Teachers from the Bury area, spent a day at the Whitworth working with artists and creative practitioners . Using the exhibition Art Textiles as resource material teachers, teachers produced written pieces, textile pieces, objects and mixed media pieces with Alan Birch.
Alan Birch will hopefully be presenting his drypoints and his etchings of Later-Day Saints at the International Medieval Congress in July. He plans to have 50 saints complete by that date and he will be in residence in July. Over 2000 Medievalists will be present and the special thematic strand is Food, Feast & Famine. […]
Alan Birch is currently showing a selection of his Later-Day saints and some drypoints at Telfords Bar and Restaurant at Chester. The show will run until February and all work is for sale. An informal opening is planned for January, email Alan for details.
Students from Level 2 courses at Manchester College, Manchester spent the day at the Whitworth getting portfolio advice from MMU students and printing with Alan Birch. Given free reign to wander the galleries in search of subject matter, students transformed their sketches into drypoints and chine colle prints. Some brilliant work was produced by the […]
Year 10 pupils from Our Lady & St Pauls RC High School spent a morning working with printmaker Alan Birch. Pupils showed their excellent drawing skills by sketching from the Victorian Portraits from the Gallery collection. To reflect their class topic of Pop Art, they added collage materials, colour shapes and pop art imagery to […]
Artist Jill Randall is currently working on a series of etchings, drypoints and chine collie prints which will be shown in the gallery space at Geevor Mine from mid February 2106. The works are inspired by the plants and landscape of Cornwall , in particular alien organisms and plants which have invaded the landscape.For further […]
The Dave Pearson Trust have approached Alan Birch to restore and clean nearly 60 plates produced by artist Dave Pearson. Dave Pearson an artist and lecturer who lived and worked in the valley, died in 2008 and the Dave Pearson Trust based in Haslingden , possess 15000 pieces of his work. The Trust discovered the […]
Printmakers from Prospect Studio took part in the 20:20 print exchange organised by Hot Bed Press in Manchester. Printmakers from all over the country took part in the exchange plus for the first time a studio from Iceland took part! The prints will be shown at Hot Bed Press and move to Bolton, Wrexham and […]
Year 10 pupils from St Mary’s High School in Leigh spent the day developing their coursework into a range of print techniques. The theme of food was used by Year 10’s and portraits by Year 12’s. and prints were produced to enhance their coursework. Techniques covered were collographs, chine collie, drypoints, and relief prints. For […]
Year 5 pupils at St Kentigerns Primary School and St John Vianney RC Primary School, were chosen by the Grundy Art Gallery to work with printmaker Alan Birch for an exhibition in 2016. Pupils produced drawings inspired by portraits held in the gallery’s collection. These drawings were used as a basis for engravings printed engraved, […]
Members of the Age Friendly Museums Network spent 3 afternoons at the Whitworth, exploring the creative opportunities offered by print. Working with printmaker Alan Birch artists took the works on display in the Whitworth, as inspiration for a series of lino, relief, drypont and chine collie prints. For many of the artists it was their first […]
Families were able to wander around the galleries at the Whitworth over half term, sketching and documenting work in the galleries. Children and parents were inspired by the wallpaper collection, the work of Bedwr Williams and the contemporary textile show. Families brought their sketches to the Learning Studio where they created and printed their own […]
Printmaker Alan Birch Birch Spent an evening introducing International students to the process of drypoint. Over 120 students from the 800 who attended engraved their own images based on objects in the museum. For many it was their first experience of print whilst others renewed their links with the medium. Its the third time Alan […]
ROSSENDALE ART TRAIL OCTOBER 3rd and 4th 2015. 11.00 a.m-17.00 p.m PROSPECT STUDIOS 137-141 BURNLEY RD EAST, WATERFOOT. BB4 9DF tel : 07757186327 Alan Birch will be showing his collection of Later Day Saints, fresh form their appearance at The John Rylands Library in Manchester. The 20 saints shown at the Library at joined by […]
As part of the Autism Friendly Early Opening artist Alan Birch worked with visitors to create relief prints based on the Easter Island sculptues on show in the Rapa Nui exhibition. Some brilliant figure work was produced by participants. Also at an earlier workshop families produced some excellent prints based on the Vivarium in the […]