Paula Rego: printmaker

‘Paula Rego: Printmaker’ is an extended essay commissioned from the author by Marlborough Fine Art and Talbot Rice Museum, Edinburgh, for the illustrated catalogue to accompany the touring exhibition of Rego’s graphic work. My essay reveals Rego’s working method, and places her prints within the overall context of her practice. The essay contains much original research evidenced over a 20-year period of collaboration with the artist, including first hand observation and hitherto unpublished stage proofs revealing the progression and development of images from first stage to final print

Between digital and physical: some thoughts on digital printmaking

Paper discussing how digital printmaking relates to traditional physical printmaking. The relationship between online image and the physical product and how they fundamentally differ. Paul Coldwell uses examples of his own work to explore these ideas

Material Things: Sculpture and Prints

This solo exhibition includes work made between 1998 and 2014 and showcases a significant number of Coldwell's sculptures and print works

In exciting times

An overview of contemporary printmaking

Christiane Baumgartner: between states

This essay has been written and published following a public conversation with Christiane Baumgartner at Chelsea College of Art & Design

Small Traces

Solo Exhibition of Prints, Sculptures & Books - Gallery 25 Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia 23rd March - 18th April 2017 Related Symposium: Forming and Deforming Images - the creative process in flux 27th March 2016 9.30am - 4pm Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia Keynote speaker: Paul Coldwel

Print, making and the work of art alone

This paper will consider the relationship of print to the transmission of ideas through the multiple. This will include the changing role of the print studio and how artists are increasingly viewing print as an opportunity to produce work, which is distinct and resolved within the medium of print

Hybrid practices within printmaking

Coldwell was guest editor for the Journal of Visual Art Practice's special issue: Hybrid Practices. Abstract: The following papers were originally presented as part of a symposium held at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London on Friday 24 April 2005. This was a joint event between Chelsea College of Arts and Bergen Academy of Art & Design, convened and chaired by Professor Paul Coldwell. The symposium addressed a range of approaches to printmaking in which ideas and intentions are allied to process and technique, resulting in what can best be described as hybrid practices. Current practice draws upon a rich history of printmaking both in terms of technique and the means through which images, as vehicles for ideas and emotions, are distributed. With the advent of digital technologies, the opportunities for artists to combine processes and approaches have never been greater

Giorgio Morandi: Epiphany in a bottle

Commissioned article for Art in Print. From the introduction: Giorgio Morandi, Still Life with Vases, Bottles etc. on a table (1929) Vitali 67 From the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London. I first saw this print Still Life with Vases, Bottles etc. on a table (1929) in the exhibition, Giorgio Morandi-Etchings at the Tate Gallery, London in 1991. The exhibition made a great impression on me, I could go as far as saying that it represented an epiphany, for whilst I had seen a number of works in various museums and mixed shows, this was the first opportunity to see so many of his prints together