London Original Print Fair 2024 Talks Programme

Celebrating printmaking in all its forms, the Fair includes a programme of inspiring talks.

Archived Event

Dates	21- 24 March 2024
Space	Navy Board Room South Wing

Thursday 21 March, 12.00Adam Dant’s Secret History of Somerset House

Artist Adam Dant kicks off LOPF 2024’s Talks programme with a guide to his new print The Secret History of Somerset House, launched for LOPF. This intricate work provides a novel vision of one of Londoners’ favourite ‘contemplative spaces’, weaving together images of architectural splendour with glimpses of arcane history and contemporary quotidian public life, exposition and endeavour.
Free, Stand W6 (West Wing)

An initial sketch by artist Adam Dant for his print, the Secret History of Somerset House

Thursday 21 March, 14.00Liorah Tchiprout & Matt Kirkum in conversation

Following her first major solo show with Marlborough Gallery, Liorah Tchiprout speaks to Matt Kirkum, Head of Marlborough Graphics. They will explore Tchiprout’s printmaking practice and its relation to drawing and painting, discuss her influences and inspirations, as well as personal highlights of the Fair.
£5, Navy Board Room
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A mono colour print by artist Liorah Tchiprout shows a yougn woman with long hair with her eyes cast downwards

Friday 22 March, 12.00Norman Ackroyd: What Do Artists Do All Day? screening with the artist

Join renowned printmaker and Royal Academician Norman Ackroyd for a private screening of the BBC4 documentary What Do Artists Do All Day?, dedicated to his practice. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the artist.

£5, Navy Board Room
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A mono print by artist Norman Ackroyd of the Croaghaun Cliffs at Achill Head in County Mayo

Friday 22 March, 14.00 Marcelle Hanselaar & Elenor Ling in conversation

Celebrated printmaker Marcelle Hanselaar speaks with Elenor Ling, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The artist and curator recently collaborated on the Fitzwilliam Museum’s exhibition Bearing Witness?: Violence and Trauma on Paper, a dialogue between Hanselaar’s masterful etchings and historical, modern and contemporary works from the museum collection.
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A mono print by artist Marcelle Hanselaar shows a dramatic scene of a woman being restrained by two men in front of her upset child whiel outside we can see a pack of agressive dogs

Saturday 23 March, 12.00Bruce McLean artist’s talk and film screening

Leading British abstract artist Bruce McLean speaks about his inventive approach to printmaking and screens a new film that explores his innovative practice. A printmaker, sculptor and painter, McLean’s work can be found in the collections of the V&A, Tate and British Council.
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An abstract print predominantly in red by artist Bruce McLean

Saturday 23 March, 14.00Susie Hamilton in conversation

Susie Hamilton’s work focuses on the wilderness: "This wilderness may be literal (the Arctic) or metaphorical (the superstore) but both can be arenas for transformation." Hamilton’s new monotypes at LOPF reflect on her father August Courtauld’s Arctic expeditions.
£5, Navy Board Room
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A print shows the silhouette of a figure rendered in light pinks and blues by artist Susie Hamilton

Sunday 24 March 11.00 - 13.00 and 14.00 - 16.00Printmaking Workshop

Soho Revue will be running a rolling, drop-in drypoint printmaking workshop using recycled materials for four participants at a time. This workshop is suitable for all ages and abilities and requires a minimum 10 minutes' participation. Come and have a go, take your very own artwork home and gain insight into the printmaking process with Soho Revue technician James Randell.
Free, Stand E7 (East Wing)

A photo of the artist James Randell wearing an apron in his studio

Sunday 24 March, 12.00Rachel Sloan, Building a collection: recent print acquisitions at The Courtauld

Rachel Sloan, The Courtauld Gallery’s Associate Curator of Works on Paper, speaks about building and working with The Courtauld’s outstanding collection of over 30,000 works on paper dating from the Renaissance to cutting edge contemporary artists. Coinciding with The Courtauld’s exhibition From the Baroque to Today: New Acquisitions of Works on Paper, Sloan highlights recent additions to the collection, including prints by Mary Cassatt, Grayson Perry and Frank Bowling.

£5, Navy Board Room
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An illustration by artist Mary Cassat shows a seated Victorian woman holding a parrot

Sunday 24 March, 14.00A Tribute to Joe Tilson

Sophie Lindo and Helen Rosslyn discuss the life and work of legendary printmaker Joe Tilson, one of the great figures in post-war British art and a pivotal artist of the British Pop Art movement during the 1960s. They will focus on his printmaking, influence on 20th century British art and the commission of the Rosslyn Chapel stained glass window.

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Joe Tilson

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