Swansea Print Workshop are delighted to offer a two day Bookbinding course with artist Kelly Stewart on 12 and 13 May 2012
Creating Artist Books with Kelly Stewart
A bookbinding workshop which explores the idea of combining drawings, patterns, mark making and typography into the creation of books.
This two day workshop with Printfest’s printmaker of the year Kelly Stewart, encourages artists and printmakers to develop ideas through narrative with the use of mixed media and printmaking processes.
Artists will gain skills in simple bookbinding techniques which can be adopted to achieve a range of creative artist books. Furthermore artists will have the opportunity to create a hard cover book transforming a variety of paper, patterns or collage materials into a unique and beautiful handmade book.
Artist books are a great way of utilising off-cut strips of paper from editions in a useful, fun and inspiring way.
Saturday and Sunday 12 and 13 May 10-5pm
12 places available
£120: Full Member £135: Ordinary Member £150: Non Member
(cost of all materials and tools is included)
Participants on this course will receive a 10% discount on to an Introduction to Screen Printing workshop in our 2012 Workshop programme
About Kelly Stewart
Born in Sydney Australia, Kelly studied a Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication) hons, majoring in illustration at the University of Western Sydney followed by a further year of printmaking. In 2000 Kelly moved to Edinburgh to pursue her career in illustration and to be amongst traditional architecture. Drawing European traditional architecture fulfilled a passion that she craved having been surrounded by predominantly modern architecture in Australia. Edinburgh became a constant source of inspiration and she began to draw quirky architectural sketches and street scenes combined with mark making and handwritten text. Equally Kelly has a love of all creatures great and small so animals regularly feature in her work.
Kelly joined the Edinburgh Printmakers workshop in 2001 and in this time has dedicated most of her artmaking to the medium of silkscreen printing. Kelly enjoys the drawn line and quite often varies the line quality, whether it be from a pencil, a graphite stick, charcoal or a nib and combines them into the one artwork through the screenprinting process. Screenprinting offers limitless opportunity in combining the drawings with found textures, photographic imagery and text.
Kelly has exhibited in galleries throughout the UK as well as open exhibitions such as the Visual Arts Scotland at the RSA, the Royal Glasgow Institute of fine arts and Aberdeen Artists society exhibition. Permanent collections are in Howies Restaurants (Edinburgh and Aberdeen) as well as in the Budongo Chimpanzee House at Edinburgh Zoo. Kelly has supported many charities such as Macmillan cancer support, Circle Scotland, St Columbus Hospice, and the Sick Kids Hospital.
Kelly continues to produce limited edition silkscreen prints as well as original drawings of various cities throughout Europe. In addition her love of drawing animals has also continued through limited editions and private commissions. All artwork can be found on the website www.skellydesigns.com