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Q & A : Helen Rosslyn’s Director of the London Original Print Fair

MaliMorris

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Sims Reed Hockney Two Vases

We managed to catch up with Helen Rosslyn ahead of the opening of the London Original Print Fair tonight and ask a few questions.

1 This is the 29th year of the The original The Original Print Fair do you see yourselves always being at the RA?
I hope so. It certainly seems to be a good fit for us both – and no time more so than now, when both the President of the RA, Christopher Le Brun and the Keeper of the RA Schools, Eileen Cooper, are printmakers themselves.

2 How do you balance the number of galleries/dealers/publishers who exhibit?
We don’t have a set ratio but like to encourage a broad mix of exhibitors, so that contemporary works are shown in the context of a long tradition of printmaking.

3 Have you tightened up the entry requirements this year?
Unlike fairs that take place in exhibition halls, space in the wonderful Royal Academy galleries is limited, so we are often oversubscribed for places. The good thing is that this enables us to keep the quality of exhibitors high.

4 There seems to be a real confusion In the public between the difference between limited edition prints, prints, giclee, lithographs , woodcuts, etchings etc Have you any plans to educate the buying public?
One of the great things about people who want to buy prints is that they like to know what they are buying – and are prepared to learn. Responding to demand we have stepped up our programme of printmaking talks by artists and exhibitors this year. But my advice to people visiting the Fair is always to ask the exhibitors anything you want to know – they have great knowledge and are keen to share it.

5 I hear you will have woodcuts from some of the most famous artists ever at LOPF?
Yes, we will have woodcuts by Durer, lithographs by Matisse, etchings by Whistler and screenprints by Warhol, to name just a few.
But alongside these we will also have prints by artists just out of art school – possibly the big names of the future.

6 Final question if you had $49,000 to spend on some prints which artists would you invest in?
As an investment, probably Picasso, but I would be very tempted by Gillian Ayres, from a one-woman show of her work at this year’s Fair.
I might also take the opportunity to buy a lithograph by the great War artist Nevinson, whose prints will be well represented this year I am sure.

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