Lumen Printing with Kim Watson

Event information / agenda

A Big House Event supported by Real Creative Futures Digital

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

This workshop offers an introduction into Lumen printing in addition to basic book binding skills and aims to teach and inspire more sustainable ways of making photographs using minimal materials.

The Lumen print is one of easiest, yet effective forms of making images and presents the wonderful world of camera-less photography. Requiring only expired photographic paper, plant specimens and the natural power of sunlight, the process embraces simplicity and sustainability and requires no previous experience to create unique, ethereal prints.

A great opportunity to spend time exploring and working with nature, you will make your own book of lumen prints and leave with the knowledge and inspiration to make your own.

Participants are encouraged to continue exploring the knowledge gained during workshops and incorporate the processes learned into their practice as they will be invited to submit work to a showcase exhibition in September 2022.

Lunch will be catered by Attenborough Nature Centre and will include meat, fish, vegetarian/vegan options.

WHO IS KIM WATSON

Kim Watson was born in 1993 in Nottinghamshire, UK, where she currently resides. Within the art world, she has taken on the roles of photographer, concept artist, production designer, gallery assistant and researcher. Interested in the relationship between photography and nature phenomena, she incorporates the roles of observer, walker, botanist, conservationist and book-maker. She works primarily with analogue film, camera-less and alternative processes such as lumen prints and cyanotypes. Within her work she encourages audience engagement with overlooked or threatened local landscapes, often through physically immersive installation work, such as in her Master’s project “Ploughman Wood” (2020).

HOW DO I BOOK TICKETS?

This event is free, but space is limited. You must be enrolled with The Big House and/or RCF-D.

PLEASE NOTE: The Big House events are free to you, because they are funded – however there is a cost attached to them for us and we are a not-for-profit organisation. So, if you have registered to come, your place will have been paid for. Our events are very popular and we often have a waiting list. With this in mind, if for any reason you are unable to attend it is very important that you cancel your ticket on Eventbrite as soon as possible, to enable someone else to take your place.

If you have already accessed 12 or more hours of support you may be placed on a waiting list - your place is not guaranteed until you receive confirmation from RCF-D Team.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions and/or would like any further information about this event, please contact the Events Team at RCF@nae.org.uk or telephone 0115 924 8630.

WHAT IS THE BIG HOUSE PROGRAMME?

The Big House offers fully-funded business support, mentoring, workshops, networking events, access to grants for creative and digital businesses in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Visit bighouse.org.uk for the complete details of the programme. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

As this event is part of a European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) initiative, we will require you to be enrolled in The Big House Programme, prior to attending. If you are not already enrolled, you will find the appropriate form at: https://bighouse.org.uk/ Please download and complete the form and bring it with you to the event, as it will be required when signing in.

If you would like any further information on this programme, please contact bighouse@creativequarter.com

NB: We will be documenting the event. If you do not wish to be included in images or videos that may be used later for marketing purposes, please let us know beforehand.

This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund 2014 - 2021