Edinburgh Photopolymer Workshop
About this Event
Edinburgh Photopolymer Workshop 🏴
Explore the unexpected dialogue between two folk printmaking traditions — the woodblock imagery of prints and the bold, narrative visual culture of Scottish broadsheets and Highland folk art.
This workshop draws inspiration from both traditions: the symbolic storytelling of woodblock prints, and the graphic strength found in Scotland's own history of hand-printed ballads, clan imagery, and decorative folk motifs. Participants will design their own image — drawing freely from either tradition, or finding something entirely in between — and transform it into a photopolymer relief printing plate using UV exposure technology.
The result is a hand-printed edition you take home: tactile, layered, and made entirely by your own hands.
Unlike photographic processes such as cyanotype, this workshop is rooted in relief printmaking — where light is used to build a printable surface, not to capture an image. The process is closer in spirit to the ancient woodblock than to the darkroom.
Workshop Process
- Introduction to woodblock traditions print culture
- Design development and composition — drawing from symbolic, narrative, or decorative imagery
- UV exposure of photopolymer resin plate
- Washing and developing the printing plate
- Hand-printing your edition
Two traditions, one plate, printed by hand in Edinburgh. 🖨️
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 27.80
