All Outputs (30)

Funding for faience (2012)
Journal Article

Professor Stephen Hoskins explains an exciting three-year Arts and Humanities Research Council project.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Woodburytype database
Data

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.

Development of a conservation and restoration plan and records management system for the Lands and Survey Division, 2007-2008
Report

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.

Novel ceramic materials and 3D printing applications
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.

Reproduction of texture in digitally printed artworks
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.