Back By Popular Demand: Regional Outreach Kitty Horton

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: In response to her popular workshop at QATACON23, QATA has invited artist Kitty Horton, back to deliver a mark making workshop in the Darling Downs Region in Term 4.

Workshop focus: Mark making through photographic transfer, drypoint etching and wet and dry media

This workshop will demonstrate the photographic transfer method technique by applying a liquid solution to laser printed imagery. The images will be printed by hand using various tools. This technique can be applied to varied media including paper and wood. By learning this technique artists can create infinite print media compositions. With the addition of spontaneous mark making using wet and dry media, the images can be resolved through elements of design such as line, shape, text and colour.

In addition, participants will explore the process of drypoint etching through the use of organic and technical cut out shapes. Using the printing press, artists can create alternative compositions and layers with the combination or both photographic transfer method and free form drypoint etching.

All materials are supplied. However, feel free to print images on a lazer printer 24 hours prior to the workshop. Bring any additional mark making supplies and paper you would like to experiment with. This process also works well on lightly gessoed plywood and text / shape stencils may also be incorporated into your imagery.

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About Kitty Horton

Brisbane-based artist Kitty Horton completed her Bachelor of Fine Art at QCA, Griffith University and her Graduate Diploma of Secondary Education with QUT. She has exhibited solo shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, along with group shows nationally throughout Australia. In addition to Kitty’s private art practice, she is a vocational teacher for TAFE Qld Brisbane. She teaches drawing, painting, printmaking, and professional practice. Her art practice explores the relationship between dry media drawing and oil painting, using themes of abstraction, colour theory and mark making. Inspired by the American Minimalists, Kitty responds to her surroundings through distorted shapes, forms and motifs. Mark-making and serendipitous outcomes, exploit the relationship between painting and drawing in her work.

Hard Stripe (2022)                                                                                              Greyscale (2022)