Cyanotype Workshop
Date: Saturday 27 April 2024
Time: 9am – 12noon
Venue:
Injune Rodeo Grounds
Class size: 6 to 10 participants.
Suitable for beginners, teens (15+), and adults.
Price: $92.50
All materials and morning tea provided.
Discover the World of Cyanotype Printing
Join us for an exciting hands-on workshop, where you create your own unique artwork and gain skills to continue experimenting with this captivating art form at home.
Explore the historical photographic process using plants, found objects, and sunlight. Keep your unique prints as cherished artworks or as a gift to someone special.
Led by experienced instructor, Renata Buziak, a biochrome photo-media artist, researcher, and educator with over 15 years of teaching experience. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced artist, this workshop is perfect for you. Immerse yourself in the creative process as Renata guides you through the entire process, from preparing the materials to developing your very own cyanotype masterpiece.
In this workshop you will:
- Create your own stunning cyanotype prints on cotton and paper.
- Learn some history of the process, coating, developing and fixing techniques in a relaxed atmosphere.
- Acquire the skills to continue experimenting with cyanotype at home.
All materials provided: cyanotype supplies, paper, fabric, plant cuttings, found objects.
*Bring your own small objects for a personal touch.
About Renata:
Dr Renata Buziak is a biochrome photo-media artist, researcher, and educator with over 15 years of teaching experience. Renata regularly facilitates cyanotype and other workshops at schools, galleries and other venues, for children and adults.
With a focus on plant life and helping people to reconnect with nature, her biochrome artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her recent work with healing plants created in dialogues with Aunty Lynette Nixon and Saraeva Mitchell will be available in the upcoming ‘Yimbaya Maranoa’ exhibition in Mitchell.
Renata holds a PhD from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her art has received several awards and is featured in private and public collections, and on ABC TV’s Gardening Australia.
Reflections on Cyanotype workshop with Renata Buziak by Gabby Mactaggart.
Images on this page:
- Banner images: (1 & 3): workshop participants’ cyanotype prints on paper: washing & drying (2) Renata’s double-sided prints on cotton.
- Feature image – Linden flowers, cyanotype print on paper by Renata Buziak.