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== Early life and education == |
== Early life and education == |
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Allix attended [[Guildford School of Art]] where she studied painting. She has an MA in printmaking at the [[Royal College of Art]].<ref name="Annex Galleries Fine Prints">{{cite web |title=Susan Allix Biography |url=https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/2687/Allix/Susan |website=Annex Galleries Fine Prints |access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> She studied engraving in Italy while on a Prix de Rome scholarship. |
Allix attended [[Guildford School of Art]] where she studied painting. She has an MA in printmaking at the [[Royal College of Art]].<ref name="Annex Galleries Fine Prints">{{cite web |title=Susan Allix Biography |url=https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/2687/Allix/Susan |website=Annex Galleries Fine Prints |access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> She studied engraving in Italy while on a Prix de Rome scholarship.<ref name="Smithsonian Libraries and Archives">{{cite web |date=2015 |title=Egyptian Green |url=https://library.si.edu/exhibition/artists-books-and-africa/egyptian-green-full |access-date=5 March 2023 |website=Smithsonian Libraries and Archives |language=en}}</ref> |
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== Career == |
== Career == |
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| ⚫ | The Smithsonian says of Allix's work, "Allix’s books are distinctive in that she handles every aspect from conception to production: printing, typography, layout, and binding or box making. She prints in limited editions using letterpress-printed text, illustrations printed as etchings, linoleum cuts, woodcuts, ''pochoir'' stenciling, and hand-painted additions; she also binds the books herself. The paper used for the books’ pages is usually collected from her travels or ordered with a specific purpose in mind and runs the gamut from commercially molded sheets, to decoratively patterned sheets, to handmade fine art papers."<ref name="Smithsonian Libraries and Archives" /> |
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| ⚫ | Allix works under the imprint the Willow Press.<ref name="Bridwell Libraryns Exhibitions">{{cite web |title=Susan Allix and the Willow Press · The Word Embodied: Scripture as Creative Inspiration in Twentieth-Century Book Arts |url=https://bridwell.omeka.net/exhibits/show/wordembodied/songofsongs/willowpress |access-date=5 March 2023 |website=Bridwell Library}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Her work is in the U.K. [[Government Art Collection]],<ref name="Government Art Collection">{{cite web |title=Susan Allix |url=https://artcollection.culture.gov.uk/person/allix-susan/ |
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| ⚫ | Her work is in the U.K. [[Government Art Collection]],<ref name="Government Art Collection">{{cite web |title=Susan Allix |url=https://artcollection.culture.gov.uk/person/allix-susan/ |access-date=5 March 2023 |website=Government Art Collection}}</ref> the [[Yale Center for British Art]],<ref name="Yale Center for British Art">{{cite web |title=[Prospectus for Susan Allix's Sea Air : prints of the sea with poetic interludes and interventions]. - YCBA |url=https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:14576132 |access-date=5 March 2023 |website=Yale Center for British Art}}</ref> the [[Smithsonian Libraries and Archives|Smithsonian Libraries]],<ref name="Smithsonian Libraries and Archives" /> and the [[National Museum of Women in the Arts]],<ref name="Library & Research Center">{{cite web |title=Susan Allix |url=https://nmwa.bibliovation.com/app/search/(Susan%20Allix) |access-date=5 March 2023 |website=NMWA Library & Research Center}}</ref> among others. |
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| ⚫ | The Smithsonian says of Allix's work, "Allix’s books are distinctive in that she handles every aspect from conception to production: printing, typography, layout, and binding or box making. She prints in limited editions using letterpress-printed text, illustrations printed as etchings, linoleum cuts, woodcuts, ''pochoir'' stenciling, and hand-painted additions; she also binds the books herself. The paper used for the books’ pages is usually collected from her travels or ordered with a specific purpose in mind and runs the gamut from commercially molded sheets, to decoratively patterned sheets, to handmade fine art papers."<ref name="Smithsonian Libraries and Archives" /> |
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=== Works === |
=== Works === |
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Latest revision as of 19:02, 19 June 2024
Susan Allix (b. 1943) is a British typesetter, bookbinder, and artist known for her work in book arts.
Early life and education
[edit]Allix attended Guildford School of Art where she studied painting. She has an MA in printmaking at the Royal College of Art.[1] She studied engraving in Italy while on a Prix de Rome scholarship.[2]
Career
[edit]The Smithsonian says of Allix's work, "Allix’s books are distinctive in that she handles every aspect from conception to production: printing, typography, layout, and binding or box making. She prints in limited editions using letterpress-printed text, illustrations printed as etchings, linoleum cuts, woodcuts, pochoir stenciling, and hand-painted additions; she also binds the books herself. The paper used for the books’ pages is usually collected from her travels or ordered with a specific purpose in mind and runs the gamut from commercially molded sheets, to decoratively patterned sheets, to handmade fine art papers."[2]
Allix works under the imprint the Willow Press.[3]
Her work is in the U.K. Government Art Collection,[4] the Yale Center for British Art,[5] the Smithsonian Libraries,[2] and the National Museum of Women in the Arts,[6] among others.
Works
[edit]- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam[2]
- Pyramids, 1995[2]
- Palm Tree Sketchbook, 2006[2]
- Colours of Persia, 2011[2]
- Egyptian Green, 2003[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Susan Allix Biography". Annex Galleries Fine Prints. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Egyptian Green". Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ "Susan Allix and the Willow Press · The Word Embodied: Scripture as Creative Inspiration in Twentieth-Century Book Arts". Bridwell Library. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ "Susan Allix". Government Art Collection. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ "[Prospectus for Susan Allix's Sea Air : prints of the sea with poetic interludes and interventions]. - YCBA". Yale Center for British Art. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ "Susan Allix". NMWA Library & Research Center. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
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