Art on Saturdays: Drypoint Etching with Bill Young

Join Master Printmaker Bill Young and experience the immediacy and directness of the drypoint process. You will explore the diverse mark‑making potential achieved using diamond and steel points on aluminium plates. You will develop skills in inking and wiping techniques to enhance tonal depth and texture when printing onto cotton papers with a roller press.

Participants of all experience levels are welcome.

All materials will be provided, including plates, paper and ink. Please BYO lunch.

About the Artist: Bill Young has been interested in printmaking since his final years at high school when he was introduced to screen printing by teacher and artist, Stephen Spurrier. A degree at Caufield Institute of Technology followed, with printmaking as his focus, working mainly with zinc plate etching using nitric acid for intaglio printing.

After art school, Bill purchased an etching press with fellow graduate Deborah Walker to continue practicing as a printmaker and began printing for other artists to help offset the costs of studio facilities. Bill realised that he was suited to and enjoyed the challenge of printing for other artists and continued running a custom print workshop at various locations in Melbourne and, since 1999, the King Valley in north east Victoria.

Major collaborations with artists include Louis Kahan, John Spooner, Graeme Peebles, Geoffrey Ricardo, Nicholas Nedelkopoulos, Geoffrey Goldie, Michael Leunig, Petr Herel, Therese Shanley, and his wife Anita Laurence. Bill considers it a privilege and rewarding position to have the trust of artists as a printer of their work.

Registration and payment essential.

Ages:18+

Cost: $90 Members / $100 non-Members