How Things Work… or Don’t

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Kip Gresham was born in London, and studied at Cambridge. He studied printmaking at Newcastle University from 1969-73, and at Manchester Polytechnic from 1973-4. He subsequently taught printmaking at Manchester and Rochdale Colleges of Art. In 1975 he helped to found the Manchester Print Workshop, where he was co-director until 1982. In that year he moved back to Cambridge, and founded the Chilford Hall Press with Sam Alper, which had a focus on collaborative screenprinting methods and facilities. In 1989 it merged with Curwen Press to become Curwen Chilford Prints, combining screenprinting and lithography. He was the owner of The Print Studio, Cambridge, where he produced and published artists’ original prints. He exhibited widely, including at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.

Places

Subjects

photograph (as Subject), abstract, text-based work, woman

Materials & Techniques

screenprint

Artist

Kip Gresham (1951 - 2024)

Title

How Things Work… or Don’t

Edition

3/20

Date

1973

Medium

Screenprint

Dimensions

height: 83.80 cm, width: 59.20 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the artist, August 1977

Inscription

bl: OR DON'T 3/20 br: Kip Gresham 1973

GAC number

13415