Cyanotype workshop – A Letter to the Forest

With Perdita Phillips

Learn how to make cyanotype prints with the sun and plants from your garden in this hands-on with this this easy, low-toxicity, alternative photography workshop. Watch as the chemical reaction takes place in front of your eyes when pre-sensitised paper is exposed to sunlight: turning found foliage into ‘blueprints’ of the living world.

What will happen in the workshop?

We will explore making a print on pre-prepared A4 paper, before preparing sensitised paper and printing more of your own artworks. You can then choose a print to be integrated into a hand-bound book that will be assembled and bound during the Resonance: Dialogues in Art & Ecology residency and exhibition at the Painted Tree Gallery in Northcliffe.

What do you need to bring?

• Plant material from your garden
• Some text, a poem or quote about the forest
• Wear old clothes, enclosed (old) shoes
• Bring personal safety glasses (if you have them)

What will be supplied?

• Paper, chemicals, disposable gloves, some basic safety glasses
• Additional inspiration, a guide to potential cyanotype ‘shadow’ materials from your house and garden and BYO paper options will be supplied after registration.
• Light snacks, tea and coffee

Where will it be held?

Manjimup Arts Hub – 39 Giblett Street, Manjimup

https://maps.app.goo.gl/aPYFDdyzRu3ttVgn8?g_st=ipc

Do I need to have experience?

This is a beginner friendly session. No experience required.

Access requirements

• Please advise of any access requirements

Catering and dietary requirements

• We will supply light snacks, tea and coffee. Please advise if you have any dietary requirements.

About the ‘A Letter to the Forest project’

Write a ‘letter’ to the forests of Southwest Western Australia for inclusion in a book created during the exhibition. Responses in the form of a letter to/communication with the forest can be of literal or metaphorical interpretations.

http://lethologicapress.org/a-letter-to-the-forest/

“Imagine your lungs are a tree. Every time you breathe in, you inspire strength from connection. Every time you breath out, you exhale a forest of flourishing.”

What would you like to say to the forest?

Any further questions?

Please contact Fiona on fiona@southernforestarts.com.au or 0418 754 704