6 June – 13 September 2026
Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery
Discover the world of Dorothea Wight and Marc µþ²¹±ô²¹°ìÂá¾±²¹²Ô51²è¹Ý¶ù London Printmaking Studio.Ìý
This display of prints by artists including Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and Paula Rego celebrates the little-known story of the lively printmaking workshop established in London in 1968 by Dorothea Wight (1944-2013), who was later joined in 1974 by her future husband Marc Balakjian (1938-2017).
Funded by Wight after she left the Slade School of Art, what had started as a small enterprise in a basement in north London soon became a dynamic meeting place for artists, establishing Studio Prints as a legendary London printmaking workshop.
Coinciding with a resurgence of interest in printmaking in the 1960s and 1970s, Wight and Balakjian collaborated with artists such as Auerbach, Freud, Leon Kossoff, Rego, and Celia Paul, some of whom became close friends.
This display marks the recent acquisition of a group ofÌýproof impressionsÌýby these celebrated London-based artists,ÌýallocatedÌýto The CourtauldÌýby HM Government under the Cultural Gifts Scheme.Ìý
The programme of displays in the Drawings Gallery is generously supported by the International Music and Art Foundation, with additional support from James Bartos.
This display is included in the Permanent Collection or Permanent Collection + Exhibition ticket.Ìý
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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.
