West Yorkshire Print Workshop

Inspiring, intense and highly productive week as artist in residence at West Yorkshire Print Workshop. I really loved being there exploring new work, new ideas and processes.

West Yorkshire Print Workshop Summer School

Thoroughly enjoyed teaching the Summer School - Inventive Intaglio  

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.

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.

Green Door Printmaking Studio International Print Exchange

Signing little prints for the Greendoor international Print Exchange

Leicester Print Workshop

Talk about my practice at Leicester Print Workshop

Leicester Print Workshop Artist's Talk

Join us this Wednesday 29th June at 6.30pm for an evening artist talk with visiting printmaker Michelle Keegan, winner of the 2014 Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking. Come and be inspired! http://www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/…/meet_the_artist_mi…/

Meet the Artist: Michelle Keegan

When and where?	Wednesday 29th June 6.30pm - 7.30pm at Leicester Print Workshop.
What does it cost?	£5

Printmaker Michelle Keegan is the 2014 winner of the Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking hosted by West Yorkshire Print Workshop. 

Michelle will talk about her practice and the work she has made for the Drawn in the Margins exhibition, currently showing in the LPW Project Space.

Staithes Studio Gallery

‘A History in Layers’ showing at Staithes studio gallery until July 3rd.

Really beautiful place and exquisite gallery.

Michelle Keegan at Staithes Studios

http://staithesstudios.com/3-2016/

Leicester Print Workshop Exhibition

Drawn in the Margins                                         Flourish Award by Michelle Keegan

Leicester Print Workshop Project Space  

                                                                           

3rd May – 30th July 2016                                                     

Printmaker Michelle Keegan is the 2014 winner of the Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking hosted by West Yorkshire Print Workshop. A Slade School of Art graduate, Michelle’s work in etching is minimalist and monochromatic, depicting a series of abstract layers, memories of spaces, places and landscape.

The Flourish award gave Michelle access to the WYPW studio where she developed this series of new work, entitled Still Navigating, which was first exhibited as part of a solo print exhibition at Huddersfield Art Gallery in 2015/6

‘I am fascinated by printmaking, I live for it and have never ceased to be excited and amazed by its magic and potential. The process is a fundamental part of my work. The images emerge through allowing the print process of etching and the personality of the metal, on which the images are constructed, to become essential to the visual dialogue. The nature of the process demands clarity of thought, precision and reflection throughout the making process.’

Michelle describes her artistic practice as a way in which to conduct conversations with the landscape and reflect on notions of belonging, identity, rootedness, liminality, and ‘home’.

Michelle teaches and runs a small print workshop in Nottingham, which is her professional home, but strongly identifies with Romney Marsh, where she spent much of her childhood and adolescence, as a spiritual home, a place whose desolate and minimal characteristics continually ‘haunt’ the aesthetic of her work.

‘Drainage dykes, sea walls, and electricity pylons are structures of modernity that traverse the flat expanses of the marshland. These act as departure points for sketches that I make on site during visits to the South. The drawings are then playfully distorted into overlapping layers of line and texture on zinc and copper plates.’

The results are intricate and complex multi-layered prints, which act as physically charged and deeply personal maps of the environment.

More information about the artist can be found online at www.keeganarts.com