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NATIONAL ORIGINAL PRINT
EXHIBITION 2015
The National Original Print Exhibition, established by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE), is an international open submission exhibition celebrating the best of contemporary printmaking. Now in its second year the show has an exciting and diverse blend of work by emerging young artists and established professional printmakers. The panel of judges, Mychael Barratt, Stanley Jones, Deborah Orr, Ciara Phillips, Trevor Price and Gill Saunders, selected 155 pieces from the thousands of submissions with no criteria or agenda beyond acknowledging those rare pieces that compelled them to enthusiastically raise their hands and say - yes please, let’s have that one! As an art organisation run by artists, the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers is constantly working to create longer-term opportunities for artists and to promote printmaking to a wider audience.
Muafangejo When I was young and broke, living in a squat on the site where the London Assembly building now stands, I used to go for long, cheap, urban walks, and often went into the South Bank Centre just to warm up. There wasn’t much to do there then, if you hadn’t bought a ticket to something. It wasn’t the bustling purveyor of sourdough bread and environmentally friendly circus that it is now. But one afternoon in the mid-1980s, there was a little foyer exhibition of lino-cuts by an African artist, John Muafangejo. I absolutely loved them.
linocuts was genuine and important as well as beautiful and arresting. Muafangejo’s life had been nothing at all like mine, yet we’d made this direct and urgent exchange.
The ones I adored were explicitly political, critical of apartheid in Rhodesia and South Africa. They managed to seem simple and sophisticated at the same time. They were very powerful and they were all for sale. Even though I was so skint that I was literally living on pasta with melted butter, I bought the cheapest one for £120. For me, at that time, this was an immense amount, pretty much all I had in the world. I don’t know what came over me, but I’m glad it did.
I bought a set six screen-prints at a degree show that I adore, even though I’ve forgotten the student’s name, if I ever knew it. I own a piece of printed textile by Henry Moore, the only textile design he ever did. (I think.). I’m the proud possessor of a rejected panel from Terry Frost’s Orchard Tambourine. It wasn’t rejected by me, poor, lonely, lovely thing!
The print I had achieved ownership of was by no means my favourite, largely because it had no political content. But it was still wonderful, sticky black ink on cheap newsprint paper saying something fundamental about human existence. It was called A Hunter Is Shooting A Spingbok In A Forest. It hangs in my bedroom and is still the first thing I see each day. Some while later, sitting down to watch the concert calling for Nelson Mandela to be freed, I was thrilled to see huge banners down either side of the stage, featuring my artist’s work. Then, in the Independent’s new Saturday magazine, I saw a little piece about the artist behind the banners. He had been dead for a few months, quite young, and it was believed he had been poisoned by political enemies. Much later, I learned that he’d died of a heart attack, and that this had probably been a feverish rumour. So, I got a lot for my £120, not just the piece of art itself, but the feeling of having become a tiny part of an awesomely huge historical narrative, because the thing that I saw in those
I wish I could say that this particular purchase was the start of an amazing life of shrewd patronage and astounding investment. But that first experience gave me something much less flashy than that. It gave me the courage to hunt down the side of the couch when I saw something that I loved, and always to be on the lookout for such things.
All this means nothing, except that the walls of my home are covered in items that give me pleasure and satisfaction. When I need a little soothing, I just let my eye drift to the sides of the room. I never spend much money. Getting fabulous stuffwithout spending much money is the great joy of print-hunting. I was asked to be on the selection panel for this year’s show, because at last year’s I bought a print by Georgia Keeling, which now hangs in my living room. It’s called Suck and appears to depict a red, sightless giant on the cusp of performing oral sex on some black, armadillo-like creature. Frankly, I don’t like to speculate too much, but it always makes me smile. Anyway, the trained experts who did the selection last year reckoned that I must know something because I bought what was in their eyes the stand-out print of the show. It was very nice, after three decades of print-hunting, for print-making professionals to say: “You might be quite good at this.” Though, thanks to John Muafangejo, it’s what I’ve always told myself anyway.
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From top left (clockwise): Sumi Perera, Inside Out-Outside In [IO-OI] XV, etching & collagraph | Alison Bernal, Carceri 9, relief print | Bren Unwin, Field of Experience, 4th State, etched acrylic with intaglio & relief collage | Sophie Layton, Osaka Night Life, photo etching & monotype | Melvyn Evans, Last of the Winter Light, linocut
From top: Christophe Liotard, Tate Modern, London 2013, screenprint | Elizabeth Tomos, CMYK Registrated Ontology, screenprint Ade Adesina, Contradiction, etching | Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin, Coalesce, etching & thread
From top left (clockwise): Corinna Button, Folly, collagraph & chine-collĂŠ | Debbie Lee, School Leaver, monoprint | David Farrar, Cabinet, silkscreen print | Alice Irwin, Face, etching | Anthony Broad, Tailor, collagraph, chine-collĂŠ, digital print & rubber stamp
From top: Gail Brodholt, All the World’s a Stage, linocut | Kumyoung Kwon, La Vita è Dolce, The 108 Passions No 16, monoprint & screenprint Anthony Dyson, Vincent’s Nightmare, etching, aquatint, collage and hand-colouring | Nana Shiomi, Reverse: Universe-Chashitsu, woodcut
Yucheng Ji, How to Watch the Eclipse No 1, monotype, etching
From top left (clockwise): Theresa Gadsby-Bourner, Conyer Creek at 10pm, monotype with carborundum Jill Carter, Girl with Offering, collagraph | Grainne Dowling, Still Evening, Kinvara, sugarlift & aquatint
From top left (clockwise): Gail Mallatratt, Gold Frenzy Seized My Soul 3 [detail], woodcut | Jazmin Velasco, After Wallis at St Ives, engraving Gail Mason, Florian, silkscreen monotype | Bronwen Sleigh, Reykanesbraut II, etching | Euphrosyne Andrews, Acanthus, etching with carborundum Jane Ziemacki, Urban Monkey, mono screenprint
From top left (clockwise): Irene Graham, Neglected, etching & aquatint | Anne Desmet, Potential Gold, wood engraving, glass tesserae with gold leaf Penny Baker, King Edward the Dog, potato print, watercolour & ink | Sara Lee, Copse, Japanese woodcut | Caroline AreskogJones, The Lesson, two colour collagraph
From top left (clockwise): Louise Anderson, E35,000, photo etching | Georgia Keeling, Fish, etching & chine-collĂŠ Lars Nyberg, Shadow 4, drypoint | Peta Bridle, Blossom Street, Spitalfields, drypoint | Maria Bowers, Cecilia, photo etching
From top: Leonie Bradley, Spa from Bath Abbey, wood engraving | Ian Chamberlain, Mirror I, etching | Neil Bousfield, Seaside Steps, relief engraving | Prudence Ainslie, Fold I, woodcut & archival digital print | Ros Ford, Lido, Portishead, etching & aquatint
Sarah Frances, Paolozzi, screenprint with linocut collage
From top left (clockwise): Liz Miller, A Classic on Vinyl: Debussy - Clair de Lune - Part 5, etching & printed vinyl record Judy Carpenter, The Boat, etching | John Angus, Portrait A, screenprint | John Duffin, Thames - London, monoprint
From top: Roy Willingham, Bianco ĂŠ Nero No. 8 - Piazza, digital, inkjet | Becky Haughton, Lake, Mountain, etching Paul Thirkell, Ex Machina, photo etching, monoprint, drypoint & collagraph | Jade They, Moon Shadow, photopolymer etching
From top left (clockwise): Amanda Rees, Caravan, collagraph | Anita Klein, The Tiny Baby, lithograph Maggie Deignan, Night Feeding, etching | Pamela Holstein, Mole Skins, drypoint, map pins with stamp prints on swing tags
From top: Margaret Ashman, Altered Histories Campania, photo etching | Laura Rosser, We Ain’t All Middle Class Bohemians, woodcut Henna Asikainen, Icarus and Other Fallen Angels, monoprint | Biddy Hudson, The Ark, photopolymer
From top left (clockwise): Louise Davies, Summer Dawn, etching | Karen Keogh, Pachamama - Mother Earth, etching Ursula Leach, Leaftree, carborundum & hand colouring | Astrid McGarrighan, Within and Without, etching & aquatint | John Lynch, Demolition 3, woodcut
Dolores de Sade, Super, Artist’s book, hand-coloured etching with wood cover
From top: David Ferry, The Heritage of Large Sculpture in England in Colour, artist’s book, photomontage and text | Peter Lawrence, This is a Wood Engraving, wood engraving Anthony Lazorko, The Organs, colour woodblock | Michael Pritchard, Chilton Street Works, digital pigment prints | Melanie Davies, White River Blue River, etching
From top left (clockwise): Kei Imai, Port, screen monotype | Peter Ford, Book Stack, woodcut on handmade paper Sara Clark, Trasitional Structure 3, etching | Meg Buick, Lascaux, lithograph
From top left (clockwise): David Bromley, Kyoto Roundhouse, linocut | Jackie Newell, Blackfriars Bridge Under Construction, etching & aquatint John Bryce, Moonlight, Kings Reach, wood engraving | Cora Cummins, Pleasure Park, etching & aquatint
From top left (clockwise): Gwilym Hughes, Richard Dadd + St Margaret of Antioch (After Zurbaran), woodcut Brenda Hartill, Black on White, collaged embossings with in and charcoal | Sharon Baker, Las Palmas, photopolymer intaglio Johanna Zhang,Turning of the Wheel, etching & aquatint | Brian McKenzie, Scarecrow King, monotype | Diana Ashdown, Walking Off, linocut
From top: Nigel Humphreys, Vikkers relief, drypoint | Sharon Lee, Oblique Projection Scape, lithograph & chine-collĂŠ Rossen Daskalov, Seek Assistance, etching, drypoint, engraving & aquatint | Ian Brown, Tromba Marina II, etching & screenprint | Diarmuid Delargy, The Deluge, etching
From top left (clockwise): Bob Ballard, Male Gaze 5, drypoint etching, mezzotint & collage | Sally Mclaren, Twilight, carborundum, drypoint & enhanced conte Will Taylor, Jaisalmer Fort, Rajasthan, etching | Pennie Elfick, Mokuhanga with 3D element, mokuhanga Japanese print method Ruth Dent, Dies Irae I, monoprint, screenprint & linocut
From top left (clockwise): Caroline Whitehead, Sea Sentinel, etching & linocut | Marianne Ferm, Water Falls Through Shadow II, aquatint Gianluca Craca, Crypto 1, monoprint & graphite Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez, The House of Eros, etching Spike Taylor, Nostalgic Interfaces, MDF blocks with etching ink | Melanie Bellis, Tate Modern Extention, etching
From top left (clockwise): Sarah Jarman, Crystalline, etching | Margaret Sellars, Table-Turning I, etching & monoprint Louise Hayward, On the Thamesmead Estate, engraving on plastic | Stuart Cannell, iPhone Study 1.2, screenprint | Austin Cole, Beijing Hutong 5, etching
From top left (clockwise): Tim Southall, The End, monotype | Eman AlHashemi, Circles and Squares, intaglio relief print | Mariwan Karim, Reflection, double-sided ceramic, screenprint, monoprint, decals & mirror base | Helen Benson, Doge’s Palace from Vaporetto No 3, screenprint | Wuon-Gean Ho, Dance 7752, screenprint monoprint
JUDGES Mychael Barratt | President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Stanley Jones | Master Printer and founder of the Curwen studio Deborah Orr | Guardian Newspaper Columnist Ciara Phillips | Artist/Printmaker and 2014 Turner Prize Finalist Trevor Price | Vice President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Gill Saunders | Senior Curator of Prints at the V&A Museum
SELECTED ARTISTS Ade Adesina Prudence Ainslie Eman AlHashemi Louise Anderson Euphrosyne Andrews John Angus Caroline AreskogJones Diana Ashdown Margaret Ashman Henna Asikainen Penny Baker Sharon Baker Bob Ballard Melanie Bellis Helen Benson Alison Bernal Neil Bousfield Maria Bowers Leonie Bradley Peta Bridle Anthony Broad Gail Brodholt David Bromley Ian Brown John Bryce Meg Buick Corinna Button Stuart Cannell Judy Carpenter Jill Carter Ian Chamberlain Sara Clark Austin Cole Gianluca Craca Cora Cummins Blaze Cyan Rossen Daskalov Louise Davies Melanie Davies
Dolores de Sade Maggie Deignan Diarmuid Delargy Ruth Dent Anne Desmet Grainne Dowling John Duffin Anthony Dyson Pennie Elfick Melvyn Evans David Farrar Marianne Ferm David Ferry Peter Ford Ros Ford Sarah Frances Theresa Gadsby-Bourner Irene Graham Brenda Hartill Becky Haughton Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin Louise Hayward Wuon-Gean Ho Pamela Holstein Biddy Hudson Gwilym Hughes Nigel Humphreys Kei Imai Alice Irwin Barbara Jackson Sarah Jarman Yucheng Ji Mariwan Karim Georgia Keeling Karen Keogh Anita Klein Kumyoung Kwon Peter Lawrence Sophie Layton
Anthony Lazorko Ursula Leach Debbie Lee Sara Lee Sharon Lee Christophe Liotard John Lynch Gail Mallatratt Gail Mason Astrid McGarrighan Brian McKenzie Sally Mclaren Liz Miller Jackie Newell Lars Nyberg Sumi Perera Michael Pritchard Amanda Rees Rodolfo Rodriguez Laura Rosser Margaret Sellars Nana Shiomi Bronwen Sleigh Geraldine Smith Peter S Smith Tim Southall Anna Spradbery Spike Taylor Will Taylor Jade They Paul Thirkell Elizabeth Tomos Bren Unwin Jazmin Velasco Caroline Whitehead Roy Willingham Johanna Zhang Jane Ziemacki
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