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Pressing Matters Issue 4

posted by Amber Weaver August 6, 2018

Exploring the broadest reaches of the printmaking world is Pressing matters magazine issue 4. Available to purchase from our curated marketplace, Department Store, this independent publication explores, both in technique and location, an assortment of huge presses in Norway to an Iranian Paralympic athlete who loves to print, from a Czech studio mixing the mythological with the modern to brothers using print to shine a light on near-extinct animals. For those of you who don’t know, Pressing Matters magazine is an independently-run publication, honing in on the people, passion and processes behind the art form of printmaking.

Printmaking has exploded as an art practice, transforming into a huge playground for ideas with hundreds and thousands of great printmakers out there giving new things a go, trying fresh techniques each time they print, using the whole process as a way to improve their work and, in turn, their creative selves. So go ahead, get yourself inspired by all the inky goodness in Issue Four and go play.