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In this episode of pine|copper|lime Miranda speaks with Emi Eu, the executive director of STPI — Creative Workshop & Gallery in Singapore. STPI is a global leader in contemporary printmaking and works on paper, creating unique and quality artworks in collaboration with leading artists from around the world. In this episode we talk about the history of STPI, its incredible facilities including...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Mazatl. Mazatl is known for his impressive Instagram presence and his distinctive and self-taught relief carving style. We talk about growing up in Mexico in a hometown plagued with drugs and violence, finding a sense of freedom in the punk scene, and, of course art: art as activism, art for speaking your truth, art collectives, and the street art community in t...

En este episodio de pine|copper |lime, Reinaldo habla con Mazatl. Mazatl es conocido por su impresionante presencia en Instagram y su estilo de tallado en relieve distintivo y autodidacta. Hablamos de crecer en México en una ciudad natal plagada de drogas y violencia, encontrar un sentido de libertad en la escena punk y, por supuesto, el arte: el arte como activismo, el arte para decir tu verdad,...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Sean Starwars. Sean is a well known and well loved member of the printmaking community whose eclectic and prolific printmaking practice has captured the attention of collaborators and admirers for almost thirty years. Sean earned his MFA in Printmaking from Louisiana State University and while he is now a full time printmaker he has also been an Adjunct Professo...

In this episode of Miranda speaks with Faisal Abdu'Allah. Faisal is known for his ambitious and political installation art pieces which utilise photography and printmaking. We’ll talk about his childhood growing up in London as the son of Jamaican immigrants, the place of the barber shop is his Afro-British community and how it left an indelible mark on his art practice, as well as why media...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Deb Chaney. Deb is a Tamarind-trained lithographer and master printer, who has worked at the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and La Ceiba Gráfica in Coatepec in Veracruz, Mexico. She now divides her time between her three studios in Brooklyn, Paris, and Bergerac. The latter of which boasts a Voirin Marioni flat bed litho press with the capacity to prin...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Ali Norman. Whose return marks the first repeat guest in PCL’s two year history. When we last left our hero, Ali had just been bequeathed a litho press and stones by a mysterious stranger at SGCI 2018 in Las Vegas and in this episode we pick up where that story leaves off. She shares with us how destiny kept pushing her towards opening her own community print st...

Tomas Hijo es un ilustrador y grabador español actualmente sirviendo como profesor de la universidad de Salamanca. El trabajo de Tomas es cautivante y una vez que lo observas, es difícil de olvidar. Conversaremos sobre sus inicios en el arte, sobre su afinidad por crear historias dinámicas y llenas de mágia, sus colaboraciones con Guillermo del Toro y más. Tomas Hjio's Websitehttps://tomashij...

In this episode of Miranda speaks with Pia Larsen. Pia is a Sydney based artist whose work draws from her interest in people, place and language. We talk about growing up in Sydney, chatting with Trump supporters on interstate trains, and the project she is currently working on that examines the life of a woman to whom she has attributed the pseudonym IM. IM arrived in Australia in 1948 through Au...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Andrew Fingerhut. Andrew is co-founder of Raking Light Projects, an initiative which pairs tattoo artists with master printers around the world to create editions of an artistic practice usually found on skin rather than paper. Their aim is to bridge the creative values of tattooing, traditional printmaking and fine art. We talk about building a business which c...

In this episode of Miranda speaks with LaToya Hobbs. LaToya is a Professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD whose portraits explore the intersection of race, beauty and identity in women of African descent and is the recent winner of the 2020 Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. We talk about her childhood in Little Rock, AR and how her love of dance and the body led...

In this episode of Miranda speaks with Anna Hasseltine. Anna has an impressive resume from working with everyone from Brand X Editions to Cannon Ball Press and she is currently living in Chicago and working as a printer at HoofPrint Workshop. We talk about the animals in Anna’s artwork and the historical tradition of using flora and fauna as metaphors. As well as what it’s like working with some o...

En este episodio de pine|copper|lime Reinaldo conversa con Alejandra Mares y Xavier Moreno, directores de Tres Gatos press, localizada en Mexico Central. Este es un episodio muy especial que nos llena de emoción, pues marca el inicio de lo que será una nueva tradición en PCL. Nuestra colaboración con Reinaldo Gil Zambrano traerá consigo un doble lanzamiento, una doble transmisión de entrevistas en...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Alejandra Mares and Xavier Moreno of Tres Gatos Press, located in Central Mexico. This is a very exciting episode as it marks the beginning of a new tradition at PCL, our collaboration with Reinaldo Gil Zambrano to bring you double release, double feature interviews in English and Spanish. We couldn’t be more thrilled to start out with Alejandra and Xavier who a...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Justin Sanz. Justin is the workshop manager at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York City. He’s been involved with the institution for 15 years and he guides us through the fascinating life of Robert Blackburn, his contributions to contemporary printmaking, and the history of the workshop. We also talk about the ways in which those of us in the p...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Kitikong Tilokwattanotai. Kitikong is the founder and director of the Chiang Mai Art on Paper Studio located in Northern Thailand. He and his studio have been mentioned in past episodes of PCL because, one way or another, all roads in contemporary printmaking in the Eastern Hemisphere lead back to C.A.P. Studio. We talk about the history of printmaking in Thaila...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Newton Paul. Newton is a collector and researcher of African American and Cuban prints from both contemporary and historical artists. Print friends, get out your pen and paper out for this one, Newton is a fountain of knowledge and resources when it comes to these subjects and you’ll learn about incredible new printmakers. Newton shares with us how a chance enco...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Satoru Itazu. Satoru has been a collaborative lithographer for over three decades running a compact studio on the outskirts of Tokyo where he produces meticulous, high-end editions. He is a generous teacher and his Instagram account is known for in depth instructional videos and collaborations with artists from around the world. In this episode we talk about how...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Karen Oremus. Oremus worked for fifteen years as an Associate Professor in the College of Arts and Creative Enterprises at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates, where she was responsible for the establishment and development of the first printmaking studio and printmaking discipline in the nation's capital on the Abu Dhabi. She is also an accomplish...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Brian Robinson, a Torres Strait Islander printmaker who currently lives in Cairns, Queensland. Brian works in large scale relief prints, on average measuring one by two meters and each centimetre is filled with a dense iconography of colonial history, pop culture, and traditional Torres Strait Islander motifs. So in other words, he works big and thinks big, all...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Maya Thomas and Chris Mulford about their project to save the Dox Thrash House. Dox (1893-1965) was the co-inventory of the mezzotint carborundum process, the first African American to be hired at the Fine Print Shop of Philadelphia, and a pillar of the arts community. His house is located in the historic Sharswood neighbourhood in Philadelphia but now sits vaca...

In this episode Miranda speaks with MIRIAM. She is a Spanish artist who, through her study of textiles, received an invitation to visit India and learn traditional woodblock carving from artists who have been practicing the craft going back generations. She now travels the world with her woodblocks, using them as stencils for her hand-poked tattoo practice as well as her textile arts. We’ll talk a...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Ryan O’Malley. Ryan joined me from his studio in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he is currently the Associate Professor of Printmaking and Graduate Coordinator at Texas A&M University. He went to the University of South Dakota to study art on a track scholarship, where he was, as you’ll hear, cruelly tricked into studying printmaking but he has never looked ba...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Ellen Heck. Ellen is an artist whose brain is matched by her artistic brawn. Her prints are beautiful, contemplative portraits of women as well as abstracted colour field studies she creates using a technique of woodcut and drypoint. She is someone who thinks deeply about her process and product and, just like your humble host, received her BA in philosophy so w...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Jason Phu an Australian artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, sculpture, video, performance, and of course printmaking. Jason grew up in Sydney Australia the child of Chinese immigrants and his art explores the immigrant experience, cross generational communication, language, poetry old and new, and alcohol. Often using humour as a device to explore...