Notice: New ‘In Print’ Exhibition Now Open At Watts Contemporary Gallery

Published on: 29 Oct, 2019
Updated on: 29 Oct, 2019

The In Print annual exhibition at Watts Contemporary Gallery brings together over 50 original prints by ten leading contemporary artists to explore how light and shadow are captured through diverse printmaking techniques.

Running now, until Sunday, January 5 2020, the exhibition will be open daily from 10.30am to 5pm and admission is free.

Capturing the effects of light is a challenge that has faced artists since the beginning and is the key to creating the illusion of three dimensions on a two-dimensional plane. Printmakers have the added challenge of achieving this through an additional medium.

Work selected for this exhibition – which includes linocut, screenprint and solar etching – will demonstrate how leading contemporary printmakers capture natural light at different times of day.

Printmaking is important in the history of Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village. In the years immediately preceding the First World War, Mary Watts collaborated with the printer Emery Walker to establish a print making studio at the Artists’ Village, where a sequence of reproductions of the most famous pictures of G F Watts were produced. These richly coloured painterly photogravures were distributed and sold through London print dealers.

‘A Winters Tale’ – linocut by Gail Brodholt.

Today, the annual In Print exhibition at Watts Contemporary Gallery celebrates this tradition and gives visitors the opportunity to see and buy affordable contemporary art. All work is for sale, with prints from £65. Proceeds will directly benefit Watts Gallery Trust’s Art for All learning programme.

For more information, visit www.wattsgallery.org.uk/visit/watts-contemporary-gallery.