Exeter on Screen: Projecting and Printing Place

What’s on offer?

Exeter On Screen: Projecting and Printing Place’ will be a one day creative workshop at Positive Lights (Sidwell St, Exeter). The workshop will explore how the urban spaces of modern Exeter have been pictured. Using a selection of rare historic magic lantern slides of Exeter, participants will create a range of large and small scale experimental images by exposing light direct onto photosensitive paper in a camera obscura and pop-up dark room. These prints will then be developed further utilising a range of screen printing techniques.

What’s it about?

This event forms part of a broader collaboration between Positive Lights, Bill Douglas Cinema Museum (University of Exeter) and Professor John Plunkett (Exeter).  

Who’s leading the event?

The workshop will be led by Positive Lights.
Positive Lights uses the visual arts to engage and inspire a diverse range of audiences and communities as well as developing emerging practitioners and aiding them move their practise forward in exciting and innovative ways. For more details go to https://www.positivelightprojects.com/

Of particular interest to

The workshop will be open to all but likely to be of particular interest to those with an interest in creative arts, and place and heritage.