Taigh Chearsabhagh
print workshop and dark room offers artists the facilities
they need to produce their work.
The workshop is part of a thriving Arts Centre and Museum, the focus for
creative and cultural activities in the Uists.
As well as a museum, gallery, events room and workshop spaces, a cafe and shop are also housed in the building. Accommodation in the form of a self-contained flat is also available for artists to rent at £100 per week or £75 per week for two people sharing.
This is the only print workshop in the Outer Hebrides and Skye.
Its location, on the most westerly inhabited island in Scotland provides a dramatic and inspiring setting.
The island of North Uist is easy to get to. A daily flight from Glasgow to Benbecula takes one hour. Alternatively you can travel by ferry from Skye or from Oban to South Uist.
MEMBERSHIP
yearly membership:
- membership £50
- membership for unwaged & students £35
- membership & session fees combined £120
session fees for members:
- Half-day £3.00
- Full day £5.00
Basic inks, developer,
cleaning materials and newsprint are available free of charge.
You can buy printing papers and camera film in the shop.
To use the Print workshop and darkroom, you must book in advance.
FACILITIES
Darkroom
Fully equipped
darkroom with
- Durst Enlarger M670 colour
- Durst 504 Enlarger
- Full washing & drying facilities for resin coated and fiber based
printing.
Print
workshop
Equipped
for block, intaglio and screen printing,
- Rochat press 21" x 42" bed
- Screen printing bed 72" x 40"
The workshops are small and suitable for one artist to use at a time.
Acrylic
Resist printmaking
Many chemicals regularly used by printmakers are classified as hazardous and some are suspected carcinogens.
Artists worldwide have expressed genuine concern about the risks to their health, that of others and the environment. There is now a move to recognise these risks, to take adequate precautions to eliminate or minimise them and to find alternatives to solvent-based systems.
In 2003, with assistance from Alfons Bytautus of Edinburgh Printmakers,we started utilising safer etching systems - getting rid of hazardous chemicals and solvents used in the technique of etching.
The
Printmaking facility now employs an Acrylic-Resist Etching technique.
This encompasses a range of techniques using waterbased etching resists.
These resists are easy to use, clean up with water and are amazingly
versatile.
Multi-media
facilities
Please contact us for further details.
