Nineprintmakers

With this pre-Christmas exhibition Nineprintmakers return to Riverside Studios for their seventh annual show with over one hundred recent works displaying a wide variety of techniques: etching, aquatint, drypoint, monoprint, collagraph, silk screen, photoetching and mixed media as well as more experimental approahces.

All works are available for sale either framed or unframed.

Colin Aggett: Trained originally as a scientific photographer , he spent most of his working life in university audio-visual and media studies departments. Following retirement he took up printmaking and chose to explore image-making using photo-etching and digital techniques. His early work concentrated on imagery based on natural structures of plants, seeds and man-made shapes in architecture and industrial objects. More recently he has been exploring combinations of intaglio and digital prints, often working within a square grid format. He is currently using collagraphic techniques to make prints with strong textural and embossed characteristics.

Lucy Farley: Born in 1982, she studied at Central Saint Martins and went on to obtain an MA in Printmaking at The Royal College of Art. She is currently completing a two year Fellowship at The Royal Academy, London. Exhibitions in London have included the ‘Originals’ Printmaking show at the Mall Galleries in London, as well as The Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

“Painting, drawing and printmaking are all part of my practice. I am interested in depicting places that I have a personal connection with or a history that inspires me. My work aims to build up a record of time, spirit of place and changing feelings which occur through travel, my existence in the city and a connection with nature and the landscape.”

Robert Geers: An American, he has a BA from the Art Center in Los Angeles, California. He has worked in advertising in New York and London, where he now lives. His interest in non-verbal communication led to efforts in graphic design, painting and book illustration. A prolific painter, he migrated to printmaking in 2001.

Keith Hunter: A linguist by training, he first became interested in printmaking in Hong Kong where he worked with a group of gifted and innovative local artists who combined modern printmaking techniques with imagery derived from Chinese visual culture. The peripatetic nature of his career, largely in the Far East, precluded developing creative involvement in the medium until his return to the UK, but provided him with a broad range of visual and cultural stimuli. He has experimented with a variety of techniques, his most recent work inspired by China and ancient Greece.

Julia Martin: Her interest in printmaking dates from the late 90s in Somerset, where the emphasis was chiefly on woodcuts. Since then, in London, she has been mostly involved in the many techniques of intaglio printing, while continuing to draw and paint. She chooses themes from both home and abroad and whether these stem from affection for the long and closely observed familiar, or from the excitement of foreign places, she tries to interpret imressions and memories, choosing the scenes, events, people and objects which most faithfully portray her response. She has exhibited prints in Taunton and Yeovil in Somerset and in St. John's, Smith Square and the Coningsby Gallery in London.

Noonie Minogue: She studied English at Cambridge, Classics at London University, and etching and lithography in Rome. She is a book reviewer, a teacher of Greek and Latin, and is the author of Nero the Singing Emperor (Short Books). She plays in a quartet and is a member of the SOAS Adhoc Rebetiko band. Music and poetry, particularly the mythology and songs of the Mediterranean, are a source of inspiration.

Sumi Perera: Her work is an amalgam of influences of her native Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom, her adoptive country, working as a doctor, scientist and artist (MA, Camberwell College). Slight variations on the theme are used to generate 'unique multiples', while blurring boundaries between the artist/artisan, orient/occident and the past/present. Her complex work combines a wide array of printmaking methods with stitch and manually-controlled laser cutting techniques. She exhibits internationally and is the recipient of prestigious awards in the USA and South Korea as well as the United Kingdom. Her works are held in Tate Britain, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Guanlan Museum, China, Grafisk vaerksted-Naestved, Denmark, Sakima Art Museum, Japan, the printROOM in Rotterdam, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Sumi Perera RE MSDC SGFA is a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE), Society of Designers Craftsmen (MSDC), Society of Graphic Fine Art (SGFA) and the 62 Group (an International Textile Artists).

Sarah Warley-Cummings: She studied fashion and design at Central St. Martins School of Art and became a freelance designer and illustrator, working in advertising, international publications and newspapers. Following a spell as fashion writer for a Fleet Street tabloid, she transferred to news reporting for more than a decade before retiring to devote herself full time to painting. She has exhibited with the Pastel Society and the New English Art Club as well as a number of European, regional and London galleries including W.H.Patterson, Piers Feetham and the Originals Print Exhibition at the Mall Galleries.

Annabel Wyllie: She first studied mosaics then watercolour and oil in Barcelona before moving back to England and starting printmaking in 1995. From this background she has developed a complex method of printing using many plates and creating layers through the devices of stencil, monotype and chine colle. These multi-layered images with classical and literary illusion hope to convey an intangible essence of the past and a glimpse into a mysterious and ancient world.

Riverside Studios
Crisp Road, Hammersmith
London W6 9RL United Kingdom
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Saturday from 10.00am to 11.00pm
Sunday from 10.00am to 10.30pm

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