Printmaking Live in the Gallery
Thirty LOOP artists will be exhibiting together at the Bankside Gallery. Throughout the show, members will be making prints, demonstrating their working methods, and offering visitors and collectors an insight into their techniques, source materials and inspirations.
LOOP Artists in Print was founded in 2005 by MA graduates from Camberwell School of Art and has exhibited annually ever since, broadening and developing its membership. LOOP prides itself in maintaining the Camberwell connection but also in encouraging and including new talent from elsewhere.
The programme of “Live in the Gallery” this year will see experienced printmaker Marianne Ferm RE in action, working with drypoint and showing her exquisite aquatint etchings inspired by the movement and power of water. A new LOOP member Maya McMahon-Boon, recently graduated from Glasgow School of Art. She will be printing etchings onto fabric, demonstrating her attentive approach to the materiality of printmaking and how it reveals and shapes her subject-matter. Ute Haring, whose subject matter for her woodcuts has shifted to more urban sources recently, will be cutting and printing her blocks, burnishing them by hand during the exhibition. Ute builds her prints from multiple blocks, each a character in a drama played out on paper.
Several LOOP members run studios or lead workshops alongside their own practice. Susie Turner specialises in solar plate etching in her own printmaking and in her work as an artist-educator. Working live in the gallery, she will share her expertise and her interest in the natural world. Julie Hoyle loves working collaboratively as well as individually and is on the board of a disability arts organisation in Surrey. She is able to draw on a wide range of techniques and during the LOOP exhibition will demonstrate how she uses collagraphs. Lynne Blackburn runs an editioning screen printing studio in Essex but approaches her own very personal work spontaneously. She will be producing new layered, luminous monoprints through screenprinting on the spot during the exhibition.
Full timetable: https://www.loopartists.org.uk
Bankside Gallery, Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton St, London, SE1 9JH from 10th – 15th September. Admission: Free.
