By Jamil Mat Isa Introduction Printmaking is the essence of a pictorial image produced by a certain process, which enables it to be multiples and this is called a print. Each piece produced is not a copy but considered as an original artwork and known as an edition. It requires designing or drawing and the surface; from as simple as a potato cut to a more complicated process such as photo etching, photo screen-printing, and digital print. Printmaking can be classified into se

By Krystie Ng (Independent Researcher) To discuss the development of modern woodcut printmaking in an inter-Asian context, one cannot disregard the historical moment in in the 1930s when Lu Xun introduces European Social Realist woodcut to modern China. From this point onwards, offshoots of woodcut practice start turning away from romanticism and instead take on a more realistic and expressive approach. Woodcut develops such that is not only portrays social reality and offer