Transmedial: Expanding Technologies in Contemporary Printmaking

Dr. Sarah Robinson is an artist and independent creative practice-led researcher, based in Perth WA. Since studying printmaking at Royal College of Art in London, Robinson has lectured Higher Education and was a founder member of ArtLab Contemporary Print Studio, UK. Her PhD was conferred by Edith Cowan in 2017 with an APA Scholarship and ECU Excellence Award. Intrinsic to her creative practice-led research Robinson endeavours to ask complex questions that challenge our ways of seeing in an overly digital world. Exhibiting internationally, awards include a Highly Commended, Print International (2013), Oriel Wrexham, UK, and a Fremantle Print Award finalist (2014) with a solo show Potentially Dangerous at THE LOBBY, WA 2019. Robinson has presented her research both nationally and internationally including AAANZ Conference (2017, 2013) IMPACT10 (2018), Society for Literature, Science & the Arts conference (2015) and CREATEC (2014). She is a founder member of Destabilising Walls an art collective based in Perth and recently founded the NeoEvolution Print Space. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2270-4 Dr. Monika Lukowska is an artist and academic from Poland currently based in Perth, WA. She obtained her MA from the E. Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Wroclaw, Poland in 2011, MFA in Printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute, USA in 2014 and PhD from Curtin University, Perth in 2018. Lukowska's artworks were exhibited internationally and she is a recipient of a Minister of Culture and National Heritage Award for the Best Graduate Diploma in Poland (2011), Fulbright Graduate Student Awards (2012), Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards for the Best Graduate Students in the Bay Area (2013), and Curtin Strategic International Research Scholarship (2015). Lukowska presented her research both nationally and internationally including AAANZ Conference (2017), Southern Graphic Council International (2014) and Impact9 and 10 (2015, 2018). She specialises mostly in lithography and digital print, investigating the potential of merging digital and traditional printmaking processes. She currently works as a sessional academic and research assistant at Curtin University and is a co-founder of Print Lab Australia.