episode 2: nathan meltz

In this episode Miranda speaks with Jenny Robinson about her childhood growing up in Borneo and when the colours and warmth of the equator came to an abrupt end after she was shipped off to a Catholic boarding school in England. While that displacement may have been the greatest culture shock of her life, globe-trotting remains a big part of who she is. She spent years in her twenties traveling around India and Southeast Asia and doing it all solo after ditching her ex-boyfriend at the Bombay...

14 Maj 201956min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Craig Anczelowitz from Awagami Factory, a paper mill that has been making washing by hand for eight generations. Awagami is located in Yoshinogawa Village on Shikoku island, the smallest of the big islands which make up Japan. Craig has incredible information to share about what they’re up to over at Awagami. They have artist residencies, a paper lab, an onsite museum and open calls for traveling exhibitions. He also talks about the nitty-gritty details abo...

30 Apr 201946min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Patrick Wagner of Black Heart Press. Patrick is a lithographer, teacher, and sauna enthusiast from Germany living in Stockholm. We talk about his early days learning lithography from Alois Senefelder's treatise while at a small art school in Romania and the guerrilla litho teaching group it spawned which eventually got him kicked out of school. As well as the beautiful international connections the sharing of printmaking knowledge brings and the devastating...

16 Apr 201955min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Wendy Orville, a monotype artist who creates breathtaking prints which capture the drama and tension of where the sky meets the earth. They are mysterious and alive compositions unlike anything else out there today. Orville talks about her process-driven practice and seeing failures in the studio as just more information. She also discusses how becoming a mother influenced her creative process transforming her into a more relaxed and intuitive artist. It al...

2 Apr 201934min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Ali Norman --printmaker, adjunct professor, boss lady-- and things get a little witchy. Ali talks about the ritual magic of printmaking, its connection to alchemy and imbuing her plates with intention and the light of the full moon. Through the physicality of her print practice she feels a connection to the earth from which the copper was pulled and those printmakers who laboured over the limestones before her. All of this and more, including how her own li...

19 Mars 201941min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Shayla Alarie print gallerist extraordinaire. Alarie offers a comprehensive account of the commercial side of the print world —both primary and secondary markets. We talk about the reselling of artists’ works within their life time, fake and forgeries, signatures, editioning, print fairs and so much more. Alarie also answers your questions submitted via Instagram. This is a must-listen episode for anyone interested in getting involved in the selling side of...

5 Mars 201959min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Keith Secola a Northern Ute/Anishiaabe printmaker currently based in the Bay Area. Secola’s printmaking practice is critique of text, images, and persuasion as it relates to history. He screenprints large-scale photographs from his family’s archive onto covers from publications of romanticised tales of early America often with wrapped views on the indigenous populations. Thus he physically and philosophically obscures and overrides these stories with a hist...

19 Feb 201938min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Mehdi Darvishi, a mezzotint artist from Dorud, Iran, about growing in a small town discovering art through textbooks and teaching himself the mezzotint technique from YouTube videos. As well as how death is omnipresent in his work and in his lived philosophy and how this affects his attitudes towards life, travel, and taking chances as a working artist.[notes]Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mehdi.darvishi__/Megalo Presshttp://www.megalo.org/China Printma...

5 Feb 201936min