Growing up in an active and adventurous family, Jordan Hill found her passion for all things outdoors from a noticeably young age. Her very existence revolves around exploring; from her backyard and climbing mountains, to colour and shape in her artwork. It is her strong appreciation and connection to the…
Mika Schalks is a final-year Graphic Design student at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague, and a self-proclaimed gaiety-enthusiast, encouraging the omission of narrative. In their work, focused largely on the light-hearted nature of aesthetic, Mika induces a feeling of vague tangibility to a narrative seemingly reduced to nonsense.…
Mauro Dalla Costa is a self-taught artist who ventured into screen printing in 2004, after his interest in music led him to form a band for which he wanted to print t-shirts. Thus, Mauro founded his own clothing brand, UFF Serigrafia, in Santa Fe, Argentina. Over the years the studio…
Sean Thornhill is an artist and designer from Cambridgeshire. He has been freelancing in design for many years, working with companies including Disney. It was an old University friend who inspired Sean to start creating art. After spending years sat at a computer in a digital world, Sean started to…
Recently, screen print artist Meg Hopkin decided that it was time to upgrade her studio space. With her work developing and getting larger in scale, the shed she was working from at home was no longer big enough. “I needed a space where I could spread out and just make…
Back in 2015, when Michael Kremláček, a university student of regional development with no previous education in graphic design or printmaking, and his friend Michal Ondráček, a student of industrial design, founded a small DIY printing studio in an old house in Brno, CZ. They both shared the dream of…
Grafik.Editions is a fundraising project geared towards bringing Grafik back as a printed publication. After extensive research with their audience, Grafik are aiming to publish a 256pg bi-annual magazine, alongside relaunching the Grafik website with a full redesign and editorial content. Grafik is a creative platform that features the world’s…
Mina Braun is a Berlin-based illustrator. After studying Visual Communication in Kassel, Germany, she continued her studies in illustration in Edinburgh. As a student, she practised printmaking and discovered screen printing whilst conducting independent experiments. After graduating she focused on producing and selling her own screen prints. In 2015, Mina…
Wild & Kind is a women-led, ethical garment printing, drop-shipping fulfilment and creative studio based in Glasgow, Scotland. They offer a Risograph printing and embroidery service, and work only with 100% organic cotton or recycled items, with the aim to create as little waste as possible with what they do.…
Taking place at Damn Fine Print, Dublin, earlier this year, Let’s Dance was an exhibition by Brian Giles, aka Sonofafox. The exhibition showcased a new body of work with the aim to express the message that “everyone needs to keep moving forward in the best way they can“. “I think…
MiraMar Print Lab is run by artist couple, Sammia Atoui and Adrian Rodriguez; one expressive and the other meticulously detailed. The pair create original, handmade woodblock, linocut, monoprint and silkscreen prints. Sammia and Adrian studied printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design and School of Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University,…
Idzik Idzikowski is a printmaker currently residing in Lodz, Poland. He is an assistant at the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts, and as part of this role teaches students all types of graphical techniques; from traditional graphic processes, to digital and experimental approaches to the medium. Idzik Idzikowski’s work focuses…
Richard Marsden is a printmaker from Leeds currently living and working in Glasgow. He is a founding member of the Leeds Print Workshop. Richard uses screen printing to create formal compositions that explore the relationship between geometric shapes and layers of colour.Initially developing his practice from an interest in architecture,…
DeAnne Frost, aka DADA FROST, is an American-born graphic designer and screen printer based in Scotland. She studied Graphic Design at University, and after a few freelance jobs when she first graduated, DeAnne ended up working in publishing and then for a charity. However, nine years ago, after having her…
Spazi is the latest artist residency project conceived by Fallani Venezia, a historic laboratory of artistic screen printing based in Venice, that took place from September 14th to October 4th 2020. The project was curated by Illustrazioni Seriali, who since 2017 have proposed exhibitions and insights related to the world…
Rune Fallesen of Ice Screen Printing, and Simon Fensholm, a Copenhagen-based artist, have collaborated on a new series of prints. Simon was nominated for Artist of the Year 2019 by the Copenhagen Art Association, and as part of the celebration was asked to create a print. Simon asked Ice Screen…
Emily May, aka Decadent West, is a Texas-based screen printer. Her work often involves textiles, and subverts the familiarly feminine into something sharp. Emily’s work is defined by her repeated use of imagery including a rotating collection of nudes, diamonds, self portraits, beer cans, mouths, hands, patterns, and charismatic mega-flora.…
Our new series meets the people behind some of the industry’s most inspiring work. This week, Bedford-based screen-printer Hannah Carvell talks about taking the plunge and setting up her own full-time business. Expect dachshunds, drag queens and advice on how “not to be a dick” along the way… I started…
Morag Myerscough and cartoonist Steve Bell have contributed artwork in support of Brighton Dome’s Crowdfunder campaign, #BRINGBACKBRIGHTONDOME. Donors have already exceeded the initial target, with the registered arts charity hoping to raise £50,000. Following on from her 2018 Brighton Festival project on a community bandstand on the seafront, Award-winning visual…
Printmaker Luke Reidy has collaborated with up-and-coming videographer Caimin Jacob on a video that provides insight to his life, his printmaking process, and the environment he’s surrounded by. After moving home from Galway city when the country went into lockdown, Luke decided to set up studio in his parents’ garage…