Biography

Sarah Dudley (born 1971 in Montréal, Québec) studied fine art with a specialisation in lithography at Concordia University in Canada and at the École de beaux-arts de Nîmes in France. In 2001 Sarah completed the Master Printer Training Program at Tamarind Institute. The road leading from Tamarind to co-founding Keystone Editions with Ulrich Kuehle in Berlin was a long and winding path; the pair travelled via Ireland, the U.K. and Germany to Africa and Australia, working in a number of printshops with artists such as William Kentridge and Jim Dine. Her own artwork has been greatly influenced by her travels and is exhibited internationally.

Illustrated Talk

“Around the World with 80 Grit: the Printmaker as Nomad”
It took Sarah Dudley and Ulrich Kuehle a bit longer than 80 days to travel around the world, but travel the world they did, bouncing from one exciting printmaking project to the next. This is the story of their experiences working with many different artists, from the illustrious (Jim Dine, Michaela Melián, William Kentridge) to the fascinating (members of the San Tribes in Botswana’s Kalahari Desert; Indigenous Australian artists in remote outback communities).

Sarah (Montréal, Canada) and Ulrich (Soest, Germany) were planning to return to their respective homes upon completing the Master Printer Training Program at Tamarind Institute, but the travel Gods had other plans in mind. The pair kept notes of the best bits they learned along the way and in 2010 invested this invaluable experience into starting up their own workshop: Keystone Editions in Berlin.

This talk will highlight some of the most exciting projects from the pre-Keystone travels, including:

• an installation of lithographs on fabric for the International Clinton Peace Centre in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland (2003);
• the “Slow Food” portfolio of large format lithographs with six German artists in Munich (2005);
• lithographs with San/Bushman artists in Botswana’s Kalahari Desert (2005-6);
• etchings and linocuts with Indigenous artists in Australian Outback communities (2006-7);
• print-collages and print sculptures with William Kentridge in South Africa (2007).

All of these wonderful experiences have inspired Sarah and Ulrich to see if The World According to Lithography really is flat.  At Keystone, exploration and experimentation are the focus, (something still quite unique in the landscape of printmaking in Germany). The weirder, the better, as far as they are concerned. So far, lithographs at Keystone Editions have been made with the oddest drawing materials, such as perfume, snail slime and most recently, birthday cake sparklers.

Exhibition

The Long and Winding Road from New Mexico to Berlin
This group exhibition of work printed by Sarah Dudley and Ulrich Kuehle of Keystone Editions, showcases many of the prints featured in the the Illustrated Talk   “Around the World with 80 Grit: the Printmaker as Nomad”.

Before starting up Keystone Editions in Berlin in 2010, Sarah and Ulrich travelled to different printshops all over the world, collaborating with a dizzying array of artists. Many of these prints are on display, accompanied by an interactive iPad presentation of photographs of the respective workshops and artists.

Once Sarah and Ulrich put their rucksacks away, they began a new adventure publishing lithographs at their own workshop. The second part of the exhibition features prints made with international artists at Keystone Editions in Berlin. Many of these images were created with strange materials- perfume, sparklers and snail slime, and all explore the medium of lithography in their own unique way.

This show will take visitors on a trip to wonderful and exotic locations, including: Tamarind Institute in New Mexico, U.S.A.; Cló Ceardlann na gCnoc and Ballagh Studio, Co. Donegal, Ireland; Seacourt Print Workshop, Bangor, Northern Ireland; Steindruck München, Munich, Germany; The Artists’ Press in South Africa as well as Northern Editions and Wirrimanu Arts Centre in Australia.

Featured artists: Peter Linde Busk (Copenhagen), Daniel Clarke (Paris), Jim Dine (U.S.A.), Juliane Ebner (Berlin), Anselmo Fox (Berlin), Monika Goetz (Berlin), Joanne Greenbaum (New York), William Kentridge (Johannesburg), Dane Mitchell (New Zealand), Aura Rosenberg (New York), members of the San Tribe (Kalahari Desert, Botswana), indigenous artists from the Tiwi Islands and from the Wirrimanu Community in the Great Sandy Desert (Australia).