Pressing Matters #32
210 x 280 mm, 100 pages
Bristol, UK
Creative director: John Coe
Front cover: Nicole McConville
Back cover: Claire Spencer
‘Celebrating Modern Printmaking’
A popular magazine celebrating and exploring the vast and varied world of printmaking and inky-ness; spotlighting artists, presenting interviews, visiting studios and more.
Issue #32 arrives as everybody starts to enter a slower, restful period. On creative director John Coe’s mind this issue is a quote by screen-printer Sister Corita Kent "Don't try to create and analyse at different times. They're different processes." This edition stresses the importance and beauty of process, in letting it be and marinate without the self-critic interfering.
Featured are printmakers Emma Stibbon and Amy-Jane Blackhall talking about the use of intuition and problem-solving within their technically crafted mountainous landscape prints and how they link their art to communicating the climate crisis. Karol Pomykała transforms the often simple lino-cutting technique into something incredibly complex through her intricate stippled carvings. Differently but just as detailed, Rosie Mclay showcases her fluid approach to etchings of the human body and organic matter.
On the Journal
At work with John Coe: ‘I first came to printmaking via my first magazine, Boneshaker which was about cycling, but we worked with illustrators to create screenprints to sell online and at bike shows. I designed one myself and had a go at printing it too and I loved the hands-on side of turning a design that had been made on a computer into a tactile print.’
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