Dr Paul Laidler's Outputs (27)

Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' books as statement (1960-2022) (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

In reference to one of the first ground-breaking exhibitions in the 1970s about the then still new medium of artists’ books—"Book as Artwork 1960/72”, held in 1972 at Nigel Greenwood Inc. in London and curated by Italian critic Germano Celant with ga... Read More about Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' books as statement (1960-2022).

Butch courage and the nature of nurture (2021)
Journal Article

The article explores how courage is embedded in, and emanates from artefacts using The Gold Watch episode in Quentin Tarantino’s episodic film Pulp Fiction. Commentary is centred around the family heirloom and how this filmic timepiece simultaneousl... Read More about Butch courage and the nature of nurture.

„Borderline printmakers” (2021)
Exhibition / Performance

Contemporary printmakers often reach boarders of their own discipline, as they were testing its flexibility, limitations and endurance. They create unexpected combinations, create fusions of artistic means relevant to printmaking and other mediums. T... Read More about „Borderline printmakers”.

The worlds a stage (2020)
Journal Article

The theme of the article comments upon ‘reality' as a fabricated space for deceit and when one’s attention is drawn toward the physical break down of ‘the façade’. This specific attempt at concealment will reference The Truman Show and the Fallen Spo... Read More about The worlds a stage.

Spatial traces and skeletal projections (2020)
Journal Article

The article discusses how sketching is utilised as a durational state within my practice and as a means to cultivate the creative potential that is afforded by the rough draft. The proceeding development of the sketch is also considered in relation t... Read More about Spatial traces and skeletal projections.

Printed conversations and collaborative undertakings (2018)
Journal Article

The article discusses the curatorial premise and collaborative studio practices behind the Just Press Print exhibition curated by Dr Paul Laidler.
The Just Press Print exhibition title draws attention to automated associations with digital technolo... Read More about Printed conversations and collaborative undertakings.

Mapping post-digital practice in the graphic arts (2018)
Journal Article

It has been suggested by a range of established commentators that digital technology may have potentially created a ‘mental change’ within the creative process of making images and objects. Although this statement is somewhat broad and our ability to... Read More about Mapping post-digital practice in the graphic arts.

Satisfaction Guaranteed™ (2018)
Journal Article

A written and illustrated article.
Science fiction films have presented us with numerous visions of machines programmed to satisfy our every need. In some instances these needs have been considered in relation to the intimate and physical relations... Read More about Satisfaction Guaranteed™.

Looking through the eyes of machines as humans (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

It has been suggested by a range of established commentators that digital technology may have potentially created a ‘mental change’ within the creative process of making graphic images and objects. Although this statement is somewhat broad and our ab... Read More about Looking through the eyes of machines as humans.

Collaborative print studio (2017)
Journal Article

The collaborative print studio has had profound impact upon the production and realisation of some of the most innovative prints within the discipline of fine art printmaking. Historically an artist with little understanding of the print process or a... Read More about Collaborative print studio.

Human automation & the post-digital print (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Today we are surrounded by digital systems; machines and devices that offer countless possibilities for producing graphic artefacts that are unique to this period. Similarly the distinction between whether or not something is digital or physical appe... Read More about Human automation & the post-digital print.

Revisiting Richard Hamilton’s typo-topography of Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass (2016)
Journal Article

The production of fine art prints has a longstanding relationship with the collaborative print studio, where artists work together with master printers to realize and produce printed artworks. The collaboration between artist and print studio has pre... Read More about Revisiting Richard Hamilton’s typo-topography of Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass.

Just press 'P' (2016)
Exhibition / Performance

Just Press P is an international, traveling group exposition that explores the introduction of 21st century technologies within the predominantly mechanically defined discipline of printmaking. The exhibition will highlight artistic planning, collabo... Read More about Just press 'P'.

Fairing well: The university publisher and its emerging artists (2014)
Journal Article

The university as a producer and publisher of prints is not a new concept when we consider established US-based institutes such as Graphicstudio in Tampa, Florida, (part of the University of Southern Florida) and the Tamarind Institute, which is part... Read More about Fairing well: The university publisher and its emerging artists.

Fairing well redux: Pu(bli)shing for profit (2014)
Journal Article

Continuing on the last installment’s theme of folk emerging from the Multiplied Art Fair at Christie’s we’ll turn our sights away from the students and not-for-profits, and towards the ‘may-or-may-not-have-gone-to-school-onces’ and ‘yeah-we’d-really-... Read More about Fairing well redux: Pu(bli)shing for profit.

Deconstructing digital printing technologies: Towards reinstating artistic ingenuity in the production of digital colour prints (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research proposes an alternative perspective to conventional printing workflows. Such workflows are restrictive when standard interfaces conceal self-contained systems, limited by manufacturers’ parameters. This has been observed to inhibit the... Read More about Deconstructing digital printing technologies: Towards reinstating artistic ingenuity in the production of digital colour prints.

When artists become inkjet innovators (2014)
Journal Article

Dr Paul Laidler, research fellow at the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England, explains how the work undertaken by the centre and its artists is pushing the boundaries of wide-format inkjet.

(Non) Graphic images of violence (2014)
Journal Article

This article is a studio conversation between researchers Dr Paul Laidler and Dr Cecilia Mandrile and artist Andrew Super.

Invited lecture by Paul Laidler (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paul Laidler will talk about the development of a digital print publishing practice entitled CFPR Editions (www.cfpreditions.co.uk) and the recent exhibition that he curated entitled "just press print". This title was chosen to highlight that althoug... Read More about Invited lecture by Paul Laidler.

The human printer featuring the Print is Dead series: A model for the collaborative studio in the twenty-first century and the changing role of the master printer (2013)
Book Chapter

This paper has been developed from a practice-based study for my PhD thesis 2011, entitled: Collaborative digital and wide format printing: methods and considerations for the artist and master printer. The paper discusses the panel's themes of printm... Read More about The human printer featuring the Print is Dead series: A model for the collaborative studio in the twenty-first century and the changing role of the master printer.