.visualarts.net.au/gallery/cheriewinter

Additional costs of $25.00 to purchase 4 copper plates from FPS. All other course materials including specialist paper and inks supplied./p>

About Cherie Winter
Cherie Winter is an accomplished Melbourne based printmaker with a Visual Arts degree from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and a graduate diploma from Sydney University. Cherie has been exhibiting since 1993 with work collected by the National Gallery of Australia, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery and the Maitland City Art Gallery amongst others. She is currently represented by Gilligan Grant Gallery in Stanley Street, Collingwood with her next solo exhibition scheduled for September 2008.
Cherie combines traditional print methods like lithography, etching and more contemporary practices like digital lazetran to create distinctive work, distinguished in the masterful execution of these methods. Her recent work explores tree root systems that have been shaped via google earth to map locations and attitudes in Australia and reflect upon the potential of the tree. 'Take Root' is her next solo exhibition at Gilligan Grant Gallery to be held in September 2008.

The Age Newspaper columnist Megan Backhouse describes her work
“Tree trunks grow in the shape of peace symbols, chairs and playgrounds. Winter uses a range of printmaking techniques to produce curious designs and comes up with a string of even more outlandish forms.” The Newcastle herald columnist Jill Stowell describes Cherie as a “gifted printmaker, at a stage in her career of rapid evolution …it is hard to go past her recent etchings and lithographs of the bush land canopy of trees bathed in extraordinary light”.


Fence Cherie Winter, 2007		Knotted Tree Cherie Winter, 2007

Traditional Printmaking Introductory classes
Monday 6.30pm - 9.30 pm
Commencing November 10th 2008 Six-week course; $330

See below for details about teacher Damon Kowarsky
www.geocities.com/damonkowarsky

Additional costs of $25.00 to purchase 4 copper plates from FPS. All other course materials including specialist paper and inks supplied.
PAYMENT DETAILS; Westpac Malvern Branch Firestation Print Studio
033 059 13 8224

About Damon Kowarsky
Damon Kowarsky studied printmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts and Glasgow School of Art, and Advanced Figure Drawing with Godwin Bradbeer at RMIT. He graduated in 2000 from VCA with a BFA [Honours] in Printmaking.
Since graduating he has exhibited regularly in Australia and internationally and worked as an archaeological, courtroom, and scientific illustrator. In 2002 he received an Ian Potter Cultural Trust grant to assist as an archaeological illustrator at the Dakhleh Oasis Project in the western deserts of Egypt. On returning to Australia he received a 2004 Australian Print Workshop Collie Print Trust Emerging Victorian Printmakers Scholarship.
Since then he has travelled extensively in Yemen, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Mexico and the USA. The unique and very distinctive architecture of these regions, and the colours of sky and earth inspired much of the work made in following years.
In 2007 he undertook residencies at RMIT through its Project Space/ Visual Arts Printmaking Summer Residency program and Megalo Access Arts Canberra. He continues to print on a regular basis at the Australian Print Workshop in Fitzroy.
Kowarsky has recently returned to Australia from six months in Pakistan, teaching drawing to foundation year students at Beaconhouse National University Lahore and studying miniature painting under Murad Mumtaz and Mahreen Zuberi.

Insurgentes, 2007
etching from six copper plates
22.5 x 55 cm

Relief Printmaking Without a Press - Cards for all Occasions

Dates; Weekend Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th November 2008 10am - 4pm
Cost: $260 for weekend workshop including materials (includes Workshop notes, Silkcut lino, Japanese rice paper, printing inks & carbon paper.)
Bookings confirmed with $50 payment in advance- Workshop limited to 8 students
Ph 9509 1782 / email firestat@firestationprintstudio.com
Teacher Christine Gates

Prerequisites
Apron / Sketchpad / Pencil
Note: Firestation Print Studio Aprons are on sale at the Studio; $35.00 each.

Outcomes - What we'll do:
Print linocut relief blocks using non-toxic, easy cleanup, water-based inks and a wooden spoon or Japanese baren.
Design your own linocut image using a simple viewfinder.
Cut your own linocut relief block to print cards or an edition of prints.
Discuss a brief overview of the history of Relief Printmaking with special reference to:

Australian Printmakers and Margaret Preston
Mexican Printmaking and social and political comment
Contemporary linocut images from Australian artists and students

Learn Studio procedures including how to use an Etching Press and how to print an edition of handprints.
View a demonstration using a computer and Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) to create a linocut design from a photograph.
Take home a set of Workshop notes plus one or more original hand-printed relief prints to frame or use as a card.

Teacher Christine Gates is a Melbourne artist who specializes in unique state
hand prints and digitally created images printed with photopolymer plates. She exhibits nationally and internationally and has worked as an Arts Educator for twenty years. For more information go to:
http://www.christinegates.com or see Imprint, Winter 2008, Vol 43 No 2

PAYMENT DETAILS; Westpac Malvern Branch Firestation Print Studio
033 059 13 8224 on-line or at a bank, cheque or cash delivered to Firestation Print Studio

Introductory Weekend in Photogravure
Teacher: Silvi Glattauer from The Baldessin Press
Saturday October 4th & Sunday 5th 2008. Details of image preparation / class notes given to students once down payment of $150 paid.
10am- 4 pm $385 for week-end course

Content & Outcomes
Details of image preparation / class notes given to students once $150 down-payment for classes has been received.
To view examples of photogravure we have a limited number of works hanging in the Firestation Print Gallery. Photogravure as a medium that integrates the two practices of printmaking and photographic prints on a range of professional papers, opening the possibility of mixed media as well as the more purist objectives with photographic prints only. For printmakers a photographic image can be superimposed or form the basis of your work with a highly finished image. Digital images and / or photographs used in this contemporary medium bring photos to life, with life size or larger than life prints.

Teacher
Silvi Glattauer from The Baldessin Press is a specialist photogravure teacher / practicing artist with regular teaching engagements as far away as New Zealand and other interstate Fine Art schools of photography and / or print making. Glattauer is an award winning photogravure printmaker and experienced teacher.
More information on all workshops by Silvi Glattauer see:
http://www.silvi.com.au/
www.baldessinpress.com

PAYMENT; Westpac Malvern Branch Firestation Print Workshop 033 059 13 8224
Direct credit to a bank:
There is space for six digits/ letters to identify the depositor. Please ask the teller to input some form of identification / part of surname etc.
Alternately you can pay the $150 deposit directly to the Firestation Print Studio in cash or with a cheque in business hours, post or direct credit and inform us by e-mail, phone or visiting to say you have paid the deposit or amount in full.

Life Drawing Classes

Life drawing every Tuesday evening
Time
7-9pm Tuesdays. The Firestation Print studio is opened for classes at 6.30 pm so you have time to set up your easel etc

Cost
$15 members $18 non-members.
Some artists turn up every week, others when they can. Life Drawing classes are held in our large new letter press room or in the workshop with the model elevated on a bench.
The life drawing classes are untutored with long and short poses from a variety of models each week. Easels are provided, but not paper or other art materials. We do not have paper to purchase other than newsprint. Private or one-on-one tuition can be provided at a cost of $40 per hour during the class or an alternate time.
The Firestation Print Studio pays professional rates to our models that are recommended by or current members of the Life Modeling Association.
Membership fees cover the cost of public liability insurance so this is mandatory within the first four weeks of classes. See attached membership form with fees and benefits of membership.
Membership Fees:$45 / full time student. $60 artist’s membership
Please call the office between 11-5 Wednesday- Friday if you require further information about life drawing or present at the Firestation Print Studio, 2 Willis Street, ARMADALE 3143 between 6.30 and 7pm Tuesday evenings. Note there is a large car park out the back with free parking as one of the benefits of membership.

Bookbinding

Teacher: Joss Farmar-Bowers
When: Classes every 2nd @ 4th Friday of the month
Venue: Firestation Print Studio in the Letter press Room
Time: 10 am till 4.00 pm with a lunch break.
Cost: $110 including materials per class or $200 for 2 classes booked
Teacher: Classes taught by professional book maker; Joss Farmar-Bowers

Content
Classes are tailored according to what you want to learn. Bookings essential for us to tailor classes to your expressed needs, with each class offered as a stand alone class in a particular practice. We teach the fundamentals of various book binding techniques for traditional book binding and contemporary specialist practices for artists wanting to create specialist limited edition books.

The following information can be provided in classes:
Concertinaed, fold-out, quarter binding, Coptic binding and expanding binding. A specialist genealogy format accommodating an opening spreadsheet, and Japanese book binding; cotton thread Asa-No-Ha-Toji, Koki Toji binding and Itajime.

A range of premium quality papers; Hosho and Fabriano paper along with less finished / processed papers will be introduced. Preparing paper includes different cutting styles (water cutting) and the properties of paper with specialist cutting (with seamless inlaid work) are included in our book binding classes. You can achieve the finish you want, introduced to skills and techniques that further develop any ideas you including water tearing and other techniques.

These classes do not include paper making, but preparation of quality finishes for unique books and covers.
A number of fabrics are introduced in combination with paper for unique and beautifully finished books, including snake skin, silks. Mono prints using reactive dye, acrylic and shellac will be introduced as part of developing your own cover papers.

Outcomes
Students will develop skills in a range of book binding techniques. Classes are small in a custom made room for printing in the Firestation Print Studio’s letter press room. Joss Farmer-Bowers is an experienced teacher with extensive applied skills and knowledge about her craft.

About Joss Farmar-Bowers
Joss Farmar-Bowers, a professional book binder, trained in the UK in design and print, specializes in the use of pattern, textiles and papers. Joss currently runs a hand bound book business.

PAYMENT DETAILS
Westpac Malvern Branch Firestation Print Studio
Account: 033 059 13 8224
For direct credit to a bank: there is space for six digits/ letters to identify the depositor. Please ask the teller to input four numbers (day and month of birthday example 0407).
We can only accept cash or cheques for payment, or prior payment into the bank.
E-mail firestat@firestationprintstudio.com.au