For available artwork please click here. The Universal Archive linocuts began as a series of small ink drawings by William Kentridge on pages of old dictionaries, made using both old and new paintbrushes. The images are made up of both solid and very fine lines, with an unconstrained virtuosity of mark-making. The ink drawings were [...]

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The production of William Kentridge’s new series of Linocuts Universal Archive (Parts 24- 37) is well under way at the Arts on Main studio. The project has expanded to include over 50 images printed onto dictionary and encyclopedia paper, with many of the images being composed of more than one piece of this found paper. [...]

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David Krut Print Workshop at Arts on Main has launched into 2012 full speed ahead with printing and editioning the latest series of linocuts by William Kentridge. Many of the prints will become part of an upcoming exhibition in Australia this year. With almost 60 linocut prints to create, the DKW team and Kentridge’s assistants [...]

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Exhibition of landscape prints and photographs at Workshop Gallery, 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood. (above: Bruce Backhouse, Karoo Horizon XII, 2011, Monotype, Ed. 1/1.) Workshop Gallery, 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, is pleased to present its third exhibition: e-SCAPES is an exhibition of landscape works in various media drawn from both the David Krut Print Workshop archive [...]

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William Kentridge, Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky were at DKW at Arts on Main, in February 2011 to handpaint and sign their collaborative prints that were started in 2009. Jillian Ross, at the AOM DKW only recently has been able to print them and as Shakinovsky and Gavronsky are in South Africa for the next [...]

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William Kentridge, Rose Shavinovsky and Claire Gavronsky were visiting DKP at Arts on Main to handpaint and sign some of their collaboration prints. The image was started in February 2009 when Rosenclaire were the artists in residence at Nirox. The three artists were discussing art and each of them drew a self-portrait onto the copper [...]

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Deborah Bell created this etching in March 2010. At the time she was working at 107 Workshop, in the UK with master printer Jack Shirreff, on prints such as Coeur Rage and Bride Stripped Bare for her upcoming show at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg. When she heard the news that her close friend and [...]

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This image was printed this year at DKW, Arts on Main. The Scribe print came from William Kentridge’s work on the project he did for the Louvre last year, Carnets d’Egypte (Egyptian Sketchbooks). For this exhibition, Kentridge made 16 short films that were shown in the Egyptian Collection wing of the Louvre. Some of the [...]

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This collaborative print, History of Art, is based on William Kentridge, Claire Gavronsky and Rose Shakinovsky’s views of the history of art as they sat in Kentridge’s studio one afternoon.  The camera in the centre of the image comes from one that was also in the studio at the time. They sat and discussed who [...]

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David Krut Projects promotes the print workshop, and publishing by it’s associates in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The two DKW Print Workshops in Parkwood and Arts on Main, Johannesburg respectively, are managed by Jillian Ross. We also work with Phil Sanders of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW), and South African artist Deborah Bell and Diane Victor worked [...]

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