2 - 6 July, 2019
Tidemarks: Printmaking, plastics and our coastline
Tidemarks was a project that brought science and art together to highlight and explore the impact of plastic waste on our marine life and coastal environments.
This exhibition presented work from two different stages of the project.
The first, funded by Ernest Cook Trust involved Northern Print working with Key Stage 2 pupils in Coquet Park First School and Rockcliffe First School in Whitley Bay and Whitehouse Primary School and King Edward Primary School in North Shields.
For the second stage, Northern Print worked with young people from the Silx Youth Project in Blyth, Northumberland. This was funded by the LEAF Fund at the Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland.
Both projects involved the participants making prints from waste plastics collected during beach clean-up sessions which were used to create collaged printing plates. These were then inked up and printed using a press thereby creating textured collagraph seascape prints.
“The children loved the two days. The outdoor visit to the beach to collect different recyclable materials informed the children of what can be reused from their environment. They really enjoyed the printmaking back at school, mainly as it is equipment that the children have never used before.”
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