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Workshop: Basic Etching
In this workshop, we’ll cover the basics of etching and aquatint on zinc starting from your own drawing. You will learn how to polish and degrease the plate, etch lines with hard ground and copper sulphate, how to create different greyscales with aquatint, and how to print on paper with the etching press. Etching is…
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Open Call
Subsidised Production Residency for Emerging Practitioners (Note: an earlier version of this post stated the wrong residency fee. It has since been updated. We apologise for any confusion.) AGALAB is pleased to offer two short-term production residencies for emerging artists, designers, and makers working across art, design, and interdisciplinary practices. For a subsidised fee of…
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Student Discount
AGALAB offers half-price day cards for students at €14 per day! This offer is for students who already have experience working independently in a workshop environment. AGALAB is a DIY, self-managed space, which means everyone who uses the workshop needs to understand basic workshop etiquette: how to use tools safely, clean up properly, respect shared…
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Workshop: Silkscreen
In this workshop, we’ll explore the basics of silkscreen printing by creating prints from your own image, text, or drawing. You will learn how to prepare artwork for screen printing, expose a screen using UV light, mix inks, and print by hand onto paper. Silkscreen printing is a versatile stencil-based technique that allows for bold…
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In Residence: Exhibition
This Thursday, we warmly invite you to an evening of presentations by our current Artists in Residence: Maddie AlexanderAlizée BauerDenitsa Ilcheva Throughout the residency, the artists have been developing individual research. The presentation offers an opportunity to engage with works in progress, as well as the artists themselves.
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Workshop: TOYOBO
In this workshop, we’ll transfer a digital photograph, design or drawing onto a Toyobo plate and print from it. Toyobo plates are light-sensitive photopolymer plates that can be exposed with UV light using a photo-positive transparency to create an etched printing surface. This versatile technique allows you to reproduce photographic and drawn imagery with the…