Porta Workshop with Storquestudios
26th/ 27th of April, 2025


Needing a table may be more simple than you think!

In this 2 day Porta Workshop, you will be making your own trestle table to take home with you.

The trestle table you will be making, is a newly established design, and part of a wider ‘Porta’ project from Storquestudios. The idea for this model, has stemmed from a metal component design that accommodates prefabricated waste elements such as ply-wood. These prefabricated elements slot into the metal structure, to create a smooth and simple assemblaging of the trestle. 

Through making and working with Storquestudios, you will start to understand the concept and methodology behind furniture making. Through acquiring simple skills, you can see how it’s made and you can be a part of the process.

This Workshop is stimulated by Enzo Mari’s concept of sharing design, and progressively thinking in how skills can influence understanding.

*In Latin, ‘porta’ means “gate”, “entrance”, or “door”.
We will be harnessing the idea of ‘porta’, by accomodating panel doors in the completion of the design. Door panels will be provided, and you will learn how to restore and re-purpose them as table tops.


COST
£320 (per person, per table)

*ALL materials and an EB lunch spread included

What to expect in the Porta Workshop:

• An introduction to Carpentry skills (including the use of simple power tools such as a mitre saw, impact/ combi drills, and hand tools).
• An introduction to using hand tools
• An introduction to restoring/ re-purposing materials
• An introduction to Storquestudios design practice

For any questions and bookings, please get in touch with katrina@equivalentbehaviour.net



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^{PHOTOGRAPHIC HAND RETOUCHING AND COLOURING WORKSHOP WITH KEVIN O’NEILL}

Day 1, 22nd of March, 2025
Hand Spotting, imitation of grain, brush control and blemish reduction, are all techniques involved in the first day of this introductory hand retouching and colouring Workshop.

Focusing on both black and white and colour photographic prints, an introduction to Kevin's process and experience working in the Retouching industry, are also integral components of this 2 day course

Day 2, 23rd of March, 2025
This following session is focused on hand colouring. Introducing colour mixing, localised toning, skin coloring, colour building, masking, and airbrushing.
Students will develop new ways of understanding and working with ‘post’ production: applying colour and creatively working with hand colouring can open up new ideas of what photographic manipulation has meant and could mean.



Cost - £240

*Prints and materials are included, however, students are welcome to bring prints they have made or want to experiment with.

*Home made lunch spreads will be provided at Equivalentbehaviour on both days of the workshop







_{LUMEN PRINT WORKSHOP WITH GUEST ARTIST Rachelle Bussières}

AUGUST 2024

In this hands-on workshop, participants experimented with various lumen printing techniques utilising the studio space and outdoor space. Participants created cameraless lumen prints using onsite plants and objects, and botanicals brought by participants.

Lumen prints are produced using gelatin silver paper, which is exposed to light and then placed directly into the fixer. Drawing from the lumen print process of invited guest artist Rachelle Bussières, participants grasped methods for achieving colors on gelatin silver paper. .


https://rachellebussieres.com/







^{HAND RETOUCHING WORKSHOPS WITH KEVIN O’NEILL}
From 2022-2023, Equivalentbehaviour ran 10 Hand-Retouching Workshops with Master Retoucher kevin O’neill, and hosted 50 students accumulatively during this time. 

WORKSHOP Run down
In our first week with Kevin, we focus on working with black and white hand prints (fibre and resin coated).
Starting with tonality of bw, the introduction of brush control and imitating grain are more graspable due to the concentration of tone and density. The second week is where we expanded the palette and began to work with colour!

Hand spotting, colouring, blemish reduction and airbrushing are all techniques touched on in this workshop, along with an introduction to Kevin's process, and experience in the Retouching industry. 


ABOUT KEVIN O'NEILL:
Starting out as a Junior Retoucher in 1971, Kevin O'neill became an 'Improver' until 1975, and since then, continues to work as a Retoucher today. With a career spanning 50 years, Kevin's art form remains an integral part of analogue photographic process and preservation. Post-production, since the early 19th century, has always come hand in hand with the visualisation of Photography,

and continues to do so today. In 2022, manipulating photographs is typically associated with the digital hand, however, ideas of perfection amongst a way of 'seeing' has always been present in both within and beyond the development of the photograph.

_{OUT OF FRAME WORKSHOP WITH WOJTEK FROM STORQUESTUDIOS}


Bring an artwork of your choice, and come frame it in YOUR way (as long as its up to A4 in size).

Through the basics of woodworking and using reclaimed materials, this 3-day Workshop builds skills
and confidence to start framing your own work. FRAMING IS ACCESSIBLE!

> All materials included, along with delicious home made lunches.
> £180 for three days of intense training.
> Classes will all be run by Wojciech Kawczyk, Maker behind StorqueStudios.
> Spaces are limited, so please get in touch with Wojtek or Katrina for more info, or to book yourself in!


https://www.storquestudios.co.uk/






^{HYPERSPACE Workshop // Irruptive Chora, June 2022}


Amplifying Movement is a workshop run by artists Hollie Miller & Craig Scott.

Curated by Irruptive Chora, the workshop included relaxational body scanning, gentle massage exchange
and playful tasks that explored our imaginative sensorial body as a medium. Bridging musical and non-musical
sound worlds, a live electronic sound score accompanied the Workshop.


https://www.irruptivechora.com/
https://www.holliemiller.co.uk/
https://craigscottslobotomy.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-r-vo-ting