Shoemona is Sumana Ghosh-Witherspoon, an artist and surface designer based in New Jersey, USA. Her practice covers pattern design for fabrics, as well as fine art prints and original mixed media pieces. Having dreamt of being an artist from a young age, Sumana was led down the path of Graphic…
Carsten Wagner is a painter and printmaker living and working from Hamburg, Germany. “I see myself as an experimental printer and at least half of my inspiration comes from ‘the next technical variation’”, says the artist. His studio is home to his own printing press with a roller width of…
La Hache is the printmaking practice of Sonia Landry; a combination of her two professions, her 6 years of study, and a way to exploit and put together her knowledge. This creative output began with the making of wooden jewellery, where Sonia played with the balance of shapes and colours.…
A Professor of Art at a small university in Mississippi, Shawn Dickey instructs printmaking across mediums including screenprinting, Intaglio, Lithography, and Relief. While teaching nine months of the year, Shawn creates demo prints in each medium and hand-screenprints his student’s sketchbooks every semester. His summers are entirely devoted to creating…
Surrey-based printmaker Leila Mead’s latest print series is a return to her routes in screen printing with stencils. The new series, a collection of prints celebrating her favourite cocktails, is a step-away from her usual practice of drawing nudes and creating linocuts. Leila tells us; “This idea had been on…
Catherine Laura Ward is a linocut printmaker, based in East Anglia, UK. She discovered a love for lino printing and the bold designs and textures that can be created whilst studying a Masters in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art (Alumni 2022). “There is an unpredictability with the…
Working from Bristol, UK, Brie Barnacle is an experimental printmaker who explores the medium of landscape as a metaphor for her lived experience of mothering and self-discovery. Using printmaking to capture the vitality of her children’s movement through nature, offering permanence to fleeting memories, Brie’s prints honour the connection between…
An unexpected invitation from ESAD school in Porto to host a workshop on Graphic Design, sparked a desire in Anastasia Temirkhanova, a graphic designer with expertise in creative direction and visual identities, to create a poster for the event. With the support of Andrew Howard, a director at the school,…
Carolin Müller is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar whose practice bridges the realms of printmaking, installation, and arts-based research. With a focus on memory, materiality, and sustainability, her work delves into the traces left behind by spaces, objects, and bodies, creating layered narratives of identity, resilience, and transformation. Carolin’s artistic…
Created at Litfass, a Bremen-based bar with art at its heart, No More Heroes is a large scale, hand-cut stencil, spray painted onto the bar’s wall by visual artist D!VE. Litfass have ditched their advert-saturated walls, and instead are giving away the wall space to artists. As part of each installation…
“Daydreaming of new places, new skies, and new views was a large part of my childhood,” says London-based screenprinter and artist Caroline Tomlinson. She continues; “I didn’t know what these places and spaces would look like or what the journey would bring, but I always knew that, at some point,…
Contemporary printmaker Inga Eicaite has recently expanded her printmaking parameters by producing a collection of pocket notebooks. With an abstract graphic approach to creating, Inga’s work explores the dynamic intersection between science and nature. Within her practice she puts a strong emphasis on paper and its qualities, and often utilises…
Rose Garden: Fist in a Velvet Glove is a “feminist assertion”, as described by its creator, multi-disciplinary artist Jennifer Schmidt. The project was born during a residency at Spoor in June/July 2024, where Jennifer produced a 4-colour screen printed poster that went on to form a site-specific installation and social…
Roy Scholten is a printmaking artist based in Hilversum, The Netherlands. Working in the well-equipped workshops of Grafisch Atelier Hilversum, Roy creates etchings, monoprints, letterpress prints, and combinations there of. For the last few years, he has been especially focused on exploring the possibilities of LEGO Letterpress. To really find…
Wen Ching Yiu (Krystine) is a Hong Kong-based visual artist and graphic designer focusing on graphic design, printmaking, and illustration. Graphic design, screen printing and Risograph are her main creative outlets, while memories act as her fundamental inspiration. Krystine’s work breaks traditional aesthetic concepts, emphasising the beauty of imperfections. This…
Held from October 12th to November 4th at the Kanazawa Yuwaku Sousaku no Mori Center for Crafts and Culture, Yuki Nagashima’s solo exhibition, Something happening somewhere far away, featured 26 prints made using the monotype technique. A follow up to her last show, Before Falling Asleep, Yuki’s latest exhibition presented…
Amelia Bown, a Northamptonshire based printmaker and illustrator, produces intricate original screen prints and illustrations with the aim to promote the beauty of the natural world. Amelia studied MA in Visual Communication (Illustration) at the University of Derby in 2012, and after a break following graduation, returned to the art…
D!VE is an Irish visual artist. Originally from Cork, he studied Graphic Design at the Limerick School of Art & Design. In pursuit of further artistic development, he traveled to Berlin where he used his skills in visual communications combined with a passion for screen print to develop his practice…
In her latest project, The Transformation Series, Warsaw-based printmaker Magdalena Szata shares a very personal journey. Specialising in graphic arts, Magdalena’s work focuses primarily on linocut and pen-and-ink drawings on paper. These techniques provide her with a wide range of artistic possibilities, allowing her to use lines and dots to…
Evelyn Polk’s printmaking practice is centred around the found object and shapes, yet also takes inspiration from the excavation and marks left on land through time. Acting like a mediator, Evelyn selects and presents items for the consideration of the viewer. Her working process is dictated by the objects, materials,…