Print Project Space
The Print Project Space presents an ongoing series of displays and exhibitions of works by the gallery’s roster of artists.
Cannons Hidden in Roses, and Nocturne, 2019, by Ali Banisadr are from the artist’s first project with the gallery and incorporate a multiplicity of printmaking techniques including aquatint, etching, spitbite and drypoint. Each work is hand-painted with watercolour and encapsulates the artist's symphonic mark-making. These editions were recently acquired by the Victoria and Albert Musuem, London, for their permanent collection.
For a new series of screenprints, Julian Opie continues his investigation of technology and the phenomena of ‘going viral’ on social media. Dance Synced., 2024 depict several dancing figures rendered in bright colour, based on real dances popularised on TikTok and YouTube.
Melodious Flower is a group of ten limited edition prints by Yinka Ilori, which are being exhibited for the first time. The series which features a flower motif repeated in ten different bold colourways is being published to celebrate the launch of Ilori’s collaboration with The North Face, which pairs Ilori's characteristically bold and colourful patterns with the brand's outdoor gear.
Screenprints by Odili Donald Odita (b. 1966) are informed by both modernist hard-edge abstraction and West African textiles. Odita combines these influences to create bold, large-scale compositions.
As a precursor to his solo exhibition at Cristea Roberts Gallery, Untitled (Headphone Fragment), 2017, by Michael Craig-Martin will also be on show in our Print Project Space. This painting is characteristic of the distinctive style Craig-Martin has developed over the past 50 years, documenting the world through the construction of images of objects. Craig-Martin’s most extensive solo exhibition to date is currently on view at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
The display is completed with a monumental edition made by Richard Serra in the final years of his life. Few artists pushed printmaking to such sculptural extremes as Richard Serra, who made prints for over 50 years. Layering Paintstick, a densely layered black pigment, on handmade paper, Serra explores weight, stability and density.
New painterly collages by Clare Woods, Collage for The Price of Eggs, and Collage for Peace, 2024, will also be launched during the exhibition. Woods is known for her depictions of classic still life subjects such as flowers, jugs and pots. Her fluid mark-making combined with evocative titles, give her works on paper an uncanny quality, that borders on both the figurative and abstract.
