Gallery 57 Arundel Paper

Delighted to be returning with new work to the exquisite Gallery 57 with my prints titled I Can Still Hear You.
https://www.keeganarts.co.uk/sub-gallery-i-can

New Website

I'm delighted to say i have a new website
please click here

https://www.keeganarts.co.uk

Leicester Print Workshop

Looking forward to delivering a workshop at Leicester Print Workshop on Saturday 2nd November

Take a line for a walk, exploring multi plate and abstract printmaking.

https://shop.leicesterprintworkshop.com/collections/courses-at-lpw/products/191102-2nd-november-drypoint-onto-aluminium?variant=21676849070169

Contemporary Art Auction East Midlands

Delighted to be part of the Contemporary Art Auction at the Djanogly Gallery.
Auction day Saturday 12th October 1pm.

I Can Still Hear You 10 

Etching on copper

DERBY PRINT OPEN

Profile for Derby Print Open
https://www.derbyprintopen.org/printmakers/michelle-keegan?fbclid=IwAR3wKrHymPPxyCQoI2U29s9ZWyhiKb5DaEVxnOQ5kbzhPl2c-mm1Enf2BrQ

A Slade School of Art graduate, and winner of the 2014 Flourish Award for excellence in printmaking. Keegan strongly identifies with Romney Marsh, where she spent much of her childhood and adolescence, as her spiritual home, it is a place whose desolate and minimal characteristics continually ‘haunt’ the aesthetic of her work. Her artistic practice conducts conversations with the landscape and reflects on notions of belonging, identity, rootedness, liminality, and ‘home’.

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 she makes on site during her visits to the South. The drawings are then playfully distorted into overlapping layers of line and texture on zinc and copper plates. The etching process becomes one of spontaneous transcription, of feelings and memories, both familiar and elusive, which evolves as she works.

The results are intricate and complex multi-layered prints that resist literal interpretation and lack referential scale. Honouring instead a physically charged and deeply personal mapping of the environment.

Keegan is the Senior Lecturer in Printmaking at the University of Northampton and runs a print workshop in Nottingham.

Derby Print Open

Delighted to be exhibiting 3 new prints as part of the Derby Print. The exhibition showcases contemporary printmaking from artists based in the United Kingdom. A total of 82 printmakers submitted their work, and over 200 prints were shortlisted to be exhibited.

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7 - 29 June 2019

Launch
Fri 7th June (5pm - 8pm)
at Banks Mill Studios

71 Bridge St, Derby, DE1 3LB

Hepworth Print Fair

Delighted to be part of the Hepworth Print Fair with Staithes Studios
http://staithesstudios.com

 https://hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/print-fair/

The Hepworth Wakefield

Gallery Walk, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 5AW

 1 - 3 March 2019, 10am - 5pm

West Yorkshire Print Workshop

Delighted to be exhibiting at West Yorkshire Print Workshop,‘In-house'

These were 2 proofs made as part of my residency exploring copper etching using ferric that led to my Drawn in the Margins series.

http://keeganarts.blogspot.com/p/gallery-drawn-in-margins_11.html

The exhibition is all about the different courses taught, celebrating the work of tutors and also showcasing work by those who have been on courses.

It’s a brilliant workshop and always a pleasure to teach and make work there.

Gallery 57 Arundel West Sussex

Delighted to be part of Gallery 57’s beautiful Winter Exhibition, Organic Form showing until February 24th in Arundel.
My new etchings are from the series Listening for the Past.
 
https://www.gallery57.co.uk/organic-form

http://keeganarts.blogspot.com/p/listening-for-past.html

Sound Mirrors at Denge

Drawing at the Sound Mirrors open day,amazing to get up close to them.

Summer School: Multi-Plate Intaglio Printmaking at West Yorkshire Print Workshop

3 day course
Friday 10th / Saturday 11th / Sunday 12th August 2018
11 – 5
£205.00

Take a line for a walk exploring multi-plate intaglio printmaking! Join artist, printmaker and 2014 Flourish printmaking award winner Michelle Keegan for an exciting 3 day summer school which will focus on exploring multi-plate printing using collagraph and drypoint technique – no etching required!

Experiment with Drypoint to make marks on aluminium plates – building up surfaces without the requirement of etching chemicals. You will use traditional scrapers and drypoint needles along with sanding and more innovative mark making approaches. Learn how to ink plates ‘a la poupée’ – a mutli-colour inking technique, and explore using transparent inks to achieve layering of colour and images. You can also experiment with the arrangement of the plates to make different compositions.

Use collagraph to build up layers of tone and line on a mount board surface, and work with a number of plates to explore mark marking and shape with this highly versatile process. You will also learn ‘chine collé’ techniques and composition and registration tricks.

Your 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, under the guidance of master printmaker 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.

What’s included?

All course prices include basic materials such as inks, paper, tools and equipment. Other materials and printmaking papers will be available to buy during the course if you would like to try something a bit different, or take some materials home to try out.

What’s Next?

After attending this course you will be well equipped to join our workshop as a member and continue to use our facilities to make and develop your own work. The sooner the better, as the longer you leave it the more you are likely to forget! If you join up within one month of attending the course you will receive a £5 discount. Find out more about the benefits of membership here: http://www.wypw.org/shop/standard-membership/

Derby Print Open

Delighted to be part of the Derby Print open exhibition.

Printmakers based in the United Kingdom were invited to submit work towards Green Door Printmaking Studio’s first ever Derby Print Open. The Derby Print Open is an exhibition which is open to all artists over the age of 16, based in the United Kingdom, working purely within the medium of printmaking.

Over 80 prints will be on display within Banks Mill Studios

Banks Mill Studios

71 Bridge StreetDerbyDE1 3LB

1 - 29 June 2018

Listening for the Past 18

Make Colour Sing

Really excited to be part of this exhibition curated by Laine Tomkinson.
Private view Saturday 12 May from 7.30 to 9.00 at Nottingham Society of Artists, 71 Friar Lane NG1 6DH

Gallery 57 Contemporary Art Gallery Arundel

Etchings from the series “Drawn in the margins” by Michelle Keegan #michellekeeganetchings#etchingseries #etchings #etchingonzinc#printmaking #blackandwhiteprintmaking#printmakingartist @gallery57_arundel #gallery57_arundel #contemporarygallery #arundel

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.

Gallery 57 Arundel

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

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.

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!