PRM2001 · Printmaking: Etching, relief printing and the artist book

Overview

This studio-based unit explores printmaking methods including intaglio, relief and planographic processes, and considers the printed artwork in the context of contemporary cultural production. The unit presents projects that include monotypes, etching and relief printmaking utilising analogue and digital production of image and text to explore the relationships between the tradition of the fine art print and the printed page. The connections of printmaking processes to the artist book are considered, and the book is presented as a mode of distribution of artwork. Typography and design, multiplicity and reproduction, and the status of the print as copy are considered as factors in production of printed works. Occupational health and safety instruction relevant to the printmaking studio will be addressed.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

100% in-semester assessment

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Establish studio processes that generate ongoing creative enquiry in printmaking;
2. Apply technical, conceptual and design skills as a means of creative expression appropriate to etching, relief printing and the artist book;
3. Apply printmaking and other creative strategies as a form of expression appropriate to the concepts you are investigating;
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the places of printmaking and the artist book in the field of national and international contemporary cultural production;
5. Discuss the theoretical and historical rationale and context of your work;
6. Demonstrate abilities to safely and effectively use specialist material processes and equipment to generate outcomes.

Workload

12 hours per week including 4 contact hours plus 8 hours of independent study.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.