lecture and demonstration

japanese woodblock printing with paul binnie

date & time

tuesday, November 18

LACMA Exhibition Gallery tour: 5PM-6PM (PDT)
JFLA lecture & Demonstration: 7PM-8:30PM (PDT)

admission is free, registration is required

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Paul Binnie will demonstrate to the audience the techniques of traditional and contemporary woodblock printmaking, which he has been practicing for over 30 years. He lived in Japan for almost 6 years in the 1990s apprenticed to a professional printmaker and learning carving and printing techniques which have been used from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries onwards.  

Guests to this event are also invited to join a gallery tour of the exhibition Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures at LACMA, led by curator Erin Maynes with commentary on Japanese woodblock prints by Hollis Goodall. To participate in the tour, meet at the Urban Lights installation at 4:45PM. Late arrivals will not be permitted to enter the museum. The walkthrough will end at 6PM and check-in for the lecture and demonstration at JFLA will open at 6:45PM.

This event is organized in partnership with LACMA.

About Lecturer:

Paul Binnie  

Paul Binnie was born in Scotland in 1967 and took a double Masters from The University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art in 1990, majoring in History of Art and Studio Arts: Drawing, Painting and Printmaking. He lived several years in Paris but decided at the start of 1993 to move to Tokyo to study Japanese Woodblock Printing and he stayed there until the end of 1998. He moved to London, living there for twenty years, during which time he became well known in the Japanese print world, and his work entered many major public and private collections, including the Met in New York, the British Museum in London, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Smithsonian in Washington DC. He moved to San Diego at the end of 2018 and continues to paint and make prints there.