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Workshop | Printmaking with Saurganga Darshandhari

August 08, 2025 - August 10, 2025 | 10 am

Organizer

Taragaon Next x Saurganga Darshandhari

Venue

Are you someone who loves exploring different art mediums? Do you enjoy etching on metal plates and turning your designs into stunning works of art? Or someone who just loves art and curious to find out and learn what actually printmaking is all about?

If yes, then this printmaking workshop led by Saurganga Darshandhari — a visual, performance, installation artist, and printmaker based in Kathmandu — is just right for you!

Over the course of three days, you’ll get hands-on experience with traditional printmaking techniques. You’ll learn how to incise designs onto metal plates, ink them, and print your artwork onto paper. The workshop will cover the basics of etching — from plate preparation and design creation to applying grounds and using the etching press.

Note: The workshop fee includes the zinc plate for etching and the etching inks as well.

This workshop is tied to the ongoing exhibition happening at Taragaon Next, ‘At the Tipping Point’ curated by Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala and Saurganga is also an exhibiting artists in this exhibition.

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The Workshop

The three-day workshop started from the history of printmaking in Nepal to finished products made by our participants, who ranged from seasoned printmakers to beginners. By learning the history, exploring the ongoing exhibition: At the Tipping Point, and being inspired by the space and conversations happening at Taragaon, the participants each created prints.

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About the Facilitator

Saurganga Darshandhari is a visual, performance and installation artist and printmaker based in Kathmandu, Nepal. She holds a BFA from Tribhuvan University (Kathmandu), and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Development Alternatives (Dhaka, Bangladesh). She is a founding member of Bindu - a space for artists, and teaches printmaking at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu. She has exhibited in Nepal and India, had residencies in Bangladesh, South Korea and Sri Lanka, and has received many awards, most recently the Australian Himalayan Foundation artistic award. She is part of a young dynamic artivist generation that was and is at the forefront of bringing relief and using art to heal people affected by the 2015 earthquake in Nepal.