Launch of Jamie Wood’s Whisper tonight -( But Its strictly invite only )
Whisper’s philosophy is to make contemporary art accessible to more people. Director Jamie Wood, an avid art collector with an appreciation of modern and contemporary art, came up with the ethos for Whisper when he decided art collecting should not only be an elitist passtime for those with disposable incomes.
Jamie feels that anyone with a passion for art should be able to have access to their favourite artists, not just on the walls of a museum or on the pages of an auction catalogue, but in their own homes. So he approached some of the most talented and innovative artists working today, both in the UK and internationally, emerging and established, to work with the leading print studios to create a suite of limited edition prints.
“Whisper Gallery is a great way for our clients to expand their collections to include
original prints, while also being an accessible gallery for new young buyers to start an art collection. We aim to show the process of print in all its forms and push the limits of what people except from printmaking today” Jamie Wood
For many of the artists exhibiting at Whisper, working within print expands the
boundaries of their usual practices and allows them to explore techniques and
processes which are often a new string to their bow, such as screen printing, lithography and etching.
Contemporary artists Bruce French and Pakpoom Silaphan have worked closely with Bernard Pratt of Pratt Contemporary to create a series of limited edition
prints, based on the original artworks they exhibit at Scream.
Whisper will exhibit; work by leading contemporary printmakers including Alison
Lambert, Mark Hayward and Matt Small, all of whom work in portrait and figurative
studies; Pop Art by Russell Young and Andy Warhol; and Urban Art by D*Face and
Swoon. Within Whisper’s programme there will also be exhibitions of original works by painters such as Nick Gentry and George Morton-Clark.
“Print making has become a crucial part of how I realise my work, taking my idea from the page – be it paper or computer screen – to the end result. The passage has been transformed by the infinite ways in which I can manipulate and reproduce the work, from traditional screen prints to printed sculptures”.
Bruce French
