Studio Prints: An Artists’ Workshop

From Courtauld Gallery

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,...