Now in its sixth year, and back for their first IRL fair since 2019, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair offers an incredible line-up of nearly 1000 artworks, from over 500 artists, famous names and specialist galleries across a range of styles and techniques. Visitors will have the opportunity to collect original…
Andromeda is a new print by award-winning contemporary artist Rosie Emerson. The piece is a stunning edition of only 16 hand painted screen prints, which with added diamond dust, are a fine example of Rosie’s alchemistic approach to printmaking. Inspired by her love of museums, architecture, theatre, silhouettes, shrines and…
Artist and designer Nicole Rose’s work explores the emotional response to the natural world around her. Nicole graduated from Central St Martins School of Art in 1992 with a BA in Graphic Design. She has had a successful career as a Creative Director, running her own commercial design studio for…
Christopher Pearson, a MA Graduate in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, is an East London-based contemporary artist working between printmaking and sculpture. His work covers techniques including monoprint, collagraph, carborundum, viscosity, etching, and chine-collé, with a concept that concerns alchemy and transformation, time and rhythm, materiality and performativity, and…
Well this brings us right back to the days of peeling a Refresher bar off a newsprint cover, spending half of Christmas day poring over an annual and insisting you carry heavy shopping bags in a bid to stretch your arms out like Minnie the Minx… we’ve all been there,…
Over the past near-two-decades, London Design Festival has championed the power of design across multiple disciplines and celebrated its place in the capital. Now, in its 19th year, the links between London, creativity and the economy have become even more explicit: the event specifically bills itself as “exploring the power…
While some 20th century graphic design heavyweights feel like part of the very language of the discipline – Herb Lubalin, Milton Glaser, for instance; or more recently, the likes of Paula Scher, Neville Brody and Peter Saville – some of the field’s pioneers’ names are far less ubiquitous. One such…
Creating work that revolves around female characters, Manjit Thapp is something of an Instagram sensation. Having only graduated from her illustration course at Camberwell College of Arts in 2016, she’s racked up an impressive client list including Penguin Random House, Google, Apple, Tate, TIME and Stylist; and her work has…
Beloved by everyone from punks to grebos, indie filmmakers, grungers, viral meme dog-celebrities, Avril Lavigne and a large percentage of suburban teenagers, skateboarding has had a hugely significant impact on culture. Film, music, fashion, photography and fine art all owe a fair bit to skateboarding, as is demonstrated in a…
Hosted by Pen Gallery, in Poole’s (Dorset, UK) newly regenerated Kingland Crescent, Windrush Echoes features works by Arts University Bournemouth Alumni, graphic designer Kemba Earle and multimedia artist Daisy Jones. The exhibition, which opened on the 22 June – National Windrush Day is, a visual exploration into experiences of the…
Illustrator and printmaker Kelly Belter’s first solo exhibition opened in Busan this month at CSB Gallery, running from June 5th to the 30th. The exhibition, titled Passage, explores the stages of the creative process through various forms of printmaking. The gallery is broken up into several distinct sections, which seek to…
Currently on view at Parlour and Ramp (Chicago) is Assemble; an exhibition of Vic Barquin’s most recent collages and screen prints produced through her collaborative publishing program, Halftone Projects. The collages on display feature screen printed halftone dots, neon poster board, and torn up fragments of older prints. Using editioned…
In 2019 Print artists Ricardo Corte and Jonathan Lawes scouted Instagram to find kindred spirits they could bring together for a group show themed loosely though the use of bold, neon, and fluorescent colour schemes. Their work the only judging factor, the duo were able to gather a diverse collection…
The creative team behind Sneakers Unboxed: Studio To Street, the Design Museum’s much anticipated new exhibition which opened on 18th May 2021, highlights the importance of collaboration when it comes to successful design. Two London design teams came together to bring the exhibition to life; InterestingProjects handled the 3D design…
No one needs reminding that for a year or so, visiting art galleries IRL has been but a distant memory for the most part, with many exhibitions adapted to online versions with varying degrees of success as institutions grapple with making an exhibition as engaging in pixels as in situ.…
The Summer electric! We’re excited to present the debut solo show by POP Member and abstract artist Zoe Anker. Taking place from May 21st through to June 6th 2021 at BSMT Space, bask in the glow of Zoe’s bright and geometric floral explosions that evoke the shapes and feel of…
Over the past year, letterpress printmaker and designer, Dafi Kuhne, has been working on a project called The Absurdity of the Moment; a series of 10 large (70x100cm) letterpress printed posters. The posters have all been produced from hand-cut linoleum and hot metal type, and printed in up to 10…
What unites The Deftones, Fela Kuti, Peter Saville, Shabazz Palaces and zine-making? Music is the obvious answer, but what we’re clumsily getting at here is all of the above’s pioneering, future-changing unity of sound and design, be that graphic design, technological innovation, moving image or fashion. The intersection of music…
Somerset House has launched a free, interactive digital archive that celebrates Black British art, called DECENTRALISE. The platform is the first project to emerge from Somerset House’s Young Producers programme, which offers training, development and London Living Wage paid opportunities for emerging cultural producers aged 18-30 who are otherwise underrepresented…
Over the last few years, the work of civil rights activist, sociologist and early data visualisation pioneer W.E.B Du Bois is finally getting the recognition it deserves. During his lifetime, Du Bois was at the forefront of early 20th century Black protest movements, publishing his essay collection The Souls of…