School of Art & Media Short Courses

A chance to roll up your sleeves and get hands on with printmaking here at the University of Brighton School of Art and Media. On this one-day course you’ll be introduced to Dry point to generate your own prints. Dry point is a long established printing technique of scratching or drawing into plastic using a pointed tool. This creates a plate which can then be inked so that multiple prints can be made on to paper through the use of a printing press (like a giant mangle!). It’s a very direct and immediate form of printmaking and has been widely used through the ages by a variety of artists including Rembrandt and Picasso.

Course level suitable for beginners.

The tutor for this course is Phil Tyler 

A Fashion illustration workshop using a mixed media approach and drawing directly from the figure. The emphasis will be on capturing the fashion figure in ways that involve a range of techniques and with an economy of line.  

Course level suitable for beginners.

The tutor for this course is Gary Kaye 

Don’t fear the blank page! Monoprinting and Monotype are simple, liberating and creatively serendipitous processes which enable you to make many exciting one-of-a-kind prints quickly. Best exemplified in the work of Degas, Neale Worley, Elisabeth Peyton and Tracey Emin, Monoprint and Monotype for Beginners will show you how to explore Printmaking with and without a press. 

On this one-day workshop course you’ll be able to try both approaches to really experiment and create many exciting prints to take away.

Course level suitable for beginners.

The tutor for this course is Phil Tyler.

Learn how to make sustainable garment patterns to standard sizes or personal measurements. This jam-packed day will focus on the different methods of zero-waste cutting. You will learn a whole new set of shape-making skills for fashion design. If you are more experienced, you will have the opportunity to push boundaries and develop these skills in unique ways. We will work with half scale mannequins, traditional 2D block templates and geometric draping techniques before scaling patterns up to full size. Use one or more techniques to create your finished piece.

Breathe new life into an old favourite, on this practical and highly creative course. You will learn how to re-imagine an item of clothing or a piece of textiles, using hand sewing, embroidery, appliqué and darning. We’ll help you develop and pursue your vision with confidence, so you can create something that is highly personal, infused with memories, and deeply embedded in the honourable folk craft tradition of making do

Course level suitable for beginners.

The tutor for this course is Sarah Elwick.