| London | christine@hirschwilton.com |
Collaborations
| 2024 | ‘Our House is on Fire’ Climate Change Response Collaboration, An International Printmaking Project, July – Dec, London, Pakistan, Sir Lanka, Initiated by artist Nilofar Akmut, Michelle Avison, Programme Area Manager at Morley College and director at HAUSPRINT. Project started in the National College of Art Lahore, Pakistan, students there made prints in response to the brief. In London, members and artists of HAUSPRINT responded to the brief. My prints utilise re-cycled materials to make prints with low carbon footprint by using materials that otherwise would have been discarded. They have embossed printed surfaces where there is no ink has been used at all, these reference absence or a void. My prints are informed by observations of my London Garden, it’s fragility and unseen beauty, linking to a more global forgotten connection with Nature. | |
| 2023 | Project Babel, An international Collaboration Project, Dec – Jan, Galleria Ratamo, Jyvaskyla, Finland, 329 Printmakers, 40 Printmaking Studios, 19 Countries, ‘Segment Code K09’: Dry Point, Collagraphs (acrylic, card, cork and wax) 8 plates, Addition of 18, size: 13 cm x 17 cm, Galleria Ratamo, Jyvaskyla, Finland | |
| 2022 | Recycled Archaeology Artist Collaboration, March-July, ‘Homage to the Nails that Bind Us’: Monotype Prints, 2 colour, oil and water based printing inks, homemade Natural inks using the Recycled Archaeology materials, Addition of 8, invited by Marley Treloar (current PHD) and Dr. Helen Wickstead, founder of Recycle Archaeology, which saves archaeological artefacts that can’t find a permanent home in museums and would otherwise go to landfill. I was given artefacts from a Putney Bridge dig, 1979. The objects are slag, a by-product in the iron ore process, when making these nails discarded into the river. Some date back to medieval times. Home print studio, London, UK | |
| 2022 | Print Day In May Online Print Collaboration, ‘Aphrodite’: Relief Prints, 4 colour plates. 18 in total printed; Live 24 hour international print day, Participating in an International Print Day in May, established by Robynn Smith and the MPC Printmakers, Monterey Bay Area of California, Live all day in Home print studio, London, UK | |
| 2021 | Print Day In May Online Print Collaboration, ‘London Garden-2020’: Monotype prints; Live 24 hour international print day, Participating in an International Print Day in May, established by Robynn Smith and the MPC Printmakers, Monterey Bay Area of California, Live all day in Home print studio, London, UK | |
| 1997 | Print Collaboration Addition Exchange, ‘Cityscapes’, June Intaglio skyline lines etchings and embossed plates, addition of 24, Participants from SFSU Print Studio and New York Printmaking MFA Programme, San Francisco State University, California, USA | |
| 1993 | Graduate Collaboration Sculpture Exhibition, May, ‘Networks’, BFA Invited participants mailed box of materials, various artists across the country, My piece; created a torn sharp edged Book structure, Syracuse University Fine Art Gallery, Syracuse, New York, USA |
Solo Exhibitions
| 1992 | Solo Exhibition, BFA Thesis Exhibition, May, Intaglio printed wall pieces created from two zinc plates. Inked as unique drawings. Series illustrates the motion of nature and it’s constant struggle between negative and positive life cycles. Images inspired by magnified rock textures, Kent State University Fine Art Lower Level Gallery, Kent State University, Ohio, USA |
Group Exhibitions
| 2024 | Waterloo Festival, St Johns Church Waterloo, London, July 2024, Printmaking Exhibition; ‘Our House is on Fire’ Climate Change Brief, re-thinking printmaking processes using recycled materials, engaging with the desire to make prints with a low carbon footprint. | |
| 2023 | Project Babel, An international Collaboration Project, Dec – Jan, Galleria Ratamo, Jyvaskyla, Finland, 329 Printmakers, 40 Printmaking Studios, 19 Countries, ‘Segment Code K09’: Dry Point, Collagraphs (acrylic, card, cork and wax) 8 plates, Addition of 18, size: 13 cm x 17 cm, Galleria Ratamo, Jyvaskyla, Finland | |
| 2023 | Annual Winter Print Sale Exhibition, December, ‘Avocado Plant Florida’: Relief prints, water based ink, Arches 300gms, Slaughterhaus Print Studio, London, UK | |
| 2023 | Annual Open Studio Exhibition, October, ‘London Bridge’s and Large A1 London Garden Series’: Dry Point Intaglio and Monotype Prints; (2 of 3 framed), Slaughterhaus Print Studio, London, UK | |
| 2023 | Huddle Public Art Exhibition, July, ‘Bridge’ and ‘Figurative’ Series: Dry Point Intaglio and Monotype prints; (15 Framed pieces), 3 Shortlands, Hammersmith, London, UK | |
| 2023 | Project Babel London Private View, May, Exhibition May-June, ‘Segment Code K09’: Dry Point, Collagraphs (card, cork and wax) 8 plates,13 cm x 17 cm, PROJECT BABEL Set up by Ratamo Print Centre in Finland. Each artist received a small section of Bruegel’s ‘Babel’ to make a response to; Project Babel’s goal is to create collaborative artwork made with different printmaking methods. The artwork will be based on the painting the Great Tower of Babel (1563) by the well-known Dutch painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. This Private London Preview (May 2023) also includes prints from Oxford Printmakers Co-op, Slaughterhaus Print Studio, London, UK | |
| 2022 | Annual Open Studio Exhibition, October, ‘Putney Bridge’: Intaglio Collagraph printed, Hand coloured using Homemade Natural inks, 5” x 7”(image size), Slaughterhaus Print Studio, London, UK | |
| 2022 | Huddle Public Art Exhibition, May, ‘London Garden Series 2’: Dry Point Intaglio and Monotype prints; (6) Framed A1, 3 Shortlands, Hammersmith, London, UK | |
| 2022 | International Women’s Day Online Exhibition, March,‘Femine’: Dry point Monotype Print, 28cm x 28cm, Inspired by the Venus de Milo, statue (Aphrodite) the goddess of love and beauty. Slaughterhaus Print Studio, London, UK | |
| 2021 | Huddle Public Art Exhibition, August, ‘London Garden Series 1’: Monotype prints; (3) Framed 12” x 12”, 3 Shortlands Hammersmith, London, UK | |
| 1998 | MFA 3rd Year Graduate Exhibition, ‘What is the Voice and Who Hears It’: Final MFA installation, Slide Projection installation photographs of family survey letter, sharing memories growing up in Industrial Cleveland, Steal Industry Photographs processed on ¼” Steal Plates, Left to Rust, Original family letters suspended in 3 offering baskets on loan from St. Jerome’s Church Cleveland Ohio, San Francisco State University Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA | |
| 1996 | MFA 2nd Year Exhibition, ‘Lightboxes’: 2nd Year of 3, MFA installation, moulded bread loaves with Bible quotes inserted referencing female roles, photographed and developed onto 4”x4” colour negatives, mounted and framed in individual light boxes, San Francisco State University Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA | |
| 1995 | MFA 1st Year Exhibition, ‘Memories: Growing Up Catholic’: 1st Year of 3, MFA Intaglio Photogravure print, 18” x 24.5” San Francisco State University Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA | |
| 1992 | Bachelors of Fine Art Exhibition, BFA Thesis Exhibition, Intaglio wall pieces created from two zinc plates. Inked as unique drawings. Series illustrates the motion of nature and it’s constant struggle between negative and positive life cycles. Images inspired by magnified rock textures, Kent State University Fine Art Lower Level Gallery, Kent State University, Ohio, USA | |
| 1992 | Serigraph KSU Student Juried Exhibit, 1/7 of serigraph prints made up of various organic shapes and textures to illustrate unpredictable natural motion, Kent Fine Art Lower Level Gallery, Kent State University, Ohio, USA | |
| 1992 | KSU Student Annual Juried Exhibition, ‘String Book’ non-traditional, reconstruction of a book concept by using the string for binding pages as a narrative thread, along with Arches paper Intaglio printed lines echoing the string patterns pages, Interactive piece, book lies flat, pages are turned, Kent Main Fine Art Gallery, Kent State University, Ohio, USA | |
| 1992 | Print Juried Exhibition, ‘Frames’, 11” x 12.5” 28pg, Photo etching, printed in relief ink, lace paper and velum, revealing the underlining images, interactive, Kent Fine Art Lower Level Gallery, Kent State University, Ohio, USA (Donated to the Printmaking Department Archive) | |
| 1991 | Serigraph Juried Exhibition, ‘Texture’, 34” x 30” made up of 30 5”x5” multiple serigraph printed textures, colour theory arranged to create a visual illusion of depth, Kent Fine Art Lower Level Gallery, Kent State University, Ohio, USA (currently part of a Personal Donor Art Collection, Florida, USA) | |
| 1991 | Group Exhibition, Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Self Portrait, ‘What I could be… What I should be… Who I am’. 13” x 17”, (3) Intaglio prints arranged as one piece. Printed using the viscosity intaglio method. Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| 1991 | Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, String Book, William Busta Gallery, Murray Hill Road in little Italy (1989-2007), Cleveland, Ohio, USA The William Busta Gallery specialize in representing artists who live and work in Northeast Ohio. Since opening on Murray Hill Road in Little Italy, 1989 and during the past 25 years, the gallery has held the first shows or first shows in Cleveland for an extensive list of artists who have gone on to great success, many of them winners of the Cleveland Arts Prizes. Bill relocated the gallery to Detroit Avenue in the Detroit-Shoreway neighbourhood and then Prospect Avenue near Cleveland State University, in 2007. The William Busta Gallery closed August 2015; John and Lauren Davies continued its traditions, opening the 2731 Prospect Gallery in September 2015, Brother and sister John and Lauren Davies took over day-to-day operations. Currently known as the William Busta Project, Cleveland Ohio. |
Qualification & Professional Development:
- Eduqas A Level Art & Design: Improving Achievement in A Level Art and Design; in person, all day course, Hammersmith, London Nov 2024
- Carborundum Printing: 4 Day Course with printmaker and artist, Rob White, HAUSPRINT studios, Stockwell, London Aug 2024
- Drawing with your Sewing Machine CPD: 2 Day workshop with Ruth Blackford an illustrator, printmaker, textile artist, Kingston, Nov 25th & 26th 2023
- Art Therapy, Children & Bereavement Online course, London 2022-23
- AQA Achieving A & A* at A Level Art and Design, Online course, London Nov 2020
- V&A South Kensington, London: Sept 2019, Staging the Exhibition…Food: Bigger than the Plate; Professional Development (day course at V&A)
- Museum of Brands, London: Nov 2019, Martin Lambie-Nairn, Valuing Creativity; explore the importance of valuing creativity. Professional Development (evening lecture series)
- Design Museum, Kensington, London, An Introduction to 3D Printing (3 Day course at the Design Museum), Oct 2017, Professional Development
- Design & Technology: AQA A-level Design and Technology Product Design (all day on site sessions): Issued Oct 2017
- Design Kit: The Course for Human-Centred Design; Issuing authority IDEO.ORG (3 Month online project); Feb 2016
- Design & Technology: OCR GCE D&T Product Design (H053/H453) (all day on site sessions): Issued Oct 2015
- San Francisco State University, CA, USA, Sept 1995-May 1998, Printmaking, MFA
- Kent State University, OH, USA, Sept 1987-May 1992, Printmaking/Graphic Design, BFA
Professional Experience
(Teaching/Academic Appointments/Related Work Experience)
2020
During the installation of the exhibition, Panayiotou decided to locate the work in Camden Art Centre’s ‘Drawing Studio’, a space which is normally closed during exhibitions and used for courses, classes, life-drawing and school workshops. Once the work was in place he asked whether we could arrange a workshop in the studio where artists of all ages – our course participants and locals – could come in and draw the vase of flowers, producing a series of ‘still life’s’ of the work. We decided to arrange the workshop for the last day of October when the vase was full of Fresias, the flower Panayiotou designated to that month. The result is an extraordinary new work, a portfolio of 31 drawings co-authored by Panayiotou and the artists who attended the workshop.
Drawing by: Christine Hirsch-Wilton
Flower and Vase installation by: Christodoulos Panayiotou
Available # 30/31
Drawing by: Christine Hirsch-Wilton
Flower and Vase installation by: Christodoulos Panayiotou
SOLD 18/30
Teaching Experience
| 2021 – | Teacher of A Level Art & Design (UNQ), RE Teacher, Personal Tutor, Full-time, St Dominic’s Sixth Form College, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, UK | |
| 2020 – 2021 | Assistant Teacher of A Level Art & Design (UNQ), Part-time, St Dominic’s Sixth Form College, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, UK | |
| 2019 – 2020 | Artist Learning Volunteer, working with student and university groups delivering workshops, Museum of Brands, Notting Hill, London, UK | |
| 2018 – 2019 | Teacher Design & Technology (UNQ), Full-time, The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Kensington, London, UK | |
| 2015 – 2018 | Teacher Design & Technology (UNQ), Full-time, St Dominic’s Sixth Form College, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, UK |
Workshops
| 2022 – present | Artist Led Enrichment Workshops, St Dominic’s Sixth Form College, A Level Refinement; Perspective Drawing Hints and Tips, Photoshop introductory, Intaglio and Relief Printmaking techniques and refinement, weekly workshops, ongoing throughout the school term, Harrow on the Hill, London, UK | |
| 2023 | Artist Led Art Therapy Workshop, Waxwell House hosted St Dominic’s Sixth Form College Year End Retreat, My Art Therapy Session, Participants made their our own Natural Ink, Expressive drawing and painting, Pinner, London, UK | |
| 2022 | Artist Led Online Drawing Workshop, Kingston Museum, ‘A Kingston Perspective’, Drawing in Perspective referencing Art examples from the Kingston Museum Collection, Jan 29th 2022, Via ZOOM, London, UK | |
| 2021 | Artist Led Workshop, Kingston Museum, Drawing with Natural Inks, 20th Nov 2021, In conjunction with Environmental Exhibition ‘Climate KOAS’ 10th Sept to 26th March, Kingston upon Thames, UK | |
| 2021 | Artist Led Workshop, Kingston Museum, Environmental Future or Mindfulness: Drawing with Experimental Inks, ‘Summer of Fun’ July 2021, 8th July to 27th August 2021, Community Outreach Programme through the Kingston Heritage.org.uk, Kingston, UK | |
| 2020 | Assistant Volunteer Artist, Camden Art Centre, ‘Family Take Over’, weekly Adult and Children are invited to Drop in Art Sessions; Assisted with Printmaking Session; supported by Cultural Education and Learning AND Learning Support Fund from Camden Council, Camden, UK |
Professional Experience
| 2019 – 2020 | Artist Led Workshops, Learning Volunteer, Museum of Brands, working with student and university groups delivering Branding and Graphics workshops, Indirect Contract, Notting Hill, London, UK | |
| 2019 – 2020 | Front of House Assistant Volunteer, Camden Art Centre · Indirect Contract, London, UK | |
| 2007 – 2015 | Web, Graphic Designer/Illustrator, Creative Director & Owner: Part-time, Self Employed, seeingideasdesign, London, UK | |
| 2006 – 2008 | Artist Bespoke Art Pieces: Co-Founder, Commissions, sinnandwilton, London, UK | |
| 2000 – 2002 | Graphic User Interface Designer: Full-time, MetaTV, Mill Valley, California, USA | |
| 1999 – 2000 | Creative Director, Internet Technologies: Full-time, Brigade Corporation (San Francisco executive offices), San Francisco, California, United States | |
| 1999 – 6months | Graphic Designer/Illustrator: Visual Merchandising Macy’s West Corporate Offices, Full-time, Union Square, San Francisco, California, United States |
Professional Organisations
| http://www.a-n.co.uk a-n is the largest artists’ membership organisation in the UK with over 30,000 members. Supports artists and those who work with them in many practical ways, acting on behalf of our membership and the visual arts sector to improve artists’ livelihoods. (Sept 2021 – onwards) Art Fund Teachers, London, UK (Dec 2022 – onwards) Zygote Press, Print Studio, Cleveland, Ohio (Aug 2022-Aug 2023) Slaughterhaus Print Studio, SW9, London, UK (Sept 2021-onwards) Technical Abilities (or Technical Expertise, or Technical Skills) 2020-present A Level Art teacher (UNQ), St Dominic’s Sixth Form College, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, UK (extensive operational and safety knowledge of a variety of Adobe Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator, printing etching press, lino cutting tools, various painting and inks, blade cutting, adhesives, varnishes, clay, wire, woodworking power tools, such as: drills; routers, and sanders) Working knowledge of free machining 2018–2019 Design and Technology Workshop, The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Kensington, London, UK (extensive operational and safety knowledge of a variety of woodworking power tools, such as: jig and band saws; planers; drills; routers, and sanders.) Working knowledge of laser cutter. 2015-2018 Teacher Design & Technology (UNQ), Full-time, St Dominic’s Sixth Form College, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, UK (extensive operational and safety knowledge of a variety of woodworking power tools, such as: drills; routers, and sanders) Working knowledge of laser cutter. 1995–1998 Printshop Technician, School of Art, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA (extensive operational and safety knowledge acid baths, 2 etching presses, 2 lithography presses, Dark Room Black and White photography,) |
Christine Hirsch-Wilton 