Gel Plate Monoprint Workshop with Alice Strange

Date: Saturday 27th November
Time: 10am-5pm
Place: The Rockfield Centre
Cost: £50

Part of the Calmac Coastal Creatives, Alice Strange returns to The Rockfield Centre with her previously sell out Gel Plate Monoprint Workshop.

In this one day workshop, participants will use a gelatin (gel) plate, with simple tools, common objects, stamps and stencils, to produce a series of one-off prints (monotypes), both spontaneous and planned.

By the end of the workshop, participants should feel confident enough to use and experiment with the gel plate printmaking technique in their own environments.

Course structure:

10am-12:30
Introduction to gel plate monoprinting and review of examples
Introduction to equipment, materials and workstation layout
Mindset pep talk
Introduction to gel plate techniques (part I), with demonstrations
Printmaking!

12:30-13:30
Lunch break

13:30-17:00
Introduction to gel plate techniques (part II), with demonstrations
Printmaking!
Recap – distribution of course notes - Q&A

Artist Alice Strange, lives and works in Oban. She has degrees in electrical engineering, operations research and art history and has been trained by master printmakers in screenprinting, collagraphy and gel plate monoprinting. She has been a member of the Glasgow Print Studio since 2011 and was the Featured Artist in September 2021. Her exhibition ‘The Art of Science’ featured a series of gel plate monoprints.

“Everything I use to make work is in my life – it’s a matter of what I come across, what I look at and what I pay attention to: art, science, music, literature, politics, the earth, the sea, the sky, people, memories, the big questions … I process the input by making stuff, using whatever medium is on hand – relief printing, screen printing, collage (analogue & digital), cyanotype, paint, textile & assemblage.”