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Between Resemblance and Illusion: Photography and Print
Seeing Touch: the Woodburytype as Haptic Image
Constanza Dessain
Printmaker, Academic, Artist
Centre Fine Print Research, UWE
Constanza Dessain is working on a practice-based doctorate examining the imprint as a visual strategy through which time, touch and materiality is foregrounded. Drawing, printing and technical research at the CFPR drives a practice that inflects assumptions about the relationship between description and recognition. They are Tutor at the Royal Drawing School, Visiting Lecturer at Falmouth University, and printmaker for the technology specialist Factum Arte. They have been awarded an AHRC funded PhD, the Desmond Preston Prize at the Royal College of Art, the Lady Rothermere Prize for drawing; a South Square Trust Grant; and a Leverhulme Bursary.
Different shades of Grey
Susanne Klein
Printmaker, Academic, Scientist
UWE Bristol, Centre for Fine Print Research
Susanne Klein is an EPSRC manufacturing fellow and an associate professor at the Centre for Fine Print Research. She studied physics in Germany and came as a Royal Society Research fellow to the University of Bristol where she worked on 19th century optics. In 1998 she joined Hewlett Packard Labs and worked on liquid crystal display technology, new materials for 3D printing and optical cryptography. In 2018 she joined the Centre for Fine Print research. Her research interests now are 19th century photomechanical processes and their 21st century incarnations, especially Woodburytype and Lippmann photography.
Proposal:
Different shades of Grey
Print States and Chance
jonnie turpie
Printmaker, Artist
Birmingham City University
Edward ‘jonnie’ Turpie Biography 2019. Turpie, having established a successful creative industries career returned to education in 2017 as a Doctoral Research Student at Birmingham School of Art. His career included establishing an independent production company producing television programmes and innovative digital content. During his journey towards PhD completion he has achieved a PG Certificate in Research Practice in 2018, his first formal qualification since achieving an MA Printmaking from the RCA in 1979. His PhD Research subject is Contemporary Portraiture – Smart phone Photography, Drawing and Printmaking. The research question interrogates the relationship that exists between smartphone portraiture and analogue based drawn approaches to mechanical printmaking. He explores the subtle digital and analogue techniques of image making and the complex relationship between the observer and the observed. Recent, selected exhibitions include a solo show High Sheriff Portraits at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (2017). Group outputs: Diverso Encuentros, IMPACT 10, Santander, 2018, Featured Artist 2019, DEmptyspace, Schwarmerei, ORT Gallery 2019; Printmakers Council V&A mini prints (2017), SALON, BMAG 2016; WM Open, Waterhall 2015. Pulpa Print; 20x20 Hot Bed Press; RBSA print, photography and Portraits 2016. In 2018 Turpie was Co-curator of You and I are discontinuous beings, Group Drawing exhibition and Book Launch.
Proposal:
Print States and Chance
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- WELCOMING & KEYNOTE SPEECH
- WELCOMING & KEYNOTE SPEECH