paul coldwell

Paul Coldwell is Professor of Fine Art at the University of the Arts London, a position he has held since 2001.
As an artist, his practice includes prints, book works, sculptures and installations, focusing on themes of journey, absence and loss. As a printmaker he has been at the fore of integrating digital technologies with more traditional techniques.
He has exhibited widely, his work included in numerous public collections, including Tate, V&A, British Museum, the Arts Council of England, MoMA and Yale Centre for British Art. He has been selected for numerous open print exhibitions including the International Print Triennial, Cracow and International Triennial of Contemporary Prints, Liège.
His recent solo exhibitions include, A Layered Practice Graphic Work 1993-2012 (Universities of Kent and Greenwich), Material Things (Gallery II, University of Bradford 2015) Temporarily Accessioned (Freud Museum London 2017 and Beaney House of Art & Knowledge 2020) and Picturing the Invisible (Sir John Soane’s Museum London 2019). Group Shows Include, The Printed Line (Arts Council Touring ) Reconciliations (History Museum Sarajevo 2018) and Light/Matter: Art at the Intersection of Photography and Printmaking (Indiana 2017).
He has curated a number of exhibitions including Computers & Printmaking, (Birmingham Museum & Art Galleries 1999), Digital Responses, (V&A 2001) and more recently, Morandi’s Legacy; Influences on British Art ( Estorick Collection London 2006) and The Artists Folio, Cartwright Hall, Bradford 2014.
He has published writings on a number of artists including Michael Craig-Martin, Giorgio Morandi, Christiane Baumgartner, Charlotte Hodes and Paula Rego; contributed to many publications including Print Quarterly, Printmaking Today, Art in Print, Imprint and Tate and has been keynote speaker for a number of conferences both in UK and abroad.
His current book Printmaking; A Contemporary Perspective was published by Black Dog Publishing in 2010. He is on the editorial board of Print Quarterly.