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An exploratory study of methodologies for digital colour printing in textile design, through an understanding of interwar historical colour palettes (2023)
Thesis
Gooby, B. An exploratory study of methodologies for digital colour printing in textile design, through an understanding of interwar historical colour palettes. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/8704673

Digital printing technology has had a major impact for the textile designer. Their design process now enables them to create complicated multi-layered digital designs incorporating photographic images and intricate detail. Artwork is no longer restri... Read More about An exploratory study of methodologies for digital colour printing in textile design, through an understanding of interwar historical colour palettes.

The Long Partition (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Mulji, H. The Long Partition. [Watercolour on paper, audio score]. Exhibited at Philadelphia, USA. 3 July 2023 - 2 October 2023. (Unpublished)

Curators Note: Huma Mulji’s proposal consists of nine trompe l’oeil paintings of cassette tapes used by her mother to correspond with her closest female relatives. Each cassette carries an oral epistle, a Derridean “sendoff” pining for a reply, a lon... Read More about The Long Partition.

Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' books as statement (1960-2022) (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Laidler, P. Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' books as statement (1960-2022). [Artist Book]. Exhibited at Germany. 14 May 2023 - 3 September 2023. (Unpublished)

In reference to one of the first ground-breaking exhibitions in the 1970s about the then still new medium of artists’ books—"Book as Artwork 1960/72”, held in 1972 at Nigel Greenwood Inc. in London and curated by Italian critic Germano Celant with ga... Read More about Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' books as statement (1960-2022).

Food Unwrapped - Series 23 Episode 3 (2022)
Digital Artefact
Menger, F. (2022). Food Unwrapped - Series 23 Episode 3. [Television program]

Practical demonstration of the photographic Autochrome process, invented by the Lumiere Brothers in the 1890's, for the Channel 4 program 'Food Unwrapped', on the theme of how potato starch can be used for photographic purposes.

Women Artists in Wales 2022 (2022)
Digital Artefact
Menger, F. (2022). Women Artists in Wales 2022. [Book]

Three published photographs of artist Sarah Rhys and her artwork in the chapter about her work.

Read With Me (2022)
Physical Artefact
Bodman, S. Read With Me. [Risograph and relief print]. London/Bristol, UK

Read With Me. Extending from the experimental book project ‘Read to Me’, this book is the result of: a performative drawing event, readings by a psychometric reader, collages made during lockdown and words assembled from the dissected readings. It wa... Read More about Read With Me.

Artful Craft (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Jorgensen, T. Artful Craft. [Glass, Ceramics]. Exhibited at Bovey Tracey, UK. 1 April 2022 - 2 July 2022. (Unpublished)

Celebrating our re-launch in 2022 with an exhibition focusing on the nature of craft, art and design in the 21st century. We are delighted that our president Peter Randall-Page RA, whose own work effortlessly straddles concepts in art with tradit... Read More about Artful Craft.

Global crafts: Woodblock prints with Wuon-Gean Ho (2022)
Digital Artefact
Ho, W. (2022). Global crafts: Woodblock prints with Wuon-Gean Ho. [https://japaninnorwich.org/2022/03/31/s2e23-global-crafts-woodblock-prints/]

This week Oliver is joined by Wuon-Gean Ho, printmaker and research associate at the University of West England’s Centre for Print Research, to discuss the place of mokuhanga, or woodblock printmaking, in the global spread of traditional crafts. Wuon... Read More about Global crafts: Woodblock prints with Wuon-Gean Ho.

New approaches with ceramic profile extrusion (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Jorgensen, T., Fraser, S., & Lightfoot, S. (2022, March). New approaches with ceramic profile extrusion

This paper and presentation concern the development of new methods with ceramic profile extrusion with the aim of expanding the creative exploration of architectural ceramic components. The project has established fast tooling workflows for the creat... Read More about New approaches with ceramic profile extrusion.

Ripley's Buttons (2022)
Physical Artefact
Bodman, S., & Dixon, J. Ripley's Buttons. [Badges]. Bristol

A collaboration with poet Jeremy Dixon of Hazard Press. A limited edition of 50 sets of 6 text and image badges in tribute to 'The Talented Mr Ripley' by Patricia Highsmith.

Niamh Fahy - Printmaking contemporary practice - Visiting lecturer Limerick School of Art and Design (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Fahy, N. (2022, March). Niamh Fahy - Printmaking contemporary practice - Visiting lecturer Limerick School of Art and Design. Presented at Limerick School of Art & Design, Ireland, Limerick School of Art & Design, Ireland

Print Contemporary Practice (PCP) programme is delighted to invite all students to an online talk to be delivered by the PCP Alumni and Ph.D. student Niamh Fahy on Friday, March 11th, at 10:00 am to talk about her artistic and academic journey since... Read More about Niamh Fahy - Printmaking contemporary practice - Visiting lecturer Limerick School of Art and Design.

Looking into the Light - artists' books by Randi Annie Strand (2022)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2022). Looking into the Light - artists' books by Randi Annie Strand. Printmaking Today, 31(121), 22-23

Norwegian artist Randi Annie Strand’s current printmaking project takes inspiration from light refraction. The artists’ books and films created for her Prism series are separate yet intertwined, and each is unique. As she explains: a book is three-di... Read More about Looking into the Light - artists' books by Randi Annie Strand.

How was it made? Linocut | Print techniques | Wuon-Gean Ho | V&A (2022)
Digital Artefact
Ho, W. (2022). How was it made? Linocut | Print techniques | Wuon-Gean Ho | V&A. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltiskoXIK2I&t=2s]

Follow printmaker Wuon-Gean Ho as she creates a linocut print using traditional Japanese woodblock gouges, discusses her process and the fellow printmakers that have inspired her. Discover how she imbues emotion and weaves narratives through her imag... Read More about How was it made? Linocut | Print techniques | Wuon-Gean Ho | V&A.

Artist’s Book Yearbook 2022-2023 (2022)
Book
Bodman, S., & Sowden, T. (2022). Artist’s Book Yearbook 2022-2023. Bristol: Impact Press

Articles and essays: BOOKS BOXED – Imi Maufe asks – What happens when a book is boxed? and discusses the use and potential of box structures in artist’s book design; In the first of two pieces, David Solo reports on the – Book Art Review (BAR) Conve... Read More about Artist’s Book Yearbook 2022-2023.

Slow violence and the Slieve Aughty Mountains (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Fahy, N. (2021, December). Slow violence and the Slieve Aughty Mountains. Presented at Visual Culture Research Group, (Online) Visual Culture Research Group, University of the West of England, UK

The purpose of this presentation is to examine the cyclical methodologies of field work, deep mapping and printmaking employed to investigate the changing land use of the Slieve Aughty Mountains located in the West of Ireland. Landscapes subjected to... Read More about Slow violence and the Slieve Aughty Mountains.

Creative exploitation of laser processing: A new toolbox for textile design (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Morgan, L. (2021, December). Creative exploitation of laser processing: A new toolbox for textile design. Paper presented at Print in Art, Industry and Science, Institute of Physics

In this talk, Laura will discuss her design-led research on innovative digitally-driven surface treatments for colouration, 3D finishing and surface design of materials. She has developed multiple new opportunities to harness infrared laser irradiati... Read More about Creative exploitation of laser processing: A new toolbox for textile design.

Touch: Reflections on handling but not touching during the making process (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Jorgensen, T. (2021, December). Touch: Reflections on handling but not touching during the making process. Paper presented at Touch, virtual

The presentation provides reflections on an ongoing research enquiry which explores the clay extrusion process. A particular challenge in the project is the handling of the soft extruded shapes. The presentation outlines the challenges of minimising... Read More about Touch: Reflections on handling but not touching during the making process.