All Outputs (62)

Near and far: An exhibition of artworks made by the printmaking staff at the University of the West of England (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

The exhibition by printmaking staff at the University of the West of England has become an annual event. At the end of the last exhibition the next one seems far away. But time flies and suddenly March is very near again, and panic begins. The theme... Read More about Near and far: An exhibition of artworks made by the printmaking staff at the University of the West of England.

Bristol print innovators make a strong impression (2022)
Journal Article

Co-produced with science journalist Joe McEntee, this short film features interviews with the director of the CFPR, Carinna Parraman, Susanne Klein, Shaila Afroj and Tavs Jorgenson about the curent research into Woodbury-type printing, e-textiles and... Read More about Bristol print innovators make a strong impression.

Edge of infinity (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

Edge of Infinity
A portfolio of original prints curated by
Wuon-Gean Ho for the IMPACT 12 conference,
Centre for Print Research, Bristol, UK. 2022

Participating Artists

Becoming by Stephen Roy Black
Polymer intaglio etching 175 mm x 275 m... Read More about Edge of infinity.

Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications (2022)
Journal Article

Wearable e-textiles have gained huge tractions due to their potential for non-invasive health monitoring. However, manufacturing of multifunctional wearable e-textiles remains challenging, due to poor performance, comfortability, scalability, and cos... Read More about Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications.

The Amber Project: A survey of methods and inks for the reproduction of the color of translucent objects (2022)
Journal Article

Unlike regular pigments based on selective light absorption, the so-called “effect pigments” are based on the phenomena of structural color, or selective reflectance. Structural color has appealing aesthetic qualities, such as angle-dependent hue, an... Read More about The Amber Project: A survey of methods and inks for the reproduction of the color of translucent objects.

Recreating the relief of the temple of the Jaguars: Exploring digital and analogue 2.5D printing of Mesoamerican imagery (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Digital and analogue printing methods are studied for reconstructing a Mayan decorative relief from the ancient temple of the Jaguars. Height maps, image files encoding height information as intensity values, were produced in commercial image editing... Read More about Recreating the relief of the temple of the Jaguars: Exploring digital and analogue 2.5D printing of Mesoamerican imagery.

Physical patient simulators for surgical training: a review (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The purpose of this article is to review the fabrication process of physical patient simulators for surgical training and describes current research areas. Medical image acquisition and analysis are tools to reproduce human anatomy in 3D models. Data... Read More about Physical patient simulators for surgical training: a review.

The craftsperson, tacit knowledge and digital embodiment (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We are increasingly living in a world of digital interfaces, computer screens for work, VR headsets for entertainment, displays in cars and on coffee machines. Computers, robotics and AI are beginning to present new ways and possibilities that can fo... Read More about The craftsperson, tacit knowledge and digital embodiment.

Colour deceives continually (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper explores the relationship between additive and subtractive mixing for printing colour. Using mica pigments that are based on additive colour mixing principles, that when combined, create white. Although currently used for decorative effect... Read More about Colour deceives continually.

Printing the light (2021)
Journal Article

This paper explores the relationship between additive and subtractive mixing for colour printing. Using Spectraval mica pigments (Merck)—marketed as RGB pigments—colour is generated by selective reflection and prints are based on additive colour mixi... Read More about Printing the light.

Retrieving the ancient colours: Artistic practice as a tool for heritage reconstruction (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The frieze of the Palace of the stuccoes, dated between the 5 th and 6 th century BC, was a polychrome Maya relief discovered in the 1907 in Yucatán, Mexico. It was documented in watercolours and hand tinted photographs by Adela Breton. After years o... Read More about Retrieving the ancient colours: Artistic practice as a tool for heritage reconstruction.

The art of the maker – Craft, design and technology in the 21st century (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Invention, innovation and insight are keywords for any technologist and designer working in the academic or commercial sector. In the twenty-first century, a wealth of new and emerging materials, alongside digital methods for the manufacture of produ... Read More about The art of the maker – Craft, design and technology in the 21st century.

The reconstruction of the appearance of the Acancéh frieze by 2.5D printing (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The aim of the project is to reconstruct the appearance of the Maya frieze of the Palace of the Stuccoes in Acancéh Yucatán, dating from c. 350 BC to AD 850. The frieze itself is destroyed by now but was documented by Adela Breton in 1907. Her waterc... Read More about The reconstruction of the appearance of the Acancéh frieze by 2.5D printing.

Urban lighthouses and a tactile city (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Wayfinding strategies for visually impaired are fundamental for providing social inclusion, a better quality of life, a level of independency and urban accessibility for people with special needs. Recent digital technologies can provide significant b... Read More about Urban lighthouses and a tactile city.

Urban Lighthouses (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Wayfinding strategies for visually impaired are fundamental to provide social inclusion, a better quality of life, level of independency and urban accessibility to people with special needs. Recent digital technologies are a great help (GPS localizat... Read More about Urban Lighthouses.

Historical 2.5D photomechanical printing (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

One of the technological achievements of the 19th century was the mass reproduction of photographic images. Woodburytype was the first commercially successful photomechanical continuous tone printing method, of unsurpassed quality until today, and, a... Read More about Historical 2.5D photomechanical printing.

Reproducing Images: Colour and Texture (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation will explore the relationship between the appearance of colour and materials and how these are captured as paintings and photographs. It will also explore parallels between paintings made by old masters of Still Life and Trompe l’Oe... Read More about Reproducing Images: Colour and Texture.

How to print a rainbow (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the 21st century, methods for translating additive colours as seen on screens (Red Green Blue (RGB)) into subtractive colours (Cyan Magenta Yellow Black (CMYK)) for industrial print are based on 4 colour halftoning. CMYK are so called process colo... Read More about How to print a rainbow.

Printing the Muses: Reimaging digital musical instruments through 2.5D printing (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The objective is to explore cross-disciplinary methods of converting musical terms for tactile interfaces, thus enabling people unfamiliar in creating music to be explorative through the development of novel musical interfaces. The project involves w... Read More about Printing the Muses: Reimaging digital musical instruments through 2.5D printing.

Robotic etching: The creation of digital etching using robotics (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper looks at the potentials afforded by robots when applied to traditional printing techniques such as etching. Through experiments using an adapted drawing robot, this study explores the possibilities of creating works where a traditional etc... Read More about Robotic etching: The creation of digital etching using robotics.