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Flash from the workshops: residents Catherine Biocca, Jay Tan, and Wouter Venema

By Frederieke Beunk

Rijksakademie advisor and graphics specialist Erik Fliek introduces residents Catherine Biocca (IT, 1984), Jay Tan (GB, 1982), and Wouter Venema (NL, 1985) to photopolymer etching in the graphic workshop. Photopolymer etching is a technique with photographically produced images as intaglio - an image or design incised or engraved into a material.

The residents use transparent sheets of photographically generated images to make plates. The light sensitive photopolymer film comes on a roll and has to be opened under a yellow light. They apply a light sensitive layer on a copper/ zinc etching plate. After that, the plate is exposed to UV light in a large vacuum box and developed in tray filled with a mixture of water and washing soda. The darker area's in the image won’t be exposed and will be washed away. After the plate is developed, an intaglio plate is created, ready to make the first proofing on the etching press.

Find more information on Catherine Biocca’s, Jay Tan’s, and Wouter Venema’s artist page on the Rijksakademie website.