STAMP PRINTING WORKSHOP: Experience NERAM Museum of Printing and UNE Museum of Antiquities as places of inspiration for stamp making.

Join Black Gully Printmaker Rhonda Ellem for a three-Saturday experimental workshop designing, making and printing stamps.

Day one at NERAM Museum of Printing. Introduction to carving rubber stamps and making stamp pads, and an introduction to using advertising blocks from the museum’s collection. Stamps and blocks will be proofed then combined with stencilling, overprinting, chine colle and collage.

Day two at UNE Museum of Antiquities (UNEMA). There’ll be a talk by Dr Bronwyn Hopwood, the Curator and Collections Manager of the recently refurbished UNE Museum of Antiquities (UNEMA). UNEMA is Australia's only regional museum of Classical Antiquities and home to the nationally significant James Rivers Barrington Stewart Collection of Cypriot archaeological material from the stone age to the medieval period. The museum also offers displays from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Oceania, the 19th century and more. The talk will be followed by drawing in the museum taking anthromorphic and zoomorphic inspiration from the collections. These drawings will be developed into stamps back at MoP.

Day three at NERAM Museum of Printing. Final printing onto postcards, cardstock and found papers using repetition, masking, colour blending and progressive printing. Themes of Cinderalla stamps and EFOs (errors, freaks and oddities) from the philatelic world will be explored.

No experience necessary.

Saturdays 18, 25 October & 1 November

TIME | 10.30am to 3.30pm

VENUE | Museum of Printing NERAM. Please note on 25 October the starts at UNE Museum of Antiquities at 10.30 and returns to the Museum of Printing NERAM for the afternoon

COST | Friends of NERAM/Culture Club Members – $155 , General price $170

Specialist materials supplied with a material list sent prior.