Mr Darren Bryant

Serigraphy, also known as screenprinting, is a printing method that employs a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to create a desired image. "Serigraphy" is a compound word derived from Latin "sēricum" (silk) and Greek "graphein" (to write or draw). Screenprinting is a printing method in which a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. A bade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open apertures in the mesh with ink.
Screenprinting, a relatively recent development as a fine art process, traces its origins back to perhaps the oldest form of printing—the stencil. It was initially used as a popular method for printing expensive wallpaper on linen, silk, and other fine fabrics. Western screen printers established secretive, defensive, and exclusionary business policies designed to keep the knowledge and techniques of their workshops concealed. Screenprinting is arguably the most versatile of all printing processes. Since basic screenprinting materials are so affordable and easily accessible, it has been widely used in underground settings and subcultures, and the homemade appearance of such DIY culture screen prints has become a significant cultural aesthetic seen on movie posters, record album covers, flyers, shirts, commercial fonts in advertising, in artwork, and elsewhere.
During this presentation, an interactive water-based screenprinting workshop will invite participants to print with prepared image- and text-based silkscreens to create poster designs using the serial nature of printmaking, resulting in a series of unique, themed wayzgoose posters.