Taking place over 6 weeks in autumn/winter 2021 starting from 6 October, ‘The Art of Printmaking’ produced by Edinburgh Printmakers reflects back on our exhibitions programme during the summer festival period, and ahead to our forthcoming programming.
This series will run on Wednesdays at 5pm each week. A series of online conversations, each artist will discuss the impetus for their work and the technical production processes underpinning the printing of the works at Edinburgh Printmakers studio at Castle Mills. They will reflect on the role of printmaking within their exhibition and wider practice in dialogue with some of Scotland’s most experienced curators and producers and Edinburgh Printmaker’s newly appointed chief executive Janet Archer.
The series will close with an in depth insight into the role EP’s studio plays in supporting different types of printmakers. This first instalment of the series spans work produced via processes including screenprinting, embossing, lithography, and digital prints. These hour-long conversations will be moderated, and following the artists’ presentations opened up to audience questions.
Speaker Biographies
Hanna Tuulikki is an artist, composer and performer based in Glasgow. She created a School Print for the Castle Mills Contemporary show at Edinburgh Printmakers, part of the Edinburgh Art Festival (2021). Her practice spans performance and audiovisual installation, blending vocal music, choreography, costume and drawing. Her new work Under Forest Cover was shown at the 2021 Helsinki Biennial and she is currently showing work as part of British Art Show 9 touring across the UK. Her acclaimed exhibition Deer Dancer was shown at Castle Mills in 2019. She has been described by the National Gallery, London as one of the UK’s most important cultural practitioners. In her work, she investigates how the body communicates beyond and before words, often drawing on embodied vernacular practices of vocal and gestural mimesis of the more-than-human to offer alternative approaches to making kin across multi-species entanglements. Her recent work engages with what it means to live on a damaged planet, proposing contemporary queer ritual as a way to process the trauma that comes with ecological awareness. Tuulikki was Magnetic North Theatre's first Artist Attachment supported by Jerwood (2017-19), and was shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women (2019).
Janet Archer was recently appointed Chief Executive for Edinburgh Printmakers. Prior to taking up this role she was Executive Producer for The New Real and Director of Festivals, Cultural and City Events (2019-21) at the University of Edinburgh. Her roles included producing AWEN, a self- guided climate walk with the Edinburgh Science Festival and Edinburgh Culture Conversations which brought artists, academics and cultural leaders together to discuss how culture can contribute to society during Covid-19. Before joining the University, Janet was Chief Executive of Creative Scotland [2013-2018]. She was Director, Dance for Arts Council England (2007-2013), working as part of the national Arts Strategy team from a dual base in London and Newcastle. She produced State of the Arts: Artists Shaping the World 2010, a national symposium for the arts attended by artists and key cultural leaders. Her career includes a 16-year period as CEO and Artistic Director for Dance City, the National Dance Agency, where she developed an £7.6m capital project with Malcolm Fraser Architects from Edinburgh, which opened in 2005. Board membership includes The Work Room, Audiences North East, Phoenix Dance Theatre, the Saltire Society Trust, balletLORENT and Ionad Hiort - St Kilda Centre advisory board. Janet studied in theatre and dance at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff followed by the Rambert Academy and London School of Contemporary Dance. Her family background is from Allahabad (Prayagraj) in India, Dumfries and Galloway, and Derby in England. She has worked internationally for much of her working life, forging producing and project partnerships across Europe and more widely.
