Tickets are now on sale for London Original - Print Fair 37th Edition
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA - Thursday 26th – Sunday 29th May 2022
Tickets are now on sale for the London Original Print Fair (LOPF), which this year makes the
exciting move to Somerset House for its 37th edition. As the fair returns with a much-
anticipated physical edition, it welcomes a number of new exhibitors alongside previous
galleries and print publishers. Exhibiting at the London Original Print Fair for the first time will
be Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Daniel Crouch Rare Books, Hidden Gallery, ICA, Manifold Editions,
Pangolin London, Raw Editions, Smithson Gallery, Tate, Verbatim and Whitechapel Gallery.
Returning to LOPF, Jealous Gallery and Enitharmon Editions continue their annual joint
initiative The Print and the Poem with an inspiring collaboration between Radiohead lead singer
Thom Yorke, and artist Stanley Donwood, on show for the first time at the Fair. Highlights also
include Picasso prints exhibited by Frederick Mulder and works by Frank Auerbach, Francis
Bacon and Lucian Freud from Marlborough. Additionally, Osborne Samuel Gallery have notable
prints by Christopher R. W. Nevinson and Cyril Power’s famous linocut The Tube Station.
For this edition of the London Original Print Fair, Cristea Roberts will dedicate their stand to the
graphic works of Dame Paula Rego RA, works which come directly from the artist's archive.
Over twenty prints and unique works on paper, tracing almost 25 years of Rego's printmaking
oeuvre, will focus on the daring and confrontational subjects of her work that reflect the dark
depths of human suffering and endurance.
Exclusively for 2022, Jealous will also exhibit Chris Levine’s work marking the Platinum Jubilee
with a remarkable platinum leaf portrait of the Queen, while Manifold Editions will launch two
new editions by Bradley Theodore, named Eternal Queen; and Cynthia Corbett Gallery will
exhibit a hand-applied platinum portrait of the Queen by Deborah Azzopardi.
One of the particular strengths of this Fair is the wide span of work on sale, stretching back to
the early engravings and woodcuts of Dürer and his contemporaries. Elizabeth Harvey-Lee will
exhibit prints by Rembrandt, Canaletto and Goya as well as Dürer and Daniel Crouch Rare Books
will bring an incredible single-owner collection of over 200 works by the engraver Wenceslas
Hollar. Works like this at LOPF highlight the importance of printmaking throughout the history
of art and sets contemporary prints in the context of work by old and modern masters.
TAG Fine Arts will exhibit brand new editions by Tobias Till, Stephen Walter and Adam Dant,
coinciding with the launch of Dant’s new book Political Maps. Paul Stolper’s stand will include a
work from Chila Kumari Singh Burman, a significant figure in the Black British Art movement
from the 1980s. They will also release a screenprint of Said Adrus’ Zeitgeist which pinpoints a
moment in the poverty-fuelled Toxteth riots that destroyed parts of Liverpool.
Enitharmon Editions will launch three artist books at LOPF: Weather, a collaboration between
Antony Gormley and Colm Tóibín; Texas, an artist’s book by Duane Michals, one of America’s
pre-eminent photographers; and The Castle of Perseverance, which brings together the painter
and print-maker Philip Pearlstein and the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon.
At Long & Ryle, Ramiro Fernandez Saus will be releasing a new print featuring one of his iconic
characters: a tiger seated on a cloud underneath the stars. Plus, the gallery will show works
from Nick Archer, who was shortlisted for the Jerwood Printmaking Prize 2020 and has
continued to create mysterious and beautiful etchings and mono prints.
Advanced Graphics will display a selection of seldom-seen works from Albert Irvin RA, marking
the centenary of his birth. They will also show rare still life works from Craigie Aitchison RA
alongside a new set of prints by Vanessa Jackson RA, based on her pedestrian crossings over
Piccadilly (still visible now) from last autumn. Eames Fine Art will be exhibiting etchings,
silkscreens and hand-coloured mono prints by John Hoyland RA with rare and previously unseen
works from his archive. They will also be launching A Mediterranean Journey, a boxed set of 10
etchings by Karen Keogh.
Art China’s stand will include works from Cao Ou and Zhu Kecheng; both young artists depict
their concerns and emotions in these beautiful images using the water-based woodcut. At
Hanga Ten visitors can see works previously exhibited in London by Hiromitsu Takahashi,
Katsunori Hamanishi and Toko Shinoda – all masters in their field. In particular, Hiromitsu
Takahashi is one of a handful of living artists left in Japan who work in a rare technique called
‘kappazuri’ stencil printmaking.
Gerrish Fine Art will show a remarkable complete set of thirteen etchings by David Hockney for
his Illustrations for Fourteen Poems for Constantine Cavafy, 1966-67, one of only 25 sets on
large sheets of vellum paper. This is one of Hockney's most iconic series of early etchings.
Celebrating Rabley Gallery’s 18th year, they will launch the Blue Folio 2022, a new collection of
12 prints by 12 artists (Prudence Ainslie, Neil Bousfield, Ian Chamberlain, Eileen Cooper RA, Lucy
Farley, Sarah Gillespie, Katherine Jones, Sara Lee, Natasha Michaels, Nana Shiomi, Emma
Stibbon RA and Sadie Tierney). Following Stella McCartney’s new designs based on works by
artist Frank Stella, Shapero Modern will bring a selection of Frank Stella works to the fair.
Tickets are £18 full-price and £12 for concessions - https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/london-original-print-fair
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