Tuesday 12 December 2017

Tarpey Gallery

Tarpey Gallery's Christmas group show is now online
The exhibition features a selection of artwork by newly joined and long standing represented artists and will have a focus on contemporary painting, print and sculpture from a select group of seven local artists. The show will take place in our main and secondary exhibition spaces from 9th December until 28th January.

Andrew Macara, Colin Halliday, Lois Wallace, Michelle Keegan, David Sprakes, Matthew Strong and Heather Duncan bring their unique aesthetic sensibilities to produce a dynamic group show.
I'm showing prints from the Still Navigating series.


Wednesday 25 October 2017

Gallery 57 Arundel

Delighted to be exhibiting with Gallery 57 as part of the Winter Collection.Exquisite gallery in Arundel.




Monday 21 August 2017

Green Door Printmaking Studio

Midlands Printmaking Open prize was a great course exploring acrylic resist etching, open bite and lift grounds at Green Door Printmaking studio.
It was great to learn something new with Anna.
A brilliant day.


Saturday 22 July 2017

Summer School – Innovative Intaglio Printmaking at West Yorkshire Print Workshop

3 Day Summer School
Friday 4th / Saturday 5th / Sunday 6th August 2017
11 – 5
Join our 2014 Flourish Award winner for an exciting workshop, which will focus on breaking the conventions of ‘traditional’ etching, exploring intaglio processes and collagraph techniques. We will experiment with multiplate, layering and colour techniques. Building on the success of Michelle’s first summer school in 2016, she’s back again for another!
Working with drypoint, collagraph and etching processes, you will explore a wide variety of mark making methods. Tactile and sculptural marks can be produced by layering liquid ‘ground’ or wax onto a plate to act as a ‘resist’ or ‘stop-out’ to the etching solution.  The zinc and aluminium plates are then etched multiple times using a solution of copper sulphate, to build up your image in layers. Spontaneous mark-making and ‘open bite’ lines will be explored and printed, often producing beautiful abstract compositions. You will learn to register multiple plates and work with a variety of shapes and compositions. You will also learn about paper, inking and registration techniques.
Michelle Keegan studied Fine Art at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, graduating with first class honours. She specialised in printmaking immediately, having been intrigued by the possibilities of process, and exploring unknown ways of making marks. Michelle continued her post graduate education at the Slade School of Fine Art, under the guidance of Stanley Jones. She has made prints and exhibited widely for the past 20 years, and also runs a small print workshop and lectures in Nottingham.






All are welcome on this course, whether experienced or complete beginner. The only requirements are an experimental approach and an open mind!

Friday 19 May 2017

Leicester Print Workshop

Collagraph Day Course
Where?
Leicester Print Workshop
When/how often?
Saturday 20th May 10.00am - 4.00pm.
Who's teaching the course?
Michelle Keegan
Collagraph involves adding layers of adhesive or solid material to the surface of a printing plate, in addition to being created by scoring and drawing into the surface of the plate. Therefore making it possible to incorporate both intaglio and relief methods on one plate. Standard collagraph plates are normally made out of card and coated in a French polish to seal the plate after the image has been created.
    Working with a number of plates you will explore mark marking and line in
    this highly versatile process.
    Learn how to build up layers of tone and line on a mount board plate.
    Explore multi plate and multi colour printing resulting in a more complex
    approach to collagraph.
    You will also learn chine collé techniques and composition and registration
    tricks.
£70 / £63 concessions
Course structure
    Demo: Mark making and line cutting on mount board safely
    Production of multiple plates leading to demonstrations of inking process
    Demo: Registration
    Demo: How to set and use a press
    Discussion around ink types and paper
    Production of multiple prints
    Clean and tidy up
About the Tutor

Michelle Keegan studied Fine Art at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, graduating with first class honours. She specialised in printmaking immediately, having been intrigued by the possibilities of process, and exploring unknown ways of making marks. Michelle continued her post graduate education at the Slade School of Fine Art.She has made prints and exhibited widely for the past 20 years, she is course leader for the Foundation Degree in Fine Art Practice at Central College Nottingham and tutor for printmaking at Open College of Arts. Michelle is also a guest tutor at numerous Print Workshops.






Saturday 6 May 2017

Lady Bay Arts Festival

I’m delighted to be exhibiting at the Lady Bay Arts Festival, 20th and 21st May.



Tuesday 18 April 2017

Gallery 57 Contemporary Art Gallery Arundel



Delighted to be exhibiting with Gallery 57 as part of ‘Interior Space’opening 29th April

Friday 3 March 2017

The Hepworth Print Fair

Delighted to be part of this with Staithes Studios Gallery
‪#‎thwprintfair‬

Wednesday 22 February 2017

Staithes Studios

Very excited to receive lots of boxes today - packed with our latest booklet for Staithes Studios - this pocket size publication which has kept us very busy over the past few weeks presents our rolling programme of monthly shows throughout 2017 and lists the amazing artists we work with and workshop dates. Available FREE from the gallery and at the many events we attend starting with The Hepworth Print Fair 2nd - 5th March. An electronic version will be making its way onto the website asap. In the meantime here is a taster — with Danielle CreenauneEmma J LawrensonHenrietta CorbettMichelle Keegan and Anja Percival: Printmaker.