qualifications
2022 Elected as Fellow of the Royal Cambrian Academy (RCA)
2008 Elected as Fellow of The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (RE)
2005 Elected as Associate of The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (ARE)
1996 TMP Tamarind Master Printer, Tamarind Institute, UNM, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
1990 PGCE Art and Design, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1986 PG-Dip Drawing and Painting and Printmaking, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
1985 BA Honours Drawing and painting, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
research and publications
2022 Collaboration in Practice: British Lithography 1800 - 2022
School of Art Press, ISBN 978 1 7391167 1 2
Exhibition of British lithographs from the collection of Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum & Gallery
2015 The Xiaoxiang Exhibition of International Printmaking, co-curator
The Community of Printmaking - introductory essay for the catalogue
The Hunan Fine Art Publishing House, Changsha, China ISBN 978 7 5356 7459 3
2014 Contemporary Chinese Printmaking, Prints by Artists from Hunan Province
School of Art Press, Aberystwyth University, ISBN 978-1-899095-38-4
2014 Aberystwyth Printmakers: Tenth Anniversary Exhibition 2004-2014 ISBN 978-1-899095-36-0
2012 Shared Inheritance: Wales Printmaking, Printmaking Today, Volume 21, No4 Winter 2014
2012 Fifty: Fifty 30 Years of Drawings and Prints by Paul Croft RE TMP
School of Art Press, Aberystwyth University ISBN 978-1-899095-3- 8
2012 Developing Digital Tusche Washes for Photoplate Lithography,
IMPRINT, Print Council of Australia, Volume 47, No4. Summer 2012
2012 Developing Digital Tusche Washes for Photoplate Lithography, Printmaking Today, Volume 21, No.1 Spring 2012
2011 Globe TrottingDown Under Article about IMPACT07, Monash University, Melbourne, 2011
Printmaking Today, Volume 20, No.4 Winter 2011
2011 Hong Kong Print Festival Approaches the Watershed, Printmaking Today, Volume 20, No.1 Spring 2011
2010 Top Hole Lee Turner at Hole Editions, Printmaking Today, Volume 19, No.1 Spring 2010
2009 Welsh Time Gregynog Press ISBN 978-0-9549839-9-4 Suite of lithographs for Emyr Humphreys
2009 Integration over Interface: Printmaking in 2028 Grapheion 21, Issue 21,
Prague, Czech Republic ISSN 1211-6904
2008 Earth and Sky, Exhibition Catalogue and Cards
2007 STONE • PLATE • GREASE • WATER Exhibition Catalogue, UWA, ISBN 978-1-899095-25-4
2007 STONE • PLATE • GREASE • WATER Exhibition Website
2005 Aberystwyth Printmakers, Box Set of 32 Cards and Catalogue
2005 fforma Catalogue to accompany exhibition of fforma at Oriel Theatr Cymru, Mold
2003 Stone Lithography, Chinese Edition, JLM Fine Art Press, China ISBN 7-5386-1470-2-J-1177
2003 Stone Lithography, USA Edition, Watson-Guptill, ISBN 0-8230-4924-8
2003 fforma Catalogue to accompany exhibition of fforma at MOMA Wales
2003 Grease is the Word Extract from Stone Lithography, Printmaking Today , Volume 12 No3 Summer 2003
2003 Waterless in Wales, Article on Waterless Lithography, Printmaking Today, Volume 12 No1 Spring 2003
2003 Plate Lithography, A&C Black London, ISBN 0-7136-5797-9
2001 Stone Lithography, A&C Black London, ISBN 0-7136-5056-7
2000 From Tokyo to Tamarind, UWA Exhibition catalogue, ISBN 1-899095-15-2
1999 Water Based Waterless Lithography, Impact Conference 1999, UWE Bristol
1998 Celebrations of Lithography at Tamarind, Article reporting on Collective Impressions
Symposium at Tamarind Institute, Printmaking Today, Volume 7, No4 Winter 1998
1998 Using Aluminium Plates Article on the use of Ball Grained Aluminium Lithography Plates,
Printmaking Today, Volume 7, No2 Summer 1998
1997 How to Survive Tamarind Article on the Tamarind Master Printer Training Programme,
Printmaking Today, Volume 6, No3 Autumn 1997
1996 Developing Customised Wash palettes and Brush Tools Research Paper for Tamarind Institute
citations / reviews
2014 Mythscapes in The Watery Realm, Wales-Australia Print Exchange, School of Art Aberystwyth ISBN 978-1-899095-39-1
2014 Jie / Borders Hunan Fine Arts Publishing, ISBN 978-7-548704-72-0
2013 Shared Inheritance F.E.McWilliam Gallery and Studio, Banbridge, ISBN 978-1-908455-10-9
2013 Between Spaces Aberystwyth Art Centre ISBN 978-1-899095-34-6
2010 Critical Mass: Printmaking Beyond the Edge, Richard Noyce, A&C Black Ltd; ISBN 978-1-408-109-397
2009 Brave New Printmaking: Impress Festival Poses the Questions Article on IMPRESS 09
Printmaking Today,Volume 18, Issue 1, Spring 2009
2009 Printmaker's Secrets by Antony Dyson and Anne Desmet, A&C Black London ISBN 97807-13689112
2009 Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Processes by Bill Flick and Beth Grabowski
2008 Who's Who in Art 31st Edition, Hilmarton Manor Press
2007 Westward Ho for Collectors Printmaking Today Volume 16 No3 Autumn 2007 Pages 24-25
2007 International Lithography at Queens Review of SPGW at QUB, Belfast
2007 Printing in all its Glory Irish News September 15 2007, Review of SPGW at QUB, Belfast
2007 Stone, Plate, Grease, Water Bankside Newsletter October 2007
2007 Productive Antipathy Printmaking Today Volume 16 No2 Summer 2007 Page 21
2007 Prints of Wales CREFT Issue 119 May 2007 Arts Council of Wales, Pages 6-7
2005 Collecting Original Prints by Rosemary Simmons, A&C Black London, ISBN 97807-13668476
2004 Light in the Dark PLANET 163 The Welsh Internationalist, Review of fforma at MOMA Pages 121-126
2000 Tamarind Forty Years by Marjorie Devon, Pages 79, 101, 150, 90-91 181 UNM Press, ISBN 0826320732
awards
2021 Leverhulme Trust to enable research in to British Lithography
2021 HEFCW to enable publication of Collaboration in Practice: British Lithography 1800 - 2022
2013 SIP Strategic Insight Programme to develop links between Aberystwyth and Changsha
2011 UA Learned Society to aid travel to Melbourne to attend IMPACT 7
2006 AHRC for framing, catalogue and website STONE • PLATE • GREASE • WATER
2005 Arts Council of Wales for fforma catalogue and posters
2003 UWA Research Fund for fforma catalogue and exhibition
2001 UWA learned Society to aid travel to New Directions Print Workshop, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
1999 Royal Ulster Academy Prize for Contemporary Printmaking
1998 Arts Council of Ireland, Aer Lingus Art Flight Award travel to New York and Albuquerque
1998 Arts Council of Northern Ireland, exhibition costs, Gainsborough House Museum
1997 Arts Council of Northern Ireland, to support research into Aluminium Plate Lithography
1994 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, to support study at Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque
1994 Foundation for the Sports and The Arts, to support study at Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque
1992 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, award to aid travel to Japan
contact details
Paul Croft • Lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking • Aberystwyth School of Art • Aberystwyth University • Buarth Mawr • Aberystwyth • Ceredigion • Wales • SY23 1NG • Telephone: +44 (0)1970 622460 • Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461 • Email: puc@aber.ac.uk