This richly illustrated volume explores the pivotal role of Studio Prints, London, in the resurgence of printmaking during the 1970s and 1980s. Studio Prints, London: An Artists’ Workshop is first published to support the exhibition of the same name at the Courtauld Gallery (6 June–13 September 2026).
This richly illustrated volume explores the pivotal role of Studio Prints, London, in the resurgence of printmaking during the 1970s and 1980s. Studio Prints, London: An Artists’ Workshop is first published to support the exhibition of the same name at the Courtauld Gallery (6 June–13 September 2026).
Following the recent acquisition of a group of proof impressions by these celebrated London-based artists. Studio Prints, London: An Artists’ Workshop focuses on the two British artists who established it as one of the leading workshops for modern printmaking, Dorothea Wight and Marc Balakjian.
Dorothea Wight (1944– 2013) founded Studio Prints in Kentish Town, London, in 1968. Marc Balakjian (1940– 2017), an artist and printmaker of Armenian origins, joined it in 1974. They married in 1977 and for over forty years pursued their own artistic careers while also pulling prints for other artists. Thanks to their exceptional skills as master printmakers and to the sensibility with which they interpreted other artists’ ideas and intentions, Dorothea and Marc emerged as leading printers for prominent artists like Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Paula Rego, Celia Paul, Kitaj, Stephen Conroy, Ken Kiff and many others, establishing close friendships and mutual relationships of trust and esteem.
The book provides insights into a thriving and pioneering season of artistic production in London and reveal a relatively unrecognised but hugely influential hub of artistic production.
Contributions by Dr Elena Crippa, Senior Curator of Contemporary Arts at the Courtauld; Dr Ketty Gottardo, Martin Halusa Senior Curator of Drawing; and Dr Rachel Sloan, Assistant Curator of Works on Paper.
Studio Prints, London: An Artists' Workshop
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