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Skopelos jetty …….PHOTO: Steph Bolt Cyanotype: Cooper+Spowart

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IMAGINE – the inspiration for PHOTOGRAPHY on an Aegean Island

CONSIDER – exploring photodocumentary, cyanotypes and books

AND ENJOY –  Greek food and wine, experience the blue of the Aegean Sea, Greek lifestyle and its mythical landscapes – All shared with fellow workshop participants with similar interests.

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THIS WORKSHOP TOOK PLACE IN MAY 2017 – A REPORT CAN BE VIEWED HERE>>>

Skopelos landscapes ……..PHOTOs: Steph Bolt

Greek women and men talking ……..PHOTOs: Steph Bolt

In May 2017 we will be presenting a 12 day workshop on the Greek island of Skopelos with Australian artist and printmaker Steph Bolt.

We plan to work with participants to capture the experience of ‘being there’ and to tell stories about ‘place’ in books and photographs.

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The workshop topics will include:

• The cyanotype process to produce prints on paper and cloth to reference the Aegean blue
• Working with found objects and inkjet negatives from photos made on excursions
• Making bespoke photobooks that you will handcraft during the workshop
• Aspects of documentary ‘placemaking’
• Using online photobook making services to design books
• A sharing of our techniques to optimise and enhance digital photographs.

What is included in the fee:

• Tuition for 12 days
• 12 breakfasts
• Opening & closing dinners
• 2 lunches
• Morning tea – on the days we are in the studio
• Excursion days – transport included
• The odd drink on the terrace overlooking the Aegean

Workshop specific materials included:

• Cyanotype chemistry
• Some printing papers and cloth
• An allocation of inkjet negative material for photographic images
• Basic book-making materials: threads, needles, glue
• Air conditioned studio access

Vicky+Doug presenting workshops

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A detailed website:  SKOPELOS WORKS ON PAPER

Contact Steph Bolt at skopelosworksonpaper@gmail.com

ABOUT THE TUTORS

We have been involved in the arts as practitioners, teachers, critics, commentators and allied professional activities for many years: Doug Spowart, from the 1980s and Victoria Cooper, from 1990.

Our individual and collaborative book works have been acquired for the artists’ books, rare book and manuscript collections in Artspace Mackay, State Libraries of Queensland and Victoria, Mitchell Library (Doug), the National Library of Australia. Our wall based artworks are held in numerous public collections.

Our artists’ books have also been exhibited in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and are held by private and public collections in these countries.

We have both completed individual PhD studies based on philosophical and theoretical considerations in our practice. Since completing these studies we have continued our research activities and have each received separate Siganto Foundation Artists Book Research Fellowships in the Australian Library of Art at the State Library of Queensland: Doug in 2014 and Victoria in 2015.

Victoria Cooper  PhD and has holds the following AIPP  credentials –APP.L, M.Photog, Hon.FAIPP.

Doug Spowart  PhD and has holds the following AIPP  credentials – APP.L, M.Photog, Hon.FAIPP, FAIPP.

AIPP APP Log

This workshop is recommended by the AIPP for its members for their Continuing Professional Development as a Third Party CPD Event.

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Some hand-made photobooks/artists books we have made

Super Nova a cyanotype by Victoria Cooper

Wooli Beach Junk a cyanotype by Doug Spowart

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