About this Event
Hand-drawn Polymer Gravure (4 weeks)
Thursdays, October 23 - Nov 13, 2025
6:30PM - 9:30PM
Class Capacity: 6 participants
Materials included | No prior experience needed | All skill levels welcome
Instructor: Zoe Teng
Polymer gravure is an intaglio printmaking process that allows artists to create archival edition prints from hand-drawn and photographic sources.
This workshop is for anyone with an interest in making drawing or painting and turning them into prints. We will be working on the surface of drafting films, and transferring the artwork onto a light-sensitive plate before making the final print on paper using an etching press.
This process is especially useful in reproducing artwork with a lot of fine details and tonal variety. We will also learn how to modify the final print by adjusting exposure time, adding color ink and other printmaking techniques.
Participants can choose to work with dry medium such as pencil, charcoal and marker pens; wet medium such as crayon, oil pastel, and ink or gouache to create ink-wash paintings.
Participants will come away with a photopolymer plate and a small suite of prints on rag printmaking paper or Japanese paper.
About the Instructor
Zoe Teng is a visual artist born in Taipei, Taiwan, working primarily with photography and printmaking. Deeply informed by long periods of travel, her work explores interpretations of memory, place and the notion of nomadism. Her practice is a search for poetry, revolving around a space of nuanced contradictions - transience and timelessness, narration and abstraction. A former expat in Australia, she has worked for contemporary art galleries and art-based initiatives in Sydney and Northern Territory. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Australia, UK, and China.
Banner image: Zoe Teng, "Girl on the beach", polymer gravure on paper from pencil drawing, 2025
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Open Studio, 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Canada
CAD 379.41
