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• London Original Print Fair will return to Somerset House, London from 30 March – 2 April.
• This year’s edition brings together over forty top international print dealers, publishers and studios.
• With works spanning six centuries of printmaking, the fair will include significant pieces by world renowned artists including Dürer, Rembrandt, Picasso, Hockney, Riley, Rego, Frink.
• Launching at the fair will be new work by Harland Miller , Gavin Turk, Grayson Perry, Tracey Emin, David Shrigley and Brian Eno.
• Tickets on sale now: https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/london-original-print-fair-2023
London Original Print Fair (LOPF) will return to Somerset House for its highly anticipated 38 th edition. Founded in 1985, LOPF is London’s longest running art fair, offering visitors an unparalleled opportunity to explore, learn about and collect works by some of the world’s greatest masters, alongside new pieces by rising talents, hot off the press. Celebrating printmaking in all its forms, the fair will have something for everyone with a programme of inspiring talks and live demonstrations. Details of the talks will be released soon on the LOPF and Somerset House websites.
Two special highlights for this year
LOPF and Andrew Edmunds Prints will present a special Tribute Exhibition in honour of Andrew Edmunds (1943–2022), renowned print dealer, restaurateur and a founding LOPF committee member. Curated by Andrew’s son Milo Edmunds and art historian Tim Clayton, the exhibition will highlight Andrew Edmunds’ world class personal collection of 18th century prints by artist and satirist James Gillray (1756-1815). It will include works that have never previously been on show to the public and rare impressions of some of his best-known prints.
In recognition of its long association with the RA, LOPF has invited Royal Academician Stephen Chambers to curate a show of prints by Royal Academicians. Entitled From the Potato to the Chip it will highlight the many printmaking processes used by artists today and include work by Stephen Chambers, Cornelia Parker, Emma Stibbon, Humphrey Ocean; Mali Morris; Norman Ackroyd, Cathie Pilkington and others.
Helen Rosslyn, Director, says “We are delighted to welcome several new exhibitors this year, which suggests that even in these uncertain times the print world is alive and well. I always look forward to seeing what comes hot off the press to the Fair and this year is no exception with major work promised by TraceyEmin, Grayson Perry, Harland Miller, Gavin Turk and Tom Hammick to name just a few.”
2023 Exhibitors Highlights
LOPF will welcome new exhibitors to the fair this year, including Muban Educational Trust, who will join existing exhibitor Art China in celebrating contemporary Chinese woodblock printmaking and Japan Print Gallery, who will exhibit Japanese woodblock prints from the genre of Ukiyo-e, including well known series, such as Hiroshige's100 Famous Views of Edo. Counter Editions from Margate will showcase new work by a leading contemporary artist and Vistavaka Fine Art will mount a specialist exhibition of 18th century French prints.
The Fair is delighted to welcome returning exhibitor Kunstverket from Oslo, whose Norwegian printmakers Hanne Borchgrevink, Sidsel Westboe, Patrick Huse and Lars Lerinhave proved firm favourites with fair visitors.
LOPF champions a diverse range of printmaking styles and techniques, and longstanding exhibitor Marlborough Graphics will offer a unique presentation of monotypes and hand-finished prints by artists who share a painterly process. The presentation will feature artists such as Gillian Ayres, Paula Rego and Kiki Smith, who use watercolour, stencilling and over-painting to embellish more traditional printing methods, as well as Bill Jacklin who incorporates oil paint and printers’ ink into his monotypes. Alongside these established artists, the stand will also introduce visitors to a new generation of printmakers, with recent work by Liorah Tchiprout and Jimmy Merris.Bernard Jacobson Gallerywill be returning to the fair with a wide selection including the work of WilliamTillyer.
Sims Reed Gallery will show an important series of lithographs (with one screen print) by pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, Cathedral Series, created the same year as the artist’s iconic paintings of Rouen Cathedral, now in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Jealous Gallery will launch an exclusive new print with David Shrigley, created for LOPF and will highlight a recent edition with Corbin Shaw, who explores ideas of masculinity through textiles in his work. New and recent works will be on display by artists including Charming Baker, Stanley Donwood, Kate Gibb and more.
Manifold Editions will present Holy Eggs, a new series of collaged archival pigment prints by Gavin Turk, inspired by Lucio Fontana’s La Finedi Dio (The End of God). Each print within the series has been hand torn by the artist, to transform these works on paper into sculptural objects.Their stand will also showcase new editions and unique prints by artists including Boo Saville, Gavin Turk, Marc Quinn, Bradley Theodore, Harland Miller, Grayson Perry, Gary Humeand Sarah Morris. Paul Stolper will also show new prints by Gavin Turk and will launch a new set of etchings by visual artist and renowned musician Brian Eno at the fair.
American visual artist Kelly Reemtsen, whose iconic images of stylish women wielding power tools, will be represented at the fair on Lyndsey Ingra’s stand.
Advanced Graphics will launch a beautiful large-scale print by London-based Irish artist Oisín Byrne.The piece was printed by hand at the Advanced Graphics studio, using around 14 separate, large, screens andissigned in Byrne’s distinctive hand in coloured pencil. It will be available in an edition of 80.
Stunning works by some of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries will be on display across the fair. Peter Harrington will exhibit a first edition, first printing of Josef Albers seminal Interaction of Colour, as well as a first edition folio of heliotype prints by Egon Schiele, that was issued shortly before the artist’s death. They will also present Eine Nachlese by Gustav Klimt and Max Eisler, a portfolio preserving six of Klimt’s paintings that were destroyed at the end of the Second World War.
Highlights from Gilden’s Arts will be prints by modern masters Picasso and Chagall, while Hidden Gallery will display works on paper by artists including Pablo Picasso, L.S Lowry, Andy Warhol, Henry Moore, Bridget Riley, Robert Indiana and more.
Tate will present prints by world-renowned contemporary artists, including Pablo Bronstein, France-Lise McGurnand Chris Ofili, and rare prints by Kim Lim, Paula Regoand Paule Vézelay.
Rabley Gallery will launch new prints by Emma StibbonRA, Eileen Cooper RA and Natasha Michaels, aswell as two new mezzoprints by Sarah Gillespie.They will additionally exhibit work by Katherine Jones, a newly elected Royal Academician, as well as the abstract mokuhanga (woodcut prints) of Scottish artist Paul Furneaux RSA.
Enitharmon Editions will launch a suite of four new lithographs by Caroline Walker, featuring her characteristic intimate, domestic portraits of women. The stand will also feature two rare, recently acquired artists’ books by Paula Rego, as well as lithographs by Shanti Panchal and Hew Locke.
Artist-run gallery Verbatim also returns to LOPF this year, inviting visitors to discuss the works on show with the practitioners who made them. Their stand will feature new and recent works by Maite Cascòn, Jake Garfield, Ellie Hayward and Thomas Gosebruch, including the launch of previously unseen editions and unique prints.
One of the particular strengths of LOPF, is the breadth of the works on show, spanning six centuries. It demonstrates the importance of prints throughout art history and visitors can see the evolution of printmaking practices, with contemporary works on sale alongside old and modern masters. Elizabeth Harvey Lee will be exhibiting works ranging from the late 15th century to early 21st century, including work by Rembrandt, Hollar and Daumier. There will be a special focus on work by lesser-knownwomen printmakers, and on that of Sir Charles Holroyd R.E. Director of the National Gallery between 1906-1916.
Emanuel von Baeyer will launch a substantial new catalogue on British and German Art from 1850s to 1920s at the fair and will dedicate its stand to prints and drawings from this collection. Gwen Hughes Fine Art will present a collection of Modern British prints from 1960s to 1980s, including work by some of the key figures in printmaking during this period, such as Victor Pasmore, William Scott, Elisabeth Frink, John Hoyland and Michael Rothenstein.
Works by contemporary Japanese artists will be on display at Hanga Tan, showcasing diverse printing techniques, from mezzotint to silkscreen to the more traditional woodblock.They will present recent Katsunori Hamanishi’s beautiful mezzotint triptychs, Summer Pond and Canola Flowers Field and introduce the works of Iwao Akiyama.
At Art China, handprinted pieces by master printmakers such as Chen Qi, He Kun, and Li Shaoyan will be on display, showcasing the vibrant colours, intricate details, and unique stories that define Chinese art.
Ahead of and alongside the physical fair, audiences can also explore and purchase original prints from exhibitors and many other international dealers and galleries through LOPF’s online Platform for Prints londonoriginalprintfair.com
Full List of Exhibitors
Advanced Graphics London
Andrew Edmunds
ArtChina
Austin Desmond
Bernard Jacobson Gallery
CCA Galleries
Counter Editions
Eames Fine Art
Elizabeth Harvey-Lee
Emanuel von Baeyer
Enitharmon Editions
Gilden’s Art Gallery
Glasgow Print Studio
Graphic Studio Gallery
Gwen Hughes Fine Art
Hanga Ten
Hidden Gallery
ICA
Japan Print Gallery
Jealous
Julian Page
Dominic Kemp
Kunstverket
Long & Ryle
Lyndsey Ingram
Manifold Editions
Marlborough Graphics
Muban Educational Trust
Paul Stolper
Peter Harrington Gallery
Rabley Gallery
RAW Editions
Royal Academicians curated by Stephen Chambers
Royal Society of Painter Printmakers
Sims Reed Gallery
Smithson Gallery
TAG Fine Arts
Tate
Verbatim
Vistavaka Fine Art
Whitechapel
Notes to Editors
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Visitor Information
Dates/Times:
Thursday 30 March –Sunday 2 April 2023
11am-8pm Thursday -Friday
10am -6pm Saturday –Sunday
Opening reception: Wednesday 29 March 6 –9pm
Press View: Thursday 30 March, 10am
Location: Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA
How to get there: The nearest stations are Charing Cross (on the Northern and Bakerloo lines), Temple (on the Circle and District lines) and Holborn (on the Central and Piccadilly lines). The nearest rail station is Charing Cross.
Ticketing: Tickets are £18 full price and £12 for concessions. Early Bird Tickets are available before Thursday 23 February at £15/ £10. https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/london-original-print-fair
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