Crossing the Tees Book Jacket

Crossing the Tees

About Crossing the Tees

Crossing the Tees was part of the River Tees Rediscovered project that is funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund over a five year period. Crossing the Tees involved various artists such as Miranda Richmond, Adrian Moule and Anna Cole working within three different boroughs in Teesside to provide workshops in Cyanotypes, Collagraphs at Home and Blockprints.

Read more about the River Tees Rediscovered programme here.

Impact

Gender Neutral by Matt Brooks from the Noun Project
River Tees Rediscovered Crossing the Tees
Designed by Freepik

Workshops

RTR_Crossing_The_Tees_Block_Printing_06_600height

DARLINGTON

Block Prints

In this workshop, Artist Miranda Richmond guided the group participants on how to do block printing. The group participants were able to use different shaped cutout blocks such as different fish, waves, trees and birds in relation to the River Tees theme to create their own artwork.

RTR_Crossing_The_Tees_Collograph_01_600height

MIDDLESBROUGH

Collagraphs at Home

In this workshop, Artist Adrian Moule worked with the group participants on how to make Collagraph prints, the group participants were able to make two different types of prints to capture the area of Teesside, the River Tees and Crossing the Tees.

RTR_Crossing_The_Tees_Cyanotype_06_600height

HARTLEPOOL

Cyanotypes at Home

In this workshop, Artist Anna Cole led an introduction to making Cyanotypes at home to the group participants. The group participants were introduced to drawing on acetate to make a negative for the print. Various shapes were used for this to capture their own vision of the Tees.

Gallery

All photographs were taken for Tees Valley Arts by Kev Howard. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND International 4.0 License.

Crossing the Tees Printmaking

Crossing the Tees: printmaking was published as a collaboration between the Teesside Print Group, The Crossing the Tees Book Festival and River Tees Rediscovered and celebrated the printmaking of participants at free workshops in Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Darlington during the Crossing the Tees Book Festival 2015.

Published 15th June 2015
ISBN 978-0-9540475-9-7
Edited by Adrian Moule
Design Anna Atkinson Dunn
Photography Anna Atkinson Dunn and Artists
Typesetting Neal & Associates
Printing & Binding A Local Printer Ltd
Run 450 copies

News

The Funders

Heritage Lottery Fund and RTR