Summer bookmaking and printmaking @36 Lime Street.

Industrialized Objects: latest Chap Book by Theresa Easton £10.57 (inc P&P)

Summer Print & Book Making @36 Lime Street with Theresa Easton 

Hand made books by participants

A day long printmaking & bookmaking workshop offering participants  the chance to incorporate their creative talents into a series of hand made books using relief printing techniques. This one day workshop  @36 Lime Street will give participants the chance to create a series of hand made books, using pamphlet stitch, Japanese Stab bound and a folded book in a box.

Thrifty Tips Book for the Festival of ThriftNext dates……….

Saturday 26th July  £55 10-4pm or

Saturday 23rd August  £55 10-4pm or

Saturday 27th September  £55 10-4pm

 

The first part of the day  introduces participants to a selection of simple printmaking techniques, that can be folded and stitched into a selection of hand made books suitable for your own project or a a series of bespoke gifts.

Available to buy at the end of the day, for £7.50, are beginners binding packs consisting of a folding bone, bookbinding needles and  linen thread to get you started at home.The workshop is ideal for those with no experience and those needing a refresher course.  Bring a project idea along or take part in the numerous possibilities that can produce your own unique books.

To book your place click:HERE

Email: theresa_easton@yahoo.co.uk Tel: 07981381830

Ouseburn Warehouse & Studios

36 Lime Street, Ouseburn

Newcastle, NE1 2PQ UK

36 Lime Street, Ouseburn Valley, the cultural quarter of Newcastle and a stones throw away from Gateshead based, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

If you can’t make either of these dates, why not sign up to the blog and receive regular updates of future print related workshops, including Print & Book Binding?

Ouse Street Vendors Stores

Part of the Northern Design Festival, Ouse Street General Stores opens its doors 10th Oct – 20th Oct 9-5pm closed Sundays.
Presenting curated shelves full of work, its ‘Open all hours meets Etsy’…… and you wont go short of a pint of milk.

Fresh from the Festival of Thrift at Lingfield Point in Darlington, Theresa Easton, has stitched and bound a collection of Thrifty tips supplied by some engaging visitors to the creative weekend and composed them into a series of books for visitors to Ouse Street General Stores to purchase. The collection is enhanced by a number of silk screen printed homemade remedies supplied by Thrifty Community Artist Kay Henderson referencing an 1800’s book of housekeeping tips.

Print & Book Making Workshop @36 Lime Street with Theresa Easton

Saturday’s Workshop in Print & Bookmaking @36 Lime Street with Theresa Easton started off with a sunny studio, tea and coffee.  Participants dived into the printmaking materials, creating a wide range of printed pages for 3 different book designs.  The day  flew by and by the afternoon the work table was covered in stitched and folded books.  There was still enough time, just before the end, to see what everyone had made and incorporated into their unique books. The ‘rummage box’ offered some inspiring Japanese Kite Designs donated by Kay Henderson many moons ago.  The next Print & Bookmaking workshop is an evening workshop taking place Tuesday June 25th &  July 2nd 6.30pm-9pm. For a booking form download HERE. If you are keen to try your hand at bookmaking and can’t wait until then, Deidre Thompson will be delivering an inspiring afternoon of bookbinding as part of the BALTIC Artist’s Book Fair June 14th 2013.  For further details, checkout FabuousBooks, FantasticPlaces, part of the Festival of the North East, there’s a lot going on up North! or why not pick up a ‘Make Your Own Book Kit‘ from Northern Print or the Biscuit Factory.  If you need some inspiration why not make it to the Maker Faire at Newcastle’s Centre for Life, Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April where Theresa Easton will be on hand to provide some instant bookmaking ideas for you to construct yourself and upload pictures to the growing encyclopedia of hand made  @DIY Make Your Own Book Kits.

Print Drying

print & Book making workshops@36 Lime Street with Theresa Easton

Print & Book Making Workshops@36 Lime Street with Theresa Easton 

New for the summer, Print &Book Making workshops Tuesday 25th June & Tuesday 2nd July 6.30-9pm £55 (including all materials).

The next series of Print & Book Binding workshops @36 Lime Street with Theresa Easton will include the opportunity to buy a simple bookbinding pack with all the materials and tools to get you started.  The first evening introduces you to a selection of simple printmaking techniques onto paper, that can be folded and stitched into a selection of hand made books suitable for your own project or a a series of bespoke gifts on the second evening.

Available to buy at the end of the day, for £7.50, are beginners binding packs consisting of a folding bone, bookbinding needles and  linen thread to get you started at home.

‘Hemy’ Theresa Easton & Ian Horn

The workshop is ideal for those with no experience and those needing a refresher course.  Bring a project idea along or take part in the numerous possibilities that can produce your own unique books.

To Book: Booking FormWeb 2013 print&Book

Email: theresa_easton@yahoo.co.uk Tel: 07981381830

Ouseburn Warehouse & Studios

36 Lime Street, Ouseburn

Newcastle, NE1 2PQ UK

36 Lime Street, Ouseburn Valley, the cultural quarter of Newcastle and a stones throw away from Gateshead based, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

If you can’t make either of these dates, why not sign up to the blog and receive regular updates of future print related workshops, including Print & Book Binding?

The Book Borrowers @Crown Street Gallery

The Book Borrowers  

  @Central Library, Crown Street, Darlington, DL1 1ND

Tel 01325 462034 crown.street.library@darlington.gov.uk Fax: 01325 381556

Tuesday 18 December – Thursday 17January 2013

Yvette Hawkins, Theresa Easton and Dawn Felicia Knox

Crown Street Gallery is a new gallery space in Darlington.  Exhibiting regional and local artist’s work, the space acts as a hub  between  diverse art forms in the area and region. 

For  ‘The Book Borrowers’,  Theresa Easton has used recycled library books, to make a series of work entitled,  Book Case.  The work presents a collection of altered books adorning  furniture  usually associated with ‘holding and storing’ books and objects.   The altered books have been manipulated and transformed into sculptural objects, denying the reader the opportunity or possibility of ever reading them again.   The work acts as a metaphor,  representing the reality of library closures and the loss of these library books from the public domain, as well as the space to read them. Incorporated into the pages of furniture are hand printed broadsides, referencing the journey reading & literature has undergone since the invention of the printing press and ‘Freedom of the Press’.

Between 1908 – 1910, Arthur Mee’s ‘ The Children’s encyclopaedia’ could be purchased in fortnightly parts and finally bound into books at an extra cost.  Easton has sought inspiration and knowledge from her own inherited collection since a child and uses the pages from a collection of unbound periodicals to ‘decorate’ and transform the furniture.  Arthur Mee’s ‘The Children’s encyclopaedia’ gives an insight into the social values of the day, celebrating the British Empire, while trying to make learning interesting, and it was this aspect that has continuously caught Easton’s attention.

Recently exhibited at 36 Lime Street Gallery, Newcastle, during the annual Ouseburn Open Studios (where Easton has her print studio), the piece has been specially adapted for the space at Crown Street Gallery.  Self-commissioned at a time when Newcastle City Council announces major spending cuts and library closures, Book Case attempts to address the significance of cross fertilisation in Easton’s practice and the influence that access to libraries has in her work.    All the books used in Book Case had originally been deemed ‘unfit for purpose’ by libraries across the North East.

Winter Print & Book Binding Workshops @36 Lime Street

Print & Book Binding @36 Lime Street with Theresa Easton

Saturday 27th October 2012 10-4pm £55

or

Saturday 10th November 2012 10-4pm £55

The next series of Print & Book Binding workshops @36 Lime Street with Theresa Easton will include the opportunity to buy a simple bookbinding pack with all the materials and tools to get you started.  Each day long workshop introduces you to a selection of simple printmaking techniques onto paper, that can be folded and stitched into a selection of hand made books suitable for your own project or a a series of bespoke gifts.

The workshop is ideal for those with no experience and those needing a refresher course.  Bring a project idea along or take part in the numerous possibilities that can produce your own unique books.

To Book: Booking FormWeb 2012 print&Book

Email: theresa_easton@yahoo.co.uk Tel: 07981381830

Ouseburn Warehouse & Studios

36 Lime Street, Ouseburn

Newcastle, NE1 2PQ UK

36 Lime Street, Ouseburn Valley, the cultural quarter of Newcastle and a stones throw away from Gateshead based, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

Last day @ 36 Lime Street of Scripta Manent

The last day of Scripta Manent by Inchio`stro & Theresa Easton was a busy day working with a number of visitors to the gallery taking part in the word book project.

 

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Inchio`stro @ 36 Lime Street

Inchio`stro were in the gallery @ 36 Lime Street Saturday, introducing visitors to their word book project with beautifully made books from hand made paper.  Theresa Easton, 36 Lime Street member and fellow collaborator, was on hand to provide some printing ideas and techniques as part of the joint collaboration.

Visitors were encouraged to join the game and create their own stories around the theme’s set by the Inchio`stro team.

Working in the gallery I was able to experience at first hand the groups way of working and the discussions that took place around decisions and ideas.

Joining in the afternoon’s session were the Davenport family and a creation developed around the dancing crocodile.

 

Plentyof  help is on hand from the Inchio`stro team, but if you have had your porridge in the morning, then you are welcome to use the press!

The Inchio`stro team were well fed by local cuisine from the new food to go and sit in venue, Ernest, corner of Boyd Street in the Ouseburn.  Thanks to Gavin for a much appreciated delivery!

Later, Wajid Hussain co-founder of Urbane, based at Newcastle’s newest transformation, The Beacon, formerly a fire station, dropped in to exchange ideas and knowledge, as well as taking time to design and print a book.  More images of Wajid’s work to follow in the next post.

Sunday plans to be another busy day with fellow poets, printers and interested parties dropping by.

Printmaking & Book Binding @ 36 Lime Street 7th July

Saturdays  print & bookbinding workshop at Theresa Easton’s new space on Level 2 @ 36 Lime Street started in a warm summery studio with a group of eager participants travelling from as far afield as Bury in Lancashire!

The morning was spent experimenting with printing techniques using a well seasoned etching press from Intaglio Printmaker, the drying rack was soon stuffed with prints waiting to dry, ready for the afternoons session of glueing, stitching and folding.

The afternoon kicked off with a welcome donation of chocolates provided by Lorraine & Chris.  Participants made a series of books including two different types of folded books, two pamphlet stitch books and a Japanese stab bound book.

There are still a couple of places on the next print & book workshop, 18th August 10-4pm.  For further information, download Booking Form Summer 2012 print&Bookforweb  Summer Print & Book2012

Summer Print & Book Binding Workshops Coming up at 36 Lime St

Summer Print & Book Binding Workshops

@ 36 Lime St

with Printmaker Theresa Easton

 

Saturday 7th July 2012 10-4pm £55 (including all materials) or

Saturday 18th August 2012 10-4pm £55 (including all materials)

Print and Book Binding Workshop

This one day workshop introduces participants to simple printmaking techniques using relief and intaglio processes to generate a series of prints to be converted into various folded, glued and stitched books in the afternoon. The workshop is ideal for beginners or those with some experience.

To book

Tel: Theresa Easton 07981381830  Email:theresa_easton@yahoo.co.uk

Web: http://theresaeaston.wordpress.com

36 Lime Street, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 2PQ