Packed & Unpacked with Impact

Just Press Print Exhibition, Impact 8 Printmaking Conference, Dundee Scotland, Curated by Paul Laidler

This years Impact 8 Printmaking Conference in Dundee, Scotland brought together a wealth of national and international contributors. As part of this biennial event the conference presented a wide range of activities, papers, talks and exhibitions that successfully celebrated the diverse nature of the discipline and its cohorts.

CFPR Editions contribution to the conference was the second installment of the Just Press Print exhibition. For those that may not know the exhibition focused on collaborative digital print studio practices at the CFPR and the introduction of new technologies within a predominantly mechanically defined discipline. In this context the exhibition sort to explore the broadening possibilities for the graphic artefact in the digital age by foregrounding the printed matter and conversations that both inform and reveal the physical renderings of the ‘push button’ process. 

Roy Voss, Explorer 2012 & Paul Coldwell, Lines & Branches 2012

Cecilia Mandrile, The Desert Inside (Night) & The Desert Inside (Day), 2013

Printed artworks in the exhibition included Arthur Buxton’s inkjet printed Vogue covers that utilises open source software to sample the five most prominent colours of the international magazine over the last 30 years. Cecilia Mandrile's hand stitched prints from her Betweening installation works and Richard Falle's latest vector based icecream disaster images. Other works included Paul Coldwell’s Lines and Branches prints that revisit relief printing through the laser engraved matrix and Gordon Cheung's 3D printed tulip bulb series. To a view additional images from the exhibition please visit our Impact 8 flickr set.

Andrew Super Impact 8 Illustrated Talk: Beyond the Flatlands: Print-making / Film-making

The Impact 8 Conference also saw CFPR Editions artist Andrew Super present an illustrated talk entitled Romanticising YouTube: Digital Sublimity Through Print. Andrews talk discussed notions of perception, time and mediation as part of his image making practice before presenting his recent UV printed inkjet edition series (Non) Graphic Images of Violence.

Just Press Print install at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design 2013

CFPR Editions would like to thank all its artists who's collaborative work at the CFPR made the exhibition possible. We would also like to say a special thank you to CFPR Research Administrator Jesse Heckstall-Smith (in above photographs) and Andrew Super for assisting with the install and take down and not forgetting Adam & Linsay Proctor for helping with transportation.