"IMPACT stands for ‘International Multi-disciplinary Printmaking, Artists, Concepts and Techniques’. Over the past two decades IMPACT has evolved as Europe’s leading academic discourse on printmaking. Printmaking is now integral to the wider academic debate, through practice, theory, visual culture, and is studied across a range of programmes, from undergraduate to PhD around the world."
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​During this time, Impact has made a long and successful journey around the world:
IMPACT 1: Bristol, England, UK. (1999)
IMPACT 2: Helsinki, Finland. (2001)
IMPACT 3: Cape Town, South Africa. (2003)
IMPACT 4: Poznan – Berlin. Poland - Germany. (2005)
IMPACT 5: Tallinn, Estonia. (2007)
IMPACT 6: Bristol, England, UK. (2009)
IMPACT 7: Melbourne, Australia. (2011)
IMPACT 8: Dundee, Scotland. UK. (2013)
IMPACT 9: Hangzhou, China. (2015)
IMPACT 10: Santander, Spain. (2018)
IMPACT 12: Bristol, UK. (2022)