episode 46 : jason phu
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 these experiences.+++++++++++++- Book: Ibram X. Kendi - How To Be An Antiracist- Book: Ta-nehisi ...
10 Juni 202056min
episode 45 : carlos barberena
In this episode Miranda speaks with Carlos Barberena, a self-taught Nicaraguan Printmaker now based in Chicago, where he runs Bandolero Press and La Calaca Press. Barberena grew up in the 1970s during a violent and volatile revolution. At a young age he fled over the border to Costa Rica where he and his brothers sought refugee status while they sold their drawings on the thoroughfares. Today he is well-known for his satirical relief prints which interweave the imagery of pop culture with tha...
26 Maj 20201h 8min
episode 44 : koichi yamamoto
In this episode of Miranda speaks with Koichi Yamamoto, who is well known for his beautiful kites printed with other worldly faces. Yamamoto is a global citizen who has been taken around the world in his pursuit of art and new experiences. From Osaka to Wyoming, to Poland and Slovakia, to Denmark and Canada, before landing at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where he currently teaches intaglio printmaking. He talks about it all with a beautiful philosophy of life and art.Koichi's webs...
19 Maj 202059min
episode 43 : delita martin
In this episode Miranda speaks with Delita Martin, who joined us from her studio in Houston in the middle of a Texas thunderstorm to talk about her large-scale prints with which she mixes drawing, sewing, and collage. Her work, among many things, is an exploration of sisterhood among women of color. We talk about the nature of portraiture, her journey to find her unique aesthetic, starting Black Box Press Studio, and growing up in an art school.Delita's Websitehttps://blackboxpressstudio.com/...
13 Maj 202054min
episode 42 : gordon cooke
In this episode Miranda speaks with Gordon Cooke the founder of the London Original Print Fair which has been held every year at the Royal Academy of Arts since 1985… until this year. The wide spread lockdown due to COVID-19 forced Gordon and the team to improvise only six weeks before the opening. In his career Gordon has gone from selling prints through catalogs with only text descriptions to taking the fair online. In this episode we talk about the print market past and present, the change...
5 Maj 202047min
episode 41 : john hancock
In this episode of Miranda speaks with John Hancock, one half of the renowned Amazing Hancock Bros. and someone who has been loving referred to as “the granddaddy of twenty-first-century printmaking”. Mixing carnival barker performance with printmaking demonstration, the brothers put on quite the show. We’ll talk about breaking down the preciousness of art making, the collaborative process with a family member, and William Burroughs' gun collection.John's Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/n...
28 Apr 202053min
episode 40 : raj bunnag
In this episode Miranda speaks with Raj Bunnag a printmaker based in North Carolina whose work, dramatically and unflinchingly addresses the global war on drugs. Raj makes large and exceptionally detailed linocuts that skilfully borrow imagery from everything from the news media and his Thai roots to sixteenth-century etchings by the likes of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Francisco Goya. He speaks passionately and beautifully about using his artwork to exorcise the demons found in society and ...
23 Apr 202049min
episode 39 : omar bin musa
In this episode Miranda speaks with Omar Bin Musa. Omar is a Malaysian-Australian rapper, poet, published author, and self-taught printmaker from Queanbeyan, Australia. After discovering woodcut while on a writing retreat in Borneo he has been creating heartfelt and honest images which masterfully wed images to words. We talk about printmaking and activism, the art of story telling, quite a bit about the high highs and low lows of the creative process, and close with Omar performing one of h...
14 Apr 202056min
