Thursday 14th - Friday 15th January 2027
$225 workshop only
From Scratch and Smudge - Drypoint with Monotype on Aluminium / Catherine Macdonald
Drypoint is a traditional intaglio technique that results in images made by scoring directly into the surface of the plate, producing a rich vigorous expressive mark.
This 2 day workshop we will be exploring mark making techniques on the plate using needles, nails, sandpaper - bring your own Dremel if you have one and earmuffs. We will look at plate wiping and using a 2nd monotype plate to create added texture and depth.
Participants are encouraged to bring source materials, drawing and printmaking tools.
This 2 day workshop will cover:
Health and Safety
Plate making experimentation of tools and the marks they can produce
Printing technique - Plate wiping to create atmosphere
Monotype drawing and wiping techniques
General topics:
Print Edition - Record keeping
Paper Cutting
Packing and storage of prints
Catherine MacDonald - Profile
Catherine Macdonald was born in Whanganui, New Zealand. She studied Fine Arts at Whanganui Regional Polytechnic and graduated in 1997 with a BFA majoring in Printmaking. Her practice has branched out to include printmaking (mainly drypoint, woodcut, letterpress), bookbinding, drawing, writing and furniture making. In 1998 she was Community Artist in Residence for the Community Arts Council Whanganui, and she partook in residencies in 1999 at Pompallier in Russell, in 2017 at The Art Vault, Mildura, Australia, and in 2020 she was the In-Print resident at The Caselberg Trust, Dunedin. She has worked in the Museum/Gallery fields and more recently has been employed as a draft person in an architectural firm.
2010 she was the Open Award winner, in the Whanganui Arts Review, Sarjeant Gallery, with the work A Place Where Things Really Happen and in 2020 her work Just a Moment, won the Article & Money Poppins Excellence Award in the Whanganui Arts Review.
In 2003 she was commissioned to design and hand print the cover for Real Life Bird Song published by Wai-te-Ata Press, V.U.W. In 2014 she produced the cover for a book of poetry by Airini Beautrais Dear Neil Roberts, published by VUP. She has had articles published in Imprint, The Journal of the Print Council of Australia and Printmaking Today, UK. She was a founding Trustee of the Whanganui Artists Open Studios Event, and a committee member of the Whanganui Literary Festival.
Represented by:
Railway Street Studios, Auckland, https://www.railwaystreetstudios.co.nz
Paper-Works, Napier, https://www.paper-works.co.nz/
Online
website: catherinemacdonald.co.nz
blog: catherinemacdonaldnz.wordpress.com
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catherinemacdonaldartist/
