Carinna Parraman's Outputs (128)

Exchanges, exhibitions and experiments in colour (2025)
Journal Article

This past year, I have been working on a subject that I most enjoy – colour – and it seems that many others share the same passion. In April 2024, I hosted a celebration and exploration of colour featuring an exhibition and a colour seminar.

The C... Read More about Exchanges, exhibitions and experiments in colour.

The cabinet of curiosities: New materialities, narratives and storytelling across cultures (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Printmaking is often referred to as a democratic visual medium (Roberts, 2024; Jones, 2024), as an opportunity for making creative connections, addressing complex subjects, as an effective tool for social engagement (Georgieva, 2023; Raczek-Karcz, 20... Read More about The cabinet of curiosities: New materialities, narratives and storytelling across cultures.

'Modern-day Tinkerer’ - A review of the Work of James Rogers (2025)
Journal Article

James Rogers’ work spans many dimensions and materials, drawing inspiration from ancient oracles and cosmical networks. His use of clay and wax, plates and inks, drawing robots, and extruders reflects these influences. According to James Rogers, ever... Read More about 'Modern-day Tinkerer’ - A review of the Work of James Rogers.

Printing Technologies and Applications: A Multidisciplinary Roadmap (2024)
Book

Print plays a vital role in our lives. It provides the means to communicate messages cheaply and with impact. It is an important vehicle for advertising, education, entertainment, information and plays a substantial role in modern manufacturing. Even... Read More about Printing Technologies and Applications: A Multidisciplinary Roadmap.

The reproduction of colour and texture (2024)
Book Chapter

While the volume focuses on colour in art since 1704, this chapter starts with the achievements of an artist of the 17th century, particularly the specific achievements concerning the depiction of colour and texture in paintings, and how those benchm... Read More about The reproduction of colour and texture.

Translation in transition: The Cabinet of Curiosities (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Working collaboratively: digital and analogue, artist and machine, artist and artist is a constant activity of negotiation and translation – between code, language, process, matrix material and metaphor. The CFPR’s Artist in Residence programme aims... Read More about Translation in transition: The Cabinet of Curiosities.

Impact 12 Proceedings // Panel Sessions and Reflective papers Vol 2 (2024) (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The second volume comprising a range of articles from the panel sessions and reflective presentations at IMPACT. The subjects reflect on many of the themes of the conference: the post-pandemic voice, community and collaboration, histories of print an... Read More about Impact 12 Proceedings // Panel Sessions and Reflective papers Vol 2 (2024).

Impact 12 Proceedings // Panel Sessions and Reflective papers (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

These first 15 articles are part of the Impact Proceedings from the panel sessions and reflective presentations.

New methods and materials for photomechanical printing in the 21st Century (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Researchers and printmakers of the 21st century can access and explore photomechanical print archives and reflect on the countless iterations and the rich technological and material developments from the 19th century. Over the century, more efficient... Read More about New methods and materials for photomechanical printing in the 21st Century.

Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants (2023)
Journal Article

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.

Printing structural colour (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

RGB printing or structural colour printing is an intriguing method that transforms everything we know about CMYK subtractive printing by combining additive print methods and RGB pigments that can radically change the appearance of the printed image.... Read More about Printing structural colour.

RGB colour printing and halftoning for the reproduction of structural colour images (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

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.

Deep Impact (2023)
Journal Article

At the 12th IMPACT multidisciplinary printmaking conference in Bristol, The Printmakers’ Voice, artists, practitioners, academics, technologists and curators came together to listen to each other’s voices, share and discuss themes, view new works of... Read More about Deep Impact.

IMPACT 12 Proceedings 2023 (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Editor of The first collection of academic papers from the IMPACT Conference The Printmakers' Voice, 21-25 September 2022, hosted by The Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England.  

Bristol print innovators make a strong impression (2022)
Journal Article

Co-produced with science journalist Joe McEntee, this short film features interviews with the director of the CFPR, Carinna Parraman, Susanne Klein, Shaila Afroj and Tavs Jorgenson about the curent research into Woodbury-type printing, e-textiles and... Read More about Bristol print innovators make a strong impression.

Edge of infinity (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

Edge of Infinity
A portfolio of original prints curated by
Wuon-Gean Ho for the IMPACT 12 conference,
Centre for Print Research, Bristol, UK. 2022

Participating Artists

Becoming by Stephen Roy Black
Polymer intaglio etching 175 mm x 275 m... Read More about Edge of infinity.

Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications (2022)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

Recreating the relief of the temple of the Jaguars: Exploring digital and analogue 2.5D printing of Mesoamerican imagery (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Digital and analogue printing methods are studied for reconstructing a Mayan decorative relief from the ancient temple of the Jaguars. Height maps, image files encoding height information as intensity values, were produced in commercial image editing... Read More about Recreating the relief of the temple of the Jaguars: Exploring digital and analogue 2.5D printing of Mesoamerican imagery.