When
Saturday 29 June 2024
Join local artist Izabela Pluta as she leads you through a lumen printing workshop. This hands-on session will explore a cameraless technique that can create images by interacting silver gelatin photographic paper with a light source. This is the same process that Pluta used to create Sleep Rhythms, her commissioned work currently featured on the street hoarding of Newcastle Art Gallery.
Photographic lumen prints rely on the principle that light-sensitive paper will produce an image without developer chemicals if exposed to sufficient light. The colour of this photographic paper continues to change the longer it is exposed to light unless chemically ‘fixed’.
Create your own dormant lumen print as a snapshot in time and learn more about the artist's processes in developing works of art.
The cost of the workshop is $25 per participant. Limited spaces available. Your ticket includes light refreshments and all workshop materials.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Izabela Pluta is a Polish-born, Newcastle-based artist. Her studio practice spans collage, film-based photography, sculpture, installation and video, and engages with concepts of time and memory, and questions of place.
Izabela’s poetic and multifaceted approach is characterised by processes of fragmentation, dislocation, reconfiguration and embodied fieldwork. Her use of multiple photographic languages is attuned to the complexity of an image’s materiality, and she imbues other mediums with a kind of photographic thinking.
Image: Portrait of Izabela Pluta, Photo: Anna Kucera