Joining Hands (making connections beyond the taught curriculum)
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The wider student cohort will become professional colleagues and contacts once the degrees are completed and everyone moves into the working world. How can they meet like-minded people from other courses at their university or beyond? Join Helen, Naomi and Elizabeth as they discuss how they have helped students learn new skills, have fun, network and move beyond the taught curriculum. We work with students in relaxed non-assessed skills-based creative workshops/events to enable new relationships to be forged and contacts made through shared interests.
Helen Ingham teaches letterpress and runs the workshop at Central Saint Martins College in London and has a passion for vernacular lettering, type and typography. She is also a musician and songwriter, in particular, American roots and rock’n’roll music. Producing graphic arts for these musical projects has driven her interest in, and pursuit of traditional methods, such as letterpress and sign-painting. She runs an after hours signwriting club at the college for any staff or students with an interest and paintbrush.
Elizabeth is an artist printmaker who uses letterpress, linocut & calligraphy to make prints and artist books. Bodies of work include sci-art projects connecting current scientific research to non-specialist audiences through art and also more playful small works that play with language and pattern. She is also a part-time associate lecturer teaching graphic design undergraduates the joy of creative analogue print.
Naomi Kent is the senior printmaking technician at Birmingham City University. She teaches a variety of printmaking techniques but has a large bias towards letterpress printing which is represented in her own work. Naomi has recently started a teaching qualification in higher education.
