Programme
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13.00 | Innovations: A Cabinet of Curiosities
14.30 | Women in Print
15.30 | The Ushaw Residency | Artist In Conversation
16.00 & 18.30 | Susie Hamilton Book Signing
19.00 | Why Print? Exploring What It Is & Why It Matters
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13.00 | The Art of Collecting: Original Prints
14.30 | Motherhood & Making
16.00 | Art World Futures
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12.30 | History of Print: A PIONEERING PROCESS
14.00 | Living With Art | Curating Art in the Home
15.00 | Oliver Projects, Artist Talk
15.15 | Future Strategy Club: Creative For Good
16.30 | Artists Supporting Artists
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12.30 | Positioning Print: The Art Market & Investment
14.00 | Communities, Class & Creative Access
15.15 | Future Strategy Club: Creative For Good
16.30 | Art as Regeneration: Bringing Communities Together
Live Printing demonstrations
Have-a-go live etching and screen-printing demonstrations by Art Academy London and Private Press.
You'll also have the chance to see the fascinating Gunning Etching presses from Ironbridge Fine Arts in action. Featuring a variety of artistic techniques, including relief plates like Lino, woodblock, and letterpress, as well as intaglio photogravure etchings, dry-points, and mono-prints.
Try out the 3D-printed mini presses from Open Press Project, create your own unique monoprint and take it home.
Free for ticket holders, no booking required.
Talk | Innovations: A Cabinet of Curiosities
The University of West England’s, Centre for Print Research present exhibiting Artists in conversations, exploring the crossovers between craft, print and new technologies that push the boundaries of printmaking.
Carinna Parraman, Director of The Centre for Print Research at University of the West of England, Bristol will be talking with Laura Clarke Oaten, Master-Printer at CFPR, and R James Healy about printing innovations at the CFPR and the Cabinet of Curiosities.
They will discuss the intersections between the artist and the machine, the translation between the handmade and the digital, reflecting on James’ recent work and other inspiring and innovative examples from the artist in residency programme at CFPR.
R James Healy has collaborated with major visual effects studios worldwide on music videos and feature films.
This is the second year the CFPR Editions and the Cabinet of Curiosities will be showing at Woolwich and will be bringing new exciting collaborative artworks and conversations.
Check out their discussion with Tracy Hill, Chuck Elliot, Mike White, Carinna Parraman, Laura Clarke from 2023.
Daily Tour
Join our daily bespoke guided tours of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
The tours are curated with our Directors to guide visitors around the high calibre of works on display, discover new and unexpected work in the Fair and learn more behind the concept and work that goes in to producing the event. Find out about the up-and-coming, established, and big name artists at WCPF23.
Free for ticket holders, booking advised.
Tours begin at the main entrance to the Fair.
Talk | Women in Print
Tracy Hill, Research Fellow & Project Curator at Artlab Contemporary Print Studios, University of Central Lancashire, leads a discussion on women artists and print, building a collection of prints made by women, and new approaches to women artists in public print collections. Panellists include Turner prize winning artist, Lubaina Himid, Magda Stawarska, Heather Peak, Dr Heather Mullender-Ross, Rebecca Chesney, Creative Director of WCPF, Lizzie Glendinning and a leading UK museum Curator.
This is the first year that the Art Lab Contemporary Print Prize will be awarded to a woman artist exhibiting in the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair curated hang to receive a two-week residency at the University of Central Lancashire with a subsequent acquisition to their women’s art collection.
The Ushaw Residency & Acquisition Prize | Artists In Conversation
Join Lucy Jenkins, Co-CEO & Director of Culture & Heritage at Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens, Durham who will discuss the artworks on display and their relationship to the venue, its collection and wider historic site with recent Artists in Residence, Ade Adesina and Hugh Hamshaw-Thomas, recipients of last year's Ushaw Residency & Acquisition Prize.
Susie Hamilton | Book Signing
Join Paul Stolper and Susie Hamilton at Stand 24 to celebrate the launch of ‘Susie Hamilton’, the first ever monograph on the artist’s practice. Susie will be present to sign books.
Location: Booth 24
New Collectors’ Evening
Join us for New Collectors’ Evening and sip on your complimentary glass of Maison Mirabeau and enjoy the live DJ set, have-a-go print demos by Jealous and Sonsoles Print Studio, and of course hundreds of artworks showcasing the very best of international contemporary print.
Drop in any time from 6 - 9pm. Booking essential.
Susie Hamilton | Book Signing (Copy)
Join Paul Stolper and Susie Hamilton at Stand 24 to celebrate the launch of ‘Susie Hamilton’, the first ever monograph on the artist’s practice. Susie will be present to sign books.
Location: Booth 24
Art Laughs
We’re thrilled to welcoming back Art Laughs who will be performing throughout the evening! Comedians and improvisors Verity Babbs, Dom O’Keefe, Giles Gear and Sophie Ward will be bringing entertainment, joy and laughter to the love of art delivering three, twenty minute improvisations across the evening.
Talk: Why Print? Exploring What It Is & Why It Matters
A fascinating introduction into 'what is an original print?', the benefits of collecting the medium and the ways to do it.
Top Art Advisor and WCPF Director of Partnerships & VIP, Cia Durante, leads a stellar panel of industry leaders in the world of contemporary print including Paupers Press Director Mike Taylor & Robert Kennan, Head of Editions, Europe, Phillips, Lindsay Dewar, Art Tactic & Tom Murphy, Founder of Make Ready.
Young London Print Prize: Drop-ins
Young London Print Prize are running free drop-in workshops for anyone under 18. Kids can come and learn how to make a print! Young people can try new printing techniques and get some expert advice and support from our team. The ink is washable but potentially messy!
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Free for ticket holders, no booking required.
Live Printing demonstrations
Have-a-go live etching and screenprinting demonstrations by Gainsborough House and Screentec.
You'll also have the chance to see the fascinating Gunning Etching presses from Ironbridge Fine Arts in action. Featuring a variety of artistic techniques, including relief plates like Lino, woodblock, and letterpress, as well as intaglio photogravure etchings, dry-points, and mono-prints.
Try out the 3D-printed mini presses from Open Press Project, create your own unique mono-print and take it home.
Free for ticket holders, no booking required.
Talk | The Art of Collecting: Original Prints
Prints can often be an accessible way into collecting, but like other art medium can sometimes seem overwhelming and complete with different terms. Join collections management specialist Georgia Powell of CURA Art and Charlotte Salisbury, Print Specialist and Associate Director at Cristea Roberts Gallery, as they discuss everything you need to know about collecting prints.
Daily Tour
Join our daily bespoke guided tours of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
The tours are curated with our Directors to guide visitors around the high calibre of works on display, discover new and unexpected work in the Fair and learn more behind the concept and work that goes in to producing the event. Find out about the up-and-coming, established, and big name artists at WCPF23.
Free for ticket holders, booking advised.
Tours begin at the main entrance to the Fair.
Talk | Motherhood & Making
Join Founder & Creative Director of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (and Mother), Lizzie Glendinning, as she moderates a panel discussion surrounding (Re)emerging artists after childcare, and how the versatility of printmaking might be helping mothers navigate their way back into their profession. Discussing the topic with celebrated writer and Curator, Hettie Judah (How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers; Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood), Founder & Creative Director of PROCREATE PROJECT CIC, Dyana Gravina, and leading Artist-Mothers; Katherine Jones RA, Flavia Pinto & Cat Roissetter, they interrogate how motherhood can effect the status of them as being a ‘professional’ artist; and if (mis)conceptions around print as 'crafty', ‘hobbiest’, or as a lesser art form because of its popularity among women artists?
Talk | Art World Futures
Join a panel of experts for a fascinating discussion of the changing structures and future direction of the art world. Key hot topics include: new models for art institutions as they face unprecedented financial and existential challenges; the growing role of philanthropy in funding the arts; the rise of the private art museum and the blurring of the public and private art sectors; and the changing institutions of the art market.
This talk has been made possible with the generous support of Lund Humphries and Sotheby's Institute of Art in relation to the event and the book series, Hot Topics in the Art World (published by Lund Humphries in association with Sotheby's Institute of Art).
Panellists
Moderator | Juliet Hacking - Program Director, MA Contemporary Art, Sotheby's Institute of Art, London & co-editor of the series Hot Topics in the Art World.
Georgina Adam - journalist, author and art-market Editor-at-Large of The Art Newspaper. Georgina is the author of Hot Topics volume: The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum.
Fatoş Üstek - Independent curator and writer, curator of Frieze Sculpture. Fatoş is the author of Hot Topics volume: The Art Institution of Tomorrow.
Leslie Ramos - philanthropy and strategy advisor in the arts and cultural sectors, and co-founder of international arts philanthropy organisation The Twentieth. Leslie is the author of Hot Topics volume: Philanthropy in the Arts.
Live Printing demonstrations
Have-a-go live etching and screenprinting demonstrations by Thames Side Studio and Screentec.
You'll also have the chance to see the fascinating Gunning Etching presses from Ironbridge Fine Arts in action. Featuring a variety of artistic techniques, including relief plates like Lino, woodblock, and letterpress, as well as intaglio photogravure etchings, dry-points, and mono-prints.
Try out the 3D-printed mini presses from Open Press Project, create your own unique mono-print and take it home.
Free for ticket holders, no booking required.
Talk | History of Print: A PIONEERING PROCESS
Art Historian, Dr. Rachel Sloan (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Arts Writer & Editor, Holly EJ Black (contributing Arts Editor, The World of Interiors; author, ‘A History of Printmaking’) join Professor Jo Stockham, Head of MA Printmaking at the Royal College of Art and 2024 WCPF Selection Panellist, to discuss the history or print with a particular focus on how innovations in printmaking throughout the centuries have been at the forefront of spreading cultural knowledge and access.
Daily Tour
Join our daily bespoke guided tours of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
The tours are curated with our Directors to guide visitors around the high calibre of works on display, discover new and unexpected work in the Fair and learn more behind the concept and work that goes in to producing the event. Find out about the up-and-coming, established, and big name artists at WCPF23.
Free for ticket holders, booking advised.
Tours begin at the main entrance to the Fair.
Talk | United in Design: Art in the Home
Founder & Creative Director of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Lizzie Glendinning leads a conversation on engaging with art in the home as part of this special focus on Art & Interiors with interior design charity United in Design.
As a Curator, Lizzie is trained in creating engaging visual narratives through collections and works with clients to reassess their collections and living spaces for the best way to enjoy living with contemporary art. Together with House & Garden’s Fiona McKenzie Johnston, leading interior designers and a young designer from the United in Design programme who has designed a space at the 2024 Fair they discuss new ways to hang, concepts for enjoying art in the home, and interior stories to inspire.
Talk | Oliver Projects: Artists’ Talk
Oliver Projects founder, Katherine Oliver, will host an informal talk with exhibiting artists Suzanne Moxhay, Theadora Ballantyne-Way, and Bobbye Fermie. The group will discuss the themes and ideas that they explore through their work, and their respective printmaking processes.
Location: Booth 10
Future Strategy Club | Creative For Good
Justin Small, CEO & Founder of Lead Sponsor, Future Strategy Club, introduces individual speakers around the agency mission of Creative for Good.
Gary Izunwa, Co-Founder & CEO of Tangent
Gary is the Co-Founder & CEO of Tangent - a digital platform that makes job referrals accessible to everyone and NOT just the privileged few with the best networks. Prior to Tangent, Gary started his career at LinkedIn and then led social mobility programmes at the British Council. For his efforts advocating for social mobility, Gary is now a prolific public speaker, a recipient of the 2021 McKinsey & Company Achievement Award and has been recognised in the Forbes 30 Under 30 2024 Class for Social Impact.
Gary will be talking on social mobility in the creative industries.
Vanessa Bunn, Participation Manager at Mountview (Sat)
Vanessa is a Curator, Producer and Facilitator who specialises in collaborating with young people to develop ways of using art as a force for good in their lives. As Participation Manager at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, she guides Mountview's work with and for young people and community and teaches on two of the MA degree programmes. Vanessa initiated Peckham Sessions at Mountview in 2023. This annual programme cultivates opportunities for Peckham residents to collaborate with local artists and organisations to develop new skills, explore their creativity and connect with each other in a supportive, fun, and inspiring environment.
Vanessa is also an Ambassador at Theatre Peckham, where she has co-curated the last two Peckham Fringe festivals and, most recently, produced the engagement elements of a project about Theatre Peckham's rich community heritage. As part of the 24/25 Space for Change cohort at A New Direction, Vanessa is committed to collaborating with other participatory arts leaders to establish actionable routes into developing equitable creative career pathways for the next generation.
Vanessa will be sharing how the programmes at Peckham Sessions are opening up creative opportunities across generations of Peckham residents.
Talk | Artists Supporting Artists
Hosted by CURA Art. In an age of decreasing arts funding art making is increasingly conscientious and community-led, and this discussion highlights three artist-led initiatives that are leading the way in creating art for good. Join Pia Pack, UK founder of The Binder of Women; Lucy Kent, Founder of Art for Charity Collective and Matthew Burrows, Founder of The Artist Support Pledge, as they discuss what it means to support other artists alongside their own practice.
Live Printing demonstrations
Have-a-go live etching and screenprinting demonstrations by Intaglio Printmaker.
You'll also have the chance to see the fascinating Gunning Etching presses from Ironbridge Fine Arts in action. Featuring a variety of artistic techniques, including relief plates like Lino, woodblock, and letterpress, as well as intaglio photogravure etchings, dry-points, and mono-prints.
Try out the 3D-printed mini presses from Open Press Project, create your own unique mono-print and take it home.
Free for ticket holders, no booking required.
Talk | Positioning Print: The Art Market & Investment
Leading art market writer Melanie Gerlis (Financial Times; The Art Newspaper) joins Fair Director, Jack Bullen, exhibiting gallerists and Carolin von Massenbach (Head of Prints & Multiple, Bonhams) to Discussing discuss the positive opportunities to access and navigate the art market with original print.
Discover new and interesting ways you can enjoy the collecting journey, track print investment, and the impact Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair’s unique model has had on launching unknown artists, encouraging new collectors and innovative approaches to contemporary print.
Talk | Communities, Class & Creative Access
What impact is Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, our friends and our partners, having on communities, and how does access to the arts differ through varying socio-economic backgrounds?
Hosted by the Chair of the WCPF Advisory Board and Founder of the Young London Print Prize, Matt Bell, alongside Justin Small, CEO of Future Strategy Club, and Seren Metcalfe, Founder, The Working Class Creative Database, this panel discussion visits new initiatives, collectives and objectives in place to broaden opportunities to encourage new audiences, involve more participants and provide career paths across creative industries.
Daily Tour
Join our daily bespoke guided tours of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
The tours are curated with our Directors to guide visitors around the high calibre of works on display, discover new and unexpected work in the Fair and learn more behind the concept and work that goes in to producing the event. Find out about the up-and-coming, established, and big name artists at WCPF23.
Free for ticket holders, booking advised.
Tours begin at the main entrance to the Fair.
Future Strategy Club | Creative For Good
Justin Small, CEO & Founder of Lead Sponsor, Future Strategy Club, introduces individual speakers around the agency mission of Creative for Good.
Sam Furness, Founder of Creative Quests
Sam is a cultural producer and artist who believes in the potential for creativity and curiosity to reignite our connection to each other, ourselves and the places we exist.
He is the founder of Channel Twelve, a creative impact studio designing experiences that unlock the creative potential in everyone. Since 2021 Channel Twelve’s core programme Creative Quests has attracted 1200 people from 24 countries. Creative Quests is a collective experience that helps people around the world explore their creative potential alongside a worldwide community of fellow Questers. Each Quest challenges people to embrace a creative theme for one month, giving them a framework to fill their life with illuminating new perspectives on the world around them.
Sam will be talking on collective creativity and global connectivity.
Robin Harris, Founder and Creative Director of Finding Rhythms
Jazz musician Robin Harris began delivering creative music projects in HMP Wormwood Scrubs in 2005. He quickly realised that empowering prisoners to create their own music through reflection had incredible effects on their well-being.
In 2012 Finding Rhythms was officially born and has since produced over 100 albums of original music, written and performed by people in custodial and community settings.
Robin will be talking about the power of songwriting and music in exploring personal narrative and stories, particularly for those affected by the criminal justice system.
Talk | Art as Regeneration: Bringing Communities Together
Art has the ability to bring people together, create powerful messaging and bring hope to communities. Join this discussion, led by CURA Art’s Georgia Powell, on the topic of art and regeneration, using Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair and other regeneration projects to talk about how art can be used for good.
Colouring Outside the Lines
Join Oliver Projects for a lively conversation between exhibiting artist Siphiwe Mnguni and Art & People founder Claudia Kennaugh.
The pair will discuss Siphiwe's whirlwind journey as an emerging artist, her passion for combining print with mixed media, and their shared mission to break down the barriers of the traditional art world.
Free for ticket holders, no booking required.
Daily Tour
Join our daily bespoke guided tours of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
The tours are curated with our Directors to guide visitors around the high calibre of works on display, discover new and unexpected work in the Fair and learn more behind the concept and work that goes in to producing the event. Find out about the up-and-coming, established, and big name artists at WCPF23.
Free for ticket holders, booking advised.
Tours begin at the main entrance to the Fair.
Live Printing demonstrations
Have-a-go live screenprinting demonstrations by Screentec and live etching demonstrations by Intaglio Printmaker.
You'll also have the chance to see the fascinating Gunning Etching presses from Ironbridge Fine Arts in action. Featuring a variety of artistic techniques, including relief plates like Lino, woodblock, and letterpress, as well as intaglio photogravure etchings, dry-points, and mono-prints.
Free for ticket holders, no booking required.
Young London Print Prize: Drop-ins
Young London Print Prize are running free drop-in workshops for anyone under 18. Kids can come and learn how to make a print! Young people can try new printing techniques and get some expert advice and support from our team. The ink is washable but potentially messy!
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Free for ticket holders, no booking required.
Painterly Print by Blue Shop Gallery
Join Director of Blue Shop Gallery, Ocki Magill in conversation with artists Alice Hartley, Sofia Alrich Veytia and Constanza Pulit exploring processes of mono screen printing, hydro-coat etching and gum bichromate printing, while discussing their artworks and the tools and materials used.
Free for ticket holders, no booking required.
Daily Tour
Join us for daily bespoke guided tours of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
The tours are curated with our Directors to guide visitors around the high calibre of works on display, discover new and unexpected work in the Fair and learn more behind the concept and work that goes in to producing the event. Find out about the up-and-coming, established, and big name artists at WCPF23.
Free for ticket holders, booking advised.
Tours begin at the main entrance to the Fair.
Young London Print Prize: Drop-ins
Young London Print Prize are running free drop-in workshops for anyone under 18. Kids can come and learn how to make a print! Young people can try new printing techniques and get some expert advice and support from our team. The ink is washable but potentially messy!
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Free for ticket holders, no booking required.
Live Printing demonstrations
Have-a-go live etching and screenprinting demonstrations by Thames Side Print Studio and 3rd Rail Print Space.
You'll also have the chance to see the fascinating Gunning Etching presses from Ironbridge Fine Arts in action. Featuring a variety of artistic techniques, including relief plates like Lino, woodblock, and letterpress, as well as intaglio photogravure etchings, dry-points, and mono-prints.
Free for ticket holders, no booking required.
Daily Tour
Join our daily bespoke guided tours of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
The tours are curated with our Directors to guide visitors around the high calibre of works on display, discover new and unexpected work in the Fair and learn more behind the concept and work that goes in to producing the event. Find out about the up-and-coming, established, and big name artists at WCPF23.
Free for ticket holders, booking advised.
Tours begin at the main entrance to the Fair.
REDEFINING THE PRINTED PAGE
Join Director of Brocket Gallery and WCPF Co-Founder, Lizzie Glendinning in conversation with artist Liorah Tchiprout and Rachel Sloan, Assistant Curator of Works on Paper at The Courtauld, as they discuss the printed journey through art historical trends and contemporary practice with insights in to pieces in The Courtauld's collection and Liorah's own work.
Free for ticket holders, no booking required.
Daily Tour
Join our daily bespoke guided tours of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
The tours are curated with our Directors to guide visitors around the high calibre of works on display, discover new and unexpected work in the Fair and learn more behind the concept and work that goes in to producing the event. Find out about the up-and-coming, established, and big name artists at WCPF23.
Free for ticket holders, booking advised.
Tours begin at the main entrance to the Fair.
Young London Print Prize: Drop-ins
Young London Print Prize are running free drop-in workshops for anyone under 18. Kids can come and learn how to make a print! Young people can try new printing techniques and get some expert advice and support from our team. The ink is washable but potentially messy!
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Free for ticket holders, no booking required.
Live Printing demonstrations
Have-a-go live etching and screenprinting demonstrations by Art Academy London and Screentec.
You'll also have the chance to see the fascinating Gunning Etching presses from Ironbridge Fine Arts in action. Featuring a variety of artistic techniques, including relief plates like Lino, woodblock, and letterpress, as well as intaglio photogravure etchings, dry-points, and mono-prints.
Free for ticket holders, no booking required.
New Collectors’ Evening
Join us for New Collectors’ Evening and sip on your complimentary glass of Maison Mirabeau and enjoy the live DJ set, have-a-go print demos by Jealous and St Barnabas Press, and of course hundreds of artworks showcasing the very best of international contemporary print.
This year we’re thrilled to welcome Art Laughs who will be performing throughout the evening! Comedians and improvisors Verity Babbs, Dom O’Keefe, Giles Gear and Sophie Ward will be bringing entertainment, joy and laughter to the love of art.
Drop in any time from 6 - 9pm. Booking essential.
Daily Tour
Join our daily bespoke guided tours of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
The tours are curated with our Directors to guide visitors around the high calibre of works on display, discover new and unexpected work in the Fair and learn more behind the concept and work that goes in to producing the event. Find out about the up-and-coming, established, and big name artists at WCPF23.
Free for ticket holders, booking advised.
Tours begin at the main entrance to the Fair.
ARTIST TALK BY NATASHA MICHAELS & LINDSEY MORAN
Artists Natasha Michaels and Lindsey Moran will be in conversation with Lucy Jenkins, Director of Culture and Heritage, discussing their new body of work created specially for this year’s Fair. Michaels and Moran were awarded the Ushaw Residency & Acquisition Prize 2022. The artists will talk in depth about their time as artists-in-residence at Ushaw Historic House & Gardens and the process of creating artwork directly responding to the collections, which are showcased at WCPF23.
Free for ticket holders, no booking required.
Daily Tour
Join our daily bespoke guided tours of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
The tours are curated with our Directors to guide visitors around the high calibre of works on display, discover new and unexpected work in the Fair and learn more behind the concept and work that goes in to producing the event. Find out about the up-and-coming, established, and big name artists at WCPF23.
Free for ticket holders, booking advised.
Tours begin at the main entrance to the Fair.
Live Printing demonstrations
Have-a-go live etching and screenprinting demonstrations by Leicester Print Workshop and Sonsoles Print Studio.
You'll also have the chance to see the fascinating Gunning Etching presses from Ironbridge Fine Arts in action. Featuring a variety of artistic techniques, including relief plates like Lino, woodblock, and letterpress, as well as intaglio photogravure etchings, dry-points, and mono-prints.
Free for ticket holders, no booking required.
Young London Print Prize: Drop-ins
Young London Print Prize are running free drop-in workshops for anyone under 18. Kids can come and learn how to make a print! Young people can try new printing techniques and get some expert advice and support from our team. The ink is washable but potentially messy!
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Free for ticket holders, no booking required.