PRATT CONTEMPORARY PRATT EDITIONS
Pratt Contemporar y Printers and publishers of contemporar y prints and artists’ books Pratt Contemporar y is multi-faceted, offering technical exper tise to ar tists in the field of printmaking, specialising in screenprint, intaglio, relief and inkjet techniques. The studio has a continuous publishing programme for its own ar tists as well as providing a proofing and editioning ser vice to independent ar tists and publishers. Founded in 1977 by Bernard and Susan Pratt, Pratt Contemporar y has evolved through a multitude of different activities that include sculpture, painting and drawing. Since its inception the core activity has been printmaking and the guiding principle has been one of collaboration and dialogue between printer and ar tist. Alongside the studio’s broad knowledge of traditional printmaking techniques it continues to experiment with new methods and materials as they become available. Now in its thir ty-third year, what is clear is the studio’s commitment to printmaking as a vigorous language for visual ar tists and its impor tance in the development of their work. Pratt Contemporar y does not stick to the tried and tested - ‘being facilitators for ar tists is what’s exciting.’ Pratt Contemporar y is a member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) and the Fine Press Book Association (FPBA).
Ana Maria Pacheco Ana Maria Pacheco is an artist of extraordinar y
Museum and Ar t Galler y; Hayward Touring
diversity. Primarily a sculptor, she is also a painter
(Prints); The Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and
and printmaker.
Her work has evolved from a
Ar t Galler y; Wolverhampton Ar t Galler y; Norwich
tradition of making that lies between South American
Castle Museum; Trout Galler y, Dickinson College,
and European culture, drawing on a rich variety of
Pennsylvania, USA; Galleri F15, Moss, Norway
cultural references.
(touring); Kunsthalle Wien, Austria;
She is currently working on
Salander-
a series of reliefs in alabaster, bronze and wood,
O’Reilly Galleries, New York, USA; PanAmerican
exploring the metaphor of the journey, a recurrent
Ar t Projects, Miami, USA; Kilkenny Ar ts Festival,
theme in her work.
Ireland; Dak’Ar t 2000, Senegal, West Africa; Trondhjems Kunstforening, Trondheim, Norway.
Ana Maria Pacheco was born in Brazil. Following degrees in both Ar t and Music, she taught and
Collections include
lectured for several years at universities in Goiás
British Museum; British Librar y; Tate Galler y;
before coming to London in 1973 on a British
Victoria and Alber t Museum; Ar ts Council England;
Council Scholarship to the Slade School of Fine
Government Ar t Collection: Ashmolean Museum,
Ar t. Since then she has lived and worked in
Oxford; Birmingham Museum and Ar t Galler y;
England. From 1985-89 she was Head of Fine Ar t
Wolverhampton Ar t Galler y; Norwich Castle
at Norwich School of Ar t. She has lectured widely
Museum; Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester ;
and has been on various educational boards. In
Trondhjems Kunstforening, Trondheim, Norway
1999 she received the prestigious Ordem do Rio
New York Public Librar y, USA; Fogg Ar t Museum,
Branco from the Brazilian Government. She has
USA; Por tland Ar t Museum, USA; Sweet Briar
received Honorar y Degrees from the University
College, Virginia, USA; Setagaya Ar t Museum,
of East Anglia and Anglia Polytechnic University
Tokyo, Japan; Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
and in 2003 was made a Fellow of University Sculpture Exhibitions 2010-11
College London.
Shadows of the Wanderer From 1997-2000 she was Associate Ar tist at the
St. John’s Church, Waterloo, London
National Galler y, London, which culminated in a
29 October - 23 December 2010
major exhibition of her work that toured on to
Studio 3 Galler y, The Jarman Building,
fur ther venues in the UK.
University of Kent, Canterbur y 18 Januar y - 9 April 2011
Pacheco has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad including the National Galler y, London; British
Museum, London; Hereford
Museum
An Ancient Dark Night Descended Upon My Soul
and Ar t Galler y; Aldeburgh Festival of Music
Dr ypoint, 2010. Printed on Somerset Satin White
and the Ar ts; Wallspace at All Hallows on the
410gsm in an edition of 15 plus 3 ar tist’s proofs,
Wall, London; Herber t Ar t Galler y & Museum,
2 publisher’s proofs, 1 printer’s proof and 1 archive
Coventr y; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Brighton
proof. Plate: 99.7 x 75.8 cm (39 1/4 x 29 3/4 in)
Guardians I & II Dr ypoint, 2010. Printed on Somerset Soft White 300gsm in editions of 20 plus 3 ar tist’s proofs, 2 publisher’s proofs, 1 printer’s proof and 1 archive proof. Plates: 32.8 x 25.8 cm (12 7/8 x 10 1/8 in)
Guardians III & IV Dr ypoint, 2010. Printed on Somerset Soft White 300gsm in editions of 20 plus 3 ar tist’s proofs, 2 publisher’s proofs, 1 printer’s proof and 1 archive proof. Plates: 32.8 x 25.8 cm (12 7/8 x 10 1/8 in)
The Sphinx that learned to fly 1-6 Dr ypoint, 2010. Printed on Somerset Soft White 300gsm in editions of 25 plus 3 ar tist’s proofs,2 publisher’s proofs, 1 printer’s proof and 1 archive proof. Plates: 12.5 x 10 cm (5 x 4 in)
Marcus Rees Rober ts Following his degree in English at Cambridge, Marcus Rees Rober ts studied Film Theor y at the Slade School of Fine Ar t, where he wrote his thesis on German Expressionist Cinema. He went on to complete a second post-graduate course in printmaking at the Slade. In 1977 he was awarded the Slade Prize and appointed teaching assistant in printmaking. In 1980, Rees Rober ts moved to Scotland to lecture at Edinburgh College of Ar t. In 1982 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Central Florida and in 1989 as Lecturer in charge of Printmaking at Edinburgh College of Ar t, a post he held until 1995, when he returned to live and work in London. He is currently Visiting Lecturer at West Dean College, West Sussex. Memory’s Wound This new series of etchings is related to much of the work Rees Rober ts has been making over the last eighteen months. Reading Paul Celan has had a deep influence on his work. Bukovinian Jewish, writing in German, this great poet sur vived the Holocaust in body but, in Michael Hamburger’s phrase, not in spirit.
Exhibitions include The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy of Ar ts The New York Print Fair, Park Avenue Armor y UK Fine Press Book Fair, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford. Por tland Ar t Museum, Oregon, USA (International Print Exhibition) University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA; Hodges Taylor Galler y, Charlotte, USA The Slade Galler y, London Strang Print Room, University College London; Blackburn Museum and Ar t Galler y Steven Harris, New York, USA Sussex Barn Ar t Galler y, West Dean College. Collections include British Museum Victoria and Alber t Museum University College London Ashmolean Museum Oxford Blackburn Museum Scottish Ar ts Council Pallant House, Chichester
As well as prints, Rees Rober ts has been working on ar tist’s books, paintings, and films, all with a similar theme. It is not only the recurring ideas of Celan’s work that interests him, it is the way these ideas are expressed in such inventive but sparse and fractured language. Memory’s Wound I & II Etching, 2010. Printed on Velin Arches Blanc 400gsm in editions of 15 plus 3 ar tist’s proofs, 2 publisher’s proofs, 1 printer’s proof and 1 archive proof. Plates: 58.2 x 84.2 cm (23 x 33 1/4 in)
Memory’s Wound III Etching, 2010. Printed on Velin Arches Blanc 400gsm in an edition of 15 plus 3 ar tist’s proofs, 2 publisher’s proofs, 1 printer’s proof and 1 archive proof. Plate: 58.2 x 84.2 cm (23 x 33 1/4 in)
Kristian Krokfors Kristian Krokfors was born in Finland in 1952. From 1973-74 he studied Ar t at the University of Industrial Ar ts in Helsinki. In 1974 he moved to England to study at Leicester Polytechnic, where he received his BA in 1977. From 1977-78 he completed the Advanced Printmaking Course at Croydon College of Ar t before returning to Helsinki, where he currently lives and works. In 1985 Krokfors received Finland’s Young Ar tist of the Year Award, a prestigious national event organised by the City of Tampere and the Tampere Ar t Museum. From 1988-90 he spent two years living and working in New York City. In 2001 he returned as ar tist-in-residence under the auspices of the Finnish Foundation for the Visual Ar ts, the Cultural Institute for Finland in the USA. Kristian Krokfors is an eminently serious artist. His works are in no sense didactic, but if you were to ask what they are “about”, the answer would spring unbidden, without any verbal prompting from him. Yes, they are, they must be, about the environment. They take as their evident, immediate subject the splendours and miseries of town planning and urbanism’s shaky relations with whatever belt of green it chooses to girdle itself with. They look at the dr yness of the desert, the acrid smoke that belches from factories, the wind that shakes the barley - or would, if there were any barley left to shake. . . . 1
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Extract from exhibition catalogue:
‘Kristian Krokfors: Paintings and Works on Paper’ Foreword by John Russell Taylor Pratt Contemporar y, 2008
Exhibitions include Tampere Ar t Museum, Finland. Amos Anderson Ar t Museum, Helsinki, Finland. Henie-Onstad Ar t Museum, Oslo, Norway. Galleri Futura, Stockholm, Sweden. Galleria Bronda, Helsinki, Finland. Dannenberg Galler y, New York City, USA. Lemonstreet Galler y, Dublin, Ireland. Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland. Galleri Norske Grafikere, Oslo, Norway. Galler y Alex, Washington DC, USA. Galleria Uusitalo, Helsinki, Finland. Galería Manuel, Ojeda, Las Palmas, Spain. Osborne Samuel Galler y, London. The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy of Ar ts The New York Print Fair, Park Avenue Armor y Collections include The Museum of Contemporar y Ar t, Helsinki. The Amos Anderson Ar t Museum, Helsinki. Helsinki City Ar t Museum. Tampere Ar t Museum. The State Collection. Parliament of Finland Collection. Alber tina Collection, Vienna, Austria. Chicago Ar t Institute, USA. World Bank, Washington DC, USA. Office of Public Works, Dublin, Ireland. University College Dublin, Ireland. The Ar t Museum of Cracow, Poland. The State Collection, Sweden. City of Nurnberg, Germany.
City View 1 & II Etching, 2008. Printed in editions of 35 plus 4 ar tist’s proofs, 1 publisher’s proof, 2 printer’s proofs and 1 archive proof. Plates: 59.5 x 49.5cm (23 1/2 x 19 1/2 )
Red Space - Blue Canal - Beach Scene Moon and the Chimney - Beach Houses - City Scene Etching, 2009-10. Printed on Somerset Soft White 300gsm in editions of 45 plus 5 ar tist’s proofs, 2 publisher’s proofs, 1 printer’s proof and 1 archive proof. Plates: 29.8 x 24 cm (11 3/4 x 9 1/4 in)
Sarah Woodfine Sarah Woodfine was born in England in 1968. From 1987-8 she studied Fine Ar t at Winchester School of Ar t and from 1988-91 at Liverpool School of Ar t. In 1995 she completed a three year postgraduate course in sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools, London. Woodfine’s practice has always had a cer tain element of gothic darkness, most recently taking the form of three-dimensional constructions in cases and glass domes, exploring imaginar y worlds that border between the familiar and fantastical. Whilst these constructions simultaneously present themselves as solid formed representations, they also seem like facades - almost like stage sets with nothing behind them. She explores the implication of what can be concealed and has become fascinated by the psychological implications of multiple viewpoints. Awards, Residencies and Projects Commissioned by Graves Ar t Galler y to produce a new work for the permanent collection (2010) Ar tangel Nights of London Interaction Project (2006) The Nelson Touch Collaboration between Aspex Galler y and The Maritime Museum, Por tsmouth (2005) First Prize, Jerwood Drawing Prize (2004) Drawing Ar tist in Residence at MIMA (2002)
Exhibitions include Danielle Arnaud Contemporar y Ar t, London The Jerwood Drawing Prize The Drawing Room, London Harewood House, Yorkshire Ha Gamle Prestegard, Norway Hales Galler y, London Galleri F15, Norway Trondjheims Kunstforening, Norway Haugesund Billedgalleri, Norway MIMA, Middlesbrough Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition Aspex, Por tsmouth Museum of Garden Histor y, London Compton Verney, Warwickshire Maritime Museum Por tsmouth Sheffield Millennium Galler y Abbot Hall Ar t Galler y, Cumbria The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy of Ar ts The New York Print Fair, Park Avenue Armor y Public Collections include Victoria & Alber t Museum, London. MIMA, Middlesbrough Ha Gamle Prestegard, Norway
Still Life 1 Still Life 2 Etching, 2009. Printed on Canford acid-free card and mounted in glass dome. Editions of 15 plus 2 ar tist’s proofs, 1 publisher’s proof, 1 printer’s proof and 1 archive proof. Still Life 1: 23.5 x 22.4 cm dia (9 1/4 x 8 3/4 in) Still Life 2: 15.4 x 15.4 cm dia (6 x 6 in)
Derek Mawudoku Derek Mawudoku was born in London in 1959 and graduated from Goldsmiths College of Ar t in 1987 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Ar t. His powerfully expressive works are drawn directly from his own life experience. His recent prints are based on the reinterpretation of images taken from sketchbooks, self-por traits, doodles and imaginar y emotional landscapes. . . . he depicts the world as he finds it, without elevating authorial presence, enhancing or exaggerating the drama of his subject. The imager y is always raw and uncompromising. Often it is heavy with psychological affect . . . fear . . . joy . . . pain . . . Sometimes it is child-like, giddy, funny; sometimes angr y. Always it is intensely human. 1
Exhibitions include Printworks, Unit 2, London Metropolitan University The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy of Ar ts The New York Print Fair, Park Avenue Armor y UK Fine Press Book Fair, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford Adjustments & Errors, The Bag Factor y, Johannesburg, South Africa Edition - 100 Years of British Printmaking, SW1 Galler y, London Stephen Lawrence Galler y, University of Greenwich, London Morley Galler y, London Clapham Ar t Galler y, London The Galler y at Willesden Green Librar y Centre, London Stockwell Studio Open (1990-92) Kettles Yard, Cambridge Galerie Hard Koppon, Amsterdam Adam Galler y, London Residencies Sir John Cass Depar tment of Ar t, London Metropolitan University (2010) The Bag Factor y, Johannesburg, South Africa (2006) Winchester Project, London (1995) John Kelly Boys School (1992) Ar tists in Schools, St. Lukes Primar y School, Cambridge (1988)
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Jon Thompson
Introduction to exhibition catalogue: ‘Feed Me: The Monotypes of Derek Mawudoku’
Collections His work has been acquired by The British Museum and is in a number of private collections in the UK and USA.
Exquisite Ar tist’s Book, 2009. Thir teen hand-coloured intaglio prints by Derek Mawudoku with text by Adrian Burnham. Printed on Somerset Textured Soft White 300gsm in an edition of 15 plus 2 ar tist’s proofs, 2 publisher’s proofs and 1 printer’s proof. Text set in Garamond. Plates: 24 x 32.8 cm (9 1/2 x 13 in) Full linen case binding in a slipcase: 33.5 x 39 x 2.5 cm (13 1/4 x 15 1/4 x 1 in) Each print available individually in a separate edition of 10 + 2 ar tist’s proofs, 2 publisher’s proofs and 1 printer’s proof.
Mark Hayward Mark Hayward was born in 1979 in England. From 2003-7 he studied at the University for the Creative Ar ts, Canterbur y (formerly KIAD) where he received a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Ar t. He went on to complete an MA in Fine Ar t Printmaking at the Royal College of Ar t, London (2007-9) and at his postgraduate degree show he was a recipient of the Tim and Belinda Mara Award. In 2007 Hayward was awarded a placement at Pratt Contemporar y. He is currently developing a new series of drawings and animations, alongside which he continues to work in the studios assisting other ar tists with the production of their work. In 2009 Air-raid (animation) was selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition, which toured to fur ther venues in the UK.
Exhibitions include Ar t Projects - invited to represent the ‘Ar t Projects Video Booth’ with a solo show of multiple moving image works, London Ar t Fair, 2010 Eyestorm, London Ar t Fair, 2010 Jerwood Drawing Prize, London (touring) Show One, Royal College of Ar t, London Bandstand, Cafe Galler y, London All Sold Out, More Around the Corner, New Cross Project Space, London The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy of Ar ts The New York Print Fair, Park Avenue Armor y UK Fine Press Book Fair, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
Fight With Punch Looped animation (18 seconds) on DVD, 2008 Produced in an edition of 171, each signed DVD is presented in a hand-made wallet with an original production ‘cel’. Wallet: 14.5 x 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 5 3/4 in)
Body Armour Screenprint, 2010. Printed on G.F. Smith Bier paper in an edition of 75 plus 8 ar tist’s proofs 2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs. Image: 20.3 x 20.3 cm (8 x 8 in) Snatch Screenprint 2010. Printed on G.F. Smith Bier paper in an edition of 50 plus 5 ar tist’s proofs 2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs. Image: 32 x 36 cm (12 1/2 x 14 1/8 in) Challenger Screenprint 2010. Printed on G.F. Smith Bier paper in an edition of 50 plus 5 ar tist’s proofs 2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs. Image: 43 x 65 cm (17 x 25 1/2 in)
Little Bird Screenprint 2010. Printed on Korean hand-made paper in an edition of 50 plus 5 ar tist’s proofs 2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs. Paper : 87 x 60 cm (34 1/4 x 23 1/2 in)
Helter Skelter Screenprint 2010. Printed on Korean hand-made paper in an edition of 50 plus 5 ar tist’s proofs 2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs. Paper : 87 x 60 cm (34 1/4 x 23 1/2 in)
Hugo Wilson Hugo Wilson was born in 1982; he currently lives and works in London. From 2000-4 Wilson received classical training in fine ar t at the renowned Charles H. Cecil Studio in Florence, Italy. He went on to study at City and Guilds in London, where he received his MA in 2008. Five of his recent etchings explore the genetic rules that were formulated by the evolutionar y biologist, J.B.S Haldane, which state: When in the offspring of two different animal races, one sex is absent, rare, or sterile, that sex is the heterozygous (heterogametic) sex. Wilson is gripped with the notion that the ‘creator’, or whatever controls these things, allows cross-breeding to go so far, yet the product will never be able to have children; there can only be the one singular individual animal. Beefalo, Zeedonk, Liger, Habit and Cama are Wilson’s realisation of genetic anomalies in response to Haldane’s rule.
Exhibitions include Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Modern Ar t, South Korea Anticipation Two, London Project B, Milan, Italy London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy of Ar ts Wonderland, New Ar t from London, curated by James Putnam, Assab One, Milan, Italy The Age of the Mar vellous One Mar ylebone, London East Wing Nine Collection Cour tauld Institute of Ar t, London Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London Tunnel 228, London Curwen & New Academy Galler y, London Maddox Ar ts, London Ar tefiera Bologna, Italy - Unosunove Ar te Contemporanea, Rome COSA Galler y, London Eleven Galler y, London BP Por trait Prize 2005, National Por trait Galler y, London
Habit Zeedonk From a series of five etchings, 2009. Printed on hand-made paper in editions of 10 plus 1 ar tist’s proof and 1 printer’s proof. Paper : 38.5 x 54cm (15 1/8 x 21 1/4 in)
Fred eric Morris Frederic Morris was born in 1985. Following a First Class Honours Degree in Illustration from Middlesex University in 2007, Morris went on to study Fine Ar t Printmaking at the Royal College of Ar t, where he received his MA in 2009. Morris ironically glamourises the darker aspects of society, where he depicts a world in a state of mental and physical disrepair as the consequence of over-indulgence and consumerism .
Exhibitions include Royal Academy Summer Show 2010 RE Annual Exhibition at Bankside Galler y, London Collectible 2, The Bargate Monument Galler y, Southampton Rising Stars, Coombe Galler y, Devon Royal Academy Summer Show, 2009 Show One, Royal College of Ar t, 2009 Bandstand, Cafe Galler y, London All Sold Out, More Around the Corner, New Cross Project Space, London Hockney Galler y, Royal College of Ar t Awards Vivien Leigh Prize, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2010. Gwen May Trust Award, Bankside Galler y, London, 2010.
And the Fields Roared with Revelling Outcry Etching, 2009 Printed on Somerset Soft White 300gsm in an edition of 25. Plate: 90.8 x 60.3 cm (35 3/4 x 23 3/4 in) Kangaroo Court Etching, 2009 Printed on Somerset Soft White 300gsm in an edition of 25. Plate: 59.4 x 67.4 cm (23 1/2 x 26 1/2 in)
Flesh and Blood Etching with aquatint, 2010. Printed on Somerset Satin White 410gsm in an edition of 25 plus 5 ar tist’s proofs 2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs. Plate: 61 x 76 cm (24 x 30 in)
Mud Larks Etching with aquatint, 2010. Printed on Somerset Satin White 410gsm in an edition of 25 plus 5 ar tist’s proofs 2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs. Plate: 50.8 x 63.5 cm (20 x 25 in)
Hand Made Good Food, Good Company Open Wide Swallow Tuck In Screenprint with hand colouring, 2010. Printed on Somerset Satin White 400gsm in an edition of 20 plus 5 ar tist’s proofs, 2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs. Paper : 38 x 28 cm (15 x 11 in)
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