Stephen Hoskins' Outputs (75)
Ink For Printmakers (2023)
Book
Inks have remained a fundamental aspect of the printing process for thousands of years. In this comprehensive and accessible guide, Stephen Hoskins and Michael Craine trace the development of inks from ancient China, through the Middle Ages and the i... Read More about Ink For Printmakers.
Ink for Printmaking (2023)
Book
Flight of Fancy (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
'Flight of Fancy' presents a range of prints on paper by Stephen Hoskins as well as two of his printstallation works. The three-dimensional flying machines in the exhibition combine a variety of aesthetics with the results of his research on print te... Read More about Flight of Fancy.
"Flight of fancy" A retrospective of prints that fly (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Stephen Hoskins has been making kite and aeroplane prints for the last forty years. Inspired by an Uncle who made model aeroplanes in the 1950’s. The prints are as much about the craft of making, as they are a gentle delight in challenging the notion... Read More about "Flight of fancy" A retrospective of prints that fly.
CFPR Showcase (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
Our shift towards the digital has provided us a new challenge: how can we offer an alternative experience that surpasses a physical visit to an exhibition? This showcase is a first response to this question. It includes a range of images, a video, an... Read More about CFPR Showcase.
Desire Lines (2019)
Physical Artefact
Large scale kites printed on paper commissioned as part of the AHRC funded Design, material culture and popular creativity in suburban faith communities.
This project explores the ways in which suburban faith communities create space focusing on arc... Read More about Desire Lines.
Screen printing as a 20th Century graphic medium (2019)
Journal Article
Within the canon of twenty-first century printing history, screen printing is definitely the poor relation. By comparison a great deal of literature concerning the demise and continued existence of metal type and letterpress has been published and di... Read More about Screen printing as a 20th Century graphic medium.
Crafts in the Digital Age (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Professor Stephen Hoskins was an invited speaker on Crafts in the Digital Age at HomoFaber Conference presented by the Michelangelo Foundation, Venice in collaboration with Institut National des Métiers d'Art INMA, 29th September 2018.
The Crafts... Read More about Crafts in the Digital Age.
3D Printing for Artists, Designers and Makers (2018)
Book
Fully revised and with a new chapter and international case studies, this second edition of the best-selling book traces how artists and designers continue to adapt and incorporate 3D printing technology into their work and explains how the creative... Read More about 3D Printing for Artists, Designers and Makers.
Printmaking an industrial continuum, technology looking back to go forward (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This talk was composed of two halves; the first in essence is a history lesson on how printmaking relates to industrial printing. The second half explained the development of the Centre for Fine Print Research including the historic context of print... Read More about Printmaking an industrial continuum, technology looking back to go forward.
The recent past and future of printmaking in the post print age with reference to its context in contemporary art, industry and society (2015)
Book Chapter
Printmaking globally is a thriving and very diverse discipline that currently encompasses practice from traditional woodcutting and engraving through to laser cutting and 3D printing. Sixteen years ago I started the first IMPACT conference because i... Read More about The recent past and future of printmaking in the post print age with reference to its context in contemporary art, industry and society.
Modulated extrusion for textured 3D printing (2015)
Journal Article
This research utilises a Fused Deposition Modelling 3D Printer to investigate the aesthetics of 3D printing and it's broader applications. The presented research re-evaluates the 3D printer as a tool to manipulate materials, as opposed to a machine t... Read More about Modulated extrusion for textured 3D printing.
Academic research into printmaking (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keynote given at the Guanlan Forum: Museum and Print Art Ecology.
Digital creation of hand engraved copper plates to secure a historic process (2014)
Journal Article
Underglaze tissue ceramic transfer printing was first developed circa 1750 and involved the use of engraved or etched copper plates, from which a wet strength tissue paper was printed with an oxide (commonly cobalt for
blue colour) the famous ‘Will... Read More about Digital creation of hand engraved copper plates to secure a historic process.
Issues of tacit knowledge within 3D printing for artists, designers and makers (2014)
Journal Article
The creative industries are directly interfacing with 3D printing technology and how it is changing the practices of many artists and designers across the globe. However for the creative community it is not possible to take on a new manufacturing tec... Read More about Issues of tacit knowledge within 3D printing for artists, designers and makers.
Underglaze tissue printing for ceramic artists, a collaborative project to re-appraise 19th century printing skills (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Under-glaze tissue ceramic transfer printing first developed circa 1850 and involved engraved or etched copper plates, from which tissue was printed with cobalt blue oxides. Under-glaze tissue has a very distinctive, subtle quality – it is an integra... Read More about Underglaze tissue printing for ceramic artists, a collaborative project to re-appraise 19th century printing skills.
3D printed ceramics for tableware, artists/designers and specialist applications (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England has over five year’s experience in the 3D printing of ceramic materials. The first project undertaken was to investigate the use of 3D technologies for artists and resulted... Read More about 3D printed ceramics for tableware, artists/designers and specialist applications.
A very English process: Underglaze tissue printing for ceramic artists, a collaborative project to reappraise 19th century printing skills (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The standard text regarding Blue and White underglaze ceramic transfer printing ‘Penny Plain and Twopence coloured’ begins: ‘Transfer printing is a particularly English form of ceramic decoration’(1).
Underglaze tissue ceramic transfer printing fir... Read More about A very English process: Underglaze tissue printing for ceramic artists, a collaborative project to reappraise 19th century printing skills.
Continuous tone printing in silicone from CNC milled matrices (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Current research at the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) at the University of the West of England, Bristol, is exploring the potential of creating coloured pictorial imagery from a continuous tone relief surface. To create the printing matrices... Read More about Continuous tone printing in silicone from CNC milled matrices.
Beyond Blue (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This symposium led by Professor Stephen Hoskins and David Huson brought together leading academic researchers, industry experts and artists to discuss underglaze tissue ceramic printing.
3D printing of self-glazing ceramics: An investigation into Egyptian faience (2014)
Book Chapter
The Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England has recently been awarded funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council for a three year research project entitled “Can Egyptian Paste Techniques (Faience) be used... Read More about 3D printing of self-glazing ceramics: An investigation into Egyptian faience.
‘A very English process’ Underglaze tissue printing for ceramics - a collaboration to retain 19th century printing skills in a commercial environment (2014)
Book Chapter
The standard text ‘Penny Plain and Twopence coloured’ regarding Blue and White underglaze ceramic transfer printing begins: ‘Transfer printing is a particularly English form of ceramic decoration’ (Halfpenny, Pat. 1994).
Underglaze tissue ceramic tr... Read More about ‘A very English process’ Underglaze tissue printing for ceramics - a collaboration to retain 19th century printing skills in a commercial environment.
3D printing for the visual arts an overview of current practice and its historical context (2014)
Book Chapter
Rapidly gaining popular attention, 3D printing is viewed as the next life changing technology. This talk explains how the creative industries are directly interfacing with this new technology and how it is changing the practices of many artists and... Read More about 3D printing for the visual arts an overview of current practice and its historical context.
Reproduction of texture in digitally printed artworks (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper considers alternative approaches to image making and printing that moves from the on-screen representation of images and painting applications, to the physical generation and methods for surface deposition or 2.5D printing. The research in... Read More about Reproduction of texture in digitally printed artworks.
A model for the collaborative studio in the 21st Century: What it might be! (2013)
Book Chapter
Chair of the panel 'A model for the collaborative studio in the 21st Century and the changing role of the Master Printer' Professor Stephen Hoskins will present a paper at IMPACT 7 International Multi-disciplinary Printmaking Conference, Monash Unive... Read More about A model for the collaborative studio in the 21st Century: What it might be!.
Continuous tone colour printing in two and a half dimensions through a combination of 19th century analogue methodologies and 3D printing (2013)
Book Chapter
This paper proposes a contemporary method of continuous tone colour printing based upon the Nineteenth Century printing process of Woodburytype as developed by Walter Bentley Woodbury in 1865. Woodburytype was the only truly continuous tone printing... Read More about Continuous tone colour printing in two and a half dimensions through a combination of 19th century analogue methodologies and 3D printing.
Novel ceramic materials and 3D printing applications (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Research in the field of 3D printed ceramics has been undertaken for at least 20 years; the initial patents filed by Moo and Cima of MIT in 1992, detail the use of ceramic powders. In the last ten years the research has split between what could be de... Read More about Novel ceramic materials and 3D printing applications.
Printmaking: art and industry, from lithography to stereo lithography (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Professor Stephen Hoskins will give an invited lecture on Printmaking: Art and Industry, From Lithography to Stereo Lithography at The 2nd European Lithography Days 2012, initiated by the Steindruck München Lithography Workshop at the Münchner Künstl... Read More about Printmaking: art and industry, from lithography to stereo lithography.
The evolution of a sugar bowl (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper provides examples of current research in the field of 3D printed ceramics from a creative design perspective. It will also present a case study of a research collaboration between Denby Potteries and the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFP... Read More about The evolution of a sugar bowl.
Towards a new ceramic future (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This symposium brought together leading experts in the field of 3D printed ceramics to disseminate recent research findings, share knowledge, and to discuss scope for future developments. The event presented results of the AHRC funded project Solid F... Read More about Towards a new ceramic future.
3D printing of self-glazing ceramics: An investigation into Egyptian Faience (2012)
Book Chapter
Peer reviewed paper given at Digital Fabrication 2012/NIP 28 28th International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies.
Stephen Hoskins and David Huson at the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England are continui... Read More about 3D printing of self-glazing ceramics: An investigation into Egyptian Faience.
Towards a new ceramic future (2012)
Journal Article
This article describes the findings of the AHRC funded research project 'Solid Free-form Fabrication in Fired Ceramic as a Design Aid for Concept Modelling in the Ceramic Industry'. Investigators Huson and Hoskins have developed a patented ceramic ma... Read More about Towards a new ceramic future.
Funding for faience (2012)
Journal Article
Professor Stephen Hoskins explains an exciting three-year Arts and Humanities Research Council project.
Foreword (2012)
Book Chapter
Professor Stephen Hoskins was invited to write the foreword to Type in Europe (La lettre en Europe), published to coincide with the Congrès des Musées Européens de l’Imprimerie in Lyon. The European typographical heritage is extremely rich and varie... Read More about Foreword.
Computational colour, the visual artist and the printed artefact (2012)
Journal Article
A peer reviewed journal article published in the Journal of the International Colour Association (JAIC).
This paper outlines the limitations of digital printing in respect of its ability to replicate the nuances of colour that might be achieved by... Read More about Computational colour, the visual artist and the printed artefact.
Patent for 3D ceramic material (2011)
Patent
Based on a broad programme of research undertaken by Professor Stephen Hoskins and Mr David Huson, which led to the award of several AHRC-funded research projects ('The Fabrication of Three Dimensional Art and Craft Artefacts through Virtual Digital... Read More about Patent for 3D ceramic material.
The digital physical artefact: A case study for digital engagement in the creative industries (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
For the last five years the research team at the Centre for Fine Print Research have concentrated on the interface between creative design and mass market technologies. The research developed from a three-year AHRC project ‘The Fabrication of Art and... Read More about The digital physical artefact: A case study for digital engagement in the creative industries.
Sustainability in printmaking (2011)
Book Chapter
Using their research study on Sustainability in Print Media for this peer reviewed conference paper, John Risseeuw and Stephen Hoskins provided a framework for understanding the basic science of sustainability, relating it to art materials and practi... Read More about Sustainability in printmaking.
Sustainability seeks equilibrium: what does it mean to printmakers? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Panel chairs Stephen Hoskins and John Risseeuw will examine current theories and issues of sustainability as they relate to printmaking and print media. In a study completed at the University of the West of England's Centre for Fine Print Research (C... Read More about Sustainability seeks equilibrium: what does it mean to printmakers?.
A significant visitor (2011)
Journal Article
Interview with Professor Stephen Hoskins on the Centre for Fine Print Research and the IMPACT conference series in IMPRINT – the journal of the Print Council of Australia.
Future of manual printmaking in the UK (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Invited speaker ‘Future of Manual Printmaking in the UK’, Symposium, Curwen Print Study Centre, Cambridge, October 2010.
A timeline of developments in printing culture from 1850 to the digital age (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Invited speaker at the Annual Conference of the Association of European Printing Museums (AEPM) held 3-5 September 2010 in Wadgassen, Germany. The conference addressed the question "Collection of today - Towards a critical evaluation of your collect... Read More about A timeline of developments in printing culture from 1850 to the digital age.
The margins of art practice bordering on industrial development (2010)
Book Chapter
A conference paper challenging the popular view of artists, spread by the media over many years is of aesthetes with no commercial acumen and a distinct lack of time management. Examples of this go as far back as 1962 with Tony Hancock in the film th... Read More about The margins of art practice bordering on industrial development.
Unique reproduction: definitions of original printmaking in a digital age (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The development of inkjet printers with light fast inks has made reproducing artists' images more ‘democratic’ – no advanced technical skill is required to transfer ink onto paper. These reproductions can be marketed as limited edition prints and in... Read More about Unique reproduction: definitions of original printmaking in a digital age.
The collaborative print studio within a Higher Educational Institution and its relationship to the art marketplace (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The British Pop-artist Richard Hamilton has described the benefits of working collaboratively with printers: “Gaining the wide range of technical skills required in many different print media would be absurdly time-consuming, if not impossible. My ha... Read More about The collaborative print studio within a Higher Educational Institution and its relationship to the art marketplace.
Celebrating Paper (2010)
Physical Artefact
9 works by Hoskins included in group exhibition curated by Peter Ford, RWA at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 17 January - 21 February 2010. Sculpture, screens and wall-hung works included in this unusual exhibition of artwork in handmade... Read More about Celebrating Paper.
The margins of art practice bordering on industrial development (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
A conference paper challenging the popular view of artists, spread by the media over many years is of aesthetes with no commercial acumen and a distinct lack of time management. Examples of this go as far back as 1962 with Tony Hancock in the film th... Read More about The margins of art practice bordering on industrial development.
Is art making sustainable? (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Using their recent research study on Sustainability in Print Media, John Risseeuw and Stephen Hoskins provided a framework for understanding the basic science of sustainability, relating it to art materials and practice. Risseeuw and Hoskins began wi... Read More about Is art making sustainable?.
Through the Glass Darkly – Appropriation, Remaking and Representation through Print (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper will examine the incidence of appropriation and re-representation that emerged in fine art image and object making during the early 20th century. It specifically aims to trace the role of emerging forms of technology in facilitating new wa... Read More about Through the Glass Darkly – Appropriation, Remaking and Representation through Print.
Prints that fly (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Prints That Fly: My prints are as much about the craft of making, as they are a gentle delight in challenging the notions of what constitutes a print and where the perceived borders between the fine and applied arts, end and begin.
In the UK there... Read More about Prints that fly.
Beyond digital (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Printmaking with Extreme Technology Panel
Chair: Erik Brunvand
Panelists: Stephen Hoskins, Edward Bateman, Mike Lyon
Printmaking is an art form that celebrates and embraces new technology in a way that other media do not. This panel gathers an... Read More about Beyond digital.
Pictorial information as transcribed by the artist or designer (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Paper given at the Dark Side of Color panel. Current technologies are designed to capture a pictorial image by reflectance of light upon the sensor, in order to create the potential to render a colour image pixel by pixel, which can then be re-render... Read More about Pictorial information as transcribed by the artist or designer.
Water-based screenprinting (2007)
Book
Water based screen-printing became an imperative with the introduction of new health and safety legislation. Hoskins undertook a survey of all the ink available up to 2001. Based on applied research undertaken from 1997-2001 this volume consolidates... Read More about Water-based screenprinting.
Developments in the digital production of high quality original art: A case study (2007)
Book Chapter
Presented as a conference paper in NIP23: International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication 2007, September 2007, Anchorage, Alaska. The Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England Bristol u... Read More about Developments in the digital production of high quality original art: A case study.
From Bash Street to Duchamp, reproduction and originality using digitally created content (2006)
Book Chapter
The digital printing of imagery has caused speculation in regard to originality of image both in conception and in conservation. It has recreated the old arguments constantly cited over the authenticity of the artist original print, because the subj... Read More about From Bash Street to Duchamp, reproduction and originality using digitally created content.
Digitally print technologies and their relation to vitreous enamel on metal for the visual artist (2006)
Book
The Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England has recently installed a large-scale kiln for firing enamel on metal panels used in public art projects. This has necessitated research into methods of transferring digital p... Read More about Digitally print technologies and their relation to vitreous enamel on metal for the visual artist.
The diversity of digital print technologies used in the creation of high quality Fine Art (2006)
Journal Article
The Centre for Fine Print Research in Bristol UK undertakes research into print technologies from the traditional 19th Century to the latest digital capture and print. Outcomes of this research are often realised in collaborative projects with well-k... Read More about The diversity of digital print technologies used in the creation of high quality Fine Art.
Amperometric, screen-printed, glucose biosensor for analysis of human plasma samples using a biocomposite water-based carbon ink incorporating glucose oxidase (2005)
Journal Article
This paper describes the optimisation of a screen-printing water-based carbon ink containing cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPC) and glucose oxidase (GOD) for the fabrication of a glucose biosensor. To optimise the performance of the biosensor, the loadings... Read More about Amperometric, screen-printed, glucose biosensor for analysis of human plasma samples using a biocomposite water-based carbon ink incorporating glucose oxidase.
A novel, disposable, screen-printed amperometric biosensor for glucose in serum fabricated using a water-based carbon ink (2005)
Journal Article
Screen-printed amperometric glucose biosensors have been fabricated using a water-based carbon ink. The enzyme glucose oxidase (GOD) and the electrocatalyst cobalt phthalocyanine were mixed with the carbon ink prior to the screen-printing process; th... Read More about A novel, disposable, screen-printed amperometric biosensor for glucose in serum fabricated using a water-based carbon ink.
Photo ceramic relief imaging (2005)
Book Chapter
The Photo Relief technique, developed at the turn of the 20th century, is one of the few methods of ceramic decoration able to reproduce a permanent fully continuous tone image on a ceramic surface by combining the use of varying glaze depths with a... Read More about Photo ceramic relief imaging.
Customising digital printing for fine art practice (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The presentation will demonstrate how through alternative methods of digital print production the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) is developing methodologies for digital printing that attempt to move beyond standard reproductive print methods.... Read More about Customising digital printing for fine art practice.
A perpetual portfolio (2005)
Exhibition / Performance
The Catalogue for the Perpetual Portfolio Exhibition was released at the Museo Nacional Del Grabado, Buenos Aires, Argentina in June 2005. The publication includes all twenty-three prints produce during the CFPR digital residency programme of which e... Read More about A perpetual portfolio.
Inks (2004)
Book
In this book Hoskins identifies and remedies a lack of specialist literature about printmaking inks. This study builds on extended research undertaken between 2001-2004, and examines the production and manufacture of inks for the artist and printmake... Read More about Inks.
Altered images - digital interpretations inspired by George Cartlidge's portrait tiles (2004)
Journal Article
Article on the collaboration between the Stoke City Museum & Art Gallery and the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England to revive George Cartlidge's photographic tile process, resulting in an exhibition at the Stoke C... Read More about Altered images - digital interpretations inspired by George Cartlidge's portrait tiles.
Printer with substrate registration means (2004)
Patent
Based on a broad programme of research generated by staff across the Centre for Fine Print Research, which led to the award of an AHRC-funded research project ('Methodologies for the integration of fine art practice and wide format digital printing',... Read More about Printer with substrate registration means.
Questions of authenticity, geopolitical division and production in the laser print era, or: Sex Violence and Procreation (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper debated notions of authenticity and integrity through the changing nature of the print and its relation to reproduction, when replication of imagery is available to all.
Paper given at the 2003 Southern Graphics Council Conference, Bost... Read More about Questions of authenticity, geopolitical division and production in the laser print era, or: Sex Violence and Procreation.
From conflict to conduit, print or printmaking (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper was intended to raise a number of questions around the consequences of new technology rather than supplying any answers.
Paper given at the third IMPACT International Printmaking Conference Co-hosted by Michaelis School of Fine Art, Uni... Read More about From conflict to conduit, print or printmaking.
The practical application of an artist's colour model as an alternative to CMYK (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper presents an alternative view of colour, from the artist's perspective. It highlights problems that are current in inkjet and wideformat printing. And how other print processes, such as (silk)screenprint, can offer answers to developing ink... Read More about The practical application of an artist's colour model as an alternative to CMYK.
Continuous tone digital output using archivally proven printing methods and material (2003)
Book Chapter
Whilst the primary focus for the creation and preservation of digitally based artwork in hardcopy has relied in recent years on the gradual refinement of digital printing devices, reference points for their development often appear to follow a strict... Read More about Continuous tone digital output using archivally proven printing methods and material.
The relevance of 19th century continuous tone photomechanical printing techniques to digitally generated imagery (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Paper presented at SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference, Santa Clara, USA. This is one of a portfolio of outcomes from an AHRC funded research project ('A Practical Reappraisal of Continuous Tone Photo-relief Printing', award of £157,000). Drawing on v... Read More about The relevance of 19th century continuous tone photomechanical printing techniques to digitally generated imagery.
The impact of paper on ink: From the photomechanical printer's perspective (2001)
Journal Article
This conference presentation was concerned with the substrate and how the print process can affect the visual aesthetic. There is a difference between the user who requires a general consistency of image on any paper substrate and the user who has a... Read More about The impact of paper on ink: From the photomechanical printer's perspective.
Novel methods of water based screenprinted ceramic transfers
Patent
UWE researchers patented a water based ceramic transfer printing system which substantially reduces solvent use. The U - Wet Transfer paper together with a T.W. Graphics water based screen printing ceramic transfer medium is used in this process. U-W... Read More about Novel methods of water based screenprinted ceramic transfers.
Consultancy Field Visit and Report of Recommendations. Developing a conservation and documentation plan for the extensive records held within Lands and Survey Division of the Trinidad and Tobago Govt. and which are currently at risk of damage due to... Read More about Development of a conservation and restoration plan and records management system for the Lands and Survey Division, 2007-2008.
This archive contains material relating to the photo-mechanical printing process invented by Walter Woodbury in 1865. Like the collotype process this also takes advantage of the changing nature of bichromated gelatine after exposure to light to produ... Read More about Woodburytype database.