Forthcoming Exhibition - Norwich City College

Silkscreen Original Prints

Norwich City College is a Further and Higher Education College, and is in fact one of the largest in the country with a total enrolment of 10,011 in 2010. This exhibition depicts silk screen prints by the City College Norwich Foundation Ar and Design Students from the Creative Arts Department.

The students responded to a brief asking them to explore artworks that make bold statements on hospital corridors. The works aim to be bright, welcoming and hopeful of helping the wellbeing of staff, patients and visitors. The students took on board the ideas of Abstraction and the influences from artists within this genre, such as Howard Hodgkin, Matisse, Charlotte Cornish and Sandra Blow.

Screen printing is a printing technique whereby a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mesh apertures with ink, and a reverse stroke then causes the screen to touch the substrate momentarily along a line of contact. This causes the ink to wet the substrate and be pulled out of the mesh apertures as the screen springs back after the blade has passed.

(City College Students and a sample of their work)

Norwich City College is a Further and Higher Education College, and is in fact one of the largest in the country with a total enrollment of 10,011 registered in 2010.

For information on Environmental Arts please contact Emma Jarvis, Environmental Arts, Facilities Department, NNUH: emma.jarvis@nnuh.nhs.uk, 01603 287870 or ext. 3870.