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
Jessica Ramm trained at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee (2009), specialising in mechanical sculpture. In 2014, she trained at Edinburgh College of Art, where she studied printmaking, material culture and sculpture, positioned within alternative economies. Her current projects include commissions to bring lumiere sculptures into public spaces and a printmaking-stunt riding performance working with a group of Glasgow based BMX riders. She is also part of an on-going research collaboration titled ‘Carpet Territory’ which explores fears of physical and ethical contagion. These fears flow from an awareness of the proliferating struggles associated with late capitalism and inherent contradictions we face whilst trapped in modes that command our complicity. Recent exhibitions include: Buckethead Whiteout Scenario, Glasgow School of Art (2021); Desire Lines, Sustrans Cycle Path, Johnstone (2021); Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Piazza Shopping Centre, Paisley (2019); Cena#3:INTERSECTIONS, Glasgow Women’s Library (2019); From A to Z and Back Again, AC Institute, New York (2019); as well as solo presentations Earth Rise at Tramway, Glasgow (2015) and Personal Structures, Platform Easterhouse (Glasgow International, 2018).
Edinburgh Printmakers is presenting a solo exhibition of work from Jessica Ramm in Gallery 2, Stumbling Blocks,’ between the 2nd October -12th November.
Nuno Sacramento is a Mozambiquean-born Portuguese curator, and the Director of Peacock Visual Arts (Scotland). Between 2010 and 2016 he was Director of the Scottish Sculpture Workshop. He is a graduate of DeAppel Foundation, Amsterdam, and has a PhD by practice in Visual Arts (Shadow Curating) from DJCAD, University of Dundee. In 2010, after introducing Shadow Curating to Deveron Arts, he co-wrote ARTOCRACY (Jovis) with curator Claudia Zeiske. In 2015, Nuno and collaborator Brett Bloom co-organised CAMP BREAKDOWN SCOTLAND and co-wrote Deep Mapping (Half Letter Press). More recently, through his work at Peacock, Sacramento set up the worm – a gallery dedicated to printing and publishing of visual arts and underground cultural activity – where he co-curated Another World is Possible with Aberdeen People’s Press in 2021, and ran Scotland’s first fully-funded Curatorial Fellowship in 2020-21. Sacramento has organised many projects such as Makers’ Meal (Scotland / Portugal / Brazil), Slow Prototypes, Skills Biennale, ART CUP (Portugal / Serbia / Finland / Scotland), and B-sides, to name a few. Nuno is a member of IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, and sits on the boards of Scottish Contemporary Art Network and SOS ARTE PT.
