TALK: Lithography in Britain Today with Simon Burder

TALK: Lithography in Britain Today with Simon Burder

Sun 19th March | 3pm | Free, but booking required.

Part of the Paper Ink Print Festival 2023

Lithography was invented in Bavaria in the final years of the 18th century and quickly spread to other European countries. By the beginning of the 19th century it was established in London and was beginning to find an appeal for artists. While it has remained one of the main forms of commercial printing ever since, it has always gone in and out of favour as an artist’s printmaking medium. Lithography, and especially the original technique using stones, seems to be enjoying a revival in Britain at the moment. This talk takes a look at why this is, where it happening and who are some of its current exponents, and reflects on the future of printing in the new stone age.

Simon Burder works primarily from the landscape using the printmaking technique of stone lithography.Attracted to locations that are marked by human activity, his drawings often evolve = into panoramic or multi-perspective prints that explore themes of journeying. He studied Fine Art at Exeter College of Art and lithography at the École des
Beaux Arts in Paris.  He runs Oaks Editions Lithography Studio at Oaks Park near Sutton, offering courses and collaborative opportunities in lithography for artists. In 2021 he
started the co-operative studio group Oaks Park Printmakers, which has facilities for relief and intaglio printmaking. His lithographs have been shown in many exhibitions, most recently in Collaboration in Practice: British Lithography 1800-2022 at Aberystwyth University School of Art Gallery; other exhibitions include Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2020, and Oaks
Editions Lithography Studio: twenty years of artists making prints from stone, Riverside Gallery, Richmond.