This year Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair is online running from November 12th until December 13th. The show which is navigable via an online platform, comprises open submission curated hang, alongside galleries. It also includes a solo stand for the Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prizewinner.
Shortlisted works for this award and solo show were chosen by the Art Law Team from the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2019 curated hang. Selected artists were Anna Marrow, Penny Henkes, JohnPedder, Emma O’Hara, Sadie Tierney, Bina Shah.
Sadie Tierney took home the winning prize for her lithograph “Utpåturaldrisur: Westwater Screes’ (2019) which was purchased by Boodle Hatfield for their collection, at a reception at the prestigious Law Firm’s stunning riverside offices in Blackfriars.
Sadie Tierney was awarded the dedicated space at the 2020 edition of the fair for a solo exhibition of her work. The artist created a new series of 14 woodcuts for the show, around the theme of mountains.
“This year I have been thinking a lot about isolation and wild places. Living in a crowded city has focused this, and as well as imagining being alone in nature I took a trip to the Alps in January and again in August. The new series sprang from the drawings I made there, trying to capture the quiet but vital solitude and recording the seasonal change, and reflecting on events. These are unpeopled landscapes, but human activity is present. There is a mountain church and clock in “Raumzeit”. In the mountains, in the snow, I am much more aware of my own mortality and the tiny fragile place I hold in space and time. Still water is a recurring theme and reflections as a mirror and a space for contemplation. “Sampan” has a distinct nod to Far Eastern printmaking, and the rich history of contemplation in nature and our place within awe inspiring places.
“The treacherous icy roads at 2000-plus-meters inspired the “Verglas” Prints, the changing views and light conditions as well as the weather, and our vulnerability in wild places. The variable editions grew out of studying the changing light on the mountain views over the course the day, and varying the inking to create a more accurate and interesting way to record and represent this change. The editions of variables are printed off the same block but in different colour ways, making each print in the edition unique” (Sadie Tierney)
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2020
1. Verglas, Edition Variable of 15, woodcut on Somerset Satin, 56 x 38 cm
2. Verglas, Edition Variable of 15, woodcut on Somerset Satin, 56 x 38 cm
3.Verglas, Edition Variable of 15, woodcut on Somerset Satin, 56 x 38 cm
4. Verglas, Edition Variable of 15, woodcut on Somerset Satin, 56 x 38 cm
5. Sampan, Edition of 15, woodcut on Somerset Satin, 56 x 38 cm
6. Les Réflexions, Edition of 15, woodcut on Somerset Satin, 56 x 38 cm
7. Raumzeit, Edition Variable of 15, woodcut on Somerset Satin, 56 x 38 cm
8. Contemplation, Edition Variable of 15, woodcut on Somerset Satin, 56 x 38 cm
9. Les Réflexions (Nocturne), A/P, woodcut on Somerset Satin, 56 x 38 cm
10. Mittilagart, Edition Variable of 15, woodcut on Somerset Satin, 56 x 38 cm
11. Draumr, Edition Variable of 15, woodcut on Somerset Satin, 56 x 38 cm
12. Bilröst (Between the Worlds), A/P, woodcut on Somerset Satin, 56 x 38 cm
13. La Glace, Edition Variable of 15, woodcut on Somerset Satin, 56 x 38 cm
14. Lake Bled, Edition Variable of 15, woodcut on Somerset Satin, 56 x 38 cm
