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
Hardeep Pandhal’s digital animations, drawings, textile work and multimedia installations confront the toxic legacies of empire. His art makes direct reference to his Sikh heritage and to the many types of racism that he has experienced. Layered narratives – delivered via rap and elliptical wordplay and through the visual language of ‘gutter media’, such as comics and video games – excavate tangled histories of post-colonialism and misogyny, creating, in his words, ‘syncretic strains of post-brown weirdness’ while reflecting the ‘exaggerated madness’ of real life. Hardeep Pandhal (born 1985, Birmingham) lives and works in Glasgow. He created a School Print for the Castle Mills Contemporary show at Edinburgh Printmakers, part of the Edinburgh Art Festival (2021). His work is currently part of British Art Show 9 touring across the UK until Sept 2022. Pandhal studied at Leeds Metropolitan University and The Glasgow School of Art.
Tiffany Boyle is Programme Producer at Edinburgh Printmakers. After studying in Dundee, Edinburgh and Stockholm, she received her PhD Art History from Birkbeck in 2020. In 2009 with Jessica Carden she formed the independent curatorial project Mother Tongue, subsequently producing exhibitions, film programmes, discursive events and texts, working with orgnisations including CCA Glasgow, Stills Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow, and Glasgow International. They were the first independent curators to be awarded an Art Fund New Collecting Award in 2018, for the AfroScots acquisitions project, mentored by Prof. Lubaina Himid CBE. From 2016 onwards, From 2016-2021 she lectured in the Department of Design History & Theory at The Glasgow School of Art, and March 2019-20 was a Hauser & Wirth Institute NY Postdoctoral and Senior Scholar Fellow.
