Chris Madge Talk & Demonstration

Thursday 23 October, 5.30pm - 7.30pm

Chris Madge will talk about how he became involved in using digital negatives for printing alternative photographic processes and explain how these negatives are made. He will demonstrate coating techniques for processes like Cyanotype and Argyrotype and describe his techniques for making Gum Bichromate prints. He will also discuss how digital negatives can be made for contact printing onto modern photographic papers such as Ilford Multigrade.

5.30pm - 6pm
Northern Print Gallery
Exhibition view and drinks

6.10pm - 7.30pm
Print Space
Talk & Demonstration

Printing with Light
Exhibition continues until 30 October, 2025

This talk is part of Printing With Light, an exhibition that presents prints made using photographic processes including cyanotype, solarplate, gum bichromate duotone, photoetching and others; with work from Chris Madge, Ian Gale, Cindy Robinson-Begg, Valentina Usai-Zucca, Donald Wilkinson and Birgit Skiöld.