Helen Ingham

Helen Ingham began researching and using letterpress in 2002, having developed an interest in typography and mid-century graphics through an earlier career as a musician. In 2004 she honed her skills working as an intern for Hatch Showprint, a letterpress poster printer in Nashville, USA. In 2005 she graduated from Central St Martins with an MA in Communication Design, having used letterpress throughout the course in a largely digital environment. Her vibrant text and image work is produced in her Bedfordshire workshop using vintage printing presses, hand rendered and cut lino-block, and an extensive and ever growing collection of wood and metal type. Her most recent series of work celebrates the aerial pursuits that regularly take place over Dunstable Downs, Ivinghoe Beacon and the Ridgeway in the Chilterns, very close to the artist's letterpress workshop. Drawing on influences such as The Grosvenor School, Brian Cooke and Edward Bawden, the prints combine type and image in letterpress and hand cut lino block in 3 colours.

Ingham’s work is featured in the book ‘Reinventing Letterpress: Prints by Contemporary Practitioners’ by Charlotte Rivers, published by Rotovision in June 2010.
She has participated in numerous exhibitions including London Original Print Fairs, solo exhibitions at St Bride Foundation, and travelling exhibitions with Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides Project.

MA Communication Design, 2005