Thank
You, Mamta
This month we publish the third and last installment
of Mamta Herland's big article discussing the impact of giclée, "A
Shift Towards Digital Print in Future Art." We think this Indian girl who
lives in Slependen, just outside Oslo, Norway, makes her point very convincingly.
See if you don't think so, too. The truth is, we're going to miss Mamta's smiling
face around World Printmakers and the impeccable way she sets her opinions on
a firm foundation of facts, not to mention her beautifully varied and creative
digital prints. So, our thanks to you, Mamta. Please keep us in mind for whenever
your next project is ripe. | |
A
Print Homage to the Sharpeville Martyrss
South African printmaker and art activist, Rodney Hopley, has provided World Printmakers
with "Sharpeville Remembered," a selection of prints and a personal
commentary commemorating the Sharpeville Massacre, the slaughter of innocent demonstrators
which signalled the onset of the fall of the Apartheid regime in 60's South Africa.
A collaborative effort between the printmaking division of the Department of Visual
Arts and Design of the Vaal Triangle in Vanderbijlpark (which is adjacent to the
town of Sharpeville) and the Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg, this homage
to the martyrs of Sharpeville has been put together both to create an awareness
of this pivotal event in South Africa's recent history and to raise funds for
the good cause of HIV/AIDS work in the Vaal Triangle. In
the last newsletter I forgot to say thanks to the British (and increasingly international)
printmaking specialty magazine, Printmaking Today, for publishing
Lauren Sedgebear's interview with World Printmakers publisher Mike
Booth (that's me) in their spring issue. Printmaking Today has been
the medium of record in the U.K. for many years and lately more print people from
around the world are discovering its well-focused and artist-oriented coverage
of the world of fine-art prints.
| Printmaking
in the Movies?
How long since we've seen printmaking in the cinema?
There's good news on this front from Granada. The Madrid documentary filmmaker,
Juan Carlos Romera, is to shoot his first short fiction film at the end of this
month. The half-hour film--"¡Bive!" ("Live!")--the rights
to which have already been acquired by a Spanish television network, is based
on the experiences of a mature English printmaker lady who goes to live on the
Mediterranean coast of Spain and falls in love with a Spanish fisherman. The
female lead will be played by real-life Anglo-Spanish printmaker, Maureen
Booth in her first incursion into cinema. Part of the filming will take place
in Maureen's home and studio outside Granada, the rest in the fishing village
of Las Negras on the Almería coast. The World Printmakers
contribution to the making of the film will be a paella for the crew of 30 on
the beach on St. John's Eve (la Noche de San Juan), Spain's traditional bonfire
night. We promise a wrapup on all the events in our next newsletter. |
| 
Printmaking's starlette,
in character. | On
the business side, we have been informed by our accountant that here in the European
Community it's illegal for us to charge our prints and services in American dollars.
So we have changed all prices over to euros (€). Given the current exchange
rate of about 1.16:1, this represents a 16% rise in prices, a rise which will,
of course, be reflected in our payments to our artists for their work. A
Good Idea from the London Print Studio
Before signing off I want
to call your attention to an interesting initiative from the London Print Studio.
It's a new website called "globalprintstudios.org,"
an international directory of print studios, a free online resource which, according
to their press release, "facilitates exchange and communication within the
printmaking community." The London Print Studio people are veteran printmaking
advocates who have done a lot for the art over the years, and this latest project
deserves everyone's collaboration. So if you know of a print studio which isn't
on their list, please don't fail to send it along to them. Next
month we'll be talking about Henrik Boegh's new Handbook of Non-Toxic Intaglio:
Acrylic Resists, Photopolymer Film & Solar Plates Etching. In the meantime,
count your blessings. ¡Viva el grabado! Mike
& Maureen Booth
Editors & Publishers
World Printmakers
The
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Contemporary Fine-Art Printmakers
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