Belfast Print Workshop

Viscosity Mono-printing Using Colour Layers with Stencils and Rollers with Josephine McCormick

One day workshop, Sat 7th Sep

Title of Course; Viscosity Mono-printing using Colour Layers (One day workshop)

Date: Saturday 7th September 2024

Time: 10am - 4pm

Venue: Belfast Print Workshop, Cotton Court Building, 30-42 Waring St., Belfast, BT1 2ED

Contact: [email protected]

Booking: bpw.org.uk/classes

Price: £75 (all materials included)

Etching & Aquatint Weekend Course with Karen Daye-Hutchinson

Sat 31st Aug & Sun 1st Sep 2024, 10am - 4pm (each day)

Two day weekend course, this weekend

£140.00 (all materials included)

For booking and further information, please visit

bpw.org.uk/classes

Belfast Print Workshop (BPW) Call out for new members

Print portfolio submission deadline - Tuesday 27th August 2024

Contact [email protected] for further information and to set a date and time for dropping off portfolios

Visit bpw.org.uk

Belfast Print Workshop
Cotton Court Building
30-42 Waring Street
Belfast
Bt1 2ED

BPW is located on the third floor of the Cotton Court Building

Lift access available

(See previous post for terms and conditions)

Collagraph Printing Weekend with Ivan Frew, Sat 24th & Sun 25th Aug, 2024, 10am - 4pm

£140.00 (all materials included)

Join established printmaker and long-time member Ivan Frew on this weekend workshop in Collograph Printing.
Collographs are the printed results from a ‘collage plate’. This course will focus on painterly printmaking techniques, perfect for creating expressive, textured images with a depth of colour and variety of mark-making.

From 10am until 4pm each day, you will learn how to create professional printmaking plates using safe, inexpensive and easily obtainable materials, printed with high quality printmaking inks and archival papers. Come prepared with your sketches and inspirational images, and recreate an original work or an edition of prints to give away as presents

This is a weekend course over two days, 10am - 4pm each day

All materials are provided on the course

To book and further information,

bpw.org.uk/classes

Belfast Print Workshop (BPW) is hiring

Please see poster for contact details and the closing date

See previous BPW posts for further information

bpw.org.uk

Collagraph Printing Weekend with Ivan Frew, Sat 24th & Sun 25th Aug, 2024, 10am - 4pm

£140.00 (all materials included)

Join established printmaker and long-time BPW member Ivan Frew on this weekend workshop in Collograph Printing

Collographs are the printed results from a ‘collage plate’

This course will focus on painterly printmaking techniques, perfect for creating expressive, textured images with a depth of colour and variety of mark-making

From 10am until 4pm each day you will learn how to create professional printmaking plates using safe, inexpensive and easily obtainable materials, printed with high quality printmaking inks and archival papers.

Come prepared with your sketches and inspirational images, and recreate an original work or an edition of prints to give away as presents

This is a weekend course over two days, 10am - 4pm each day

To book please visit link below,

bpw.org.uk/classes

Communications and Marketing Officer
(Reporting to the Board of Trustees)

Belfast Print Workshop (BPW) have been awarded funding from the Future Foundations Artwork Programme to continue the role of Communications and Marketing Officer.

BPW will offer one talented individual, employment, and immersion in a fully creative environment to develop and implement a digital management programme.

As a shared artist’s studio workspace, with a current membership of 70 (approx) artists, alongside visiting artists, studio events and exhibitions,the potential for creative development is vast.

As an established and well-respected art hub in the city centre, Belfast Print Workshop offers a structured opportunity within which to advance creative industry knowledge within the visual arts.

The post holder will work within all areas of the organisation’s diverse range of activity and programmes. The role will have a digital focus and use new technologies and resources to garner further audience reach and deeper engagement with audiences.

Our hope would be to build on our initial and recent advancement in the use of website led interactions and develop a stronger use of web presence to market and develop audience interaction both digitally and in real life.

The skill development opportunities within this newly created role will offer the post holder some freedom to research and trial their own design skills. There will be prescribed tasks and objective based work alongside the potential opportunity to try new formats and approaches.

Does creating digital content for over 70 artists and their shared studio sound like a positive challenge?

Can you demonstrate how you understand the link between good website management and social media activity increasing engagement both digitally and in real life?

Do you find artists inspiring?

What does audience engagement mean to you?

Are you 100% proficient in use of the Squarespace platform, and social media platforms,including but not limited to: Instagram, Facebook, TikTok.

Can you signpost us to your work online?

Can you demonstrate how you can plan and work on long-term projects and navigate a programme of work

Belfast Print Workshop (BPW) member Karen Daye Hutchinson facilitated a bookbinding class with the Dromara Arts Group at the Lagan Centre in Dromara

Funded by the ACNI Rural Engagement Programme

The bookbinding class is number six in a series of printmaking classes facilitated by six different BPW members

Previous classes included monoprinting, drypoint, gelli printing, linocut, and letterpress printing

Thank you to ACNI, the facilitators, the facilitated, Dromara Arts Group, and the Lagan Centre in making this a worthwhile programme

For information and further details on any future BPW classes, events and exhibitions please visit

bpw.org.uk

Belfast Print Workshop (BPW)

Call out for new BPW members' terms and conditions

Please see the post for dates and times

bpw.org.uk

Belfast Print Workshop (BPW)

Call out for new BPW members

Please see the post for dates and times

Please see the terms and conditions in the next post for further information

BPW is a charitable company limited by guarantee, established in 1977 to welcome artists interested in the practice and promotion of the art of printmaking

As a membership-focused atelier, BPW provides a fully equipped and purpose-built studio with year-round access for a capacity of 100 artists

BPW offers an extensive programme of practical courses, alongside open studios and demonstrations, designed to enhance public knowledge, understanding and appreciation of printmaking

BPW also provides opportunities for residencies, exhibitions, skills and professional advancement, to support the income, wellbeing and livelihood of its artists and the communities they work with

bpw.org.uk

Only a couple of places available on the bookbinding course with Karen Daye-Hutchinson at Belfast Print Workshop (BPW) tomorrow

Bookbinding Day

Saturday 3rd August 2024

10am - 4pm

£75 (All materials included)

Venue - Belfast Print Workshop, Waring St. Belfast, BT1 2ED

Booking and further information about the class at,

bpw.org.uk/classes

bpw.org.uk

Email, [email protected] if you have any questions

No previous experience is required

Open to all

Accessible lift available

Successful opening night for Margarte Ellis original print making solo exhibition

Exhibition continues throughout August

Contact [email protected] to arrange a viewing or call into BPW during opening hours

See link below for further information on courses and exhibitions

bpw.org.uk

Late Night Art at Belfast Print Workshop

BPW Member Margaret Ellis solo exhibition, aquatint etchings, The Stones Speak

Opening this evening 6pm - 9pm

Press buzzer number 8 for intercom access

BPW Gallery and Studio located on third floor

Cotton Court Building

BT1 2ED

Open to all, accessible lift available

bpw.org.uk

A chat about art, activism and archiving with artist and organiser Kate O’Shea

18+

Date:1 Aug 2024

Time:11am - 1pm

Duration:120 mins

Location:The Common Room at the MAC

Free, but booking required

https://themaclive.com/event/a-chat-about-art-activism-and-archiving-with-artist-and-organizer-kate-oshea

Adana Letterpress printing workshop at Dromara with the Dromara Arts Group facilitated by Belfast Print Workshop (BPW), funded by the ACNI Rural Engagement Programme

Letterpress printing workshop is the fifth in a series of six BPW facilitated workshops

The next workshop will be bookbinding

Previous workshops facilitated by BPW members included monoprinting, drypoint, linocut, and gelli printing

For information about printmaking classes with BPW, please visit

bpw.org.uk/classes

Bookbinding workshop with Karen Daye Hutchinson at Belfast Print Workshop (BPW)

Details

One day bookbinding workshop

To book, please visit

bpw.org.uk/classes

Saturday 3rd August 2024

10am - 4pm

BPW, Cotton Court Building, 30-42 Waring Street, Belfast, BT1 2ED

BPW Studio and Gallery is located on the third floor (Press buzzer 8 for intercom access)

£75 - (all materials included, i.e., book cloth, thread, archival paper...)

Open to all, no previous experience necessary, accessible lift

You will be guided through the process of creating a stunning hand made book

Using beautiful traditional book cloth, you will learn how to construct durable and visually captivating covers

Belfast Print Workshop (BPW) member Margaret Ellis facilitated a Geli printing workshop with the Dromara Arts Group, part of a series of printmaking classes funded by ACNI, Rural Engagement Programme

Previous workshops included monoprinting, linocut and drypoint, facilitated by different BPW member faciliatators

The next classes in the series will be Letterpress and Bookbinding

Margaret Ellis also has a solo exhibition of aquatint etchings opening Thursday 1st August, 6pm -9pm in the BPW Gallery

All welcome, open access, accessible lift

bpw.org.uk

Examples of some of the prints created by participants on artist in residence Perry Johnson (in parnership with Seacourt Print Workshop), lift grounds workshop held at Belfast Print Workshop

Using various techniques and lift solutions, acrylic and oil based methods in conjuction with etching

New printmaking courses available for August 2024 are now available

bpw.org.uk/classes

Lift Ground workshop with artist in residence Perry Johnson at Belfast Print Workshop underway today

Learning about various lift ground pencils and other diverse grounds

Linda McBurney solo print exhibition continues until Thursday, 25th July 2024, at Belfast Print Workshop (BPW), BT1 2ED

Open to all, accessible lift available

Press buzzer number 8 for intercom access when dropping in, BPW studio and gallery located on the third floor of the Cotton Court Building, Waring St, BT1 2ED

Open 10am - 4pm

Email, [email protected] for viewing appointments

www.bpw.org.uk

Féile an Phobail programme released

1st - 11th August 2024

www.feilebelfast.com

Belfast Print Workshop (BPW) member Margaret Ellis solo exhibition is mentioned

Venue - BPW, Cotton Court Building, 30-42 Waring St. Belfast, BT1 2ED

Exhibition Opening reception - Thursday late night art Belfast, 1st August, 6pm - 9pm

Exhibition continues - Tuesday 27th August 2024

All welcome, access to all, lift available, BPW Gallery and Studio located on third floor

www.bpw.org.uk

Source Photography Writing Prize 2024

 

Writing Prize:

We are always looking for new writers to contribute to Source. If you've not written for Source before we invite you to send us an article. The winning entry will receive £500/€570 and we will either publish it or commission you to write an article for us in the future. All short listed entries will also be considered for publication or for future commissions (paid).

 

Most of the writing in Source takes a specific form: book reviews, exhibition reviews or texts introducing sets of pictures, so these would be good models to follow. But we are also interested in others forms of writing so if you want to submit something in a different form, then please do. Our interest in photography is not only about the photographs that appear in books and exhibitions; it touches most aspects of life and we like to read about those encounters too. This could be an article about a particular photograph of historical, aesthetic or biographical interest to you. It could be about some cultural or philosophical aspect of photography. It could be something we've not thought about. We enjoy writing that is thoughtful, funny, well researched and surprising. It could be personal or dispassionate. It could be fun, or deadly serious. It might shed new light on something we thought we knew or introduce us to something we've never heard of before.

The rules:

1. You should not have written for Source before.
2. The article must be no more than 700 words.
3. The article should not have been published previously.
4. It should include your name and contact email.
5. It should be submitted by 5.30pm (GMT) on 1 August 2024

What will happen next:

Everything submitted will be read by Source Editor Richard West who will long-list entries. The Source staff will collectively choose the shortlist and winner. We will aim to reply to everyone who has submitted an article by 20 September (depending on how many submissions there are).

All details can be found on our website via https://www.source.ie/writingprize2024/

Bookbinding Day with Karen Daye-Hutchinson

Saturday 3rd August 2024

10am - 4pm

£75.00

Belfast Print Workshop, BT1 2ED

New printmaking courses published with Belfast Print Workshop (BPW)

View the website for more details and courses

bpw.org.uk/classes

Lift Ground Printmaking Workshop with Perry Johnson, One day workshop, Friday 26th July 2024, 10am - 4pm

Drawing and painting are so direct, and that's where most of us start. For the beginner, it can be a big step to visualize how a needled hard ground may look when printed. Lift grounds can bridge that because one can draw with a dark material on a light background. In the workshop, we'll explore direct mark making with various drawings and painting media and appropriate grounds.

Belfast Print Workshop (BPW) is pleased to host Perry Johnson, MFA, Associate Professor - Painting & Printmaking, School of Art, Craft & Design, Tennessee Tech University, artist residency for a week in July

Perry will be sharing his knowledge, and a workshop has been arranged to explore this interesting technique while he is with BPW (in partnership with Seacourt Print Workshop)

Join Perry in the BPW studio for this one day workshop

Date - Friday 26th July 2024,

Time - 10am - 4pm

Price - £75

Venue - Belfast Print Workshop (BPW), Cotton Court Building, 30-42 Waring Street, BT1 2ED

Materials are all provided on the course, but please bring any additional drawing, painting materials and of course an idea and/or image as inspiration

(Any BPW members interested in attending this class, please contact the BPW Office for further details in advance of booking)

Linda and fam

BPW member, Linda McBurney solo exhibition

Linda McBurney solo exhibition open 6pm - 9pm this evening 4th July 2024

Belfast Print Workshop

Chasing Ghosts

BPW member, Linda McBurney solo print artwork exhibition

Opening - Thursday 4th July 2024 , 6pm - 9pm (Late night art)

Exhibition continues 25/07/24

Belfast Print Workshop (BPW)
Cotton Court Building (3rd Floor)
30-42 Waring Street
Belfast
BT1 2ED

bpw.org.uk

Press buzzer 8 for intercom access

Open to all

Lift available

Belfast Print Workshop (BPW), awarded the Bank of Ideas award for our big idea hosted at 2 Royal Avenue today

Thank you to everyone who voted

It was an exciting day, meeting everyone and sharing ideas together

Thank you to Niamh and the Belfast City Council team

BPW will have further updates on our idea, a large scale Print soon, C'mon and Print Belfast