Chris Pig
"BARBERS, OXFORD 2020"
Wood Engraving. 2021
By Chris Pig
UK
Chris Pig
Chris Pig (born Christopher Rogers, 1965) is a British artist printmaker known for politically astute prints that combine of expanses of black ink with carefully worked areas of detail. His work, inspired by the formal aesthetic of Victorian wood-engraving and influenced by Anarchism, is made by engraving and printing from Lino and/or boxwood.
Chris Pig has been an artist printmaker for 40 years. After studying his MA in Barcelona with Winchester School of Art, he became principal lecturer in Printmaking at City and Islington College for seven years. He left to set up his own studio in Córdoba where he lived for six years before returning to London and working at East London Printmakers. He now lives in Frome with his family where he is director of Black Pig Printmaking Studio.
He has work in public and private collections throughout the world such as Guangdong Museum of Art China, Douro Museum of Printmaking Portugal, Ashmolean Museum Oxford and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Selected Awards
Society of Wood Engravers 'Originals' 2009 Award (joint winner with Hilary Paynter)
Publications
- Ambit 196, 2009, illustration for "Listener" by Sonja Besford
- Ambit 195, 2008, front cover and "Mice"
- Ambit Magazine, Summer & Autumn 2006
- I couldn't Paint Golden Angels, autobiography of Albert Meltzer
- Despite Anything, short stories and other writings by Mark Whittaker
- Starting From Scratch, Printmaking Today, Summer 2005
- Culture Surfing, interview, Creative Loafing, Atlanta
- Beautifully Revealing, Concealing, by Jerry Cullum, Atlanta Journal
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