Alternative Etching Weekend Course

Alternative Etching Weekend Course

This course explores experimental etching processes as a safer, greener alternative to traditional etching methods.

By Cork Printmakers

Date and time

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:00 - Sun, 19 Oct 2025 17:00 GMT+1

Location

Cork Printmakers

Wandesford Quay Clarke's Bridge T12 E26D Cork Ireland

Refund Policy

No Refunds

About this event

Alternative Etching - 2 day course

Tutor: Brian Barry

Explore a safe, innovative approach to etching during this course, where you’ll work with saline sulphate mordant—a less toxic alternative to traditional etching acids. This hands-on course is perfect for those looking to experiment with new materials and techniques in printmaking. It’s also suitable for those without previous etching experience.

Throughout the course, you’ll learn how to set up and safely use the equipment for saline sulphate etching, gain hands-on experience with creative plate-making techniques and tools, prepare your plates, materials, and ink for printing, experiment with new grounds allowing you to achieve a range of effects and textures, create a series of unique prints.

Cork Printmakers reserves the right to cancel a course with insufficient enrolment, and when this occurs any and all prepaid fees are refunded. Course times and places are not transferable. Cork Printmakers does not refund fees paid by participants who subsequently cancel their place.


(Image 2: Work from 2024 course by Aideen Quirke and Shona Shirley MacDonald)

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Cork Printmakers

Cork Printmakers is a print studio providing artists a creative and well-equipped environment in which to work, and offering audiences a diverse and inclusive environment in which to experience, appreciate, understand and enjoy art. As a resource organisation, it generates professional development opportunities to members and guest artists. Through its showcasing function, it produces and presents art by it's members through it's exhibition programme. It plays a key role in the cultural ecology of Cork and is recognised for its activity in Ireland and internationally.

€300