OMBRA BLU — Cyanotype & Bookmaking Workshop

In this intimate salon participants will learn how to make an artist book to take home created with cyanotype — a blue photographic printing process that is developed by sunlight, created with plant materials and personal photographs.

PARTICIPANTS TO BRING:
—Wear clothes you don't mind staining. Dark colours preferable.
—Flat detailed objects/think along the lines of stencils or cutout letters/netting/keys/lace. Photos printed on acetate and plants and flowers. These things will also be provided but bring them along if you have something you particularly like. 

A light lunch and refreshments will be served.

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LUCIA CANUTO trained as a printmaker and continues to use this medium in her own practice. Since moving back to a rural setting she has experimented with DIY techniques that don't require expensive equipment or a heavy printing press. In an old cooking pot fabrics are transformed in a process reminiscent of alchemy, using plant and synthesised dyes. Lucia sources archival print material, including italian newspapers from the 1970s and photos from her phone to assemble playful compositions.

She currently teaches with Virginia Reid at the Byron Community College, where she will be offering some short and longer form art courses in 2025.

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SEAWEED SALON is a skill and knowledge-sharing symposium connecting our community with local artists and thinkers in a generative space for cultural learning and creation. It is an ode to the intelligent ecological networks that profoundly shape and sustain our world.

We look forward to welcoming the community back for our second summer series of the SEAWEED SALON.