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Triple Echo

‘TRIPLE ECHO - ARTISTS IN PRINT’

A collaborative printmaking initiative between UCLan, Preston, Liverpool JMU, Lancaster University and Wirral Metropolitan.


It is curious how contemporary art shifts and turns, opening up new possibilities, reviving and energising marginalised traditions of practice to generate new interpretations of modern experience. The graphic arts are in many ways going through a similar renaissance where new creative attitudes to historical printmaking processes are expanding the relationships between– the autographic, the technological and the chemical challenging the insular conventions and traditions of art and design.

Printmaking embraces and sits on the edges of practices, disciplines and categories, this interesting positioning allows for a free exchange between artists, designers and theoreticians to explore creative authorship outside of commercial constraints. Innovative printmakers emphasise new technical discoveries and creative content with an awareness of the contemporary within an historical context, seeking new strategies for distributing and presenting their work to a wider audience. Recent printmaking creates the space for personal responses within the complex and diverse world of graphic communication embracing and combining a variety of processes – etching, intaglio and relief, silkscreen and computerised painterly prints, lithography the collagraph and the monotype.

‘Triple Echo’ is a printmaking project and exchange initiative developed through the Colleges and Universities in the North West to encourage artists to cultivate their own personal themes and interests to create experimental and innovative artwork professionally presented in the public domain. Printmaking in the North West in recent years has developed a significant reputation for collaborative and cultural exchange projects, notable examples are ‘Artlab’ at UCLan and ‘Injured Text’ at Liverpool JMU. ‘Triple Echo’ seeks to build on these creative initiatives by facilitating opportunities for students and staffs in Art & Design to experience inter collegiate dialogue and professional exhibition opportunities.


Pete Clarke,
University of Central Lancashire, Preston September 2008.

Funded by CADG, Contemporary Arts Development Group, UCLan, Preston.