The studio opened in 1958 in Plaistow, east London, before moving in 1965 to Midford Place, off Tottenham Court Road.
Stanley agreed, and while the Curwen Studio was being built he embarked on a pilot project in St Ives, Cornwall, working with artists including Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron and Peter Lanyon. The following year, the London gallery owner Robert Erskine sought Stanley out with an offer to return to the UK to set up a fine art lithographic studio under the auspices of the Curwen Press.
