Printmaking: The Edition

One idea, pulled ten times, exactly right.

About This Course

This is where printmaking stops being an exercise and becomes practice. A personal body of work, a genuine numbered edition, and learning to present and defend it the way a working printmaker would.

What You'll Create

A properly editioned series of prints, numbered and consistent.
The finished edition selected for the end of term exhibition.
A written artist statement explaining the body of work.

Course Details

Age Range: 15-18
Term: Term 2
Schedule: Wednesdays, 5:45pm
Duration: 10 weeks
Price: $480
Spots Available: 7 of 8

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What You'll Learn

• You'll develop a personal idea across a sustained series of prints.
• You'll learn that an edition is a promise: every print in the run has to match.
• You'll choose multi-plate or multi-layer technique to fit your idea, not the other way round.
• You'll learn to write about your own work without hiding behind the artist statement.
• You'll present and defend your finished work, publicly.

The Support You'll Get

You won't be handed the answer. You'll be shown how to find it.

Your practitioner has spent years making their own work, and their own mistakes. In the studio they work alongside you: asking the right questions, pointing out options you hadn't seen, helping you push through the moment you get stuck. The ideas stay yours. The decisions stay yours. They're there so you're never finding the way through alone.

Week by Week

Week 1: What a body of work is. Developing a personal idea. What do you actually want to say.

Week 2: Testing techniques. Finding the method that fits the idea.

Week 3: First plate, first proofs.

Week 4: Committing to a process across multiple prints.

Week 5: Building the series. Repetition and variation.

Week 6: Editioning properly. Numbering, consistency, artist's proofs.

Week 7: Editing the series down to its strongest pieces, and writing the artist statement.

Week 8: Exhibition. Public showing, families attend.

Every course ends with an exhibition

Celebrate what you created with the people and our community. Every term concludes with a presentation or exhibition of your work: a chance to share your process, your ideas, and what you've made.