The Collaborative Art of Printmaking

Tuesday November 24  |  6:30 - 7:30 PM  

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Bringing together the artist and master printmakers, this conversation explores the particular qualities of Japanese paper, the experimental possibilities of printmaking, and the creative exchanges that arise through collaboration.

Drawing on the making of Kamiphony, the discussion will consider how traditional materials and specialized techniques can be pushed beyond their conventional uses - from paper as a surface for printing to a material for sculpture, movement and transformation. Through experimentation and technical challenges, the exchange between artist, material and master printmaker can lead to unexpected discoveries and new ways of making.

Panelists:
* Cybèle Young, artist, featured in Kamiphony (Sept 24 - Dec 13, 2026) at Koffler Arts
* Jill Ross, founder of Jillian Ross Print, Saskatoon
* Laine Groeneweg, founder of Smokestack Studio, Hamilton

Cybèle Young is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist and author. Her decades-long collaboration with Japanese paper anchors a practice concerned with transformation, ritual, and shifting perspective - from intricate paper miniatures to kinetic installations. Drawing from Dada, Fluxus, and the anthropology of play, she builds poetic structures that unsettle the familiar. Since graduating from the Ontario College of Art & Design in 1995, Young has presented more than twenty solo exhibitions and over thirty group exhibitions across Canada and internationally, including New York, Los Angeles, London, Oslo, Singapore, Beijing, and Tokyo. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Canada Council Art Bank, Global Affairs Canada, BMO Financial Group, OMERS, and Ernst & Young. She has received more than thirty grants and awards, including the Governor General's Literary Award and a Canada Council residency in Paris, and is represented by Forum Gallery in New York and Los Angeles. Her practice continues to evolve through interdisciplinary projects, bringing together sculpture, movement, sound, film, and participation. Kamiphony marks a significant new chapter in this ongoing exploration.

Jillian Ross is a collaborative master printer based in Saskatoon. She ran the David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg from 2003 to 2020, collaborating with more than 100 artists from around the world. In that time, Ross became one of artist William Kentridge’s primary print collaborators, completing over 200 prints to date. In 2021, Ross founded Jillian Ross Print (JRP), 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, the studio was installed in the Connect Gallery at Remai Modern (Saskatoon, SK) to showcase their latest large-scale collaboration with Kentridge, based on his theatrical production The Great Yes, The Great No. 

Laine Groeneweg is a Hamilton-based artist, collaborator, and educator. Prioritizing ongoing experimentation in the analog print discipline, Laine incorporates a wide variety of print techniques in works that investigate an equally wide range of subjects from mythical creatures to the forms of everyday objects. His print works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and internationally in the United States, Italy, Spain, India, Mexico, Belgium, Taiwan, and Russia. Since completion of his professional training as a printmaker at Il Bisonte Foundation in Florence, Italy, Laine has also worked extensively as a technician, teacher, and collaborative printer at some of Canada’s most renowned printmaking studios including Open Studio in Toronto and Centre[3] in Hamilton. In 2013, he founded the Smokestack Studio in The Cotton Factory that has since grown to encompass multi-faceted specializations in both analog and digital media.