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
Sonia Mehra Chawla is a visual artist and researcher based in New Delhi, India. She received her BFA (2001) and MFA (2004) in Fine Arts from Delhi University’s College of Art in New Delhi/India. Mehra Chawla has an interdisciplinary practice as an artist, photographer and researcher. Working at the intersection of art, science and technology, the artistic practice explores notions of ecology, sustainability and conservation. Chawla is a fellow and awardee of the Charles Wallace India Trust of the British Council. Furthermore, she is a fellow of the International Art+ Science program instituted by Khoj, India and Wellcome Trust UK/DBT India Alliance. Chawla was awarded a long term International fellowship and residency in the area of social sciences by Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany in 2019, for the art, science and business program of the academy. Forthcoming projects include ‘Driving the Human’, a project initiated by ZKM | Museum & Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering, Germany, FORECAST, Berlin, and the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany, and ‘Earth Gardens’, a research based multi-media project at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany in collaboration with Botanischer Garten & Botanishes Museum, Berlin. (2022)
Sonia Mehra Chawla’s exhibition Entanglements of Time and Tide is showing at Castle Mills until 12 November.
Emma Nicolson is Head of Creative Programmes at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh where she leads on the development of a new arts strategy, the creation of innovative exhibitions and interpretative opportunities that engage with art, nature, science and the environment in the unique context of RGBE. In 2020 she launched Climate House and formed a collaboration with the Serpentine Galleries through the formation of the General Ecology Network. Prior to this she was the founding director of the award-winning ATLAS Arts (2010-2018) based on the Isle of Skye. During her tenure with ATLAS she undertook a two year guest curator role with Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre in North Usit (2014-16). She has delivered large-scale commissions, exhibitions and music and performance programmes. Emma is a cultural leader and innovator with a strong track record of creative thinking developing and delivering strategic vision and change. With particular interest in developing programming that helps engender individual and societal change, she is committed to partnership working for and with artists, creative professionals and communities, encouraging creative and critical thinking with local, as well as national and international audiences. Emma has been actively involved in the visual arts for over twenty years and has worked with leading cultural institutions in Scotland, England, Ireland and Australia, including Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Australia (2007-2010), National Galleries of Scotland (2001-07), and Fife Council.
