Georgie Hopton has generously produced Wet Fires, 2023, a limited edition artwork in support of Tate. Hopton creates collages in beautiful and strange compositions which allude to the natural world. For her Tate edition, Hopton has used paper from a range of sources, which she collects from paper shops in Europe and vintage wallpaper rolls, as well as pieces of yarn to create a unique collage. The collage was photographed, capturing the textures and shadows of the collage, and printed in an edition of 40 with pigment ink and silkscreened colour and spot varnish. Hopton, who is interested in the illusions created by layering, has then hand-finished each print with yarn. Of Wet Fires, Hopton says:

Gerard Manley Hopkins said of Spring

What is all this juice and joy?

The same could be said of Autumn, when the rain puts out the crackling flames of leaves that litter the ground and the heart and mind, sparked in turn, blaze with a near euphoria, ignited by the negative ions released through the dousing. The Fall dispenses its particular narcotics and I, helpless as an addict, stumble clumsily from one to the other, lit.