Thursday 21 March, 12.00
Adam 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)
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Thursday 21 March, 14.00
Liorah 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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Friday 22 March, 12.00
Norman 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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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.
£5, Navy Board Room
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Saturday 23 March, 12.00
Bruce 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.
£5, Navy Board Room
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Saturday 23 March, 14.00
Susie 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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Sunday 24 March 11.00 - 13.00 and 14.00 - 16.00
Printmaking 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)
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Sunday 24 March, 12.00
Rachel 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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Sunday 24 March, 14.00
A 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.
£5, Navy Board Room
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