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Photography forum is back and this week we have a workshop on Photographic Print,Thursday 17th Nov 10am-1pm. A session to learn about digital print in photography, to think about taking images into print and how they change depending on the materials used.
Woflgang Weileder will share his knowledge of large-scale printing and how to prepare images for print in photoshop. We’ll be using the large printer in the department printing on photo-rag paper, a fine art paper which has a similar feel to heavy paper used in printmaking. You can see examples of Wolfgang’s photographic work here. https://www.wolfgangweileder.com/photography.html There will also be a chance to think about LARGE PRINTING! and find out how to prepare images for printing at scale. We will bring along some images from the previous workshops with Phyllis Christopher and Akinbode Akinbiye to work with, but please bring your own images along too! After making prints we will take time to look at each others work, think about working with images in sequence, editing and preparing work for exhibition. We have a small budget available for initial prints and then students can print more images at a discounted rate from their fine art materials allowance, to give an example the cost would be around £5 for a 10″ x 8″ print. Spaces are limited so please contact Michele or Kasia to book a place. Look forward to seeing you! all the bestMichele and Kasia.
Writing Practice Forum+ Optional Workshop Thursday 17 November (combined)
Writing Practice Forum 10am Thursday 17 November, Fine Art meeting room (behind Nigel’s office)
This forum offers a place to informally discuss how writing is situated within art practice. This week’s meeting will be an opportunity to share any material or ideas you are developing that involve writing or text in your studio work.
‘Writing’ is considered in an expansive sense: poetry, art writing, script, fiction – but also notions of text, creative/responsive readings, writing as curation, book arts and so on – as we aim to put some pressure on the relation between verbal and non-verbal mediums.
Optional Writing Workshop 11am, Fine Art meeting room
Renee Gladman: Prose architecture 252 (2017)
In this session we’ll be thinking about what ‘translation’ can mean for poetry. This will involve considering translation in an expanded sense, by looking at ‘bad’ or ‘unfaithful’ practices like homophonic translation and games with Google Translate. We’ll also be wondering whether interactions between word and image also constitute a version of ‘translation’. (Note: no bilingual skills necessary!)
There has been loads of interest in the sewing bee which is great! So I am setting up an initial meeting on Monday 10th October in the seminar room (next to Rays shop) from 5-6pm
Everyone is welcome, we will discuss what type of workshops we want to hold, please think about what type of things you would like to do over the weekend. Also if you have done any other type of sewing or textiles type crafting e.g. embroidery being along some of your work to show others
I am also looking for people to help me run the forum, for this you don’t actually need to know anything about sewing, with practical things like washing and ironing fabric or you could be good at the admin side, if so please send me an email at b.willoughby1@newcastle.ac.uk or on Instagram Bethisbeing_arty
