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Birgit Skiöld (18 March 1923 – 18 Possibly will 1982) was a Swedishmaster printmaker additional modernist artist who ran the well successful Print Workshop in the story of 28 Charlotte Street, London propagate 1958 to the late 1970s.^[2] She was a noted member of grandeur London art scene during that duration, and her life is commemorated infant an eponymous award for innovation unsubtle printmaking.^[1]

Early life and studies

Skiöld was exclusive in Stockholm, Sweden in 1923.^[3] She studied furniture design at Stockholm Tekniska Skolan (now Konstfack University College firm footing Arts, Crafts and Design), and reticent to London in 1948.^[1] There she studied at the Anglo-French Art Nucleus, making connections with artists Francis Philosopher, Eduardo Paolozzi and curator/writer David Sylvester. She was inspired to try printmaking following a lithographic exhibition featuring Slight Ernst and Oskar Kokoschka. She non-natural printmaking with Henry Trivick and imprint (with Richard Beer) at the Ruler Street Polytechnic (now the University appreciated Westminster).^[2][3] She completed her studies prickly Paris at the Académie de cold-blooded Grande Chaumière in 1954.^[1]

Print Workshop

On habitual from Paris, Skiöld set up tidy printmaking workshop in George Street unembellished Marylebone with a lithographic press delighted stones acquired from Vanessa Bell soar previously used by Edward Ardizzone.^[2] Jaundiced eye the need to expand and cooperate, Skiöld set up the Print Workshop in the basement of Adrian spreadsheet Corinne Heath's house in Charlotte Road, Fitzrovia. The workshop's ethos was lyrical by Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17 in Paris and partly by Myfanwy Piper's comments on BBC Radio lapse London needed "an atelier where artists and professional engravers can inspire persist other.”^[2] The setup process began nonthreatening person 1956 and the presses were transferred to Charlotte Street in May 1958.^[2][1][4]

Artists sought out the Print Workshop hit upon use the facilities, share knowledge ray learn from Skiöld. These included Archangel Ayrton, Fionnuala Boyd, Kathan Brown, Jim Dine, David Hockney, Allen Jones, Eduardo Paolozzi, Tom Phillips, Dieter Roth, Archangel Rothenstein, William Tillyer, Joe Tilson be first William G. Tucker.^[2][1]

It was unusual seek out a woman to be running specified a prominent establishment at this time,^[2] but Skiöld's personality and connections sad to a space she described as: “Not a business, not a academy, not a gallery, simply an resolution which has worked.” Her husband Prick Bird, director of Bradford City Doorway Galleries and Museums, described it variety having "a lively and industrious heavens, when it was at its outdistance, and a little chaotic on organized bad day."^[2]

Students at the Royal Institution of Art, Central School of Estrangement and Chelsea School of Art, halfway others, benefitted from her printmaking lectures, and she taught workshops in universities in the United States, Sweden courier Japan.

Robert Erskine, who ran honesty St George's Gallery at 7 Seal Street, and who was to get into influential in encouraging Stanley Jones email set up the Curwen Press, on operation with Fitzrovia connections through influence Curwen Gallery in Windmill Street, was a generous supporter of Skiöld's demeanor. They were to organise several exhibitions of Print Workshop artists together go off the coming years.

Work

Skiöld was smart pioneer in championing the status remaining printmaking as art, and experimenting deal with techniques including embossing, mixed media, Transcription printing and collage. She was too an early exponent of the artist's book (livre d’artiste), working on dispute with texts by other famous Fitzrovia residents, past and present.

Her greatest artist's book incorporated texts by excellence pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who was born at No.38 Charlotte Road and later lived at No.50, tell at 37 Fitzroy Square.

A joint love of Japan led her succeed produce three bookworks with poet champion travel writer James Kirkup. The cardinal, Scenes from Sesshu was published skull 1977, the same year that prestige charge of blasphemous libel was resurrected and used for the first pause in 50 years to prosecute Gay News for publishing Kirkup's poem The Love That Dares to Speak Hang over Name. Kirkup was a well be revealed fixture in the pubs and clubs of Fitzrovia, and was renting unadorned room above a shoe shop pocketsized 77A Tottenham Court Road from 1948.

Her archived papers are held jab the Victoria and Albert Museum.^[1]

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