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Studio Prints, London: An Artists’ Workshop
This richly illustrated volume explores the pivotal role of Studio Prints, London, in the resurgence of printmaking during the 1970s and 1980s, focusing 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.
 
Using previously unpublished archival records and a substantial corpus of works by the above-mentioned artists, a group of distinguished contributors to the book provide insights on a thriving and pioneering season of artistic production in London and reveal a relatively un-recongnised but hugely influential hub of artistic production.

Studio Prints, London: An Artists’ Workshop

£30.00Price

  • Elena Crippa, Ketty Gottardo and Guido Rebecchini

    Edited by Elena Crippa, Ketty Gottardo and Guido Rebecchini
    Contributions from Elena Crippa, Andrew Dempsey, Ketty Gottardo, Guido Rebecchini, Rachel Sloan and Toby Treves

    June 2026
    ISBN: 978-1-917976-10-7
    Paperback, 260 x 216 mm
    112 pages, 100 illustrations
    £30 / €35 / $40

  • Exhibition

    Published on the occasion of a display at The Courtauld Gallery, London – 6 June–13 September 2026 – marking the recent acquisition of a group of proof impressions made at Studio Prints

  • About the authors

    Dr Elena Crippa is Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Courtauld Gallery. She has curated exhibitions on artists associated with the ‘School of London’, including at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2016), and Tate Britain, London (2018), and the retrospective exhibition Paula Rego, Tate Britain (2021).

     

    Andrew Dempsey was researcher for Leon Kossoff Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings  (Modern Art Press 2021), compiler of the volume of Kossoff Drawings from the plan chest (Web of Stories 2016) and is currently working on a complete catalogue of Kossoff’s prints to be published by Modern Art Press. 

    Dr Ketty Gottardo is Martin Halusa Senior Curator of Drawings at the Courtauld Gallery. She oversees the gallery’s collection of works on paper and has recently curated exhibitions of the drawings of Henry Moore (2024), Henri Michaux and Louise Bourgeois (both 2025).

     

    Prof. Guido Rebecchini is Professor in Renaissance and Early Modern Art at the Courtauld Institute. He is the recipient of the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship for the academic year 2025–26.

     

    Dr Rachel Sloan is Assistant Curator of Works on Paper at the Courtauld Gallery. Her most recent curatorial projects include Helen Saunders: Modernist Rebel (2022) and A View of One’s Own: Landscapes by British women artists, 1760–1860 (2026).

     

    Toby Treves is the author Lucian Freud : catalogue raisonné of the prints and co-author of Lucian Freud: catalogue raisonné of the oil paintings. 

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