Two-hour workshop learning how to make blueprints using the cyanotype photographic process and the sun to expose prints. The workshop is based around making prints by hand and is a cyanotype beginners workshop delivered as part of the artist's current exhibition programme for Intended for Jamaica which is being exhibited at the Library of Birmingham until the 24 Aug.

The workshop will be with photo artist Tracey Thorne who will share some examples of her cyanotype practice and some works that she made in the exhibition including four prints called Colonial Trash. The prints were made from ceramic shards found in the ruins of a plantation house in Jamaica. 

 During the worksho,p you will learn the basics of how to make cyanotypes using the sun to make prints using photographs and objects. Participants are invited to bring and found or personal pottery or other items to the workshop, this could…