Pressing Matters

Confirmed line-up of keynote speakers for IMPACT 7. To read more about them, please visit the “Keynote Speakers” page on the conference website.

1. Heri Dono (Indonesia) – Heri Dono is unquestionably one of Indonesia’s highest regarded contemporary artists of his generation, and is best known for his mixed-media installations derived from his experiments with popular Javanese folk theatre Wayang.

2. Brook Andrew (Australia) – Brook Andrew is a conceptually driven artist who challenges cultural and historical perception, using installation, text and image to comment on local and global issues regarding race, consumerism and history.

3. Trent Walter (Australia) – Trent Walter is a Melbourne based printmaker and writer. In 2009, he established Negative Press, a fine art custom printmaking workshop focussing on etching and silkscreen techniques. Recent projects include a multiple panel silkscreen portrait of Professor Marcia Langton by Brook Andrew, commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra,

4. Mike Parr (Australia) – For more than thirty years, Mike Parr has been engaged in possibly the most concentrated and ambitious program in contemporary Australian visual art – the Self Portrait Project. This series of works has been realised through a myriad of individual pieces in printmaking, drawing, sculpture, painting, video and performance.

5. John Loane (Australia) – John Loane is a master printer and print publisher who has a long-standing collaborative relationship with Australian artist Mike Parr.

6. Prof Johanna Drucker (USA) – Johanna Drucker is the inaugural Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in UCLA’s Department of Information Studies. She has written and lectured widely on topics related to the history of the book, with special emphasis on artists’ books, typography, experimental poetry, and contemporary art.

7. Prof Teal Triggs (UK) – Teal Triggs is Professor of Graphic Design, University of the Arts London. She is co-Director of the research unit for Information Environments (i.e.) and Course Director for MRes Information Environments and MA Design Writing Criticism, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.

8. Prof Paul Coldwell (UK) – Paul Coldwell is Professor of Fine Art at the University of the Arts London, and an artist whose practice includes prints, book works, sculptures and installations. He is currently developing a multi-disciplinary project in conjunction with Birkbeck, University of London, the Sir John Soane Museum London and the British School at Rome.