{"id":1359,"date":"2021-09-02T13:55:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T12:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fineartcommunityboard\/?page_id=1359"},"modified":"2026-03-05T09:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:27:20","slug":"workshops","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fineartcommunityboard\/workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"PRAXIS Workshops 25-26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The workshop programme 2025-26 is focussed on supporting you with developing your Fine Art practice through a new series of Praxis Workshops<\/em><\/strong> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A series of optional sign-up practice-based workshops delivered by Fine Art researchers and staff taking place throughout the year and dealing with a range of  approaches and themes including: Working with the archive and research<\/strong><\/em>, painting, clay, traditional woodcut, screenprint, drawing cadavers in the dissection Room, augmented reality, exhibition practice well as technical and life drawing sessions to choose from.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students will be able to sign-up for workshops online. Workshops will be released during the Semester. Please check the notice board near the Art Cafe and the Community Board regularly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have accessibility issues contact<\/strong> Christian Mieves to join a waiting list Christian.Mieves@newcastle.ac.uk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Semester 1 (2025-26) Workshops:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Monoprinting <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relief printing:Lino cut reduction<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cyanotype Workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with the Archive and Research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chine coll\u00e9<\/strong> printing<\/strong> tec<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with Clay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Designing Woodcut Ex Libris with Traditional Chinese Motifs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sound workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modular Systems in Ceramic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me \/ movement \/ video compositing \u2013 After-Effects<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A practical guide to exhibition preparation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Augmented Reality – 1 Day Workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing cadavers in the Dissection Room<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SEM1 2024\/5 workshop<\/strong>s <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Introduction to Bookmaking Workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thursday 27th<\/sup> February 10-4pm   Etching Room 4.01<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using traditional bookmaking techniques this workshop will provide you with the basic skills to stich and cover a book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 Places;<\/strong> If you have any access needs, difficulty booking or want to join the waiting list:  email theresa.easton@ncl.ac.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zine Making Workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thursday 13th<\/sup> March 10.30-4pm BALTIC Archive & Library<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using the BALTIC Archive & Library Zine collection as a starting point, this workshop gives you a grounding in the history of zine making and the opportunity to make your own zine to add to the BALTIC archive collection.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 Places;<\/strong> If you have any access needs, difficulty booking or want to join the waiting list:  email theresa.easton@ncl.ac.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SEMESTER 2 WORKSHOPS 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fine Art & Anatomy with Olivia Turner<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday 7th 12.00-15.00, Friday 9th 11.00-14.00, Wednesday 14th 11.30-15.30, Wednesday 21st 11.30-15.30, Wednesday 29th 10.00-17.00 February Wednesday 13th 9.00-12.30 March<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This workshop slowly introduces students to Newcastle University\u2019s Dissection Room and the anatomised body. We will be thinking through creative practice. We will explicitly discuss the dead, dying, ill, and anatomised body. We will be looking at a historic specimen collection of human body parts and also embalmed, prosected body parts of a cadaver. Each session will have a discursive introduction and debrief. In order to take this strand, you must be able to commit to every session.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SESSION ONE | Wednesday 7th Feb \u2013 12-3pm (1-2.30pm in DR room)<\/strong>You will be introduced to the Dissection Room at Newcastle University as a physical, sensorial and conceptual space. We will meet some of the anatomy staff and dissection room technicians. We will have some anatomy educational and teaching models on display in the room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SESSION TWO | Friday 9th<\/sup> Feb \u2013 11-2pm<\/strong> Site visit to the Great North Museum: Hancock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SESSION THREE | Wednesday 14th Feb \u2013 11.30am-3.30pm (1-3pm in DR room)<\/strong>The second session will focus on the Dissection Room\u2019s historic anatomical specimen collection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SESSION FOUR | Wednesday 21st Feb \u2013 11.30am-3.30pm (1-3pm in DR room)<\/strong>This session will focus on cadaveric material (embalmed body parts). Olivia will select this material carefully alongside Dr Emily Green, an anatomy lecturer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SESSION FIVE | Thursday 29th<\/sup> Feb \u2013 10am-1pm \/ 2-5pm<\/strong>Studio group crits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SESSION SIX | Wednesday 13th March \u2013 9am-12.30pm (10-12pm in DR room)<\/strong>The final session will focus on cadaveric material (embalmed body parts). Olivia will select this material carefully alongside Dr Emily Green, an anatomy lecturer. Ahead of the sessions all students will need to sign a code of conduct form to access the Dissection Room. Students are more than welcome to contact Olivia (olivia.turner@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a>) if they have any questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mobile Maker with Giles Bailey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 8th February 11.00-16.30 Life Room<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mobiles are kinetic sculptures that are balanced, suspended and moved by the flow of air. They were made famous by sculptor Alexander Calder. The workshop will guide participants through the construction of a basic mobile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Animated Flip Books using Sound with Alice Highett<\/a><\/strong> CANCELLED<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday 9th February 10.00-13.00 Meet outside the art shop<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through a sensory walk you will do meditative listening and drawing exercises. This will help you to start to think about your environment in a multi-sensory way, including sight, touch and sound. Thinking about the sounds you have heard on our walk, you will make a flip book drawing moving sounds. Flip books supplied. It will involve a walk to Exhibition Park or Civic Centre, depending on weather. Wrap up warm!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Natural Materials: Cordage with Miki Z<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 15th & Friday 16th February 10.00-13.00 Life Room<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn the basics of cordage: plant identification, harvesting, fibre processing and techniques to make usable cordage and simple weave patterns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The session will be split over two consecutive mornings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the first morning will be spent outside. Students need to be advised to wear warm, appropriate clothes and foot ware for all weathers on a February day. If the weather is adverse the session will still go ahead and will be adjusted accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Care-filled not Careful<\/strong> with Lady Kitt<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In her recent Arts Professional article \u201cCan the arts afford to be caring?\u201d artist Dr Lucy Wright reflects on dichotomy between commissioners\u2019 desire to programme art about care and the \u201chunger-games\u201d like reality of being a practicing artist. In this workshop Lady Kitt will hold space for discussion about the complex (and joyful!) realities of being a professional artist, whilst introducing \u201cThe Craftivist Recipes Archive\u201d<\/a> a series of creative tools and exercises they used to centre care-filled practices in their work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Painting & Collage Workshop with Theresa Poulton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 22nd February 10.00-16.00 Life Room<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction to Victor Pasmore’s biomorphic paintings and Jo Hummel’s collage\/paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using magazines and coloured paper students will create a series of small scale abstract collages on card and paper in order to use as reference material for paintings on paper and gesso panels as part of the workshop. Students will focus on reductive abstraction and formalism \u2013 line, shape, composition, colour and form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turning project ideas into practice with Olivia Turner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 22nd February 10.00-13.00 Seminar Room<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a funding workshop to help students to get ideas off the ground and how to formalise it into an application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Soft Sculptures with Melanie Kyles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 29th February & Friday 1st March 10.00-<\/strong>16.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn how to make soft sculpture and quilting, with a focus on 3D form utilising the machine embroidery foot. This workshop takes place off-site at Orbis Community, Unit 9 Interchange Centre, West Street, Gateshead NE8 1BH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to thread, use a sewing machine and preferably experience using the machine embroidery foot required for this workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clay sculpture workshop \/ Form relationship with Liam Aldridge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 29th February & Friday 1st March 10<\/strong>.00-16.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing inspiration from Newcastle\u2019s architecture, participants will craft abstract architectural sculptures. After sculpting, surfaces will be enriched with texture and colour using stamps and slips. The workshop serves as a thorough guide to clay sculpting, offering valuable insights into approaching sculpture development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Introduction to Bookbinding with Theresa Easton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 7th March 9.30-<\/strong>17.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An introduction to simple bookmaking using stitched sections and a hardbacked cover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Introduction to Blender with Claire Breach<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday 8th March 10.00-13.00 Digital Media Suite or<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday 8th March 14.00-17.00<\/strong> Digital Media Suite<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a half day practice-based introduction to Blender which gives you the opportunity to familiarise yourself with the software with a focus on modelling and sculpting. No pre-experience required. The workshop will include: navigating the basic user interface; adding and editing an object; using the modifiers and materials tab, camera controls, lighting, rendering and exporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gond Inspired Collage with Sofia Barton<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday 15th March 10.00-16.00 Life Room<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Create nature based artwork inspired by the Gond tribe in India using recycled and natural materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Letterpress printing with Theresa Easton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 21st March 10.00-16.00 Print Workshops<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An introduction to letterpress printing by hand using a printing press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT PRACTICE: LIFE DRAWING<\/strong> with Mark Bletcher<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dates:<\/strong> 23rd October, 13th, 20th and 27th November 10.00-16.00 Venue:<\/strong> Life Room<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Places available: <\/strong>15 per session (including 1 reserve places for students with digital accessibility issues) Sessions can be booked one week in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tutored life drawing in two sessions: a morning class  (10:30am \u2013 1:00 pm) focusing on gestural ways of working and an afternoon class  (1:30 \u2013 4:00pm) focusing on longer and more sustained studies. Please book only ONE session per week. Sessions can only be booked one week in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Bletcher\u2019s practice is concerned with the subjective and imperfect lens of representational art. He regularly teaches drawing with a focus on methodologies designed to expand our view of what our perception is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drawing From the Past and the Present with Theresa Poulton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday 13th October 10.00-16.30<\/strong> MEET OUTSIDE THE ARTSHOP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Drawing From the Past and the Present’ is an all day creative drawing project informed by the ‘African Lives in Newcastle: City walks’.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will physically follow in the very footsteps of two or possibly three of the activists, orators and abolitionists who feature in the booklet etc and create a sereis of drawings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Documenting Artwork with Tara Alisandratos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday 13th & Monday 16th October 10.00-17.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Documenting Artwork<\/strong> will introduce Students to the role and value of documentation for Artists with a presentation of the range of photographic equipment and the technical issues around taking images of your Artwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image editing <\/strong>and postproduction will introduce you to basic Photoshop tools used for editing your images to for high quality Publishing, Blog, website, Final Year Forum or postgraduate applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These workshops are in two parts: the first<\/strong> will aid you to take photographs of your work (old work is fine, it\u2019s just to learn the process), the second<\/strong> session discusses the placement of these images and will ensure you are producing quality images for publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Introduction to Machine Sewing with Melanie Kyles<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 19th & Friday 20th October <\/strong> & Thursday 7th & Friday 9th December 10.00-16.00<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A two-day comprehensive machine sewing workshop, covering all of the essential techniques to support students with the skills and confidence to develop and strengthen their contemporary arts practise through textiles and material manipulation. This workshop will take place:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orbis Community<\/strong> Unit 9 Interchange Centre, West Street
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Introduction to creating sculpture with clay with Paulina Michnowska<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday 27th October & Friday 24th November 10.00-16.30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These workshops will provide you with the basic techniques used in building with clay. The second workshop will take place 24th November and will introduce glazes, how to make and use them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cyanotype Printing with Jo Howell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 2nd November 10-4.30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A simple overview and exploration of image making using cyanotype photography process. Cyanotype photography is a historical analogue process. Light reactive chemistry is applied to different surfaces and sunlight or uv light is used to create an impression of any object on the surface. Low toxicity and much more ecological for the planet as it requires no special disposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cyanotype Printing with Jo Howell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 16th November 10.00 – 16.30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This popular workshop is a repeat of the one at the beginning of November. Cyanotype photography is a historical analogue process. Light reactive chemistry is applied to different surfaces and sunlight or uv light is used to create an impression of any object on the surface. Low toxicity and much more ecological for the planet as it requires no special disposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zine making with Theresa Easton at BALTIC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 23rd November 14.00-16.00<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DIY self-published pamphlet style books. This short workshop will take place in the Libary at BALTIC on Level 2. We will have access to the BALTIC archive collection, meet the archivist working with the zines and make a number of zines using a range of design formats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blender Workshop with Oisin Stanley-Stephenson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday 24th November 10.00-17.00<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Render Fictions: Create a Photorealistic image using found 3D models in blender. A workshop, both practical and conceptual, teaching students how to use pre-existing 3D models in blender. I will teach how to find and import 3D models and textures, use HDRIs, and render and composite an image in blender to create a photorealistic effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bookmaking with Sajil Kaleem<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday 8th December 10.00-16.30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Foraging for ART with Sabina Sallis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 7th & Friday 8th December 10.00-16.00<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These workshops focus on tactile and sensual immersion within the season and its weather and attunement to Multispecies Bioavailable Wonder.  You will learn basics of foraging with its rules and principles, we will experiment with seasonal wild-crafting and improvised, re-enactment of ancestral practices. As well as looking for what sustenance we can find in the winter landscape, we will forage for materials, observations, ideas, knowledge and experiences to collectively create ceremonial performance space in which we will collectively invoke and celebrate the spirit and energies of the season. A part of this will be making \u201cweather sound devices\u201d as tools for improvisation and collective performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workshop is part of Sabina\u2019s pedagogy centered on World building through Land Practice and Multispecies Thinking and Making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Introduction to ceramics with Paulina Michnowska<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 2nd February & 9th March 2023 10.00-16.30<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction to creating sculpture with clay. The first session will provide you with the basic techniques used in building with clay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT PRACTICE: LIFE DRAWING
Dates: 6 Feb, 13 Feb, 20 Feb, 27 Feb, 6 March, 13 March, 20 March. 10 – 1pm & 1.30-4.30 PM
Facilitator: Mark Bletcher
Venue: Life Room
Places available: 15 per session (including 2 reserve places for students with digital accessibility issues) Sessions can be booked one week in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tutored life drawing in two sessions: a morning class  (10:00am – 1:00 pm) focusing on gestural ways of working and an evening class  (1:30 – 4:30pm) focusing on longer and more sustained studies. Please book only ONE<\/em><\/strong> session per week. Sessions can only be booked one week in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Bletcher’s practice is concerned with the subjective and imperfect lens of representational art. He regularly teaches drawing with a focus on methodologies designed to expand our view of what our perception is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT PRACTICE: FILM WORKSHOP \u2013 MOBILE MEDITATIONS
Dates: Thursdays 9 Feb, 16 Feb, 23 Feb, 9 March 2023, 11- 1 PM Facilitator: Alice Highet
Info: 4 day videos making workshop using your mobile phone. Venue: Life Room + Windsor Terrace Basement
Places available: 10 (including 2 reserve places for students with digital accessibility issues) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subvert fast media (mobile phones) to make slow art. Use meditative exercises in outside spaces, to explore multi-sensory and embodied filmmaking. Through watching films and reading, learn about deep looking and listening. Make artworks using affordable and available apps. Make and exhibit work using just what you have in your pockets, using technology deigned to distract us, to help us pay attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 workshops, running over 4 weeks.<\/strong>
Make, edit and exhibit films on your mobile phone.
Day and time:<\/strong> Thurdays 11 am-1 pm
Where and when:<\/strong> 9th Feb – Life room, 16th feb – Life room and outside venue, 23rd Feb – Windsor Terrace Bassment, 9th March – TBC
Who:<\/strong> Alice Highet, www.alicehighet.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Papermaking with a mould and deckle with Sarah March<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday 10th February 2023 10.00-17.00<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A one day workshop demonstrating how to make paper from recycled pulp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vray (Virtual Exhibitions Workshop with Connor Clements of Dovetail Joints & WetDovetail Virtual Arts<\/a>: Morning Session<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday 10th February 2023 10.00-13.00<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This interactive 2 hour workshop in the Digital Media Suite  is designed to serve as an introduction to utilizing the virtual realm in your artistic practice. Previous experience in Sketchup preferred but not essential. This workshop will cover basic 3D modelling skills in Sketchup to create new objects and spaces, rendering these assets using Vray and using the Cloudpano virtual tour software to create 360 degree VR exhibitions from these renders. Following the workshops there will 1 hr for 1-1 tutorials about your Vray project or advice.
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Friday 10th February 2023 14.00-17.00 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This interactive 2 hour workshop in the Digital Media Suite  is designed to serve as an introduction to utilizing the virtual realm in your artistic practice. Previous experience in Sketchup preferred but not essential. This workshop will cover basic 3D modelling skills in Sketchup to create new objects and spaces, rendering these assets using Vray and using the Cloudpano virtual tour software to create 360 degree VR exhibitions from these renders. Following the workshops there will 1 hr for 1-1 tutorials about your Vray project or advice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT PRACTICE: POETRY & COLLAGE WORKSHOP
Dates: 16th 10-5pm and 17th 9-1.30pm Feb 2023
Facilitator: Lynn Hagan
Info: This workshop aims to provide you with tactics on how to forage through this visual and textual wilderness in a way that will create an artwork as you go as part of a live process. Venue: Windsor Terrace Places available: 20 (including 2 reserve places for students with digital accessibility issues)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT PRACTICE: WORKSHOP IN VIDEO, SOUND AND VOICE RHYTHMS Dates: 17 Feb & 20 Feb 2023, 9.00 \u2013 5pm.
Facilitator: Rebecca Lennon
Info: Work with artist Rebecca Lennon to write and record short-form experimental texts that are transformed into sonic video artworks using poly-vocal composition, and rhythmical editing techniques. Venue: Life Room Places available: 20 (including 2 reserve places for students with digital accessibility issues) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT PRACTICE: PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP
Date: Thurs 23 & Fri 24 February, 9.00 \u2013 5pm. Facilitator: Nicola Singh
Venue: Armstrong Building
Places available: 10 (including 2 reserve places for students with digital accessibility issues) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An introduction to performance making techniques through a range of somatic, breath-work and meditative exercises. These practices can help attune us to our physical bodies, our inner life and to our surroundings and experiences of time. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Expect gentle movement, vocal work, listening exercises and experimental writing and drawing exercises alongside breath-work and meditation.

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A workshop like no other! with Cameron Jarvie<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 23rd February 2023 12.30-16.30 OR Friday 24th February 2023 12.30-16.30<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rapid making workshop in which participants work together in
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Socially Engaged Arts with Helix Arts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 2nd March 2023 10-4pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Micro sessions exploring Socially Engaged Arts and Participatory Arts with Helix Arts Director Cheryl Gavin. Working with artists, Helix Arts have a person-centred practice supporting individuals and community groups to identify, shape and build pathways to find and express themselves as artmakers, arts audiences and arts volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT PRACTICE : 1- DAY PAINTING WORKSHOP: COLOUR & HARMOINIES Date: Thurs 2nd March 10.00 \u2013 5pm
Facilitator: Ben Senior
Venue: Windsor Terrace  Max No: 12  (including 2 reserve places for students with digital accessibility issues) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT PRACTICE : 1-DAY PAINTING WORKSHOP: EGG TEMPRA TECHNIQUES  Date: Fri 3 March. 9.30 \u2013 5pm
Facilitator: Ben Senior
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ABOUT PRACTICE : 1 -DAY WORKSHOP IN HISTORICAL PAINTING TECHNIQUES: VENETIAN PAINTING  Date: Thurs 9 March  10.00 \u2013 5pm Facilitator: Ben Senior  Venue: Windsor Terrace Max No: 12  (including 2 reserve places for students with digital accessibility issues) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT PRACTICE : 1 -DAY WORKSHOP IN HISTORICAL PAINTING TECHNIQUES: THE ANTWERP SCHOOL  Date: Fri 10 March. 9.30 \u2013 5pm
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Print & Drawing Portfolio making workshop with Theresa Easton<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 9th March 2023 10.00 – 16.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A hand made portfolio is an ideal way to present a collection of prints and drawings.  Using traditional book making techniques this workshop is a great introduction to designing a bespoke folder using print paste techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CANCELLED: Drawing & Cartoon Workshop with Sara Qaed<\/strong>. 10 places available including 2 reserve places for students with digital accessibility issues)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday 17th March 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Talk:<\/strong> Artist Practice, Visualizing News, Illustrating Politics, barriers and Editing process.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workshop:<\/strong> Drawing and comic exercises. News-DIY: Bring a selection of newspapers on the table, edit the news by cutting and paste, sketching over news and leave the newspapers on metro. Wearable signs: combining wearable pieces, protesting banners and performance using t-shirts or tote bags. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT PRACTICE: DIGITAL ANIMATION WORKSHOP Date: Thurs 23 & Fri 24 March, 10.00 \u2013 4pm. Facilitator: Petra Szeman
Venue: Media Suite
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Letterpress and Relief Printing Date: 30th March 2023 10-4pm With Theresa Easton Venue: Print Room 4.01<\/strong> Places available: 8 (including 2 reserve places for students with digital accessibility issues)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taster session using traditional letter press and simple relief printing techniques. Using colour, textures, type and the printing press we’ll be designing a series of poster prints, exploring the rich tradition of text in art, banners and posters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT PRACTICE: PROMETHEUS PAINTING WORKSHOP Date: 27 March \u2013 15 April 2023
Facilitator: Christian Mieves
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INFO BRIEFING:
The ZOOM recoding of the briefing is available here<\/a>.
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– Why would you like to take part in the project?
– How will the project benefit your work?
– Are you available at the project dates 27 March \u2013 15 April.
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Zinemaking Workshop with Theresa Easton<\/strong> -note new date!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 20th April 2-5pm The Library, Level 2, BALTIC Centre for Contmeporary Art Places available: 12 (including 2 reserve places for students with digital accessibility issues).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zines can be self-published, DIY, pamphlet style magazines made collaboratively or individually. Using the resources in the library at BALTIC this workshop introduces you to some simple techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT PRACTICE : EXPANDED NARRATIVE PAINTING WORKSHOP: <\/strong>.with Andras Nagy-Sandor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 4th May 9.30-5pm Life Room <\/strong> Places available: <\/strong>10 (including 2 reserve places for students with digital accessibility issues). A brief introduction to various formats of figurative painting and it\u2019s relationship with surface and context; followed by a collaborative painting and installation building exercise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT PRACTICE: Fine Art & Anatomy Facilitator: Olivia Turner Date: 25th April, 3rd & 5th May Max No: 12 (including 2 reserve places for students with digital accessibility issues) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This workshop slowly introduces students to Newcastle University\u2019s Dissection Room and the anatomised body. We will be thinking through creative practice. We will explicitly discuss the dead, dying, ill, and anatomised body. We will be looking at a historic specimen collection of human body parts and also embalmed, prosected body parts of a cadaver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SESSION ONE | Tuesday 25th Apr 10am – 1pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will be introduced to the Dissection Room at Newcastle University as a physical, sensorial and conceptual space. We will meet some of the anatomy staff and dissection room technicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second session will focus on the Dissection Room\u2019s historic anatomical specimen collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The final session will focus on cadaveric material (embalmed body parts). Olivia will select this material carefully alongside an anatomy lecturer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT PRACTICE : Film & Sound Taster Workshop with Alice Highet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 27th April 2023<\/strong> Subvert fast media (mobile phones) to make slow art. Use meditative exercises in outside spaces, to explore multi-sensory and embodied filmmaking. Make artworks using affordable and available apps. Make and exhibit work using just what you have in your pockets, using technology deigned to distract us, to help us pay attention. Places: 10 (including 2 reserve places for students with digital accessibility issues) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT PRACTICE : <\/strong>TEXTILE WORKSHOP Collective Textile Dreamscapes with Mani Kambo <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 11th May 2023 9.30-5pm , Venue: Life Room.<\/strong> INFO: 1 day workshop. Individually, collectively and collaboratively we will work in textile and print with a starting point of dreamscapes, narrative, repetition and meditation. Exploring methods of creation through mark making, shapes and line. Using simple stencil, block and layering techniques to create artworks that we will expanded upon to create a collaborative piece by the end of the session. 12 Places available There will also be follow-up 1-1 tutorials available Friday 12th May. Email: mani.k.kambo@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friday 12 May 2023 10am \u2013 3pm Venue: Culture Lab Sound Studio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this 1 day workshop Tim Shaw will lead a number of exercises to explore sound walking and listening. The workshop will invite students to document their local environments using various sound recording technologies. Through collaborative tasks and scores the group will create a multimedia map made up of creative documentation. The workshop will culminate in an installation formed by collective making and intermedia thinking. This session is suitable for students interested in Sound Art, New Media, Mapping and Walking. Please bring sound recorders and microphones, if you have them.  12 places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT PRACTICE: STONE AND WOOD CARVING WORKSHOP N.B.: Date September 2023
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