Edwin Pickstone
Edwin Pickstone
- Lecturer
- Job Title
- Lecturer
- E.Pickstone@gsa.ac.uk
Biography
Edwin Pickstone (b.1982, Manchester, UK) lives and work in Glasgow. Focusing on the material nature of print Pickstone uses letterpress technology, collaborating with artists and designers on a wide range of projects. His work spans academic, artistic and design worlds, with particular interest in the history of typography, graphic design, the nature of print and the book. He is currently Lecturer, Typography Technician and Designer in Residence at The Glasgow School of Art, where since 2005 he has cared for the school’s collection of letterpress printing equipment. He has spoken and exhibited internationally.
Latest Additions
- Pickstone, Edwin (2025) BATA (a stick).
- Pickstone, Edwin, Robertson, Frances, Finnie, Ross, Kirkby, Ruth and Walkerdine, Matthew (2025) The Caseroom: 60 Years of Letterpress etc. The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow. ISBN 9780956764676
- Pickstone, Edwin and Kirkby, Ruth (2025) The Caseroom: 60 Years of Letterpress etc. at The Glasgow School of Art. Reid Building, The Glasgow School of Art, 7–26 February, 2025
- Pickstone, Edwin (2025) ‘My instinctive decisions are also conscious ones’: The Typography and Lettering of Alasdair Gray, from Micro to Monumental. In: The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray and the Arts. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
- Ward, Andrew, Pickstone, Edwin, Wahome, Caroline, McGarrigle, Aoife and Megundi Njeru, Ezekiel (2025) Woodblock Printed Bio-sensors, SOIL, Somerset House, London.
- Pickstone, Edwin, Maguire, Paul and Robertson, Frances (2024) Monotype MIDI. Book 2.0, 14 (1 & 2). pp. 169-185. ISSN 2042-8022
- Pickstone, Edwin, Hogg, Ross and Scholefield, Tom (2024) Printshop! 2024. Tramway, Glasgow, 10 February – 14 April 2024
- Cairns, Brian, Pickstone, Edwin, Hogg, Ross, Stark, Andy, Locke, Peter, Farrar, David and Kirkby, Ruth (2023) Offset Research Cluster Work in Progress Exhibition. CassArt, 63 - 67 Queen Street, Glasgow G1 3EN, 16- 24 Sept 2023
- Rigley, Steve and Pickstone, Edwin (2023) The Visible Word 2. New Glasgow Society, 4-5th September 2023
- Maguire, Paul and Pickstone, Edwin (2023) Monotype MIDI. The New Glasgow Society, 4-5 Sep 2023
