Printmaking Today - Spring 2023 - Issue 125

Welcome 
Leonie Bradley - Editor

Director’s Diary
Director Helen Rosslyn takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the build-up to the London Original Print Fair

Cuttings

CAD PRINTING
Blu3eprint

Exhibitions
Dante’s Inferno

Installation
Gran Sasso

Tech Hack
The Exposure-Tron Collaboganza

In brief

Catalogue

GPS at 50!

Expanded Practice
Carving the sublime

Finger pudding


Profile
Tales from a Small Town
Guo Shang
captures both the struggles and dreams of groups disadvantaged through disability, poverty and imprisonment in her social realist woodcuts, writes Haiyao Zheng

Woodblock Paintings
Claire Cuccio
observes the unique, painterly mokuhanga technique developed by Leon Loughridge to convey his emotional response to landscape

Secreting Myths
Referencing print’s legacy of both dissemination of information and surveillance, Alberta Whittle produces prints that are a radical act of love, writes Claire Forsyth

Motion Mechanics
Animated prints are notoriously challenging and labour intensive, yet Nicci Haynes, keeps experimenting with processes that develop the form, writes Catherine Cartwright

ARTISTS’ BOOKS
In Search of Symmetry
Sarah Bodman
speaks with artist Tricia Treacy as she prepares for an exhibition of her new work Scaffolding at the Center for Book Arts, New York.

Collections
Jewel Box Delight
Artist’s book maker, Richard Turnbull, reports on a visit to the newly reopened Rare Book Collection within the Special Collections at Smith College in Massachusetts

Profile
Twilight Glow
Sarah Kirk Hanley has been working with Robert Kipniss over the past year to document his printmaking oeuvre and prepare his legacy

Practical
Standing Out
Susie Lawson
of Branch Arts provides a useful guide to making yourself stand out and what a specialist arts agency can offer

Obituaries
Wendy Batt
(1942–2022)
Tom Phillips CBE RA (1937–2022)
Anthony Dyson Hon RE (1931–2022)
James Heward ARCA (1931–2022)

Technical
Viscosity Printing
A step-by-step guide to achieving success with viscosity printing including advice on paper, inks and troubleshooting by Sarah Mander

Opinion
Artificial Intelligence?
AI art is here to stay. Arthur Buxton explains how the technology works, the unavoidable threats to printmakers and how to overcome them

Bookshelf
Jennifer Roberts
Professor of Art History, Harvard University

Book Reviews

Resources

Opportunities

Preview
Peter Lawrence: Making a Mark
Johanna Love: Zeichnen im Garten der unendlichen Zeit (Drawing in the Gardenof Endless Time)
Lubaina Himid: Alla Prima/Cross Hatch

Listings

Artist's Eye
Caroline Griffiths was awarded the Printmaking Today prize at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair for her print B490








Year 2023
Volume 32
Issue 125