The Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester will be offering children from 11-16 the opportunity to learn new creative skills this summer. The weekly sessions will explore a whole host of creative activities from printmaking to sculpture. The first session led by Alan Birch focussed on the exhibition of traditional and contemporary wallpapers currently on show. […]
Year 10 students from Wellacre Academy in Irlam , explored the world of print with artist Alan Birch in July. Students enhanced their drawing skills , producing a series of intaglio and relief prints. Using the theme of natural forms for their work,students engraved their own plates which they later printed. The prints strengthened their […]
Year 3 and year 1 pupils at Claypool Primary School in Bolton, were introduced to the world of printmaking when artist Alan Birch spent in day at school. Year 3 pupils explored the theme of the Aztecs, which they were studying at school. Images of gods and craft objects were transformed into drawings then into […]
During the months of June and July 2012, Alan Birch worked with over 400 secondary pupils in a number of schools within Tameside, Manchester , Bolton and Salford. Pupils explored a wide range of print techniques, including drypoint, chine colle, collage, chine collie, relief printing and mono printing. Themes explored were self, identity, mexico day of the […]
Chris and Lorraine Waites, etching class stalwarts for 20 years are currently showing their work at the Malt Bar in Bury. They have over around 30 works on display at the venue and have sold around 15. Its a great exhibition showcasing their talents and is not to be missed. A Pop along , view […]
To celebrate the completion of their investigation into the world of print. year 3 pupils from Totley Primary School in Sheffield spent a day working with printmaker Alan Birch. Pupils, teachers and artists braved the snowy weather to complete their work.The pupils had already researched the work of Guttenberg, Berwick amongst others and created relief […]
To celebrate the opening of the new display ” Natures Library ” at Manchester Museum, Alan Birch spent a day printing with families . Children took their inspiration from the natural world, and printed silhouettes of natural forms onto shaped leaves. Participants printed two copies, one to take home, and one to add to the […]
Alan Birch has been working with curator Martyn Lucas at the Turnpike Gallery in Leigh in conjunction with an exhibition of prints by Gillian Ayres from the Alan Cristea Gallery in London. The vivid, life affirming prints have inspired both primary and secondary pupils to produced colourful relief prints. so far over 250 pupils have […]
The prints of Gillian Ayres will be on display at the Turnpike Gallery in Leigh for April and May. This life affirming show features over 40 works on paper from the Alan Cristea Gallery in London. Gillian who is best known for her vivid, painterly abstract paintings is still working well into her 80’s and […]
Feel inspired to print ? Pop along with family members for free printing workshops inspired by Blake at John Rylands on Deansgate. Workshops take place on 5th and 11th April. All welcome.
Families used their artistic skills and imagination to produce prints at Manchester Museum inspired by the Breeds exhibition. The show which has a week left to run features 6 breeds of pedigree dogs and these breeds featured in relief prints and intaglio prints. The colourful relief prints made from wallpaper showed dogs wearing items of […]
A dedicated bunch of artists spent the Easter weekend in the Whitworth Art Gallery, producing a copious body of prints ranging from dry points and mono prints to collographs. Using the work of John Piper as inspiration some rich inky dry points and mono prints were produced and vivid sensual collographs. Enough work was produced […]
Over the Easter holidays, Alan Birch will be running printing workshops At Manchester Museum . The workshops will use as their starting point, the current exhibition Breeds, looking at the world of Pedigree dogs. Families will be asked to print colourful dog silhouette prints and also to create dog people on intaglio prints. The workshops […]
Over 40 students from Blackburn College recently visited Prospect Studio to view the work of Alan Birch. Liam Spencer and Jill Randall. Pupils toured the studios, gleaning career advice from the artists and asking relevant questions for their course.
In March 2013 Alan Birch led a series of printmaking workshops for adults at John Rylands Library in Manchester. Using the work of William Blake, artists engraved copper plates and later hand coloured some drypoints. Some excellent prints were produced and would not look out of police next to the Blakes. Alan Birch will be […]