Seacourt Members’ Annual Christmas Exhibition
Seacourt members are delighted to invite you to their annual Christmas Exhibition at Bangor’s old bank this Christmas.
RESOURCES
Seacourt offers access to the widest range of printmaking techniques in Ireland.
We are an open access workshop โ if you have experience in the print technique youโd like to use you are welcome to join us (Become a member from one day to full keyholding).
ย ETCHING Two Harry Rochat Etching Presses, bed sizes 26″ and 32″ width One small starwheel press Four table top presses Guillotine for cutting metal plates Copper, Aluminium, Perspex and Axpet Polyethylene sheets available for purchase Photec Photo-sensitive laminate for Photo-intaglio applications available for purchase Galvetch facilities for etching steel plates and a Ferric Chloride tank for etching copper. Copper Sulphate tanks for etching aluminum and zinc Gavograph Computer controlled engraver | ย LITHOGRAPHY A Polymetaal direct hand press, bed size 30″ x 40″ A John Grieg direct hand press, bed size 15″x24″ bed A selection of limestone litho stones, aluminium plates and photo-positive plates are also available for purchase Both traditional and Waterless Lithography available RELIEF PRINTING Columbian Press, built in 1825, bed size 20″ x 26″ A hand-operated 24″x 32″ cylinder letterpress A number of book presses of various sizesLino sheets to purchaseย |
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SCREEN PRINTING Four Vacuum Printing Tables – two with squeegee arms A self-contained Exposure Unit for exposing plates or screens, available exposure surface 48″ x 60″ A back-lit Washout Booth and Power Washer Drying cabinet for screens A number of large and medium-size screenprinting frames Several portable screenprinting units Seacourt uses only water-based screenprinting inks ย | COMPUTER FACILITIES PCย and Laptop facilities with wireless internet connection are available Epson Photo Stylus 4800 Ink Jet Printer (for prints to A2 size) Photoshop CS2 availableย A3 and A4 printers LETTERPRESS We have an extensive collection of Letterpress type and three Adana hand presses that we can bring to events. |
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Seacourt members are delighted to invite you to their annual Christmas Exhibition at Bangor’s old bank this Christmas.
Seacourt Summers is back! Drop in, say hello and try out some printmaking. We have some fun activities for everyone to enjoy!
In spring 2021, Northern Ireland Screenโs Digital Film Archive commissioned six artists from Seacourt Print Workshop in Bangor to make a creative response to With Heart and Hand, a UTV programme made in 1966 to commemorate the Battle of the Somme.
From left: Ken Sterrett (Chairperson), Margaret Arthur (Co-founder), Emma Drury (Director), Nathalie Caleyron (Member) and
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