{"id":40245,"date":"2025-06-17T14:44:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therai.org.uk\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=40245"},"modified":"2025-07-18T08:50:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:50:52","slug":"artistrywork-jenn-law-jillian-ross","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/therai.org.uk\/events\/artistrywork-jenn-law-jillian-ross\/","title":{"rendered":"Artistry@Work: Jenn Law & Jillian Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday 3 February 2026, 4.00-6.00pm (GMT)<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is an online event. Register for the Zoom here:
\n<\/strong>https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_w8O119ivRQWOjrS4oTrQjA<\/a><\/p>\n

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Meet Me in the Middle:
\ncollaborative printmaking and lessons in democratic thinking in Canada and South Africa<\/h3>\n

Speakers:
\nJenn Law<\/strong>, social anthropologist & artist, Toronto
\nJillian Ross<\/strong>, master printmaker, Saskatoon<\/p>\n

Invited Discussant:
\nJacqui Ramrayka<\/strong>, ceramicist and educator, London<\/span><\/p>\n

Abstract:
\n<\/strong>Drawing on experiences of working in both Canada and South Africa, Jenn Law and Jillian Ross (a Master printmaker) will reflect on the ways collaboration informs their overlapping practices. Taking the form of an exchange, print will be discussed as a material practice-based strategy for thinking democratically. As the original \u201csocial media\u201d and as a reproductive technology, print has long been considered a strategic tool for disseminating knowledge, transcending ideological and geographic boundaries, and facilitating social activism. Reflecting on \u201cmastery\u201d in craft as both fundamentally collaborative and experimental, Law and Ross will discuss the social and logistical dynamics of working with<\/em> technologies, materials and others, often across diverse media and great distances, to find a \u201cmiddle ground\u201d for making. In this, as in democracy itself, the middle ground is not at a fixed point, but rather a moving target, offering important lessons in navigating uncertainty and shared problem solving.<\/p>\n

Biographical note:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenn Law<\/strong> is an artist and anthropologist based in Toronto, Canada. Working across print-based media, Law\u2019s multi-disciplinary practice explores cultural ecologies and processes of material storytelling. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from SOAS, University of London, UK, a BA in Anthropology from McGill University, Montreal, and a BFA from Queen\u2019s University, Kingston. Law has exhibited her work internationally and has published widely on contemporary art and print culture, working as a lecturer, curator, and editor in Canada, the UK, and South Africa. She is the co-founder of the experimental publishing platform, Arts + Letters Press, with Penelope Stewart, and is currently working on a book and digital archive project with Jillian Ross Print focusing on collaborative print culture in Canada.<\/p>\n

Jillian Ross<\/strong> is a collaborative master printer based in Saskatoon, Canada. She holds a BFA from the University of Saskatchewan. From 2003\u20132020, Ross ran the David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa, collaborating with over 100 local and international artists. During that time, Ross became one of artist William Kentridge\u2019s primary print collaborators, completing over 200 prints to date. In 2021, Ross and her partner, Brendan Copestake, founded Jillian Ross Print (JRP) in Saskatoon, a collaborative print studio and publisher working primarily with South African and Canadian artists, studios, institutions and galleries to develop print projects, exhibitions, art workshops and talks. In 2024, JRP installed Live Editions<\/em>, a working print studio at the Remai Modern art museum, to showcase the live editioning of their latest large-scale collaborations with Kentridge, based on his theatrical production, The Great Yes, The Great No<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Jacqui Ramrayka<\/strong> is a British-Guyanese artist and educator exploring themes of identity, home and belonging through acts of making. She graduated from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in 2023 and was the Adobe Global Ceramics Artist-in-Residence at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A, London) in 2024. Jacqui is currently focussing on the ability of clay to transcend cultural barriers. Her V&A exhibition and residency responded in part to a number of \u2018clay and conversation\u2019 workshops held at the V&A, MoMA (NY) and the Gardiner Museum (Toronto). Artefacts are charged with stories and associations; through conversation and working in clay, the participants explored how these are used to house memories.<\/p>\n

Image <\/span>: Jillian Ross with artist Wally Dion, “Live Editions” exhibition at the Remai Modern art museum, Saskatoon, 2024.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Artistry@Work is an online Seminar Series in the Anthropology of Artists & Artisans, running 2024\u20132026<\/p>\n

Maison des Sciences de l\u2019Homme\u2013Universit\u00e9 Clermont Auvergne, in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute<\/p>\n

Organisers:\u00a0 Dr Rapha\u00ebl Blanchier & Professor Trevor Marchand<\/p>\n

This seminar series in anthropology explores the situated practices of \u2018artistry at work\u2019 and, more broadly, the working lives and career trajectories of artists and artisans plying their trades in regions around the globe. The scope of the series also encompasses studies of occupations not conventionally categorised as \u201cartistic\u201d but that nevertheless foster creativity among (some) practitioners and even accommodate the development of \u201cartist\u201d identities.<\/p>\n

Find all events in the series here:\u00a0https:\/\/therai.org.uk\/series\/artistrywork\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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