Learn a variety of methods for painting and mark-making on film, experimenting across colour, black-and-white and digital negatives with bleach, inks, and different types of resists and alcohol solutions to dissolve, distort and embellish negatives. Make contact prints from digital negatives, experiment with chemigram techniques on exposed prints in the darkroom and scan colour negatives to alter the colour spectrum from negative to positive. The workshop offers insights into how mark-making techniques can be layered on different film and paper substrates, uncovering ways to reinvent old images and create new, surreal worlds.
Participants are welcome to bring their own negatives; found negatives will be provided.
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Surface Tensions: Gestures on the Photographic Image
This three-part workshop series introduces a unique method of working across mediums—from painting directly onto photographic prints, to drawing with light on light-sensitive materials, to using chemistry to paint on negatives. Engage with image-making as a layered, tactile process, expanding photography beyond the frame into the realm of physical intervention and encouraging experimentation and cross-disciplinary play.
Course fee: $340 (Members) / $400 (Non Members)
Individual Workshop fee: $120 (Members) / $140 (Non Members)
Ella Morton (she/her) is a Canadian visual artist and filmmaker living in Tkarón:to/Toronto, on the land of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenoshaunee and the Wendat peoples. Her expedition-based practice has brought her to residencies and projects across Canada, Scandinavia, Latin America, Greenland and Antarctica. Working primarily with lens-based media, she uses experimental analogue processes to capture the sublime and fragile qualities of remote landscapes. Reflecting on how the medium of photography is changing in the digital age, she aims to uncover how photographs can show more than a straightforward depiction of reality, and how the alchemy of analogue techniques can be reinvented in the present day to tell deeper stories within images.
