PRM2201 · Printmaking: Photographic techniques and transformations

Overview

This studio-based unit explores printmaking methods that incorporate photographically derived imagery in the context of contemporary art. You engage with projects that include laser-cut woodblock printing, photo-etching with copper plates, photopolymer relief printing, and photocopy transfer printmaking. The unit presents projects through which you explore relationships between the tradition of the fine art print and the photographic image expanded beyond standard dark-room and digital photography. By hand-printing with manually applied inks, and through making plates that can be potentially printed repeatedly on fine art papers, you are given the opportunity to rethink the notion of the photograph and printmaking.

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

Assessment

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

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

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Explain the key ideas, histories, and cultural contexts that shape printmaking using photographic imagery;
2. Apply technical, design, and creative skills to produce printmaking works that explore photographic imagery;
3. Combine ideas from printmaking, photography, and other creative areas to develop your own visual language;
4. Reflect on your own creative approach and position within contemporary printmaking and visual culture;
5. Engage in creative enquiry and experimentation as a means of developing and deepening your artistic practice;
6. Build independent studio habits that support ongoing creative enquiry and experimentation.

Workload

12 hours per week including 4 contact hours per week and 8 hours of independent study, or equivalent.

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