PUBLICATIONS​

 

Intaglio: acrylic-resist etching, collagraphy, engraving, drypoint, mezzotint - the complete safety-first system for creative printmaking

Published in 2009 (reprint), 2008 (paperback), 2007, by Thames & Hudson, London and by Thames & Hudson Inc., New York, (ISBN-10: 0-500-51343-0, ISBN-13: 978-0-500-51343-9, 2007), 25.5 x 22.5 cm, 238 pages, 229 colour illustrations. This comprehensive book was co-written with Robert Adam and is marketed worldwide. Reviewed Printmaking Today.

 

Screenprinting: the complete water-based system

Published in 2004, 2003 by Thames & Hudson, London and by Thames & Hudson Inc., New York. Paperback edition ISBN 0-500-28425-3, Hardback, ISBN 0-500-51115-2, 2003), 25.5 x 22.5 cm, 208 pages, 265 illustrations, 228 in colour. This comprehensive book was co-written with Robert Adam and is marketed worldwide. Widely reviewed, including Printmaking Today, Artists and Illustrators Magazine, Screen Process & Digital Imaging, The Midwest Book Review, Oregon, US, and Goliath (School Arts), worldwide information provider.

 

Artists’ Fact Sheets in English, German, French and Dutch.

Published by Lascaux Colours & Restauro, Zurich, Switzerland. Educational support material for artists  learning to work with acrylic-resist etching, acrylic collagraphy, tusches for light-sensitive printmaking methods, and water-based screenprinting.

 

​​The Art of Healing, an invited article for The Healing Pool, other authors include Dr Richard Bandler and Eric Robbie. ​

 

MASTERCLASSES AND LECTURES (Selected)

 

Printmaking: Etching, Collagraphy, Screenprinting, Carol Robertson, Pittenweem Art Festival.

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Watermill Gallery, Aberfeldy

Tusches, positives and light-sensitive printmaking methods, workshops in Holland and Belgium.

Screenprinting with artists' materials, workshops in Holland and Belgium.

Parallels and Connections - A ceramics and glass research student conference 2009, conference presentation at the University of Sunderland.

Magical Journeys, public lecture at University of St Andrews

Gateway Gallery Painters and Printmakers: Creative Partnerships in 20th-Century British Printmaking

W Barns-Graham, conference lecture at School of Art History, University of St Andrews

Acrylic-resist etching & tradition, a series of workshops, Amsterdam, Holland.

Autographic Positives; Screenprinting with artists paints; Collagraphy using acrylics; Acrylic-resist etching; A series of Master classes at Dunfermline Print Workshop,Dunfermline (Scotland).

Series of workshops in acrylic resist etching, collagraphy and creating positives, Fondation Lascaux (Switzerland).

Making Positives; Screenprinting; Collagraphy; Acrylic-resist etching; Kunsthaus (Switzerland)

Resident Master Printmaker, Centrum Frans Masereel (Belgium).

A series of workshops in etching, screenprinting and creating positives for printmaking, Dundee Contemporary Arts (Dundee).

Master Printmaker, Printmaking Fellowship Programme at Northern Print Studio (Gateshead)

Printmaking, creativity workshops, Graal (Edinburgh),

Cockburn Association (Edinburgh), lecture.

 

MENTORING

 

Mentor in 2005 for Total Kunst artist Mary Trodden on behalf of Millennium Award (administered by the RIAS) to assist in conceiving, planning, and bringing to completion a project to publicize the Total Kunst group.

 

INNOVATIONS AND COLLABORATIONS WITH BUSINESS

 

Conceiving, inventing and running trials for new materials and working methods for etching, collagraphy, screenprinting and light-sensitive printmaking processes. Collaborating with Lascaux Colours & Restauro, Zurich, Switzerland from 1998 to develop, manufacture and market a complete range of modern water-based printmaking materials. This research project has resulted in 18 products which have now been launched and are available worldwide. In brief the products include:

 

Lascaux Acrylic Resists

A set of six innovative acid-resistant materials and two coloured coatings. These materials have been designed to provide all the marks associated with traditional materials as well as relating closely to classical working methods. The water-soluble resists are easily applied with artist's brushes and tools and can be cleaned with soapy water. They are compatible with each other and with dry film photoresists.

 

Lascaux Lift Solution

A versatile fast drying replacement for sugar lift which can be used in conjunction with aquatint spray resist for etching or with spray tusche for making positives.

 

Lascaux Screen Filler and Screen Painting Fluid

​These water-soluble materials are used for painting on the mesh to create or alter stencils. They have excellent handling qualities and are suitable for professional or access-level use. Lascaux Remover A solution for removing dried resists, filler and tusches.Lascaux

 

Tusches

An innovative and unique set of six water-soluble painting materials specially designed for creating or altering positives for light-sensitive printmaking processes (e.g. photo-etching, screenprinting, photocollagraphy). The tusches offer a wide variety of mark-making possibilities, including delicate drawings, painted marks, lithographic-type washes, sugar-lift effects, soft-ground effects, airbrushed marks, and application by roller.

 

COLLABORATIONS AND PUBLISHING PROJECTS WITH ARTISTS

 

Victoria Crowe OBE RSA: editions of handmade books, folios and original prints The media used include intaglio, screenprinting and relief prints involving further research into acrylic-resist etching, screenprinting and etching in combination, archival quality chine collé methods, dry film photoresists used in etching and collagraphy, digital output, screenprinting with Acryl paint using the Sirius colour concept​

 

2009

Kate Downie RSA: editions of etchings (commissioned by the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh) and screenprints using dry pigments, glossy printing mixtures and watercolour printing mixtures. Acrylic resist etchings, aquatints and line. Collagraphy techniques used in combination with etching.

 

2009-1998

Barbara Rae CBE RA DLitt: editions of screenprints. These projects involve researching the use of tusches and specialist methods of screenprinting with gouache, Kremer organic pastes, Golden interference paints and other artist's materials.

 

2008 - 1998

W. Barns-Graham CBE HRSA DLitt: a substantial body of work including screenprint and etching collaborations and editions representing the artist's major output during the last six years of her life. Posthumous editioning completed 2008. The relationship is documented in detail in a monograph by Ann Gunn (see documentation).

 

2007-2003 Scott Myles: acrylic-resist etching and screenprint.Romeo Alaeff (US): project planning consultant.

Barbara Diethelm (Switzerland): screenprinting editions involving research into methods of screenprinting with specialist nacreous materials such as natural pearl and guanine, a protein crystal. Etching projects concerning soft resist, lift solution and aquatint.

Margaret Hunter (Germany): project involving research into combination printing using acrylic-resist etching intaglio plates; artist's materials, screenprinting and collagraph intaglio plates, resulting in screenprint, etching and combination editions.

Werner Schmidt (Germany, Switzerland) and John Berger (France): acrylic-resist etching project incorporating text and installation.

 

COLLECTIONS: COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE (selected)

 

Works made in collaboration with artists are in many public, corporate and private collections worldwide, including the Tate, Museum of Scotland; the Government Art Collection (The Prime Minister’s office 2007-10 period); HM The Queen; City of Glasgow Collection; City of Edinburgh Collection;  New Hall, Cambridge; Royal College of Art, London; University of Edinburgh; University of Exeter; Moray House College; Scottish Office; Scottish Provident; Standard Life; Ernst & Young CA, University of Aberdeen, The Tate Gallery, London.

 

EXHIBITIONS: COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE  (selected) 

 

Works have been exhibited internationally and nationally, including; Royal Scottish Academy; Smart Art, Seattle, USA + tour; Edinburgh; Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; Gallery Galtung, Oslo; Royal Academy, London; Crawford Gallery, St Andrew, Scotland; Susi Landolf, Switzerland; McGeary Gallery, Brussels; Graphics Studio Workshop, Dublin; Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow; Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, Edinburgh; Penwith Galleries, St Ives; Odapark, Netherlands; Stephen Lacey Gallery, London; Universität der Künste, Berlin; Tate St Ives, St Ives; Art First, London; Art First, New York, US; Kunsthalle, Zurich; Fondation Lascaux, Zurich; Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, US; David Krut Fine Art, New York, US.

 

DOCUMENTATION: COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE (selected)

 

Scottish Contemporary, with International appeal, New York Times, Art Review. April, 2009.

Five Scottish print studios exhibit artwork at CCP, Norwalkplus.com.

International Printmakers, Inkteraction, Events, online networking, http://inkteraction.ning.com.

Five Scottish Print Studios, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, America.

A different way of working: The screenprints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Anne Gunn, National Galleries of Scotland.

Barbara Rae: Prints, Gareth Wardell et al, Lund Humphries, London.

The Sublime Art of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: The Last Two Decades, Nedira Yakir, lecture at University College Falmouth.

The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: A Complete Catalogue, Ann V Gunn, Lund Humphries, London (ISBN-10:0853319693) Intaglio: acrylic-resist etching, collagraphy, engraving, drypoint,mezzotint - the complete safety-first system for creative printmaking published by Thames & Hudson, London (ISBN-10: 0-500-51343-0) and Thames & Hudson Inc., New York (ISBN-13: 978-0-500-51343-9)

Barbara Rae: Portrait of an Artist, Aberdeen Magazine (University alumni magazine) Royal Academy Illustrated  (ISBN 1-903973): Broadhaven, full-page colour illustration of Barbara Rae screenprint made in collaboration with Carol Robertson at Graal Press, 2004

Screenprinting: the complete water-based system, paperback published by Thames & Hudson, London and Thames & Hudson Inc, New York, ISBN-10: 0-500-28425-3, ISBN-13: 978-0500284254.

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 1912-2004 - A tribute: Recent Paintings and Prints, Art First (ISBN 1-901993-43-4)

Royal Scottish Academy Catalogue: colour illustration of Barbara Rae screenprint made in collaboration with Carol Robertson at Graal Press (ISDN 01592646166)

Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN): collaboration with Napier University, Edinburgh - involved in planning, scripting and participating in an educational film as part of a team working for Scran (www.scran.ac.uk) to create interactive educational online website which illustrates the work of Barbara Rae and the development of a visual idea through the medium of screenprinting.

Barbara Rae: Ten Years of Printmaking, North House Gallery, Essex

Women's Art at New Hall 3rd edition (ISBN 0-9507108-4-9) full-page colour illustration and text entry relating to W. Barns-Graham screenprint Another Time made in collaboration with Carol Robertson at Graal Press.

Screenprinting: the complete water-based system, Hardback published by Thames & Hudson, London and Thames & Hudson Inc, New York (ISBN 0-500-28425-3), 2001 W. Barns-Graham: a studio life, Lynne Green, Lund Humphries, London (ISBN 0-85531-828-X)

 

EXHIBITIONS INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE (selected)

 

2009

Five Scottish Print Studios, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, America.

2008 Swans: lovers, myths and stars, Dundee Contemporary Arts (solo exhibition)

2007 Exhibiting finalist for Sovereign European Art Prize for painting 2005 Preston Street, a short animated film, screened at Edinburgh Filmhouse and Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh Our Neighbourhood, a short animated film, screened at Edinburgh Filmhouse and Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh.

Selected group exhibitions of prints, paintings and installations

Numerous group exhibitions including New York Art Fair, US; CCA Galleries, London; Art in the City, City Art Centre, Edinburgh; Book of Ours, Smart Art, Seattle, USA + tour; Carol Robertson and Pippa Smith, The New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey; Connections, Festival Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy; Belgrade Edinburgh: Edinburgh Belgrade, Galerija Graficki Kolektiv, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Islands installation piece, Edinburgh Printmakers; Underwired - A Day in the Life of - (photography folio), Edinburgh Festival Exhibition; Scottish and Irish Prints, East West Gallery, London; Partners in Print, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Susan Norrie and Carol Robertson, Edinburgh Printmakers; Printmakers Council & Whatman Paper National Print Competition, Royal Festival Hall, London; Sex, Young Unknowns Gallery, London.Collections (selected)

Works held in many public, corporate and private collections including HM The Queen; City of Glasgow Collection; City of Edinburgh Collection (Lord Provost's office); University of Edinburgh; Moray House College; Scottish Office; Crown Office; Scottish Provident; Edinburgh Fund Managers; Ernst & Young CA; Standard Life; Playhouse Theatre; Fondation Lascaux, Switzerland; Paintings in Hospitals Scotland; John Purcell Paper, London; Leeds Education Authority

Documentation (selected)

Five Scottish Print Studios New York Times, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, America, 2009.

Five Scottish Print Studios, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, America, 2009.

Intaglio: acrylic-resist etching, collagraphy, engraving, drypoint,mezzotint - the complete safety-first system for creative printmaking, paperback published by Thames & Hudson, London (ISBN-10: 0-500-28661-2) and Thames & Hudson Inc., New York (ISBN-13: 978-0-500-28661-6).

Intaglio: acrylic-resist etching, collagraphy, engraving, drypoint,mezzotint - the complete safety-first system for creative printmaking hardback published by Thames & Hudson, London (ISBN-10: 0-500-51343-0) and Thames & Hudson Inc., New York (ISBN-13: 978-0-500-51343-9). Day of the Open Door, Kupferdruck Werkstatt, Mathias Gentinetta, Zurich, Switzerland Goliath (School Arts), US: book review ARE - The New Order, US Printmakingblog, printmakers.blogspot.com Books matter, US: book review Screenprinting: the complete water-based system, paperback published by Thames & Hudson, London and Thames & Hudson Inc., New York (ISBN 0-500-28425-3)IMPACT, Magazine for the Print Council of Australia, Melbourne: book review, TOTAL KUNST, Total Kunst artists' group publication Screen Process & Digital Imaging (ISSN 0953-3338): serialised excerpts from Screenprinting: the complete water-based system Screen Process & Digital Imaging: book review Printmaking Today, London: book review The Midwest Book Review, Oregon, WI, USA: book review Artists and Illustrators: book review Screenprinting: the complete water-based system, hardback published by Thames & Hudson, London and Thames & Hudson Inc., New York (ISBN 0-500-51115-2).