Connecting, Creating, Curating
Ed Miliano was born in New York and received a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. He is based in Dublin and makes paintings, prints and sculpture. His work is often based on nature.
Ed lived in Tokyo, Japan from 2014 until 2018, an experience that had a lasting effect on his work. While in Japan, he studied Mokuhanga printing with a master printer and continues to make woodblock prints, combining them with collage.
In 2022, he showed a major painting called Nothing Gold Can Stay at the RHA. The painting was made on 100 panels. It was painted during the pandemic. The title comes from the Robert Frost poem of the same name. Ed has had two one-man shows at the Oliver Sears Gallery in Dublin — The Nature of Time in 2014 and Woods in 2016. In 2018, No Ordinary Place, Paintings from Japan was shown at the Ballinglen Gallery in Co. Mayo. In 2012, he exhibited Diary at the RHA as part of the Futures 12 exhibition. He painted the view from his studio every day for over a year. The piece includes 366 paintings and is over 10 metres long.
He is a member of Graphic Studio Dublin since 2022 and shows regularly at the Graphic Studio Gallery, SO Fine Art and with Stoney Road Press.
His work is in many private collections including Belmond Grand Hibernian, Department of Foreign Affairs, Joseph Walsh Studios, Office of Public Works Opera Ireland and XL Group plc.
KAASH Partnerships
Foster engagement with leading artisan communities and design and cultural institutions in India and abroad to identify research gaps and training needs and promote the sharing of knowledge in the creative field.
Currently KAASH is liaising with the following institutions:
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NID, Ahmedabad.
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Museum Rietberg, Zurich
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Evoke, London.
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Africa – maker co-operatives and institutions? [ To be identified ]
KAASH People
Director
Sridhar Poddar
Board of Trustees
Prashant Prakash, Sridhar Poddar
Implementation:
Education
Arthur Duff
Design
Harsh Bhavsar
Outreach + Business Development
Manju S Rajan
Media and Operations Management
Keerthi Shastri
Execution
Mayank + Chandan + Ankit
Carpentry
Champa Lal
Electrician
Sonu
Housekeeping
Rajabapu
Driver
Manjuswami
Fellows
Research Associates
KAASH Knowledge platforms
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The Indian Sub-Continent
Identify existing knowledge hubs and resource centres across the country. Add significant and meaningful databases of experience and resources developed at KAASH.
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The Indo-African Project
The links between India and Africa are ancient, Particularly in the region of East Africa. Commerce and culture are intertwined to this day. This project focuses on making creative connections at the level of practice and institutions. Already connections have been made with potters in various parts of Africa.
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Asia and Beyond - KAASH Hub for Inter-Asia ResearchUnderstanding the extent to which materials and skills are interconnected across the region. Our long-term plan is to engage with creative challenges that can be addressed by collaborative teams of practitioners and scholars from multiple disciplines across the region.
KAASH is setting up several collaborations across Asia and beyond with a view to conducting collaborative research, joint development of Inter-Asia issues as well as offering residencies to skilled people from elsewhere. Compiling data-bases.
KAASH Products and Sales
A Business model is being drafted to manage the development of retail opportunities for the Foundation in order to generate income that will sustain the work being carried out.
KAASH Programme 2023
Now that KAASH is developing its own momentum it is appropriate to draft the following outline structure for KAASH over the next 5 years.
Activities
Identify the 5 projects – skills and materials– for the next 5 years that will be the focus of all KAASH’s activities:
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Leather: puppetry, light and footwear,
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Surface Art in transition – current residency
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Paper: forms of production and the Art of the Miniature to day
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Stone – and its many functional forms
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The Book
Each of these themes will be the umbrella for a specific agenda of research and development appropriate to the needs of the skill and materials. The outcome will be conference / seminar engaging the key artisans and stakeholders of that field. In addition will be an exhibition[s] displaying the outcome of the interaction with the skill, workshops and demonstrations, conference papers and publications, as well as a digital record of all that took place.
