What is Impact?

The IMPACT International Printmaking Conference serves as an international forum for print artists and artisans, academics and educators, theorists and critics, curators and collectors, and suppliers of printmaking materials and presses. The conference program is conducted in English, and includes lectures, panels, technical demonstrations, exhibitions, and poster & portfolio presentations.

The conference, initiated in Bristol (CFPR) in 1999 is held bi-annually in August or September and to date has been hosted in:

2011 Monash University, Australia.
Find out more on the conference website impact7.org.au/index.html

2009 UWE Bristol, England.  Conference proceedings published by Impact Press, 247 pages.  Available to buy from www.lulu.com/shop or as an ebook/PDF www.lulu.com/shop

2007 Tallin, 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, Germany, Unversität der Künste Berlin and the Poznan Acadaemy of Fine Arts and National Museum, Poznan – coordinated by University of Tennessee.
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2003 South Africa, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
Co-hosted with: Rhodes University School of Fine Art.
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2001 University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, Finland.
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1999 UWE Bristol, England Download the proceedings as a PDF