Centre for Fine Print Research University of the West of England Centre for Fine Print Research
 

Dr Paul Thirkell

Selected Presentations and Papers

Through the Glass Darkly – Appropriation, Remaking and Representation Through Print, University of Chester, 10-11 July 2009

Truth to Virtual Materials, Talking Prints lecture series, Artists Network, University of Central Lancashire, June 2009

The Reproduction, Conservation and Creation of Prints, Printed on Paper: Techniques, History and Conservation of Printed Media, Northumbria University Newcastle-upon-Tyne, September 5-7, 2007

Truth to Virtual Materials, The Personalised Surface within Fine Art Digital Printmaking, Chelsea College of Art & Design- Red Room, Wednesday 4th July 2007

The hybridization of 19th century continuous tone printing processes with digital imaging techniques to assist contemporary fine art and facsimile printing, Printing Technology SPb’06, Organised by St Petersburg State University of Technology and Design, St Petersburg, Russia, June 26 – 30, 2006

The production of archivally stable fine art prints: The role of the master printer in the digital age.
Co-Author Paper, Institute of Physics, London, April 2006

The Collotype print, past and present, Forgotten Histories (St Brides) Feb 2006

A Borderless State: Re-aligning Print in the Digital Age, Creativity & Embodied Mind in digital fine art Seminar, Goldsmiths College, London, 12th April, 2005

The Enlightened Path from Diderot to Digital, Impact 4, Berlin/Posnan, 5- 10th September 2005

A Borderless State: Re-Defining Print in the Digital Age, “Command ‘P’ Digital Session”, Impact 4, Berlin/Posnan 2005

An illustration of how research can generate research: Examining the progression of ideas and concepts used throughout a series of related research projects, Sensuous Knowledge 3, Norway, November 2006 (www.sensuousknowledge.org)

Public Lectures and Talks

Forgotten Histories: Collotype Past and Present, St Brides Library London UK, 24th January 2005

Ink; a discussion with Quentin Cooper, Professor David Lewis and Dr Paul Thirkell, The Material World, BBC Radio 4, 13 June 2002 (listen to the show)