Northern Print were gifted a varied selection of works by a number of notable artists working in the UK between 1970s and 1990s from the estate of Alan Cox.

Alan Cox was sought out by major artists to make prints of their work, but also created art of his own After graduating in 1965, Alan established a lithography workshop, Grafik, in Whitechapel, and then Sky Editions in the pre-gentrified Butler’s Wharf area of Docklands.

In 1979 he moved his workplace to Charlotte Road, Shoreditch, east London, then a rough and rundown neighbourhood, where the only pubs, the Bricklayers and the Barley Mow, closed at weekends. For the next 35 years, often through hardship and struggle, he produced fine prints of the work of many artists, embracing the “social art” of lithography in which, as he said, “you always work together”.

Extract from Alan Cox - Obituary
Emily Pedder, Pub. The Guardian, Tue 13 Jul 2021