Monica Petzal has a diverse career as an artist, academic, critic and curator and is the owner of Printroom, www.printroomlondon.com a London gallery and consultancy dealing exclusively in contemporary printmaking. In 2008, she was a selector for the 7th British International Mini Print Exhibition and for Originals 09. In 2009 she is a selector for an invited artist for Originals 10. She is a Trustee of the Print Makers Council and an FRSA. From 1992-2006 she was Co-founder and Director of the Foundation for Women’s Art Project . A freelance critic and broadcaster, she is an interviewer for the British Library/Tate Archive Artists Lives, NLS.www.bl/collections/sound-archive/nlsc.html

Printroom

16 Perrins Court

Hampstead, London NW31QS

Telephone 0207 794 3403

www.printroomlondon.com

email: monica@printroomlondon.com

Monica Petzal was trained as both an artist and an art historian and has had a diverse career as an artist, academic, critic and curator. She is a co-founder and Director of the Foundation for Women’s Art Project www.fwa-uk.org .She is an interviewer on the British Library/Tate Archive Artists Lives, ‘Art Professionals’ oral history project, www.bl/collections/sound-archive/nlsc.html undertaking life story interviews with curators, critics, dealers and gallery owners. She is also a freelance critic and broadcaster.

Since 2006 she is the owner and director of the Printroom, www.printroomlondon.com an artist led gallery in Hampstead, London dealing exclusively in contemporary printmaking. In 2008, she was a selector for the 7th British International Mini Print Exhibition and for Originals 09. In 2009 she is a selector for an invited artist for Originals 10. She is a trustee of the Print Makers Council. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Education

North London Collegiate School

Kingston University BA Hons. Fine Art 1976

University of Sussex MA History of Art 1977

Royal College of Art MA (RCA) Fine Art (Painting) 1981

London University of the Arts (Camberwell) MA Printmaking 2001

Work

From 1981-7, Monica Petzal taught painting and drawing at the Byam Shaw School of Art, London College of Printing, Epsom College of Art and Farnham College of Art. She was also a visiting lecturer at St.Martin’s, Middlesex, the RCA and for the Whitechapel and Saatchi Galleries.

From 1979 -1988, she worked as an art critic for Time Out including six months full time as art editor. She has also contributed to Art Monthly, Artscribe, Artforum, THES, The Democrat and many other publications, as well as writing several exhibition catalogues.

Since 1981, she has worked as an occasional freelance broadcaster on the arts for BBC programs such as Woman’s Hour, Meridian and Kaleidoscope. She has worked as a selector and curator on a large number of exhibitions, from the LCC Spirit of London to most recently on Uncanny Tales, an FWA / Arts Council Touring exhibition of four women artists working in print.

The Foundation for Women’s Art, which Monica Petzal co-founded in 1992, is a non-profit organisation that aims to increase public knowledge and understanding of the work of women artists, both historic and contemporary. FWA is committed to access and diversity through the delivery of a programme of exhibitions and events, educational and community activities, research and publications. Using its website, archive, networking knowledge and resources, FWA offers access to information and facilitates projects with artists, curators and members of the public, both nationally and internationally. FWA is currently undergoing a period of re-evaluation by its Trustees.

Monica Petzal has shown her works on paper at diverse venues, including the Drawings show at the Hayward, the Whitechapel Open and the RK Burt Gallery, Bankside Her most recent group exhibition will be at Originals 10 at the Mall Galleries in London. Her work is held in various private collections including a series of six large drawings at Sugar Quay House in London.

Monica Petzal has four adult children and an elderly dog and lives and works in North London close to Hampstead Heath. Her husband Dr Chris Maloney is a GP and consultant psychiatrist.