February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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October 2011
1 post
animations and print →
The Double Elephant outreach tutors and Josh Gaunt animator and filmaker played around with print and animation in our annual outreach training day. Definitely up for some more playing with animation and print!
September 2011
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August 2011
6 posts
WatchDouble Elephanteers, Claire McLaughlin and Catherine Cartwright at West Town Farm, consultation for The Carousel Project http://www.thecarouselproject.org.uk/, a new Devon based project forerunning early years arts work. In this video the artists, from many disciplines, meet and show each other ideas for working with early years, and discuss interdisciplinary work. Spot the 7 minute printmaking...
School Workshops
We have a great team of tutors who visit and deliver printmaking workshops school around Devon (and sometimes Somerset/Dorset). Right now the kids and young people are on school holidays, but in the meantime look for the photos that’ll follow this post.
Here are some of the schools we’ve been to in the Summer Term:
ISCA College, Exeter
Newton Abbot College
Coombeshead College,...
June 2011
6 posts
Culture Collective - Wed 13 July 2011
Culture Collective - Exeter Cultural Partnership
Wednesday 13 July at 1pm, Reed Hall, University of Exeter
The Exeter Cultural Partnership is a growing collection of organisations with a mission to contribute to a city where a rich cultural life enriches the experience of everyone living, working in & visiting Exeter. The Culture Collective Event is focused on understanding what can be...
MESSAGES FROM DEVON - FLAG Project
Each of these flags has been stitched, printed or painted by residents of Devon.
Some of these people have lived in and around Devon all their lives; many originate from other countries and form an important part of Devon’s multicultural and international community.
The project organisers, artist/educators Catherine Cartwright and Nicci Wonnacott, have been working in association with the Devon...
SEAL workshops from Double Elephant
SEAL, or Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning is an initiative widely used in primary and secondary schools. It is a strategy underpinning qualities and skills that help promote positive behaviour and effective learning, focusing on key social and emotional aspects of learning such as self-awareness, managing feelings, motivation, empathy and social skills.
Double Elephant Print Workshop’s...
Exeter Cultural Partnership - Advocating Culture...
Double Elephant’s Business Development Director, Claire McLaughlin, represents Double Elephant Print Workshop on the Steering Group of Exeter Cultural Partnership. The partnership, which formed in November 2010, consists of around 50 cultural organisations working in Exeter. It grew from a conference examining how we might best make the case for culture in Exeter and how organisations...
The Carousel Project
Double Elephant Outreach has been delighted to deliver workshops for the newly created Carousel Project.
In response to recent cuts to arts organisations and children’s centres, the Devon Carousel Project is a family-led, multi cultural, intergenerational, collaborative community arts, culture and environmental studies initiative, providing high-quality participatory arts and environmental...
September 2010
6 posts
Politics in Print
The exhibition can be seen again at Exeter Phoenix from 4-30 January 2011, and the Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington from 4 - 28 February. Scroll down for images from the original exhibition in Sept 2010.
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Corporate Development
Are you a business or part of a business and interested in team building? Then why not have a go at a printmaking workshop tailored to your business needs? Take a look at our e-flyer to see what we offer-
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Politics in Print
Here is a feature on the ArtsCulture website on the artists involved in Politics in Print, check it out- http://artsculture.newsandmediarepublic.org/2010/09/07/creating-experience-from-archives-politics-in-print/
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August 2010
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Politics in Print- Lucy Brett
Here is Lucy’s blog- http://www.lucydbrett.com/blog/
Check out her fantastic work and get a glimpse of what she has in store for Politics In Print.
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Catherine Cartwright →
Catherine Cartwright is a printmaker and is one of the artists involved in Politics in Print. She is also the Education Coordinator and Director at Double Elephant Print Workshop. This is her blog, check it out!
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Politics In Print- Volkhardt Muller
Inspiration for Politics In Print
I approached the record office without any particular idea of where to start other than to look at the archive itself. How does is acquire, accept, compile and contextualise information and how can I access and value information because of that? Without a specific research point, it was like being dropped in the middle of an ocean with my eyes barely above...
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Politics in Print- Steven Paige
Inspiration for Politics In Print
Redact
Redaction is the process of blacking out or removing information from documents. The purpose of redaction is to keep sensitive information from being distributed that may need to be shared with the public outside of a closed business, governmental or legal process. Absolute destruction of the confidential information is critical in the redaction process....
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Politics in Print- Lucy Brett
Lucy Brett
Inspiration for Politics in Print: There are over a hundred disused stations and more than a dozen lost railway lines in Devon. At the Devon Record Office I looked at documents which showed the anticipation and the care surrounding the planning of these railways. Then I focused my research on one particular branch line and the five stations along its route - the 1893 "Primrose...
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Poilitics in Print
Contemporary artists respond to Devon Record Office’s politically-themed resources through the medium of printmaking.
Testing our new blog
We have a new blog - we are trying to work out how to use it
New Blog
This is a test
July 2010
4 posts
Our next workshop
Photo-Etching Day
Sat 21 August- 10am- 4pm / £55
Explore ways of combining photographic, digital and drawn imagery. Designs are transferred from transparencies onto metal plate then printed the same way as etchings. An amazing variety of possibilities without the use of acids.
http://littlestprintexchange.blogspot.com/
littlestprintexchange.blogspot.comA juried exchange of tiny 3/5 inch prints between fifty artists. Submit your prints now.