outreach courses

Screenprinting - think 'Banksy' This is a creative screen-printing course. From mixing your water-based inks and printing using simple paper stencils you will go on to layer and create a multi layered design.

£35 per student (min 12, max 16 participants)

Screenprinting (photographic) workshop - think "Andy Warhol",

We will show you how to coat and expose a photographic image onto screen and then to register and print your final key colour bringing the image together.

£35 per student (min 12, max 16 participants)

Relief printing workshop (What a Relief) “ Think "German expressionists"

We will show you how to design your block and cut precisely. You will be shown how to ink your lino consistently and print your block with barens, allowing you to print at home and develop your practice. You will come away with a handful of prints and your own cut lino block to carry on editioning at home.

£30 per student (min 12, max 16 participants)

Creative Collagraph workshop - Transform simple mount-card into printing plates that can hold texture, tone, line and expressive marks. We will show you how to cut fine details and intricate designs from the card, as well as how to add different tones with carborundum, sandpaper, and various tapes. Sealing the plate with varnishes can also be a creative tool and add an expressive finish to the plates.

£30 per student (min 12, max 16 participants)

Copper Sulphate Etching workshop - Copper sulphate is quick and effective on aluminium and unlike nitric acid there is no need for an extraction cabinet. It is suitable for etching safely at school/college. You will be instructed on how to mix your own copper sulphate recipe and experiment with different ways of mark-making using hard ground and soft ground and various resists.

£30 per student (min 12, max 16 participants)

Monoprinting workshop - Spend an enthralling and messy day taking your drawings, sketchbooks, photographs and found material in a new direction. You will be taught to work with different materials to add to your mark-making through trace and free-hand drawn monoprinting, adding colour, overprinting and juxtaposing lines and marks then develop a wide range of painterly marks working directly onto a perspex plate and printing through our etching presses. These one-off prints are full of vitality and expression.

£30 per student (min 12, max 16 participants)

Drypoint workshop - Bring new life and a fresh vocabulary to your drawing and sketching, you will be shown how to scratch into plates in a raw and dynamic manner creating a range of marks, which can be inked, wiped and printed in different ways to create vibrant and stunning prints. Go on to experiment with electric Dremels and sandpaper. This course marries up the best of both worlds of drawing and printmaking and is ideal for beginners.

£30 per student (min 12, max 16 participants)

We hope that you find something that interests you and your students, and look forward to working with you.

We have over 30 years of experience in running a hugely successful and popular education programme of courses & workshops, both in-house and as outreach at schools, colleges, galleries and community venues. 

Here are just some of the organisations and schools we have had the pleasure to work with:

• The Guardian
• The Premier League
• Manchester International Festival
• Venture Arts
• We Invented The Weekend
• MUBI Film Festival
• Lime Arts 
• Middlewood Locks Fest
• The National Trust
• Manchester Metropolitan University
• Warrington Museum and Art Gallery  
• Victoria Baths
• Lady lever Art Gallery
• The University of Sheffield
• The University of Manchester
• Encounters schools project

Local schools including primary and secondary and colleges/sixth forms 

• Huddersfield College 
• Cardinal Newman College
• Patricroft School
• Loreto College
• Bolton College
• Ellesmere Park High School
• Salford City Academy
• Helsby High
• Manchester Art Teachers' Collective