(via TIWI Designs: Aboriginal screenprinted fabric. > Hogarth Galleries [2] (5 February 1982 - 16 February 1982))

Poster by Raymond John Young, 1982. Tiwi design.

girlsgetbusyzine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Solanas

(via Francisco Mora at Davidson Galleries)

Franciso Mora, Educandose [Educating each other]. Linocut, 1971.

The son of a weaver and a musician, Mexican artist Francisco Mora was born in 1922 and educated in the southwestern state of Michoacán. In 1941, he relocated to Mexico City where he began exhibiting with the Taller de Gráfica Popular, a graphics workshop that built on Mexico’s rich tradition of printmaking in order to further a variety of revolutionary political and social causes. …

Accomplished as both a painter and printmaker, Francisco Mora is best known for his gritty, poignant graphic works depicting the daily lives of miners and other laborers in Mexico’s working class.

via Jamie Q - Take Root

An interview I did with a group of some of the women involved with the Justseeds artists co-operative, back in 2010, has just been published online at the (new) Aorta blog. It can be found here: www.aortamagazine.com/blog/women-of-justseeds

Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists based in Canada, the US and Mexico who have banded together to collaborate with and support each other and social movements.

via remember who you are: justseeds interview now online

androphilia:

African & African-Inspired Wax Print Fabrics

(via Deborah Klein’s Art Blog: New Acquisitions, City of Yarra) of Moth Woman Press fame.

What attracted you to printing? I think it just really suits my anally-retentive control-freak, masochistic nature! I love the technical challenge of pushing a medium beyond expectations and getting my head around how to produce particular results and finishes that one would not normally associate with that medium. I love linocuts especially for the surface that multiple layers produce – for me it’s reminiscent of jewel-like enameling – and for the medium’s capacity to reference historical graphic traditions and contemporary pop aesthetics simultaneously. I have a pathologically long attention span and delight in undertaking absurdly laborious projects that normal human beings would be far too sensible to consider. I also love the fact that I can have my cake and eat it too, i.e. I can sell some prints and even give some away, while still keeping one for myself – especially important after I’ve devoted so much time to it!

via Jazmina Cininas « Artabase Editorial

I hadn’t really thought about it, but this is part of the appeal of printing for me to. That the painstakingly detailed, handmade - yet still batch production nature of it - lets you work with & around issues of commercial vs personal work, DIY hobby vs. ‘special’ fine art project etc.

(via Else of Meersburg c.1450 (2007) - by Jasmina Cininas)

“Despite her obvious skill, the Meersburg folk did not care much for Else’s wolf-riding.

ourcatastrophe:

Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997, Chinese-born American physicist, whose nicknames included the “First Lady of Physics”, “Chinese Marie Curie,” and “Madame Wu”) came up with a truly beautiful experiment to test whether the weak force conserves parity (whether beta decay would be the same if reflected in the mirror). In my print on the left I show Mme. Wu in her lab and a schematic diagram in the box of her beautiful experiment in the box. On the right I show her reflection, as in the mirror, and in the box I show the mirror reflection of the experimental set-up and the shocking result, that the reaction is not the mirror opposite. The print is in an edition of 10 printed on ivory Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper, 12.3 inches by 12.5 inches (31.2 cm by 31.8 cm).

In 1956, theoretical physicists Tsung Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang suggested that perhaps the weak force might not be the same ‘through the looking-glass’. The idea that the “Law of Conservation of Parity” might be broken was hard to believe. The laws of physics are the same in the mirror for anything else. Face a friend, as in the mirror. If you drop a pencil from your right hand, and your friend mirrors you and drops a pencil with his or her left, the pencils will fall at the same rate. This is because Parity is conserved by the force of gravity - as it is with the electromagnetic force and even the strong (nuclear) force within atomic nuclei. Lee and Yang pointed out that no one had checked to make sure that the weak force, which controls beta decay in radioactive materials, also conserves parity. Lee convinced the brilliant experimentalist to test this.

Madame Wu did a subtle and technically difficult experiment will her collaborators which is shown schematically in the print. She took Cobalt-60 (shown as the cobalt blue sphere in the box), which is radioactive. Its neutrons spontaneously give off electrons and become protons. The electrons are the tiny blue dots. On the left, we see that the Cobalt-60 in an electromagnet (a wire wrapped metal horseshoe with a source of power). Because of the spiral-wrap of the wire, we know that the North pole of the magnet will be on the bottom (you can figure this out by mimicking the curl of the wire with the fingers of your right hand and look at the direction your thumb points). It turns out that the emitted electrons are given off preferentially towards the North pole.

Next, she reversed the set-up as in the mirror. On the right you see the horseshoe and wire spiral reflected. If you use your right hand to check the direction of the magnet field, you’ll see that it is the opposite way; the North pole is now on the top. It turns out that the electrons are preferentially emitted upwards toward the North pole. Thus, beta decay IS NOT the same in the mirror! Madame Wu showed that a “Law” of physics did not hold! This result was staggering and shocked the physics world. Lee and Yang won the Nobel prize for their theoretical work. Many physicists thought Mme. Wu should have been included in this win.

- minouette on etsy, via joelleworkman

this artist has a lot of great science-related prints!  I chose to post this particular one in the hope that I will eventually understand it. 

printing + underrated scientists = joy!

bradicalmang:

Everyday Self Defense by Meredith Stern

This is a one color linoleum block print. I made this print when I realized that nearly every one of my women friends (and myself) were in situations every day where we were having to deal with how our gender was being noticed and responded to by the world around us. It felt like every day, when my girl friends and I were talking with each other, that not a day went by where at least one of us had someone make a comment about us at work, or while just getting around the city, or with people we were being intimate with.This print is laid out comics style; in the left hand panel, a woman at work is being told by her co-worker “we don’t often hire girls to do your job” and she is thinking to herself, “fuckin jerk, i work harder for half the pay”. In the middle column, a woman rides her bike down the street and a stranger yells, “Give me a ride” and she retorts, “get your own!” and in the last panel, a woman is sitting up in bed next to her partner who has disrespected her wishes, and so she says to him, “I already said ‘NO’ twice. Get out of the bed.” So, when I made this print, I was realizing that all the things we were all doing to get through the day involved self defense, so this print slogan is, “Just getting through the day involves self defense.”

amrartist:

screenprint - i’m making a paper weaving of my weaving projects hahaa! this is an experiment with transparancy and color. this and the other 2 sheets of “quilted” weaves will be cut horizontally and woven into the larger image of my loom that will be in an upcoming post!

linocult:

jesse breytenbach is doing some seriously awesome pattern printing on textiles.

via ‘GALLERY OF POEMS’: DRAMATIC ROMANTICISM – African Vibes Magazine

From Vlisco fabric’s 2010 African Wax Batik collection.

Liberty Print - Designer Fabric - Style Estate - Interior Design Ideas

Established towards the end of the 19th Century, Liberty Company remains a beacon radiating a sense of modern English style. Engaging in a quest to foster relationships between retailers and English designers, founder Arthur Liberty intended his store to rival the style centers of Paris as well as the upstarts in New York City. Mr. Liberty kept his designers anonymous in order to promote a cohesive brand sense that became known as “Liberty Style.” Emphasizing upper class whimsy along with the potent influence of Japanese art and prints that was haunting every artistic media from sculpture to Claude Debussy’s music, Liberty Style also became synonymous with the Art Nouveau movement.

Thoughts on descriptions of behind the scenes textile artists as craft labour, artisans or tradies. 

• Reminds me of the Valentino doco, which was surprisingly candid about the practice of head seamstresses really working out design details and creating it to a garment reality, against Valentino more removed Creative Director role,  throwing around vague sketches, feedback and references to existing styles.

• The BBC history series Time Team, recently visited Liberty studios where both the archeologist and art historian narrators - having anticipated a jolly relaxing day’s crafting -were surprised and humbled by how arduous, precise and central the skills of block printers really were to enable beautiful designs.

• In which textiles and fashion again don’t operate that differently from fine art production. Tracey Moffat doesn’t do all the editing on her videos any more than Renaissance painters did all the painting on their murals. They know how to, but don’t once they can afford not to. There are systems of apprenticeship, collaboration and patronage to handle the labour volume and skillss transfer in all fields - as well as claims of individualism despite consuming any and all existing cultural capital.
• Difference = designation of status, payment and everyday people wear textiles.