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CFPR
Student PhD Completions
Paul LaidlerCompleted: PhD, August 2011
Thesis Title: Collaborative Digital Wide Format Printing: Methods and Considerations for the Artist and Master Printer.
Supervisory Team: DOS Paul Thirkell, Sarah Bodman & Roy Voss.
Paul Laidler is now a research associate at the Centre for Fine Print Research. His research investigates the expanding field of production and interpretation of the digital printed artefact in a visual arts context.
Andrew Eason
Completed: PhD, June 2010
Thesis Title: Metaphorising practice: artists' books as artistic strategies
Supervisory Team: Sarah Bodman, Dr Iain Biggs & Prof Steve Hoskins
Carinna Parraman
Completed: PhD, January 2010
Thesis Title: The Development of Alternative Colour System for Inkjet Printing
Supervisory Team: DOS Professor Paul Gough PhD, UWE, Dr Paul Thirkell UWE
Carinna Parraman is now a senior research fellow at the Centre for Fine Print Research. Her research has developed through long term usage of digital imaging software and print hardware; experience of photomechanical methods for image making; an increasing understanding and knowledge of the field of digital inkjet printing for herself and for other artists; and more recently in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Laboratories - an ongoing dialogue to develop new creative approaches for inkjet printing.
Abdul Hakim Onitolo
Completion: PhD 2009
Thesis title: The interaction of content and visual physiognomy Supervisory Team: Paul Gough, Steve Hoskins & Raimi Gbadamosi
Abdul Hakim Onitolo was awarded the British Institute Award at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show in 2009, he is a practising artist and lecturer.
Eric Crouch
Completion: PhD 2005
Thesis title: Novel water-based carbon inks for application in screen-printed biosensors
Supervisory Team: John Hart, Steve Hoskins, Dave Cowell & Robin Pittson
Katayoun Pasban Dowlatshahi
Completion 2005
Thesis Title: Drawing With Light: The Pencil Of Nature
Supervisory Team: D.O.S Andrew Stonyer, University of Gloucestershire, Anita Taylor, Wimbledon School of Art, Dr Paul Thirkell, University of the West of England
Katayoun Pasban Dowlatshahi has undertaken a number of national and international residencies, exhibitions and have a number of public realm commissions across the UK including three significant public commissions in Bletchley, adjacent to Bletchley Park, Gloucester Docks and Canterbury city centre.
Andrew Atkinson
Completion: PhD, full time (AHRC/ CFPR project bursary)July 2004
Thesis title: The Creation of Digital Photographic Fine Art Print through the Woodburytype Model’,
Supervisory Team: D.O.S Prof Steve Hoskins, UWE, Paul Thirkell, UWE & Dr Andrew Spicer UWE
Andrew Atkinson is now Director of the MFA Studio at Montclair State University, his research is into the nature of photographic imaging and the opaque relationship between 3D software imaging (and its methods) and the photographic image; and the material photograph.
Angela Brown
Completed: Mphil, 2004
Project Title: Inks for the Fine Art Printmaker: A system and methodology for the development testing and manufacture of printing inks for the Fine Art Market.
Supervisory Team: Prof Steve Hoskins, Carinna Parraman
Angela Brown is now employed by Cranfield Colours Ltd as Head of Specialist Inks, and director of Caligo Inks - developing new testing methods to ensure consistent quality is maintained in brightly coloured batches of inks. She has also devised ways to measure how ‘tacky’ or viscous the inks are, and how they sit on or are absorbed by various types of paper.
Cecilia Mandrile
Completion: PhD 2004
Thesis title: The Translation of Fragments : A dialogue between photography and displacement in the practice of selected Latin American emigrant artists.
Supervisory Team: Amanda Wood, Prof Steve Hoskins & Iain Biggs.
Cecilia Madrile is now Adjunct Professor, University of New Haven Program in Riyadh (Computer Graphics). She has exhibited widely in prestigious venues in the Americas, Europe and Middle East and is the recipient of several fellowships, grants and awards in England, Hungary, Spain, Cuba, USA and Argentina. Her work is held in private and public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Casa de las Americas, Havana; Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California and the Gyor Museum of Art, Hungary.
Paul Thirkell
Completion: PhD 2000
Thesis title: The integration of digital imaging techniques with 19th Century continuous tone printing processes
Supervisory Team: Steve Hoskins & Richard Anderton
Paul Thirkell is now a senior research fellow at the Centre for Fine Print Research. His research centres on the re-evaluation of a number of high quality 19th century photomechanical printing techniques that were either marginalised or made industrially extinct in the early part of the 20th century.
Kevin Petrie
Completion: PhD 1999
Thesis title: Water-based ceramic transfer printing – The development and creative use of a new on-glaze screenprinting system
Supervisory Team: Steve Hoskins & Richard Anderton
After completing his PhD at UWE Kevin went onto be a lecturer and researcher in print for ceramics and glass. Professor Kevin Petrie is now Programme Leader for the Master of Arts in Glass at the University of Sunderland. His book Glass and Print is published simultaneously by A&C Black and University of Pennsylvania Press.
Alison Logan
Completed: PhD 1999
Thesis title: The Development and Testing of Novel On-Glaze Water-Based Transfer Printing Processes for Decorating Ceramics
Supervisory Team: DOS Annabelle Hodgson, Professor Steve Hoskins, Richard Anderton
Sarah Bodman
Completion: MPhil, 1995
Thesis title: A Study into the Creation of 20th Century, Limited Edition, Mixed-Media Artists' Books as Original Fine-Art Productions.
Supervisory Team: Prof Steve Hoskins & Richard Anderton.
Sarah Bodman is now a senior research fellow for Artists' Books at the Centre for Fine Print Research, where she runs projects investigating and promoting contemporary book arts. She is the editor of the Artist's Book Yearbook, a biennial reference publication on contemporary book arts, The Blue Notebook journal for artists’ books, and writes a regular news column on artists’ books for the ARLIS UK and Ireland News-Sheet, and an artists’ books column for the journal Printmaking Today.