Studio Miammmiam

Julie Miammiam is a French illustrator and screen printer based in Berlin, and founder of Studio Miammmiam. The Studio creates and produces limited edition screen prints and illustrations on commission. Last year, Julie created illustrations for a children’s book and exhibited her screen prints in Germany and France. She is also a member of Stattlab; a collective photo lab and screen print workshop in Berlin. In 2006, she graduated in Fine Art from the School of Art and Design, Saint-Etienne, France, and has been obsessed with illustration and screen printing ever since.

When creating her screen prints, Julie prefers to work entirely in analogue. She starts with lots of sketches with coloured pencils, and then creates a preliminary drawing using simple lines at the final size of the print. Next she draws the three final drawings which will be printed. Julie draws with Indian ink directly onto polyester film to prepare her template, and prints on an vintage vacuum table with water based ink and acrylic. Finally, she creates the screen print at the workshop. “I usually like to work a little bit like blind, as I don’t have an original image to reproduce. I enjoy how the colours go together with the transparency, and how the image is like a surprise until the end, when the ink is dry” says the printmaker.

Similarly, when creating digital illustrations, Julie also likes to initially sketch a lot, and then finalise the colours of the drawing and add textures digitally. She explains; “This process is very easy and spontaneous, I can experiment a lot”.

Julie’s work is inspired by the contrasting juxtaposition of wild animals and the city. “Animals are at the moment a big part of my inspiration” explains the illustrator. Her prints are influenced by both the wild creatures she met in Berlin, but also her watching of wildlife documentaries. “They are alive, have emotions and feeling, and although animals are not human, we can project a lot of things onto them – they contrast so much with the organisation of a city” states Julie. She is also inspired by various poetic things happening in her everyday life.

Going forward, Julie hopes to further develop her screen printing practice, and “invade the world” with her prints. She also wants to collaborate more with other artists and companies with social, feminist, and ecological concerns.

www.miammmiam.com
@miam_m_miam

All pictures taken at Stattlab, Portraits by Johannes Polte.

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