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An exploratory study of methodologies for digital colour printing in textile design, through an understanding of interwar historical colour palettes (2023)
Thesis
Gooby, B. An exploratory study of methodologies for digital colour printing in textile design, through an understanding of interwar historical colour palettes. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/8704673

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
Sheppy, L. An industrial craft reinstated: A printmaker's perspective on tissue transferware. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9238193

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.

Extending activist reach and influence through Dwelling Space Activism: An autoethnographic and practice-led enquiry through activism, performance and life praxis (2022)
Thesis
Crow, L. Extending activist reach and influence through Dwelling Space Activism: An autoethnographic and practice-led enquiry through activism, performance and life praxis. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7664257

This research sets out to explore a distinct and original form of activist practice, which I name Dwelling Space Activism, and which holds potential both to extend activist reach and influence and to contribute to embedded and sustainable change. Dwe... Read More about Extending activist reach and influence through Dwelling Space Activism: An autoethnographic and practice-led enquiry through activism, performance and life praxis.

Patterns of creative worker migration across the lifespan: The migration and occupation paths of Bristol designers, 1950-2018 (2021)
Thesis
Hughes, E. Patterns of creative worker migration across the lifespan: The migration and occupation paths of Bristol designers, 1950-2018. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6635214

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.

Stitching and Thinking: an analysis of the communicative potential of silence in schoolgirl samplers as a framework for understanding hand-stitch in contemporary artworks (2018)
Thesis
Mason, D. Stitching and Thinking: an analysis of the communicative potential of silence in schoolgirl samplers as a framework for understanding hand-stitch in contemporary artworks. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/858372

The core concern of this practice-based thesis is to consider silence as part of the practice of hand-stitch in order to offer a framework for understanding hand-stitch within contemporary artwork. I achieve this by paying close critical attention to... Read More about Stitching and Thinking: an analysis of the communicative potential of silence in schoolgirl samplers as a framework for understanding hand-stitch in contemporary artworks.

The application of 2.5D and 3D technologies for the conservation and presentation of surface texture in paintings (2018)
Thesis
Aure Calvet, X. The application of 2.5D and 3D technologies for the conservation and presentation of surface texture in paintings. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1491140

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.

Grief and loss; living with the presence of absence. A practice based study of personal grief narratives and participatory projects (2017)
Thesis
Kirkpatrick, D. Grief and loss; living with the presence of absence. A practice based study of personal grief narratives and participatory projects. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/888406

The thesis develops work started on the MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking. It addresses the question - Can personal grief narratives explored through contemporary arts practice,auto-ethnographic writing, and the participatory performative act of m... Read More about Grief and loss; living with the presence of absence. A practice based study of personal grief narratives and participatory projects.

Thin place: An alternative approach to curatorial practice (2016)
Thesis
Healy, C. Thin place: An alternative approach to curatorial practice. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/909166

The ideas proposed in this thesis emerged out of a practice based interdisciplinary curatorial research project titled Thin Place, which was installed at Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen in early 2015. Fully funded by Arts Council Wales, the exhibition, edu... Read More about Thin place: An alternative approach to curatorial practice.

Illumination through illustration: Positioning illustration as practice-led research (2014)
Thesis
Black, S. Illumination through illustration: Positioning illustration as practice-led research. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/823169

This thesis represents a practice-led enquiry into contemporary illustration from a UK perspective. This thesis argues for illustration to be recognised as an inductive practice-led research process, within both education and developing criticism. Th... Read More about Illumination through illustration: Positioning illustration as practice-led research.

The political avant-garde: Oppositional documentary in Britain since 1990 (2013)
Thesis
Presence, S. The political avant-garde: Oppositional documentary in Britain since 1990. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/935222

This thesis explores radical left-wing documentary produced in Britain since 1990. Despite constituting a lively and diverse part of contemporary British film culture, oppositional documentary has been overlooked by film and media scholars for much o... Read More about The political avant-garde: Oppositional documentary in Britain since 1990.

Location, dislocation, translocation: Navigating a space between place and becoming through practice-led research (2012)
Thesis
Navigating a space between place and becoming through practice-led research. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/948069

The focus of this thesis is the experiential landscape viewed through the lens of a performative visual arts research inquiry. The project explores the dialogue between practice and theory through a series of research projects that focus on the exper... Read More about Location, dislocation, translocation: Navigating a space between place and becoming through practice-led research.