IMPACT Conferences

IMPACT stands for 'International Multi-disciplinary Printmaking, Artists, Concepts and Techniques'. The idea for the first IMPACT conference was developed by Richard Anderton and Professor Stephen Hoskins based on their joint visits to the American Southern Graphics Council conferences in the early 90's. They realised there was no international forum specifically for printmakers and created IMPACT - initially based on the Southern Graphics concept but the increasing thrust of IMPACT has been to create an academic forum whilst maintaining a showcase for print practioners.

With the theme of ‘celebration’ in mind, the 2009 conference returned to many of the original topics upon which IMPACT was founded in 1999, as well as looking at new areas of discussion that have evolved with the growth and development of the discipline.

A full summary of the conference will be published in Autumn 2011 and the conference website will continue to be updated as information is gathered together.

In 2011 Monash University, are hosting Impact 7 in Melbourne, Australia.

Past Impact conferences have been held in:

2007 Estonia, organised collaboratively between the Estonian Printmakers' Association and Estonian Academy of Art, and was held at KUMU, a purpose built art museum in Tallinn. Find out more in the conference programme

2005 Poznan/Berlin, Unversität der Künste Berlin and the National Museum in Poznan coordinated by University of Tennessee. Find out more on the conference website

2003 South Africa, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. Co-hosted with: Rhodes University School of Fine Art. Find out more on the conference website

2001 University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, Finland. Find out more on the conference website

1999 UWE Bristol. Download the proceedings as a PDF

Archive (Conference Papers)

2009

2008