Cyanotype Taster Class
Sunday 7th June, 11-4pm, £90/£75
Join us on Sunday 7th June for this taster class exploring Cyanotype or 'Blue Printing'.
The Cyanotype or ‘blue print’ is one of photography’s oldest printing methods. Reminiscent of the alchemists of yesteryear you can use a negative image on acetate, a drawing on tracing paper, or even real objects, to create a stunning image without a camera.
This 1-day taster class will give you the opportunity to make prints and find out what Cyanotype is all about before you might consider one of our longer courses in photographic printmaking.
Leena Nammari
Leena Nammari is a Palestinian artist printmaker based in Scotland. She has exhibited within Scotland, Europe, Palestine, and Australia as part of group exhibitions and has had a number of solo exhibitions. She is an expert printmaker, in all aspects of printmaking, though she has also worked in film, photography, bronze, and ceramics. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Fine Art Printmaking from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee where she also completed her MFA in Arts & Humanities. She has worked in a variety of organisations with various groups and individuals, from Stills in Edinburgh to National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh Academy, Women's Aid, the Cyrenians amongst many, always in pursuit of social engagement in projects, teaching photography and printmaking, with marginalised groups, all the while, maintaining a politically and socially engaged printmaking/making practice. Her Palestinian heritage has always been the backdrop to her making, a kind of story telling as art, a basis to all her work, subtly loaded with the politics of the many, but always reflecting the personal.