Have-a-go live etching and screen-printing demonstrations by Art Academy London and Private Press.

You'll also have the chance to see the fascinating Gunning Etching presses from Ironbridge Fine Arts in action. Featuring a variety of artistic techniques, including relief plates like Lino, woodblock, and letterpress, as well as intaglio photogravure etchings, dry-points, and mono-prints.

Try out the 3D-printed mini presses from Open Press Project, create your own unique monoprint and take it home.

Free for ticket holders, no booking required.

Join our daily bespoke guided tours of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. 

The tours are curated with our Directors to guide visitors around the high calibre of works on display, discover new and unexpected work in the Fair and learn more behind the concept and work that goes in to producing the event. Find out about the up-and-coming, established, and big name artists at WCPF23.

Free for ticket holders, booking advised.
Tours begin at the main entrance to the Fair.

Tracey Hill, Research Fellow & Project Curator at Artlab Contemporary Print Studios, University of Central Lancashire, leads a discussion on women artists and print, building a collection of prints made by women, and new approaches to women artists in public print collections. Panellists include Turner prize winning artist, Lubaina Himid, Heather Peak, Heather Mullender-Ross, Rebecca Chesney, Creative Director of WCPF, Lizzie Glendinning and a leading UK museum Curators

This is the first year that the Art Lab Contemporary Print Prize will be awarded to a woman artist exhibiting in the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair curated hang to receive a two-week residency at the University of Central Lancashire with a subsequent acquisition to their women’s art collection. 

Join us for New Collectors’ Evening and sip on your complimentary glass of Maison Mirabeau and enjoy the live DJ set, have-a-go print demos by Jealous and Sonsoles Print Studio, and of course hundreds of artworks showcasing the very best of international contemporary print.

Drop in any time from 6 - 9pm. Booking essential.

Discover more about the journey of collecting through original print with leading experts. Hosted by our friends at ownArt, the interest-free art loans for a more affordable way to collect and buy contemporary art

Have-a-go live etching and screenprinting demonstrations by Gainsborough House and Screentec.

You'll also have the chance to see the fascinating Gunning Etching presses from Ironbridge Fine Arts in action. Featuring a variety of artistic techniques, including relief plates like Lino, woodblock, and letterpress, as well as intaglio photogravure etchings, dry-points, and mono-prints.

Try out the 3D-printed mini presses from Open Press Project, create your own unique mono-print and take it home.

Free for ticket holders, no booking required.

Prints can often be an accessible way into collecting, but like other art medium can sometimes seem overwhelming and complete with different terms. Join collections management specialist Georgia Powell of CURA Art and Charlotte Salisbury, Print Specialist and Associate Director at Cristea Roberts Gallery, as they discuss everything you need to know about collecting prints.

Join our daily bespoke guided tours of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. 

The tours are curated with our Directors to guide visitors around the high calibre of works on display, discover new and unexpected work in the Fair and learn more behind the concept and work that goes in to producing the event. Find out about the up-and-coming, established, and big name artists at WCPF23.

Free for ticket holders, booking advised.
Tours begin at the main entrance to the Fair.

Join Founder & Creative Director of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (and Mother), Lizzie Glendinning, as she moderates a panel discussion surrounding (Re)emerging artists after childcare, and how the versatility of printmaking might be helping mothers navigate their way back into their profession. Discussing the topic with celebrated writer and Curator, Hettie Judah (How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers; Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood) and leading Artist-Mothers, they interrogate how motherhood can effect the status of them as being a ‘professional’ artist; and if (mis)conceptions around print as 'crafty', ‘hobbiest’, or as a lesser art form because of its popularity among women artists?

Join a panel of experts for a fascinating discussion of the changing structures and future direction of the art world. Key hot topics include: new models for art institutions as they face unprecedented financial and existential challenges; the growing role of philanthropy in funding the arts; the rise of the private art museum and the blurring of the public and private art sectors; and the changing institutions of the art market.

This talk has been made possible with the generous support of Lund Humphries and Sotheby's Institute of Art in relation to the event and the book series, Hot Topics in the Art World (published by Lund Humphries in association with Sotheby's Institute of Art). 

Panellists 

Have-a-go live etching and screenprinting demonstrations by Thames Side Studio and Screentec.

You'll also have the chance to see the fascinating Gunning Etching presses from Ironbridge Fine Arts in action. Featuring a variety of artistic techniques, including relief plates like Lino, woodblock, and letterpress, as well as intaglio photogravure etchings, dry-points, and mono-prints.

Try out the 3D-printed mini presses from Open Press Project, create your own unique mono-print and take it home.

Free for ticket holders, no booking required.

Art Historian, Dr. Rachel Sloan (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Arts Writer & Editor, Holly EJ Black (contributing Arts Editor, The World of Interiors; author, ‘A History of Printmaking’) join Professor Jo Stockham, Head of MA Printmaking at the Royal College of Art and 2024 WCPF Selection Panellist, to discuss the history or print with a particular focus on how innovations in printmaking throughout the centuries have been at the forefront of spreading cultural knowledge and access.

Join our daily bespoke guided tours of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. 

The tours are curated with our Directors to guide visitors around the high calibre of works on display, discover new and unexpected work in the Fair and learn more behind the concept and work that goes in to producing the event. Find out about the up-and-coming, established, and big name artists at WCPF23.

Free for ticket holders, booking advised.
Tours begin at the main entrance to the Fair.

Founder & Creative Director of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Lizzie Glendinning leads a conversation on engaging with art in the home as part of this special focus on Art & Interiors with interior design charity United in Design. 

As a Curator, Lizzie is trained in creating engaging visual narratives through collections and works with clients to reassess their collections and living spaces for the best way to enjoy living with contemporary art. Together with House & Garden’s Fiona McKenzie Johnston, leading interior designers and a young designer from the United in Design programme who has designed a space at the 2024 Fair they discuss new ways to hang, concepts for enjoying art in the home, and interior stories to inspire.

Hosted by CURA Art. In an age of decreasing arts funding art making is increasingly conscientious and community-led, and this discussion highlights three artist-led initiatives that are leading the way in creating art for good. Join Pia Pack, UK founder of The Binder of Women; Lucy Kent, Founder of Art for Charity Collective and Matthew Burrows, Founder of The Artist Support Pledge, as they discuss what it means to support other artists alongside their own practice.

Have-a-go live etching and screenprinting demonstrations by Intaglio Printmaker.

You'll also have the chance to see the fascinating Gunning Etching presses from Ironbridge Fine Arts in action. Featuring a variety of artistic techniques, including relief plates like Lino, woodblock, and letterpress, as well as intaglio photogravure etchings, dry-points, and mono-prints.

Try out the 3D-printed mini presses from Open Press Project, create your own unique mono-print and take it home.

Free for ticket holders, no booking required.

Leading art market writer Melanie Gerlis (Financial Times; The Art Newspaper) joins Fair Director, Jack Bullen, exhibiting gallerists and top Auction House specialist to Discussing discuss the positive opportunities to access and navigate the art market with original print. 

Discover new and interesting ways you can enjoy the collecting journey, track print investment, and the impact Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair’s unique model has had on launching unknown artists, encouraging new collectors and innovative approaches to contemporary print.

Join our daily bespoke guided tours of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. 

The tours are curated with our Directors to guide visitors around the high calibre of works on display, discover new and unexpected work in the Fair and learn more behind the concept and work that goes in to producing the event. Find out about the up-and-coming, established, and big name artists at WCPF23.

Free for ticket holders, booking advised.
Tours begin at the main entrance to the Fair.

What impact is Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, our friends and our partners, having on communities, and how does access to the arts differ through varying socio-economic backgrounds? 

Hosted by the Chair of the WCPF Advisory Board and Founder of the Young London Print Prize, Matt Bell, alongside Justin Small, CEO of Future Strategy Club, and Seren Metcalfe, Founder, The Working Class Creative Database, this panel discussion visits new initiatives, collectives and objectives in place to broaden opportunities to encourage new audiences, involve more participants and provide career paths across creative industries.

Art has the ability to bring people together, create powerful messaging and bring hope to communities. Join this discussion, led by CURA Art’s Georgia Powell, on the topic of art and regeneration, using Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair and other regeneration projects to talk about how art can be used for good.