The 39th Edition of the Fair featured forty-five exhibitors from around the world, including France, Norway, and the USA, presenting a wide array of printmaking spanning six centuries. With exclusive new print releases, special exhibitions, engaging talks, and live demonstrations, the Fair offered something for everyone.

LOPF 2024 featured several exhibitors showcasing captivating contemporary Japanese artists. Hanga Ten exhibited works showcasing diverse printing techniques from mezzotint to silkscreen and woodblock. They introduced Katsunori Hamanishi’s newest mezzotint of a dragon, celebrating 2024 as the Year of the Dragon in Japan. They presented two rare woodcut works from the early 1980s by Tadashi Nakayama, known for his extremely detailed technique sometimes utilising over twenty wooden blocks, multiple colours including gold and silver and many stages of printmaking. LOPF also consistently endeavors to showcase the work of printmakers worldwide who strive to explore and expand the limits of the medium. Smithson Projects highlighted the work of Rosie Emerson, ahead of her solo exhibition later this September at the gallery. Emerson produced a new photopolymer etching The Dolly Sisters, which was released exclusively at the Fair. They also featured new works by Jayson Lilley, showcasing his evolving series of hand-finished screenprints on vintage items. 

Longstanding exhibitor Marlborough Graphics juxtaposed works from the gallery's historic roster of artists with prints by established and emerging contemporary artists new to the Marlborough programme. Coinciding with Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads at the Courtauld Gallery, the gallery presented a selection of etchings by Frank Auerbach, along with a new body of work by Liorah Tchiprout, following the success of her first solo show at the gallery. Georg Wilson produced new editions for the fair, exhibiting alongside artists such as Gillian Ayres, Victor Pasmore, Vanessa Da Silva, Jimmy Merris and Celia Paul. Bernard Jacobson Gallery presented a selection of prints by artists Georges Braque, Patrick Caulfield, Howard Cohen, Robyn Denny, Sam Francis, Howard Hodgkin, Sol LeWitt, Robert Motherwell, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Smith and William Tillyer. Peter Harrington offered signed and limited original prints, including a signed print by Tracy Emin, produced during her printmaking studies and heavily influenced by Edvard Munch. Additionally, the presentation featured Mammy [Sylvia Williams] (1981) by Andy Warhol. This piece is one of ten prints from Warhol’s renowned Myths portfolio, based on a photograph taken by Warhol of Sylvia Williams dressed in costume.

Unveiling a range of Japanese Ukiyo-e (Images of the Floating World) from the 18th to the 20th Century, Japan Print Gallery offered works by artists Katsushika Hokusai, Kawase Hasui and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Celebrating Chinese woodblock printmaking, The Muban Educational Trust (MET) brought an array of commissions dating from 1997 to the present, along with prints that were highlighted in The Muban Printmaking Award. Featured artists included Cao Ou, Zheng Shuang, Wu Jide and Dr Weimin He. Long & Ryle exhibited a diverse collection of pieces from modern and contemporary British artists, including Irish printmaker Cliona Doyle, whose large format carborundum prints are influenced by Japanese screens and are created outdoors, directly from nature. They also featured a new series of prints by Catalan artist Ramiro Fernandez Saus, using the intricate chine collé technique, along with works by preeminent landscape and figure painter David Inshaw.