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
Mohammad Barrangi was born Rasht, Iran, 1988. He is both an artist and medal winning international athlete with a disability in his left hand though he believes it is by no means a stymying limitation. He uses his hand and leg to make his prints. After studying art he moved into book illustration graduating from the Islamic Azad University of Tonekabon in 2011, majoring in graphic design. He has since exhibited internationally, won numerous illustration awards and has recently had two works acquired by the British Museum. He now lives in the UK having left Iran some years ago. Mohammad’s work combines elements of Persian calligraphy, storytelling, text, and touches of humour. Using a unique creative process, with handmade traditional calligraphy pens and a blend of mark-marking styles, he creates both small pieces and often expands these to large scale murals. Mohammad made a School Print for Castle Mills Contemporary at Edinburgh Printmakers, part of the Edinburgh Art Festival (2021). Mohammad Barrangi is the inspiration for a Creative Europe supported international residency programme In from the Margins. Edinburgh Printmakers is leading this project which will establish a network of print studios for artists with experience of displacement with experience of from refugee and migrant backgrounds in five print making studios across Europe - Cork Printmakers, Ireland, AGA LAB, Amsterdam, International Centre for Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, and Funen Print Making Studio, Odense. Mohammad completed his Master's degree this year at the Royal Drawing School in London. His work is included in the Royal Family collection and a group exhibition at Christie's.
Mohammad Barrangi will exhibit work at Edinburgh Printmakers in January 2022.
Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh was born in Tabriz, Iran and has lived most of her life, so far, in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, she is currently based near London, England. She is an Opera Doctoral Researcher Practice Based 2021-25, Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Her research focuses on the Tehran Opera Company, intersecting this with writing new libretto, creating an equitable collaboration framework and the exploring international models of cultural diplomacy. Between 2018-2019 she was awarded a scholarship by the Scottish Funding Council to undertake a Master of Letters in Theatre & Performance Practices at the University of Glasgow. The summer before her Master of Arts in Opera Making and Writing on scholarship in 2020-21 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in association with the Royal Opera House, she directed “68 Months” by Nelly Kelly for the National Theatre of Scotland and BBC Scotland. As a multi-award-winning artist, she is leader and collaborator across opera, theatre, dance, visual art, and literature. Her creativity engages at the intersection of forced migration, climate crisis and biodiversity. She is Associate Director of Glasgow based Sanctuary Queer Arts, Deputy Chairperson of the inaugural Independent Equity Committee for the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and she is a Governance Committee member of the New York based International Society for the Performing Arts of which she an Arts Council England Fellow 2017-19.
