Curator's Tour

Curator's Tour with Lizzie Glendinning, Curator and Director of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair

Friday 25 June

18:30 – 19:00

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Pop-Up

16, 17 & 19 South Molton Street

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair is the UK’s largest art fair dedicated to contemporary print. Working with some of the most dynamic independent artists, each year they commission site-specific installations to provide an innovative platform to challenge people’s perceptions and push the boundaries of print.

They are delighted to be showcasing their installations once again, in collaboration at Mayfair Art Weekend with thanks to Grosvenor Estates. Filling three empty retail spaces along the South Molton Street in Central London, WCPF presents large-scale work by Eleanor May Watson, Tanaka Mazivanhanga and Carol Wyss.

Tanaka Mazivanhanga was commissioned to create her large-scale installation Floating Islands, for the 2019 Fair. Inspired by her background in architecture, the Zimbabwe-born artist focuses on challenging perceptions of space by presenting her memories of transient surfaces in an unfamiliar way, drawing out the curious in the everyday.

Carol Wyss’s installation piece Signs from WCPF 2018 attempts to visually abstract human bones and create a found, rather than invented, system of signs. Wyss, by methodically searching for what holds us together, examines the structures

Eleanor May Watson’s frieze, Other Echoes Inhabit The Garden (2020), a 3x11m monotype printed on Japanese paper, was inspired by the Canopus at Hadrian’s Villa. The artist chose the ruinous imagery as an expression of human aspiration and the hope we place in art to transcend it. Recently featured in The Telegraph Magazine, the pattern has been created into a limited edition (of 10) friezes available for sale as wall panels through Woolwich Contemporary Studio.