Dr Paul Laidler's Outputs (17)

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.

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)
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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™.

Collaborative print studio (2017)
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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.

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

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.

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.

Pay Close Attention. CFPR, Bristol (2013)
Journal Article

Research at the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) is based on the production of the physical artefact, primarily predicated in print. All aspects of technology that relate to the core philosophy of making are central to this ethos.

In recent y... Read More about Pay Close Attention. CFPR, Bristol.

Printmaking – new and old technologies – a conversation (2012)
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This paper, through a conversation between Professor Coldwell and Dr Laidler, considers the ongoing relationship between old and new technologies within fine art printmaking. In particular it explores how ideas move between virtual and real, and the... Read More about Printmaking – new and old technologies – a conversation.

Codex Event 8: An Australian and British Collaboration of pulp-printing, installation and artists’ books with Sarah Bodman, Paul Laidler, Tim Mosely, Monica Oppen and Tom Sowden 2011-2012 (2012)
Journal Article

A co-authored article by all the artists for Imprint journal, Australia, September 2012.

Sarah Bodman and Paul Laidler from the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) at UWE, Bristol, UK joined Tim Mosely in Brisbane at Queensland College of Art (Q... Read More about Codex Event 8: An Australian and British Collaboration of pulp-printing, installation and artists’ books with Sarah Bodman, Paul Laidler, Tim Mosely, Monica Oppen and Tom Sowden 2011-2012.

Human automation (2011)
Journal Article

Defining Print Paul Laidler's PhD focuses on the production process rather than the artefact itself. In his exploration of a means that is not quite print, he questions the boundaries of printmaking in the digital age in this article for Printmaking... Read More about Human automation.

The Printed reality exhibition curated by Paul Laidler (2011)
Journal Article

Journal article in the The California Printmaker: The Journal of the California Society of Printmakers. The invention and subsequent development of the printed image has changed the way in which we learn, see and describe the world around us. Our pre... Read More about The Printed reality exhibition curated by Paul Laidler.