Dorothea Wight

Dorothea Wight (born in Devon England, 1944, died 2013, Muswell Hill, London) was a British print maker and artist. Wight is best known for founding the Studio Prints on Queen's Crescent, which printed copies of some of the most important contemporary British artists, including Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Ken Kiff, R. B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Celia Paul, Paula Rego, William Turnbull, Kim Lim and more than 100 other artists.[1] She married her collaborator in the workshop, Mark Balakhjian, in 1973.[2] The two would lead Studio Prints in introducing a number of techniques to British printmaking,[3][4] and the studio considered "at the forefront of British Printmaking for 40 years".[2]

She also did her own printing and painting, known for her mezzotints which have been exhibited in a number of galleries.[5] Her works are in the permanent collections of the V&A, the British Museum, the Bibliotheque National in Paris and the Warsaw Museum of Fine Art.[5]

Personal life

Wight was born in Devon. Her father, of scottish decent,[6] was a potter.[5] Wight also learned piano while a child, later in life relearning the skill for public performance.[5]

Wight attend Dartington College of Art from 1963 to 1964 and then studied painting at the Slade school of Fine Art from 1964 to 1968.[7]

Wight died of a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which she was diagnosed with in 2000, with her health deterioriting over the next 13 years.[5] Her health forced the closure of Print Studios in 2011.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Dorothea Wight | The Times". The Times. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  2. 1 2 "Dorothea Wight and Marc Balakjian at The New Art Gallery Walsall". ArtRabbit. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  3. ↑ "Dorothea Wight: Artist and pioneer of printmaking". The Independent. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  4. 1 2 Simmons, Rosemary (2013-06-10). "Dorothea Wight obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Dorothea Wight". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  6. ↑ "Dorothea Wight, Marc Balakjian & Studio Prints". Wall Street International. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  7. ↑ "Biography". www.dorotheawight.com. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
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