Biography

Dr Carinna Parraman is senior research fellow and deputy director at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol. Her research in the field of colour has led to an engagement of colour perception, colour mixing using light and colour mixing using pigments. Her PhD involved a study into the creation and application of bespoke digital colour palettes for artists. In 2006-10, she coordinated a European colour group (www.create.uwe.ac.uk) comprising experts from a diverse range of backgrounds in colour including the arts, sciences, engineering and conservation. Carinna’s fine art practice explores the perceptual relationship of halftone patterns, colour assimilation and contrast.

Academic Paper

Blueprints for colour mixing: Towards 2.5D textural printing
As a result of the current advances in inkjet colour management and halftoning the significant impact of inkjet printing has meant that the artist can now take for granted high-quality colour and resolution in their printed images. Now that the digital printing machine has reached a level where it is seemingly little more than a highly sophisticated image reproduction device, with little or no possibility for repair or modification, artists are beginning to question what next? What if inkjet printers can be modified or adapted to create something different? This research is motivated by painting and rendering programmes and the need to leverage meaningful interaction between the software, the colour printed output, viscous properties of the medium, that works towards the development of a digitally applied surface topology or as 2.5D Printing.

Open Folio

Analogue/Digital-Raster/Vector CFPR (UK) and Artez (NL)
The folio demonstrates how artists are fully engaged in new and more challenging, playful and interactive ways that incorporate both the traditional and the novel. For artists, digital technologies – software, hardware, materials – have simply offered new means for making artworks and new ways of engaging with material. It is by knowing and understanding the methods for making in this ‘post’ digital age that artists have re-engaged with materials, sometimes reinventing traditional methods, that will have a new resonance in the future. The exhibition will include work from staff at Artez (Institute of the Arts, Enschede, The Netherlands) and CFPR (Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England, Bristol).