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Don't give them fire! (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Klein, S. Don't give them fire!. [Print]. 4 March 2024 - 15 March 2024. (Unpublished)

The title ‘Don’t give them fire’ refers to the myth of Prometheus. Prometheus's most famous act was his theft of fire from the gods. According to the myth, Prometheus took fire from the workshop of Hephaestus (the god of fire and craftsmanship) and g... Read More about Don't give them fire!.

Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants (2023)
Journal Article
Trujillo-Vazquez, A., Abedini, F., Pranovich, A., Parraman, C., & Klein, S. (2023). Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants. Colorants, 2(4), 632-653. https://doi.org/10.3390/colorants2040033

Two of the most significant cases of extant 16th-century featherwork from Mexico are the so-called Moctezuma’s headdress and the Ahuizotl shield. While the feathers used in these artworks exhibit lightfast colors, their assembly comprises mainly orga... Read More about Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants.

RGB colour printing and halftoning for the reproduction of structural colour images (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C., Klein, S., Vazquez, A., & Fuller, H. (2023, June). RGB colour printing and halftoning for the reproduction of structural colour images. Presented at Color Impact 2023, Rochester Institute of Technology

Commercial CMYK halftone printing involves additive and subtractive colour mixing that requires the optical mixing of primary colour hues using different-sized dots to obtain variations in reflected colour. Structural colour, as seen in nature, such... Read More about RGB colour printing and halftoning for the reproduction of structural colour images.

Near and far: An exhibition of artworks made by the printmaking staff at the University of the West of England (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Klein, S., Trujillo Vazquez, A., Davis, A., Paz, A., Buxton, A., Goodman, B., …Arteaga, R. Near and far: An exhibition of artworks made by the printmaking staff at the University of the West of England. [Print]. Exhibited at Bower Ashton Gallery, University of the West of England, Bristol. 13 March 2023 - 24 March 2023. (Unpublished)

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.

The Tartan Ribbon or further experiments of - Maxwell's Disappointment / Sutton's Accident (2023)
Journal Article
Klein, S., & Elter, P. (2023). The Tartan Ribbon or further experiments of - Maxwell's Disappointment / Sutton's Accident. Heritage, 6(2), 968-978. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6020054

On 17 May 1861, James Clerk Maxwell delivered a lecture at the Royal Society where he demonstrated, using a lantern slide projection, his theory for colour perception in the human eye via the additive colour process known today as RGB. Three images f... Read More about The Tartan Ribbon or further experiments of - Maxwell's Disappointment / Sutton's Accident.

Moonlight (2023)
Journal Article
Klein, S., & Goodman, B. (2023). Moonlight. IMPACT Printmaking Journal,

The moon is the biggest object in the night sky. Its light has always fascinated. That special quality of light invites all kinds of superstition, from the healing power of the waning moon to good luck during full moon, from disabled children to pots... Read More about Moonlight.

Maxwell’s disappointment and Sutton’s accident (2022)
Journal Article
Klein, S., Elter, P., & Trujillo Vazquez, A. (2022). Maxwell’s disappointment and Sutton’s accident. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 55(49), Article 491002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aca8db

It has almost become somewhat of an urban legend or internet myth that James Clerk Maxwell created the first colour image and had demonstrated this at the Royal Institution in London in May 1861. He did present something, but what? In ‘The scientific... Read More about Maxwell’s disappointment and Sutton’s accident.

Kolekcja Mini Print Cantabria W Lublinie (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Klein, S. Kolekcja Mini Print Cantabria W Lublinie. [Print]. Exhibited at Lublin. 20 October 2022 - 20 November 2022. (Unpublished)

The Big Print (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Klein, S. The Big Print. [Print]. 23 September 2022 - 23 September 2022. (Unpublished)

The BigPrint workshop is a communal event. We have invited printmakers, friends and family, students and the rest of the work to cut lino plates. There is no brief what should be on the plates. Everyone is free to choose a topic and a style. On the d... Read More about The Big Print.

I am just passing through (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Klein, S. I am just passing through. [Print]. Exhibited at Impact 12 conference, University of the West of England. 20 September 2022 - 24 September 2022. (Unpublished)

Covid has reminded everyone that our lives are finite. It made me reflect on what I will leave behind. I want to be remembered. I want to leave visible traces which are typically for me, even though I am just passing through. Lockdown made me return... Read More about I am just passing through.

Catching the light (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Klein, S., Fuller, H., Kozlovska, E., & Trujillo Vazquez, A. Catching the light. [Printed]. Exhibited at Impact 12 conference, University of the West of England. 20 September 2022 - 24 September 2022. (Unpublished)

Every image catches the light. Light is what we see. It is an energy which only forms an image in our heads when it interacts with our environment and is translated in our brains into a fantasy of the world. How do we catch such an elusive entity?... Read More about Catching the light.

Catalogo V Mini Print 22 (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Klein, S., & Fuller, H. Catalogo V Mini Print 22. [Print]. Exhibited at Santander, Spain. 1 September 2022 - 31 December 2022. (Unpublished)

A new edition, the fifth!... It has been a long road... A road that, when traveling, suddenly and dramatically became a complex and difficult journey. In these years we have had to endure a terrible pandemic, which took the lives of many and chan... Read More about Catalogo V Mini Print 22.

We are living in a material world (2022)
Journal Article
Klein, S. (2022). We are living in a material world. Physics World, 35(6),

Review of the book Handmade: A Scientist's Search for Meaning Through Making by Anna Ploszajksi

Maxwell's disappointment and Sutton's accident (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Klein, S. (2022, May). Maxwell's disappointment and Sutton's accident. Paper presented at Print in Art, Industry and Science, Online

It has almost become somewhat of an urban legend or internet myth that James Clerk Maxwell created the first colour image and had demonstrated this at the Royal Institution in London in May 1861. He did present something, but what? In ‘The scientific... Read More about Maxwell's disappointment and Sutton's accident.

Translation (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Klein, S., & Buxton, A. Translation. [Print]. Exhibited at F Block Gallery, Bower Ashton, Bristol. 21 March 2022 - 25 March 2022. (Unpublished)

The theme of the present exhibition was chosen during a discussion between Ian Chamberlain and myself. Every print is at least one translation but is it worth it, or what makes it worth it. During lockdown lan had no access to a printing press and re... Read More about Translation.

Translation: An exhibition of printmaking by staff at the University of the West of England (2022)
Other
Klein, S., & Buxton, A. (2022). Translation: An exhibition of printmaking by staff at the University of the West of England

The theme of the present exhibition was chosen during a discussion between Ian Chamberlain and myself. Every print is at least one translation but is it worth it, or what makes it worth it. During lockdown lan had no access to a printing press and re... Read More about Translation: An exhibition of printmaking by staff at the University of the West of England.

Maxwell’s Disappointment / Sutton’s Accident (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Klein, S. (2022, March). Maxwell’s Disappointment / Sutton’s Accident. Presented at IfM Buns Talk, Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering , University of Cambridge

It has almost become somewhat of an urban legend or internet myth that James Clerk Maxwell created the first colour image and had demonstrated this at the Royal Institution in London in May 1861. He did present something, but what? In ‘The scientific... Read More about Maxwell’s Disappointment / Sutton’s Accident.

The Amber Project: A survey of methods and inks for the reproduction of the color of translucent objects (2022)
Journal Article
Trujillo-Vazquez, A., Fuller, H., Klein, S., & Parraman, C. (2022). The Amber Project: A survey of methods and inks for the reproduction of the color of translucent objects. Applied Sciences, 12(2), Article 793. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12020793

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.

Now you see it, now you don’t: Illusive color (2021)
Journal Article
Klein, S. (2021). Now you see it, now you don’t: Illusive color. The Californian Printmaker: The Journal Of The Californian Society Of Printmakers, 2021,

My practise is centered around color. As a scientist I can only emphasize that color is a miracle of the mind. Without the human soul, it does not exist. I am choosing the word soul and not brain, because colour is not only generated by the interacti... Read More about Now you see it, now you don’t: Illusive color.