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Violent impression - Slow violence in the Slieve Aughty mountains (2022)
Journal Article
Fahy, N. (2022). Violent impression - Slow violence in the Slieve Aughty mountains. Parse, Article 6

The purpose of this text is to examine the cyclical methodologies of fieldwork, deep mapping and printmaking employed to investigate the changing land use of the Slieve Aughty Mountains, located in the west of Ireland. Landscapes subjected to extract... Read More about Violent impression - Slow violence in the Slieve Aughty mountains.

Ways of writing in Art and Design (2022)
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Johnson, C. (2022). Ways of writing in Art and Design. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 15, 105-111. https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcp_00032_2

This Editorial charts the journey from an initial conversation amongst Visual Culture colleagues at the University of the West of England to this special issue on Ways of Writing in Art and Design. It describes our intention to imagine forms of writi... Read More about Ways of writing in Art and Design.

Crystal growing design method: An investigation into the growing of crystals for jewellery designs (2022)
Journal Article
Boons, S. (2022). Crystal growing design method: An investigation into the growing of crystals for jewellery designs. Craft Research, 13(2), 303-326. https://doi.org/10.1386/crre_00081_1

Grown crystals are used for a range of novel innovations supporting a wide array of industries such as technology, medicine and electronics. Within the jewellery industry however, grown crystals are only used in a limited capacity and those of gemsto... Read More about Crystal growing design method: An investigation into the growing of crystals for jewellery designs.

Iris in, Iris out: Reflections on the production, exhibition and viewing of a bisected-eyeball hand-puppet (2022)
Journal Article
Schwarz, C. (2022). Iris in, Iris out: Reflections on the production, exhibition and viewing of a bisected-eyeball hand-puppet. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 15(2), 276-294. https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcp_00042_1

This article reflects upon my short visual recording Eyedrops: A Monoculogue (2021). It describes the thinking process of creative avoidance (both making something new, but recycling ideas and materials which already exist, both in the mind and close... Read More about Iris in, Iris out: Reflections on the production, exhibition and viewing of a bisected-eyeball hand-puppet.

Sprinkle lunacy over legs: A review of WoW workshop writing exercises (2022)
Journal Article
Taylor, L. (2022). Sprinkle lunacy over legs: A review of WoW workshop writing exercises. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 15(2), 112-125. https://doi.org/10.1386/JWCP_00033_1

In the summer of 2021 I organized and facilitated a short series of three online workshops to launch the Ways of Writing in Art and Design Research Network (WoW). This article reviews the collaborative writing exercises I devised for the workshops, d... Read More about Sprinkle lunacy over legs: A review of WoW workshop writing exercises.

Connecting the dots (2022)
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Bodman, S. (2022). Connecting the dots. Printmaking Today, 31(Autumn 2022), 22-23

Sarah Bodman links collaborative book projects by Mary V Marsh with her own printed poem created long distance during the pandemic.

Searching for Lauren Berlant: Reflections on writing, temporality and loss (2022)
Journal Article
Johnson, C. (2022). Searching for Lauren Berlant: Reflections on writing, temporality and loss. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 15(2), 264-274. https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcp_00041_1

This article reflects on the difficulties of writing with/alongside creative practice during periods of lockdown endured as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It follows my search for Lauren Berlant's writing on the pandemic and my desire to make sen... Read More about Searching for Lauren Berlant: Reflections on writing, temporality and loss.

Untrammelled ways: Reflecting on the written text, nourishment and care in online teaching (2022)
Journal Article
Bell, R. (2022). Untrammelled ways: Reflecting on the written text, nourishment and care in online teaching. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 15(2), 126-138. https://doi.org/10.1386/JWCP_00034_1

As the COVID-19 pandemic gathered momentum in 2020, it became clear that online teaching spaces risked a distancing from the embodied knowledge so necessary to creative education. Teaching written texts to creative practitioners is a process that cal... Read More about Untrammelled ways: Reflecting on the written text, nourishment and care in online teaching.

'I came here to do art, not English': Antecedent subject subcultures meet current practices of writing in art and design education (2022)
Journal Article
Rintoul, J. (2022). 'I came here to do art, not English': Antecedent subject subcultures meet current practices of writing in art and design education. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 15(2), 140-156. https://doi.org/10.1386/JWCP_00035_1

A writing/making divide, within the broader theory/practice myth, is part of the historical narrative in art and design education that both clashes with, and persists in, current practices of writing in art and design. The theory/practice myth separa... Read More about 'I came here to do art, not English': Antecedent subject subcultures meet current practices of writing in art and design education.

Editorial (2022)
Journal Article
Johnson, C. (2022). Editorial. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 15(2), 105-111. https://doi.org/10.1386/JWCP_00032_2

This Editorial charts the journey from an initial conversation amongst visual culture colleagues at the University of the West of England to this Special Issue on ‘Ways of Writing in Art and Design’. It describes our intention to imagine forms of wri... Read More about Editorial.

Graphene and CNT‐based smart fiber‐reinforced composites: A review (2022)
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Islam, M. H., Afroj, S., Uddin, M. A., Andreeva, D. V., Novoselov, K. S., & Karim, N. (2022). Graphene and CNT‐based smart fiber‐reinforced composites: A review. Advanced Functional Materials, 32(40), 2205723. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202205723

Multifunctional fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites provide an ideal platform for next-generation smart composites applications including structural health monitoring, electrical and thermal conductivity, energy storage and harvesting, and elec... Read More about Graphene and CNT‐based smart fiber‐reinforced composites: A review.

Hustling, hybridity and changing attitudes to work in the arts (2022)
Journal Article
Sim, N. (2022). Hustling, hybridity and changing attitudes to work in the arts. Engage Journal, 10-17

For years, entry-level placement schemes have been one of the cultural sector’s main answers to broadening the diversity of organisations and recruiting younger practitioners who may not access positions through standard routes. While unpaid interns... Read More about Hustling, hybridity and changing attitudes to work in the arts.

Two sides to every story - letterpress printed bookworks by Andrew Morrison (2022)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2022). Two sides to every story - letterpress printed bookworks by Andrew Morrison. Printmaking Today, 31(122), 22-23

An interview with the book and letterpress artist Andrew Morrison whose studio is based in the South West of England, about his artists' books in progress that explore physical structures, phonetics and visual language.

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

Looking into the Light - artists' books by Randi Annie Strand (2022)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2022). Looking into the Light - artists' books by Randi Annie Strand. Printmaking Today, 31(121), 22-23

Norwegian artist Randi Annie Strand’s current printmaking project takes inspiration from light refraction. The artists’ books and films created for her Prism series are separate yet intertwined, and each is unique. As she explains: a book is three-di... Read More about Looking into the Light - artists' books by Randi Annie Strand.

Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications (2022)
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Islam, M. R., Afroj, S., Beach, C., Islam, M. H., Parraman, C., Abdelkader, A., …Karim, N. (2022). Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications. iScience, 25(3), Article 103945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.103945

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)
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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.

The effect of surface treatments and graphene-based modifications on mechanical properties of natural jute fiber composites: A review (2021)
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Islam, M. H., Islam, M. R., Dulal, M., Afroj, S., & Karim, N. (2022). The effect of surface treatments and graphene-based modifications on mechanical properties of natural jute fiber composites: A review. iScience, 25(1), Article 103597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.103597

Natural fiber reinforced composites (FRC) are of great interests, because of their biodegradability, recyclability, and environmental benefits over synthetic FRC. Natural jute FRC could provide an environmentally sustainable, light weight, and cost-e... Read More about The effect of surface treatments and graphene-based modifications on mechanical properties of natural jute fiber composites: A review.

Three-dimensional composites with nearly isotropic negative Poisson's ratio by random inclusions: Experiments and finite element simulation (2021)
Journal Article
Zhang, M., Hu, H., Kamrul, H., Zhao, S., Chang, Y., Ho, M., & Karim, N. (2022). Three-dimensional composites with nearly isotropic negative Poisson's ratio by random inclusions: Experiments and finite element simulation. Composites Science and Technology, 218, Article 109195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2021.109195

Composites with negative Poisson's Ratio (NPR), also known as auxetic composites, are of great interests due to excellent properties. Auxetic composites of various types have been developed, however most of them have anisotropic NPR behaviour. This p... Read More about Three-dimensional composites with nearly isotropic negative Poisson's ratio by random inclusions: Experiments and finite element simulation.