The Printing Room #2 - The Ground is Singing

The Printing Room #2 - The Ground is Singing

The Ground is Singing is the second issue of The Printing Room, a yearly journal that publishes art writing from the Black Country. This year we welcomed artist Cathy Wade as guest mentor and co-editor.

For this issue of The Printing Room the artists responded to the natural world through connection to place and locality. The theme of this issue is born out of Multistory’s Green Roots programme, which questions access to green space, and what climate resilience can look like in one of the UK’s post industrial heartlands.

Through their texts, the artists consider: survival and kinship in spaces that we have made inhospitable, the timespan of the built environment and what will unravel it, what it is to fall into and become part of the ground, to create a therapeutic garden and to find common experience with the land. Their works immerse us, traversing the legacies of labour etched into the landscape, the stories of migration and displacement and trace the roots that link us to each other. They present a map of constellations that invite us to roam through the Black Country landscape from a new perspective.

The journal has been designed, printed and bound by The Holodeck, a printmaking and design studio founded in 2013 in Birmingham, specialising in Risograph, Letterpress, and traditional printmaking techniques. Printed in flat gold, green and black risograph.