Dorothea Wight

{{Short description|British printmaker and artist}}

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Dorothea Wight (born in Devon England, 1944, died 2013, Muswell Hill, London) was a British printmaker and artist. Wight is best known for founding the Studio Prints on Queen's Crescent, where editions of artists’ prints were created, working with some of the most important contemporary British artists, including Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Ken Kiff, R. B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Celia Paul, Paula Rego, William Turnbull, Kim Lim and more than 100 other artists.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/dorothea-wight-zj8373v83b9|title=Dorothea Wight {{!}} The Times|website=The Times|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-04-17}} She married her collaborator in the workshop, Marc Balakjian, in 1973.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artrabbit.com/events/dorothea-wight-and-marc-balakjian|title=Dorothea Wight and Marc Balakjian at The New Art Gallery Walsall|website=ArtRabbit|access-date=2016-04-17}} The two would lead Studio Prints in introducing a number of techniques to British printmaking,{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dorothea-wight-artist-and-pioneer-of-printmaking-8658177.html|title=Dorothea Wight: Artist and pioneer of printmaking|website=The Independent|date=13 June 2013 |language=en-GB|access-date=2016-04-17}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jun/10/dorothea-wight|title=Dorothea Wight obituary|last=Simmons|first=Rosemary|date=2013-06-10|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2016-04-17}} and the studio was considered "at the forefront of British Printmaking for 40 years".

She was also an artist in her own right, known for her mezzotints which have been exhibited across the world in countless solo and group exhibitions.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dorotheawight.com/about/|title=Dorothea Wight|website=dorotheawight.com|access-date=2016-04-17}} Her works are in a number of permanent collections in the UK including those of the V&A, the British Museum, the British Council, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Museum of London, the Fitzwilliam Museum, The New Art Gallery Walsall. Her work is also included in major collections in France, Germany, Poland, Belgium, Norway, Poland and Australia.