Outputs (14)

What does drawing do? An interrogation of the transformative powers of drawing as a feminist practice (2024)
Thesis

This thesis examines what drawing can do as a feminist act. It seeks to expand the borders of contemporary drawing practice to include, and give importance to, subjective, feminist drawings and highlight their transformative impact.

The study begi... Read More about What does drawing do? An interrogation of the transformative powers of drawing as a feminist practice.

The development of 2.5D printing for appearance re-creation: Exploring ancient Mexican artwork through European archives (2024)
Thesis

This thesis investigates the capabilities of printing technology in producing 2.5D prints and utilises these findings to recreate the appearance of artwork from ancient Mexico, focusing on two types of artwork: damaged pre-Hispanic wall stucco relief... Read More about The development of 2.5D printing for appearance re-creation: Exploring ancient Mexican artwork through European archives.

An exploratory study of methodologies for digital colour printing in textile design, through an understanding of interwar historical colour palettes (2023)
Thesis

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.

An industrial craft reinstated: A printmaker's perspective on tissue transferware (2023)
Thesis

Underglaze tissue transfer printing, termed transferware, is a genre of industrial printmaking on ceramics. This genre was practiced inside the factory and is described in my doctoral study as an industrial craft. Much of the knowledge surrounding th... Read More about An industrial craft reinstated: A printmaker's perspective on tissue transferware.

Model, print, shoot, repeat: An investigation into the impact of 3D printing as a tool in the stop-motion animation industries (2023)
Thesis

This thesis investigates the use of 3D printing as a digital tool within the stop-motion animation industries, uncovering how this technology has affected and continues to affect the animation processes and those working with them. This is achieved b... Read More about Model, print, shoot, repeat: An investigation into the impact of 3D printing as a tool in the stop-motion animation industries.

Patterns of creative worker migration across the lifespan: The migration and occupation paths of Bristol designers, 1950-2018 (2021)
Thesis

Creative workers are theorised as autonomous and highly mobile, migrating away from their family of origin and childhood friends, breaking away from inherited values and expectations into independence. In contrast to theory, across Europe, including... Read More about Patterns of creative worker migration across the lifespan: The migration and occupation paths of Bristol designers, 1950-2018.

Of ligament and ligature: A practice-led investigation of letterpress printed artists’ books in the UK (2019)
Thesis

This thesis examines the practice of the contemporary maker of letterpress printed artists’ books in the UK. It focuses on individual and collaborative production of artists’ books with specific reference to utilisation of the letterpress process.... Read More about Of ligament and ligature: A practice-led investigation of letterpress printed artists’ books in the UK.

The application of 2.5D and 3D technologies for the conservation and presentation of surface texture in paintings (2018)
Thesis

This thesis investigates the use and potential applications of emerging 2.5D and 3D
digital technologies applied to the study, conservation and presentation of the surface
texture of paintings concentrating particularly on issues and applications r... Read More about The application of 2.5D and 3D technologies for the conservation and presentation of surface texture in paintings.

Towards a community of artists’ books: Extending international knowledge and debate in the field of artists’ books through practice-research (2018)
Thesis

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Towards a community of artists’ books: extending international knowledge and debate in the field of artists’ books through practice-research

The field of activity in artists’ books – artworks in the form of a book - has evolved over the... Read More about Towards a community of artists’ books: Extending international knowledge and debate in the field of artists’ books through practice-research.

3D printed, self-glazed ceramics: An investigation inspired by Egyptian faience (2018)
Thesis

This thesis investigates the potential for developing 3D printable ceramic materials inspired by an ancient Egyptian ware known as faience. Faience was produced in Egypt and the near east from the 4th millennium BC and was the first glazed ceramic ma... Read More about 3D printed, self-glazed ceramics: An investigation inspired by Egyptian faience.

The development of methods for the reproduction in continuous tone of digitally printed colour artworks (2017)
Thesis

Advances in printing technologies in the late 19th century led to the development of half-toning techniques enabling the economical reproduction of photographic images in print. Whilst undoubtedly successful in low cost high volume image reproduction... Read More about The development of methods for the reproduction in continuous tone of digitally printed colour artworks.

The development of multi-channel inkjet printing methodologies for fine art applications (2017)
Thesis

This thesis contributes to the defence of the practitioner perspective as a means of undertaking problems addressed predominantly in the field of colour science. Whilst artists have been exploring the use of colour for centuries through their persona... Read More about The development of multi-channel inkjet printing methodologies for fine art applications.

The performance of the print (2016)
Thesis

The physical presence of contemporary photographs – whether as magazine, hoarding, wet chemistry, museum displays, inkjet prints or on-screen displays – is subordinate to the content of the image. However, resurgence of interest in the autographic o... Read More about The performance of the print.

An honourable practice: The artist’s print as a strategy for social engagement (2016)
Thesis

An Honourable Practice is a cohesive study of the operative and ethical framework around the role of the artist and printmaker. The research project uses the artist’s prints as a strategy for social engagement, drawing on the dynamic between a person... Read More about An honourable practice: The artist’s print as a strategy for social engagement.