The Magic of Monotypes: Explorations in Printmaking
Registration
Charley Young
Monday to Friday, August 12 – August 16, 2024
10:00am – 4:00pm
This five (5) day workshop will explore various low-tech, off the press, printmaking techniques, including trace monotypes, tetra-pak drypoint, embossments, watercolour monotypes, and image transfers. Participants will have the opportunity to experiment with monotype techniques, a hybrid approach to creating one-of-a-kind printed images, using imagery and subject matter of their own interest. All techniques will utilize basic materials and hand printing techniques which are suitable for at-home work.
This workshop is intended to focus on exploration, and experimentation and is suitable for those new to printmaking and those with experience who are eager to try new approaches.
Students should bring:
- Apron/ Comfortable footwear
- Imagery to reference each day (Photocopies, sketchbook drawings, photographs, magazine pages, collages etc. Should be imagery of interest to you! Bring as much as you have.
- Textures Natural elements, fabric, found materials (for embossments). Items will get damp but not inky!
- Drawing Materials Pencils, crayons, whatever you have! (some will be on hand)
- Watersoluble media Watercolour pencil crayons, water-soluble crayons etc. (if available, otherwise some will be on hand!)
Bookings
Registrations for this workshop are now closed.
Charley Young
Shaped by the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, Charley Young is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Charley holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art (Portland, Maine) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University (Halifax, Nova Scotia).
Young’s practice combines site-based and indexical modes of making shared between printmaking, drawing and sculpture. She uses textures found within natural and built environments to record unique impressions of sites in transition. To date, her work includes large-scale monoprints of historic building facades, intimate portraits of vanishing Arctic ice and small-scale hand casts that record the space between clasped hands of new Canadians. A tool for connection, her artwork often invites participation in socially engaged and public projects.
Charley has been an artist-in-residence at St. Michael’s Printshop (2022), The Tides Institute and Museum of Art (2017), The Arctic Circle Program (2014), The Banff Centre (2013), The Vermont Studio Centre (2013), Spark Box Studios (2013), The Klondike Institute for Arts and Culture (2012).
Charley’s work is in various collections including: The Canada Council Art Bank, Global Affairs Canada, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, TD Bank Group, Telus Sky Collection and the Nova Scotia Art Bank. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Charley Young is Regular-Part Time Faculty at NSCAD University where she teaches drawing and printmaking. Charley works out of her home studio in Bedford, Nova Scotia. Curiosities include watching shadows, listening to memoirs, making homemade inks, gardening and collecting textural items from the natural world.
Bookings
Registrations for this workshop are now closed.