Susanne Klein

Susanne Klein is a printmaker and a fellow of the Institute of Physics. In 1995 she became a Royal Society Fellow at the University of Bristol where she worked on 19th century optics. From 1998 until 2017 she was employed at Hewlett Packard Labs and specialised in liquid crystal display technology and new materials for 3D printing. From 2018 until 2024 she was an EPSRC Manufacturing Fellow at the Centre for Print Research with the task to resurrect forgotten photomechanical printing methods of the 19th century which gave her the tools for her artistic practice. Now she is the owner of Brimstree Studio in Stroud, UK. Her research centres around the re-invention of Woodbury gravure and RGB photography. In her artistic practice, she explores the topics of memory and dreams, including the memory of colour and its appearance in dreams. She exhibits nationally and internationally and has been curating the printmakers’ exhibition at the University of the West of England for the last 6 years. She speaks regularly at international conferences. The latest conference was Helsinki Photomedia 2024. Together with Carinna Parraman she has published the book Printing Technologies and applications: A Multidisciplinary Roadmap in the IoP expanding physics series.