episode 38 : martin mazorra
In this episode Miranda speaks with Martin Mazorra a well known and well loved printmaker based in Brooklyn but originally from West Virginia. Martin makes stunning woodcuts often paired with letterpress movable type to create his own codification systems for images which are as beautiful as they are darkly humorous. In this episode we talk about his growing up in West Virginia, how he came to fall in love with letterpress, finding balance in one's work between the aesthetic and the theoretic...
7 Apr 202045min
episode 37 : ericka walker
In this episode Miranda speaks with Ericka Walker, an American born lithographer and muralist currently working as an Associate Professor of Art at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax. Drawing from twentieth-century propaganda and historical documents, she creates a visual mixtape of North America’s past glories and its hubris. She is an artist who thinks deeply about the why and how of creating her works and is able to speak eloquently about it, letting us intimately ...
31 Mars 202057min
episode 36 : kill joy
In this episode Miranda speaks with Kill Joy. Joy is a printmaker and muralist of Filipino heritage who lives and works throughout the world. This interview was recorded during the bushfire crisis in Australia in January of 2020, so there is talk about that particular time of chaos, but it is also incredibly applicable to our current COVID-19 pandemic. There are no small questions with Joy, so this chat is a bit of a heavy hitter. We talk about the systems in place to make us consumerist zomb...
24 Mars 20201h
episode 35 : jessica marie mercy
In this episode Miranda speaks with Jessica Marie Mercy a printmaker, visual artist and self-identified “femme, queer bitch” from Seattle, Washington, whose artistic practice revolves around preserving and celebrating queer spaces and queer community through documentation. She does so with beautifully rendered relief works and photo-based screen prints all produced in vibrant, unapologetic colours which balance the rawness of a gig poster with the detailing of reduction woodcut landscape. In ...
17 Mars 202045min
episode 34 : joseph velasquez
In this episode Miranda speaks with Joseph Velasquez, Assistant Professor of Art at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida and co-founder of Drive By Press. We talk about Joseph formative years growing up all over the Southwest and Texas, his early influences through Chicano art, the founding of Drive By Press, and touring the country for eight years with a Pelican etching press. This episode also includes a link to the registry Joseph has created to connect Puerto Rican printmake...
3 Mars 202051min
episode 33 : rona green
In this episode Miranda speaks with Australian artist Rona Green. Green’s practice is an exploration of identities: the ways we express them to the outside world and the sides of ourselves we want to keep hidden. Drawing her inspiration from comic books, Egyptian art, and fashion photography Green constructs her human/animals hybrids as unique individuals who can stand in for any viewer. In this episode we talk about body modification, animal allegories, vulnerability, boxing, and Ötzi, the 5...
18 Feb 202048min
episode 32 : robert blanton of brand x editions
In this episode Miranda speaks with Robert Blanton the founder and master printer at Brand X Editions in New York City. For the past forty years Brand X has printed for some of the biggest names in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in American art: from Helen Frankenthaler to Jeff Koons. Known for their experimental approach to screen printing as well as the ability to take on exceptionally large-scale projects, Blanton and the team at Brand X have been pushing both the quality and the...
4 Feb 20201h 4min
episode 31 : tony curran
In this episode Miranda speaks with Dr. Tony Curran a lecturer at the Centre for Art History & Art Theory at Australian National University. Curran’s practice explores humans’ interaction with technology as well as human’s interaction with each other in our post-humanist age. Primarily an artist working in painting and drawing, Curran experiences printmaking through a collaborative lens of various residencies and print studios throughout Australia. In this episode we talk about philosophy...
21 Jan 20201h 5min
