Continuing Professional Development courses at UWE Bristol
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We run regular courses for artists’ books with visiting experts and in house staff. All of our CPD book courses are listed on these pages and also featured in the Book Arts Newsletter.
Our CFPR Professional Development Summer Institute runs throughout July 2011. Courses include Bookbinding for artists and Advanced Bookbinding for artists, led by Guy Begbie; Inkjet and Laser Cutting for Arts and Crafts, led by Paul Laidler and Tom Sowden; Letterpress, led by Angie Butler; Pop Ups and Rubber Stamps, led by Stephen Fowler and Alexandra Czinczel.
Regular CFPR Professional Development Evening Courses include bookbinding, letterpress, and last year, Comics, Books, Zines with Offset lithography, led by Jon McNaught.
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Current evening courses are below, please scroll down for more information on our Summer Institute 2012; we hope you can join us.
Our next course is:
Making Books: Binding, Pages, Covers and Cuts
Led by Angie Butler
Dates: Tuesday evenings from 1st May 2012 - 29th May 2012
Time: Each sessions runs from 17.30 - 20.00
Location: The Print Centre, Bower Ashton Campus, UWE
Price: £190 full-price (£176 concessions) includes basic materials, teas and coffees. Bookbinding tools will be provided for use and are also available to buy for future work.
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This evening course offers an introduction to bookmaking: by looking at hard copy examples and following step by step demonstrations covering different techniques - such as simple pamphlet stitch and Japanese stab bound books, a cut-page book, making a sculpted case bound cover, to a French sewn flatback binding. Perfect for those who have little or no experience in bookbinding and artists’ books, or just need a refresher.
Angie is a multi-disciplinary artist, and current letterpress & artists’ books intern working with Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden in Book Arts Research at The Centre For Fine Print Research, UWE. She holds Masters Degrees in both Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking (specialising in artists’ books) and Visual Culture: Fine Art. She has been awarded two prizes for her recent artists’ books: the Sheffield Book Arts Prize (Student Prize) 2009, and the Agassi Book Arts Prize, UWE, 2011; Angie’s work is now held in both UK, and international private and public collections.
Any questions on the course content
angie.butler@uwe.ac.ukFor bookings
Jesse.Heckstall-Smith@uwe.ac.uk
Limited to 8 participants
Book via the online store:
Full price
Concessions
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and conditions before bookingCentre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol, 2012 Summer Institute
Bookbinding for Book Artists
With Guy Begbie
Dates: 2-6 July 2012.
Times: Each day runs from 09.30 - 16.30
The book is a viable, visual medium that can provide links and meeting points between many art disciplines such as print, painting and sculpture. It is perhaps the most intimate, easily accessible and portable of all the art forms. In this intensive five-day course both traditional and unorthodox bookbinding structures will be taught.
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Guy Begbie is a bookbinder and multi-disciplinary artist. He exhibits his artists' books and delivers book arts workshops and master classes internationally. Guy is the Book Arts Co-ordinator at Herefordshire College of Arts and is the external examiner for BA (Hons) Book Arts & Crafts at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London.
This course is designed to be appropriate for those both with or without previous bookbinding experience.
5-day course, limited to 10 participants.
Price: £450 full-price (£360 concessions) includes tools, materials, paperstock, lunch vouchers, teas and coffees.
Book via the online store
Please read the terms
and conditions before booking3D Printing and Interactive Technologies
With Peter Walters and David McGoran
Two week course, 9th - 20th July 2012
This new and exciting two-week course is perfect for artists, designers, hobbyists, hackers and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
You really don’t need any previous experience just the desire to release your inner inventor. We will provide you with a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to 3D computer aided design and fabrication technologies, interactive electronic hardware and software tools to enable the design and construction of interactive art and design artefacts - what you make depends upon your imagination! For more information and online booking visit
www.uwe.ac.uk/sca/research/cfpr/courses/cpdcourses/3dprinting_interactivetech.htmlInkjet and Laser cutting for Arts and Crafts
With Paul Laidler and Tom Sowden
Dates: 2-4 July 2012
Times: Each day runs from 9.30 - 16.30
This three-day course explores the possibility of combining inkjet printing and laser cutting. Whether producing paper sculptural objects with surface pattern, artists' / pop-up books, paper slipcases or multi-layered prints, this course will allow the participants to print and cut into the same surface using large format inkjet printers and laser cutters, creating pockets, windows and cut outs, and score and fold over or around printed artwork or texts.
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Designed to be appropriate for those both with or without previous experience, this is an opportunity to discover the possibilities of digital printing and laser cutting onto a range of papers that can be used in the construction of two and three-dimensional artwork.
3 day course, limited to 6 participants.
Price: £350 full-price (£280 concessions) includes materials, lunch vouchers, teas and coffees.
Book
via the online store
Please read the terms
and conditions before bookingAdvanced Bookbinding for Book Artists
With Guy Begbie
Dates: 9-13 July 2012
Times: Each day runs from 09.30 - 16.30
An intensive five-day advanced course of bookbinding structures. The course is designed to be appropriate for people with some previous experience in basic bookbinding.
Guy Begbie is an internationally-established book artist and traditionally trained bookbinder who has been teaching book arts in UK Universities since 1995. As a multi-disciplinary artist he makes works using a variety of media that include traditional and experimental approaches to bookbinding.
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The book is a viable, visual medium that can provide links and meeting points between many art disciplines such as print, painting and sculpture. It is perhaps the most intimate, easily accessible and portable of all the art forms. In this intensive five-day course both traditional and unorthodox bookbinding structures will be taught.
Guy Begbie is a bookbinder and multi-disciplinary artist. He exhibits his artists' books and delivers book arts workshops and master classes internationally. Guy is the Book Arts Co-ordinator at Herefordshire College of Arts and is the external examiner for BA (Hons) Book Arts & Crafts at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London.
This is an intensive advanced course designed to be appropriate for those with previous bookbinding experience.
5 day course, limited to 10 participants.
Price: £450 full-price (£360 concessions) includes tools, materials, paperstock, lunch vouchers, teas and coffees.
Book
via the online store
Please read the terms
and conditions before booking.
Letterpress
With Angie Butler
Dates: 23-27 July 2012
Times: Each day runs from 9.30 - 16.30
Learn how to set type and print letterpress using metal and wood type. Letterpress offers beautiful qualities for printing text for books, bookmarks, postcards, posters or pamphlets. We will print on Vandercook presses which allow editioning of multiples.
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For the first three days of the summer school participants will be shown the correct way to set metal type, with each participant then setting a short passage of text. Moving on to the presses, participants will be shown how to set up the Vandercook proofing presses and will be able to print a small edition of their passages of text. Next will be instruction in how wooden type is set and printed, with participants able to experiment with printing the larger wooden type. Finally there will be instruction in how to print photographic and drawn images as well as computer generated text on the Vandercook presses using photopolymer plates.
The last two days of the summer school will offer an opportunity for participants to develop any ideas they have been working on during the summer school, and provide extended time with full support, to consolidate these and produce a series of prints or even a small pamphlet.
The course fee covers inks and proofing papers, teas / coffees and lunch. You will need to bring any other materials you wish to print on for your particular project or projects.
5 day course, limited to 6 participants.
Price: £450 full-price (£360 concessions) includes materials, lunch vouchers, teas and coffees.
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via the online store
Please read the terms
and conditions before bookingPop-up Rubber Stamps
With Alexandra Czinczel and Stephen Fowler
Dates: 24-26 July 2012
Times: Each day runs from 10.00-16.00
Learn how to make rubber stamps and turn your images into a pop-up book on this a 3-day course in the summer.
On the first day you will learn how to make single colour and multiple colour rubber stamps. You'll be taught how to register and mask your prints. You will also be taught how to make homemade stamp pads using jay cloths and drawing ink.
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On the second day you will learn a variety of structures and mechanisms for pop-ups including pull-tab mechanisms. Your stamp ideas from the first day can be used as a starting point. On the final day you will combine and develop your rubber stamps and pop-up ideas to incorporate in a limited edition pop-up book for all participants to take home.
Materials provided: stamp pads, erasers, paper, card for bookbinding. You will need to bring: Pencils, scalpels (ideally swan Morton size 10a), sketch books / scrap books (to use as inspiration for the stamp designs). If you also want to see how to make home-made ink pads, you will need to bring drawing ink, any colours (you can mix them and make a range of different coloured pads if you wish).
If you have any questions on this workshop please email
Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk3 day course limited to 12 participants
Price: £200 (£160 concessions). Materials, teas and coffees are included in the course fee. Please bring your own packed lunch (or buy sandwiches from the canteen on campus).
Book
via the online store
Please read the terms
and conditions before bookingCPD Book Arts classes at the Centre for Fine print Research include subjects such as:
Bookbinding for book artists with Guy Begbie
Pulp-printing with Tim Mosely of Silverwattle Press and Southern Cross University, Australia
Creative Laser Cutting with Claire Phipps
Home Made Rubber Stamps and books with Stephen Fowler
Architectural Book Structures with Guy Begbie
Laser-cutting for book artists with Tom Sowden
Using Digital Technology to Produce a Book with Dr Douglas Holleley, author of 'Digital Book Design and Publishing'
Altered Books with Guy Begbie
The Pamphlet/Booklet and Japanese Stab Bindings with Guy Begbie
The French Sewn Flat Back and Concertina Binding with Guy Begbie
Collapsible Star Binding and The Coptic Stitch with Guy Begbie
Book Boxes and containers with Guy Begbie
Advanced Bookbinding for book artists with Guy Begbie
Laser Studio
The CFPR has three laser machines for cutting paper, card, wood, plastic and fabric. The Centre offers laser courses for both professional artists and those new to laser cutting (for more details please see: www.uwe.ac.uk/sca/research/cfpr/research/lasers/index.html and is also available to be booked on an hourly basis or for the day.
This service, ideal for book artists, will allow delicate imagery and text to be cut or engraved through most paper/material surfaces. Perfect for altered books, paper structures and overlaying pages of text and image.
The three machines vary in power and bed size, ranging from a bed size of 50 x 70cm to 100 x 150cm. The cost of using the facilities ranges from £40 to £120 an hour to £250 to £350 a day dependant on which machine is used. All prices include dedicated technical support.
For further information about the Laser Studio or to book a session
laserstudio@uwe.ac.uk