Celebrating printmaking in all its forms, the Fair includes a programme of inspiring talks.
Please note, you must have a fair ticket to attend these talks.
12.00 | Jake Garfield & Elenor Ling in conversation
Jake Garfield’s woodcuts are held in major collections including the Fitzwilliam Museum, V&A and British Museum. Join as he speaks with and Elenor Ling, senior curator of prints and drawings at the Fitzwilliam Museum, to reflect on the connections between Garfield's prints and a selection of historical works and pop-cultural figures.
14.00 | Mary Ginsberg, Visiting Researcher at the British Musuem. "Revolution, Propaganda, Art: Woodblock Prints from London Collections”
Speaker: Mary Ginsberg
Revolution Propaganda, Art: Chinese Woodblock Prints in the British Museum and the Muban Education
16.00 | THE GREAT WAR: Britain’s Efforts and Ideals
Speaker: Tom Edwards and Claire Brenard
Hear Tom Edwards (Managing Director, Abbott and Holder Ltd) and Claire Brenard (Curator, Art, IWM) discuss this fascinating set of WWI prints and the unique collaboration between Imperial War Museums and Abbott and Holder. Commissioned in 1917 from eighteen artists the suite of prints was one of the largest and most ambitious British print projects of the early twentieth century; a feat of technical skill and artistic vision, as well as war-time logistics and propaganda.
14.00 | Tom Hammick and Nick Maclean in Conversation. Ways of Seeing
Old friends Tom Hammick, artist, and Nick Maclean, art dealer, delve into the mysteries of the art world from two perspectives.
United by an admiration for John Bergers’s seminal 1972 Ways of Seeing, their fascinating and wide-ranging discussion will examine the fusion of painting and prints in Tom’s work and uncover the secrets of life in the fast lane as an art dealer.
16.00 | British Artist Chris Levine discusses his new series of prints with Manifold Editions, launching to coincide with the London Original Print Fair 2025
Speaker: Chris Levine
British Artist Chris Levine discusses his new series of prints with Manifold Editions, launching to coincide with the London Original Print Fair 2025.
12.00 | David Barker: Developments in Chinese Colour Printing
Speaker: David Barker
This talk will offer an outline to the origins of Chinese relief printmaking in the second century BCE, the developments of later dynasties, to introducing the techniques, tools and materials that led to the emergence of multi-colour printing from woodblocks in the early seventeenth century CE.
14.00 | Francine Tint and Marcelo Zimmler In Conversation
Artist talk featuring renowned abstract painter Francine Tint in conversation with art dealer and Founder and CEO of Upsilon Gallery, Marcelo Zimmler.
12.00 | This is What You Get: Stanley Donwood | Radiohead | Thom Yorke
Artist Stanley Donwood in conversation with Ashmolean curator Natasha Podro ahead of the major Radiohead retrospective at the Ashmolean from August 2025.
Donwood will discuss his unique collaborations with Yorke, which explore the complex relationship between visual art and music.
14.00 | Making Original Prints
An informal chat about the making of original hand made prints with Gillian Duke.
