Photogravure is a photomechanical process used to reproduce images, involving transferring a photograph onto a metal (copper) or photopolymer plate through exposure and acid etching, in order to create a printing form. During this workshop, we will cover all the steps involved in creating a photogravure, from start to finish, including printing.
Each participant will work on their own plate and print their own base image. Your base image must be black and white, and can have shades of grey. It can be a photograph, a hand-drawn image, such as lines or a more complex drawing, or a computer-generated image or text. Participants are asked to create their own base image before the workshop, scan it, and send the file (.jpg) to TYPA (merilin@typa.ee).
Workshop price is 24/20€*
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NB! This workshop is in English!
Nelly Toussaint is a French artist born in 1986 who lives and works in Finland since 2017. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Photography from Paris 8 University in 2010, she obtained a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from La Villa Arson in 2014. She then spent two years studying printmaking at the Helsinki Fine Arts Academy, graduating with an MFA in 2025. Her work is present in numerous private and public collections such as Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Finland and the BNF in France. Her artworks have been exhibited in several countries, including: France, Belgium, Monaco, Germany, Finland, and Estonia.
Nelly Toussaint questions the representation of women in Western art history and its use as a tool of domination, by re-drawing intaglio prints from art museums’ collections, embroidering feminist slogans with her own hair and drawing self-portraits. By blending personal experiences, Western art history and feminist critique, Toussaint is changing the narrative dominated by oppressive patriarchal representations, in order to liberate women’s bodies and stories.