Chris Orr RA at Ochre, June 2009

Barbara Rae RA at Ochre, June 2010
 

Artist Talks 2012

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Chis Pig

Friday 27th January 7pm
"I've been printmaking almost ever since I can remember; I made my first etching plate when I was about fourteen or fifteen and little else has interested me ever since. Since childhood as well, I have been interested in representing the world around me; specifically narrative situations that sum up the human condition. My work vacillates between these narrative images and those that are devoid of narrative and concerned with aesthetics."

Morgan Doyle

Thursday 15th March 7pm
Morgan Doyle is an Irish artist working in London. He studied both in Ireland and the UK and has shown extensively both here and internationally. He is an associate fellow of the RE and his work is held in many major collections including the Courauld. He is a passionate, dedicated artist working chiefly in printmaking.

Brenda Hartill RE

Thursday 3rd May 7pm
British painter, collage artist and printmaker. Her work explores the texture, pattern and light of the landscape, and ranges from finely drawn figurative works to bold, heavily embossed abstract images. Brenda has a background in theatre design but turned to printmaking in the 1980's and has successfully published her work since. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers showing regularly at the Bankside Gallery, London, shown at the Roayal Academy and her work is in many collections nationwide.

Norman Ackroyd RA

Saturday 16th June
Norman Ackroyd was elected to the Royal Academy of Art in 1988 and appointed Professor of Etching, University of the Arts, in 1994. He was elected Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art in 2000, and in 2007 was made CBE for services to Engraving and Printing. His works range from minimalist, nearly abstract impressions, to richly detailed images of specific places and seasons from tiny etchings intended to be bound into books to large scale, even huge, etchings. Ackroyd has also designed a number of large-scale, etched reliefs in steel or bronze commissioned for architectural projects in London, Moscow, Birmingham, and Glasgow. Recently completed projects include a mural at the Sainsbury Laboratory at Cambridge University, showing scenes from the Galapagos, and a door at Great Portland Estates in London, W1.

Peter Freeth RA

Saturday 22nd September (Time TBA)
Peter Freeth studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London from 1956 to 1960. In 1960 he won the Prix de Rome in Engraving, taking him to Rome where he lived for three years, traveling extensively throughout Italy. He has been a tutor in etching at the Royal Academy Schools since 1966. Freeth has exhibited widely in mixed exhibitions in the UK, the US, Italy, Japan, India and Russia. He was elected a Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and Royal Academician in 1991 (ARA 1990). Peter Freeth lives and works in London and Italy.

Mike Taylor

Paupers Press Hoxton
October 2012
The Paupers Press is a fine art print and publishing studio that works with many leading contemporary artists, publishers and galleries. The studio, based in Hoxton, London, was opened in 1986. Using hand drawn, photographic and digital material, artists can explore their work within all that etching, lithography and relief printing can offer. Mike has worked with an impressive list of artists including Damien Hirst, Grayson Perry, Jake & Dinos Chapman and Chris Ofili to name a few.