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Thursday 21 March
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Adam Dant: The Secret History of Somerset House
Thursday, 12pm | Stand W6 (West Wing) FREEArtist Adam Dant kicks off LOPF 2024’s talks programme with a guide to his The Secret History of Somerset House, a new print 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.
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In Conversation: Liorah Tchiprout and Matt Kirkum
Thursday, 2pm | Navy Board Room (South Wing) BOOK HERE: £5.00Following 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 and personal highlights of the Fair.
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Friday 22 March
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Norman Ackroyd: What Do Artists Do All Day?
Friday, 12pm | Navy Board Room (South Wing) BOOK HERE: £5.00Join 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.
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In Conversation: Marcelle Hanselaar and Elenor Ling
Friday, 2pm | Navy Board Room (South Wing) BOOK HERE: £5.00Celebrated 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.
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Saturday 23 March
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Bruce McLean: Artist’s Talk and Film Screening
Saturday, 12pm | Navy Board Room (South Wing) BOOK HERE: £5.00Leading 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.
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Artist's Talk: Susie Hamilton
Saturday, 2pm | Navy Board Room (South Wing) BOOK HERE: £5.00Susie Hamilton’s work focuses on the wilderness, as she says, ‘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.
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Sunday 24 March
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Printmaking Workshop
Sunday, 11am - 1pm & 2pm - 4pm | Stand E7 (East Wing) FREE (Spots allocated on a first come, first served basis)Soho Revue will be running a rolling, drop-in drypoint printmaking workshop using recycled materials for four participants at a time from 11.00am - 1.00pm and 2.00pm - 4.00pm on Sunday. This workshop is suitable for all ages and abilities and will require minimum of 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.
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Rachel Sloan: Building a Collection
Sunday, 12pm | Navy Board Room (South Wing) BOOK HERE: £5.00Recent 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.
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A Tribute to Joe Tilson
Sunday, 2pm | Navy Board Room (South Wing) BOOK HERE: £5.00Cristea Roberts Gallery Associate Director Sophie Lindo and LOPF Director 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 C20th British art and the commission of the Rosslyn Chapel stained glass window.
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