About the Centre for Print Research

ABOUT THE CFPR

The Centre for Print Research (CFPR) is based at the University of the West of England, Bristol was established in 1998. Its excellence is rooted in traditional print and digital technologies, innovative print, fine print and artists’ books, design and fabrication in two and three dimensions combining a multi-technology approach to developing novel materials, methodologies and processes. Since then, it has developed partnerships with world-leading academic institutions and has an outstanding record in working with collaborators across a wide range of sectors, including fine art, design, material science and engineering.

In 2019, the Centre was granted a significant award from Research England’s ‘Expanding Excellence in England’ (E3) to increase its internationally acclaimed empirical investigation into the artistic, historical, and industrial significance of creative print practices, processes, and technologies. In 2021, CFPR moved to new purposebuilt laboratory space at UWE Bristol’s Frenchay Campus, where it is developing new printing methods and interdisciplinary research for the future of print development.

The CFPR focuses its research across four themes: • New Materials: Towards Sustainable Technologies • Digital Manufacturing: Additive, Subtractive, Hybrid • Print and Imaging: Reappraising the Past • Visual Art, Print and Artists’ Books: Methods and Making

CFPR continues to develop partnerships with artists, studios, contemporary makers, and galleries and functions as a publishing studio of limited-edition prints and multiples. Focusing on new print technologies in fine art printmaking places CFPR Editions within a unique area of the print publishing art market.

The CFPR research group constantly push print technology and understanding of what is possible with print into new areas for the continued benefit of artists, academia and industry.