In July 2025 Paul Coldwell stepped down from his role as Professor in Fine Art…
The Artists Folio
Recent interview for Faculti Media. Faculti aims to communicate the latest research news, publications and information in a way that is accessible and available to the wider public. The interview focuses on The Artists Folio was an exhibition I curated (with Sonia Kielty) at Cartwright Hall, Bradford earlier in the year. It evolved and developed from the keynote paper I presented at Impact 7 International Printmaking Conference, held at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia in 2011entitled Just What Is It that Makes An Artists Folio So Special, So Appealing, So Important? in which I argued for a reappraisal of the importance of the print portfolio to present ideas concerned with series sequence and seriality. These ideas were also touched upon in my book Printmaking : A Contemporary Perspective (Black Dog 2010) and I am currently developing this research as the focus for a new book due in 2016.
https://facultimedia.com/downloads/visual-arts-artists-folio-as-a-site-of-inquiry/