StudioLino will be opening in autumn 2025 in the former print studio of artist Lino Mannocci (1945-2021).

Lino Mannocci was born in Viareggio, Italy, and moved to London in 1968, attending Camberwell School of Art and the Slade, where he obtained an MA in printmaking under the tutelage of Bartolomeo Do Santos. He subsequently worked both as a painter and a printmaker, both of his own and other artists’ works, dividing his time between London and his native Tuscany. For some years, he was associated and exhibited with La Metacosa group of artists, of which he was a founder member. He also exhibited widely on his own account, with one-man shows in Europe, India, and the USA.

Mannocci’s acute sense of art history, his intellectual and meticulous approach to his art, and his passionate interest in printmaking, led him into the field of scholarship, with the publication by Yale University Press of the catalogue raisonné of the etchings of Claude Lorrain. In his last years he also dedicated a mixed-media exhibition and a volume on the Futurist painter Gino Severini.

Before his death, Mannocci expressed the wish that his print studio and workshop be retained, with a view to its being made accessible to other artists.