STUDIO HISTORY
Kip Gresham’s Studios & Collaborations
Left to right: Peter Griffin, Elisabeth Frink, Ellen Lanyon, Patrick Procktor, Michael Rothenstein
1975
Kip set up the Manchester Print Workshop with fellow printmaker Steve Currie. It moved over the Irwell to The University of Salford and grew to include the lithographer Alan Whitehead, photographer Charles Meecham, etcher Stephen Baraclough and screen printers Richard Riley and Mick Robinson.
1982
Kip left Manchester for Cambridge and set up The Chilford Hall Press, a partnership with the business entrepreneur Sam Alper. The studio made its mark immediately with many subtle works for artists including Terry Frost and Philip Sutton, David Kindersley’s ‘Twelve Alphabetik Images’, and a remarkable group of large prints for Elisabeth Frink.
1989
The lease on the Curwen Studio’s Tottenham Court Road premises expired and the studio, with Stanley Jones, moved to join Kip in Cambridge. The amalgamation became Curwen Chilford Prints Ltd., working with artists including Eduardo Paolozzi, John Hoyland, Gillian Ayers, Michael Rothenstein, Josef Herman, Kim Lim, Patrick Procktor, Carel Weight, Prunella Clough, Paul Wunderlich, Wilhelmina Barns Graham and Albert Irvin.
1994
Kip left Curwen Chilford and set up Gresham Studio at Duxford, working with numerous artists including Alan Davie, John Bellany, Barry Flanagan, John Hoyland, Albert Irvin, Kim Lim, Richard Long, John McLean, David Mach, Eduardo Paolozzi, William Turnbull, Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfied, Prunella Clough, Susan Hiller, Matthew Hilton, Joseph Kosuth, Claes Oldenburg, Cornelia Parker, Alison Watt, Paul Wunderlich, Ellen Lanyon, Betye Saar, Yvonne Jacquette, Sue Coe, Elizabeth Blackadder, Paul Rego, Kiki Smith, Sandra Blow, Stephen Buckley, Jane Dickson, Anthony Frost, Antony Gormley, Anthony Green, Patrick Procktor, Peter Griffin, Bryan Pearce, Alfred Cohen, Matthew Hilton and Trevor Sutton.
2002
A new era of Kip’s career began as The Print Studio, Cambridge was born. By the end of the decade, relationships were built with further artists, a number of them Royal Academicians including Stephen Chambers, Mali Morris, Nigel Hall, Peter Randall-Page, Anthony Green, Alison Wilding and John Carter.
2020
Following a celebration of Kip’s career to date in special exhibition The Art of Collaboration the previous year, The Print Studio introduces Kip Gresham Editions as a new platform, acknowledging Kip's position as an internationally renowned figure in the world of contemporary printmaking.
