A Fresh Look at Collographs

Thank you for registering for :-

Collagraph Workshop with Basil Hall.

Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May - 10am - 4pm

at The Makers Studio - Russell Drysdale St, East Gosford.

Basil Hall will introduce techniques for creating beautiful prints using collagraph plates. Collagraphs are usually printed from an inexpensive matrix made of modelled and textured card, rather than the metal plates traditionally used in etching. Ply, masonite, old etching plates and perspex are other surfaces that can be used as a surface on which to build up and cut away a design or image.

The workshop will involve looking at many of the ways in which the plates can be built up in a painterly way or carved into to create the lines, tones and textures you want in your finished print. Once the plates have been made and varnished, Basil will spend some time discussing different intaglio and relief printing techniques, a la poupée inking, viscosity over-rolls and multi-plate colour printing. Participants will be able to proof and print their images in full colour. Collagraph prints are inked up and printed in a similar way to etching plates and look every bit as crisp and dynamic as their more famous counterparts. Bring your imagination and a sense of adventure. Two fun days of cutting, painting, peeling, varnishing, sanding, collaging, inking and rolling up await you.

Basil biography

Basil Hall has been working as an artist and a collaborating printer with artists since graduating from Canberra School of Art (CSA) in the 80s. From 1987 until 1996 he was Director of Studio One, Canberra’s access printmaking and editioning workshop. He also taught at CSA and assisted his mentor, Jorg Schmeisser, edition his prints.

A valuable research trip to studios and workshops overseas followed, as a result of 1995 Churchill Fellowship. A short time after his return to Australia, he was appointed printmaking lecturer at the Northern Territory University. Here he also gathered a group of experienced printmakers and ran the University’s Northern Editions before leaving to found his own business, Basil Hall Editions, in 2002 with many of the same staff.

Basil and the group made prints with many hundreds of artists from over 55 Art Centres in Central Australia, Arnhem Land, the Tiwi Islands and Kimberley area of Western Australia,travelling regularly to remote aboriginal communities and other locations in Australia and overseas to work on printmaking projects.

Basil is now based in Canberra, ACT but continues to run workshops and collaborate with artists Australia-wide and in Skopelos, Greece, each year. He occasionally makes prints under his own name too.

we will supply:-

2 x plates -A range of sizes up to - 30cm x 20 cm card plates

inks/tarlatan/plate oil/press/rollers

2 x sheets 300gsm printing paper

range of textures/papers etc

tools/brushes/pencils

please bring

wear Old clothes

Disposable gloves (a packet of the close fitting ones; not the big formless floppy ones or washing up gloves)

Ideas in the form of drawings, photos, iPads

Small Exacto or Olfa cutting knife with replaceable blades if you have one

Other printmaking tools that they think might make interesting marks

Any interesting textural stuff such as a variety of papers, tissue, corrugated card, thin card, old textured wallpapers, cereal box card, fine bandage, glad wrap, thin wet and dry sandpaper, fine fabric and even some more organic things like oats, lichen, salt and other fine plant material, as listed above. ( we will supply some but always good to bring along your own)

• Your lunch,

• Wear closed in shoes

note: tea and coffee and light morning tea provided

please do not attend if unwell.