Gardner presents paper at IMPACT13 in Quebec

Joscelyn Gardner presented a paper on her ongoing print folio project at the IMPACT13 international printmaking conference that was held at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières from October 9-12, 2025. IMPACT, which stands for International Multi-disciplinary Printmaking, Artists, Concepts and Techniques, is a conference series which was started in the UK in 1999 and was held for the first time in the Americas this year. The theme of the current conference was Ink’s transcendence: A tale beyond boundaries. Gardner's presentation was titled Am I a bad girl, Nanny? Memory and Care in a Folio of Letters from the ghost of a nineteenth-century white Creole child. The paper discussed Gardner's research for her project which is based on a c.1858 ambrotype portraying a Black Barbadian nurse with her white infant charge asleep on her lap. The folio is composed of 24 image and text panels (stone / plate hand-embellished lithographs) and 12 interleaf panels. Created in collaboration with Tamarind Master Printer, Jill Graham, the project will be displayed in a solo exhibition at the Barbados Museum from February to September, 2026.