10 YEARS | 10 ARTISTS
Rudolf Taylor, Boogie With Unpercieved Frequenceies, 2025. Unique work
To celebrate the 10th edition of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Jack (Co-Founder & Director of WCPF) and I have enjoyed highlighting 10 very special artists that we have worked closely with over the last 10 years who push the boundaries of the, often misunderstood, medium of print, with ambitious works, exquisite draughtsmanship, or intricate layering between process and subject matter which reinterpret art historical narratives or methodologies, and challenge mis or pre-conceptions of what print is.
This project has been curated to deliver an impactful story to mark our 10th year, one that demonstrates our ongoing remit to support artists in their career development, and our own curatorial concerns to show the best artists using print today.
Many of these artists are multi-practice artists whose work spans print, painting, sculpture, installation and even film, and they use print as a key part of their practice to enhance, inform and often supplement. Others are primarily printmakers, and their creative essence is rooted in the many complex, innovative and technical processes of print.
All of the featured artists have had the full support of WCPF and our wider year-round projects, sales platforms, and external curatorial projects to support early career development, exposure and acquisitions to significant private and public collections. Many of the artists who find a platform through Woolwich Contemporary have gone to find gallery representation and even big institutional shows.
This small selection has been created with reference to an artist for each year the Fair has existed. While WCPF has faced its own challenges over this last decade - namely ‘Woolwich’ and ‘Print’ being an initial stumbling block for some to navigate - we been honoured to showcase thousands of incredible artists over the years in our celebrated ‘Curated Hang’ section of the Fair, we have also been fortunate enough in turn to gain the support of many artists and curators who understand the premise of what the Fair aims to achieve, see the challenges we face as a year round platform for a mis-understood art form (and its artists), and who recognise the unique opportunity for emerging artists and those who mightn’t have representation, to show in an art fair of this scale, usually reserved for gallery stands only.
Lizzie Glendinning, CO-FOunder & Creative Director, WCPF
HORMAZD NARIELWALLA who has shown with Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair from its inaugural 2016 exhibition, works across a number of artistic disciplines including printmaking, sculpture and artist’s books but he is best known for his intricate paper collages and assemblages, which are originated on the surfaces of antique, vintage and bespoke tailoring patterns. Viewing the utilitarian, graphic templates as ‘beautiful abstractions of the human body, that carry with them not only an outline of a garment but also a representation of the individual that wore it’, he re-interprets the long-discarded patterns, overlaying their delicate geometries with forms of his own, to express ideas about identity, memory, migration and diaspora.
Born in India and moving to the UK in 2003 originally to study Fashion Design at the University of Wales, Narielwalla’s practice is influenced by cross-cultural perceptions he explores in a number of ways. Fascinated by the transformative power of clothes as a means by which to project notions of character and identity, the idea of bodily adornment and costuming is a recurrent motif. Who are we? Where do we come from? Who might we become?, are themes that reverberate throughout his work. Following an MA in Fashion Design & Communication at the University of Westminster, the artist went on to gain a PhD in Fine Art at the University of the Arts, London. Rooted in the human figure, Narielwalla’s images incorporate references to aesthetics and cultures from across the globe.
From the modest material starting points of former tailoring patterns, the works articulate an eloquent range of subject matter. Hormazd exhibits widely and his work is held in many significant private and public collections including at TATE, The Hepworth Wakefield, V&A Museum, Yale Centre for British Art, Pallant House, Hackett and special collections at Fashion Institute of Technology (NY), London College of Fashion, Manchester Met University, Liverpool John Moores, Central St Martins, and recently the John Hay Library at Brown University through Woolwich Contemporary. Expanding Universe (2025) has been a pinnacle commission for Narielwalla from the Royal Geographical Society. The large scale installation uses a set of intricate and complex tailoring patterns he acquired on his travels, in conjunction with research conducted in the archives of the Society that responds directly to the Society’s collection and remit. The work is currently installed in the map Room of the RGS measuring 386 x 653 cm.
ADE ADESINA’S work is a visual commentary around the ideas of ecology and our ever-changing world. He is a traditional printmaker, painter, and sculptor who continues to push the boundaries of print with new methodologies in creating large scale reliefs. The artist combines cultures, producing work that makes people reflect on the past, present, and future.
Aberdeen-based with his wife Emma, who is also an artist, and his young family, Nigerian-born Adesina has exhibited with Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair since 2017, receiving many special acquisitions, awards and gallery exposure with subsequent gallery representation.
In 2024 Adesina was one of two WCPF Artists in residence at Ushaw Historic House, Chapel & Gardens, Durham (UK) when he spent time researching and responding to their impressive historic site and collection. The annual award includes a residency, showcase and artist talk at the autumn Fair, and an exhibition and acquisition at Ushaw.
Adesina studied printmaking at Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen (grad.2012) and is a Royal Scottish Academician a member of The London Group. As well as Ushaw, residencies include Eton College, Glasgow Print Studio, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, Engramme, Quebec, Canada, and Fossekleiva Kultursenter Berger Museum, Norway 2024. In 2023 he was awarded the Mario Avati Engraving Prize from the Academie des Beaux-Arts, France.
Liorah Tchiprout (b. 1992, London) is an artist based in London. Her work explores girlhood, belonging, and the theatrical. Training in fine art and printmaking at Brighton University, Bezel School of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and Camberwell College of Arts, Tchiprout first showed with Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2018 through their international open call where she was quickly championed by Fair Co-founder Lizzie Glendinning as her ‘top picks’ each year.
Lizzie invited her to take part inThe Brocket Residency in 2022, with subsequent exhibitions and representation through Brocket Gallery (now Lizzie Glendinning) at WCPF 2022 and her first London solo exhibition. In 2023, Tchiprout gained representation from Marlborough Gallery who also hosted a solo exhibition of works. She is now represented by Pippy Houldsworth Gallery who manage paintings and wider projects, while Lizzie and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair continue to work with the artist in original prints.
Unique in painting from reality and imagination at once, Tchiprout stages mises-en-scènes using her ‘dolls’ or puppets who are based on close friends and characters from books - her ‘safe space’ of women. The puppets, inspired by the Modicut Yiddish Theatre Company (1926-33), enact scenes taken from recent translations of nineteenth and early twentieth century Yiddish female writers whose works are surprisingly contemporary and relatable in their approach.
As a trained printmaker, Tchiprout’s intricate etching and aquatints demonstrate a draughtsmanship well beyond her years with thoughtful narrative and composition. In her monotypes, she is able to expand her practice and it is this method which informed her early experimentations in painting - painting onto the smooth service of gesso panel as she would onto the aluminium plate for her prints - and gave her the confidence to push the boundaries of print and her own creative limitations further to become the celebrated artist she is today. As an extensive reader and researcher, the humorous titles of Tchiprout's works are taken from writers and poetry, but also reference popular culture Taylor Swift lyrics or things her friends have said.
Tchiprout was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021. She was also shortlisted for the Signature Art Prize, Ingram Prize and Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize, and received the Sunny Dupree Family Award for a Woman Artist at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in 2023. Her work is held in a number of significant private and public international collections including Soho House and the UK Government Art Collection. She recently had a sell-out presentation with Pippy Houldsworth at Frieze and received the Arts Council Collection Acquisition Award
Jake Garfield (b.1990) is a London-based artist, working primarily with printmaking, reflecting on the nature of artifice, selfhood and the act of making. His work has received a number of awards and lives in collections including The V&A Museum, The Royal Collection, Fitzwilliam Museum, Pallant House Gallery and The British Museum. Garfield’s printmaking blurs the distinction between the world of the artist, the world of an image and meta-worlds within an image. His use, or ‘tool’ of the characters within his work - Jakes, Jacobs, Jacks - excavate his own self identity as a man, an artists, as a person of Jewish heritage, and situate his work firmly within art historical narratives as well as contemporary culture. His practice is rooted in the woodcut printmaking process. To make the work, wooden blocks are carved through multiple iterations over months or years before a final image is inked up and printed onto cotton paper. Several works walk a tight-rope between representation and abstraction, which is born out of a tension between the illusory depth of each image and the inherent flatness of the woodcut medium. Abstract patterns and visual textures morph into figurative scenes and back again. There is a complex yet beautiful ongoing interrogation on how print lends itself to the idea of repetition, multiple methodologies, and straddles perceived ‘high’ and ‘low’ art forms with multiple entrance points for collectors. In 2021 Garfield was awarded the Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair and created a large-scale woodcut, Man Wrestling An Angel which previewed at the November 2022 Fair, and as a centre piece at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition 2023. Woolwich Contemporary also gave Garfield a solo showcase of his work as part of their Mayfair Art Weekend collaboration (June 2022), and subsequently presented his work for Bonham’s Lates in an immersive participation event. Jake Garfield trained at The Royal College of Art, The Royal Drawing School and Brighton University. He is a tutor at the Royal Drawing School and leads workshops with the Royal Academy. In 2023 Garfield took part in The Brocket Residency led by WCPF Founder-Directors, Jack Bullen & Lizzie Glendinning in the rural North Pennines. The programme is designed to work with artists in identifying future goals and opportunities; introduce new audiences for their work; and develop connections with institutions that inspire the artist or have significant connections with their practice.
Sergio Suárez (B.1995) is a Mexican-born, Atlanta-based artist whose practice spans printmaking, sculpture, painting and installation. Informed by Baroque intricacy, theological iconography, and traces of Mesoamerican material culture, Sergio Suárez’s work forms a universe where multivalent objects and figures navigate shifting landscapes and metaphysical architectures in dimensional flux. Often drawing from traditional woodblock printing, Suárez inks each block, transferring their images onto textiles, paper, and a myriad of materials. At times, his imagery remains unchanged; on other occasions, fragments from one block merge with and spill onto one another, challenging a linear understanding of time within any given context. Oscillating between empirical observation, material experimentation, and poetic/esoteric approaches his practice poses questions such as: How is matter transmuted? And why do we believe that time erodes when it simultaneously compresses dust into stone? Suárez has shown with Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair since its inaugural online iteration during Covid in 2020. They have subsequently presented his work through the Curated Hang and as large-scale installation pieces that truly push the boundaries of print. Recent exhibitions include NADA Fair, New York (2024), a solo retrospective at Museum of Modern Art, Georgia (2025), solo presentations at Sergeants Daughters, New York (June 2025), Patel Brown, Toronto (Sept. 2025) and mixed shows in Mykonos through summer 2025 and at Print Center New York’s, New Voices Artist in Residence show. He was also Artist in residence at the celebrated Casa Wabi, Mexico City in early 2025.
Natasha Michael
Natasha Michaels was born in London. She studied communication design at St Martins College of Art and at the Royal College of Art ,where she specialised in Printmaking. The printmaking process is integral to the overall aesthetic and narrative of Michaels incredibly layered practice which she returned to during early motherhood after a career in production. The origins of Michaels’ recent monoprints lie in historical paintings from the renaissance to the 19th century. Exploring and reinterpreting traditional conventions and genres, Michaels’ work is an investigation of her own ambivalence towards the originals. At once subverting and celebrating, she uses her own expressive language to recast and redirect the sitters, reimagining them as fictional characters . Playfully undermining the originals with a simple cartoonish change of their features, the figures appear interrupted from their original purpose, They are often lost in thought , self-conscious or uneasy; as if the original painter has stopped painting for a moment and they have been caught in a moment of uncomfortable introspection.The subjects can appear anxious or perplexed as Michaels plays with ideas of power , gender and artifice. directing the viewer to consider their status. Michaels process adds to this unstable mutant world. Beginning with the reversal of the original image. Gestural brushstrokes, slips and smears combined with the sharp boundaries of the cut aluminium plates reveal strange chimeras on the paper . Unsettlingly recognisable yet unfamiliar , they hover between high art and pop culture. Michaels makes multiple versions of each print as if engaged in a conversation with the original sitters and the emerging versions of themselves. Michaels’ work is in significant public and private collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Pallant House, Holburne Museum, Bath and the Chippenham Museum. Her illustration has been commissioned by the likes of Penguin Books, Vintage, Random House, The Guardian, and Blue Source. She is represented by Rabley Gallery who discovered her at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair where she has shown for many years. In 2023 Michaels undertook the Ushaw Residency, an artist prize awarded by Ushaw Historic House & Gardens in Durham. The opportunity resulted in a large scale monotype responding to their collection and acquired for the museum. In 2024, the artist joined Lizzie Glendinning and Jack Bullen on their residency programme where she experimented with new historic narratives and spoke to new audiences abut the themes in her work. She has recently had work in the 2023 and 2024 Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions
James Rogers
James Rogers is a sculptor working at the intersection of technology, transformation, and ritual. Using a self-built 1.5m 3D printer—modified to draw, extrude porcelain, and pump molten wax—he explores how human and machine become entangled in acts of making.
His bronze works and prints, born from motion-captured performances and glitch-driven drawings, hover between figuration and collapse—echoing metamorphosis, natural forms, and digital ghosts. Rooted in the Black Country’s industrial past, Rogers’ practice extends a lineage of craft and invention, where fabrication becomes a form of divination.
Rogers is currently developing his first large-scale UK public sculpture, to be unveiled next year. Previous exhibitions include Gonna Tell My Kids This Was Marcus Aurelius at Benappi Fine Art, London; regular presentations at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair with Julian Page; and with Lizzie Glendinning at Eye of the Collector. He was recently artist-in-residence at the Centre for Print Research (Bristol, UWE), where he integrated his experimental sculptural process with their groundbreaking technology and academic expertise.
Mohammad Barrangi
Mohammad Barrangi is an illustrator and printmaker. Born in, Rasht, Iran in 1988 Barrangi graduated from the Islamic Azad University of Tonekabon in 2011, majoring in graphic design. Barrangi's work combines elements of Persian calligraphy, storytelling, text, and touches of humour. Using a unique creative process, with handmade traditional calligraphy pens and a blend of mark-marking styles, he creates both small pieces and often expands these to large scale murals. Alumni of the Royal Drawing School 2020. Barrangi’s work is inspired by his heritage, Iranian mythological stories and contemporary events of social upheaval. His works combine elements of Persian calligraphy, old scientific illustration, storytelling, text, and humour. Using a creative process involving drawing and printing on handmade paper and using traditional calligraphy pens and mark-marking styles, he creates works which are often developed into large-scale murals. Barrangi’s work centres on experiences of travel, journeys and his lived experience with immigration and disability. His works often contain images of animals such as birds ,reptiles and mythical creatures to talk about migration, freedom, companionship, and different experiences of this world. Reflecting his own experience as an artist with a disability, his works often represent characters with limb difference, lost arms and legs, or other disabilities, as well as images of women that he admires such as family members and friends, or exiled Iranian queens. In 2023, WCPF collaborated with Berrangi to welcome visitors to the Fair with stunning installations to walk through at the entrance to the event. In 2024, he installed a large cultural piece in the entrance to the lecture theatre. Through the Fair, Mohammad’s work has ben acquired to many significant private and institutional collection, most recently (summer 2025) for The John Hay Library Collection, Brown University. Born in Iran and living in Leeds, UK, Berrangi has had many public artwork commissions through the Uk and has a large market of collectors in the USA.
Cat Roissetter
“Cat Roissetter’s tracings of bodies and objects torn from assigned locations, fill empty pages and are distempered by a noumenal grime – her drawn image made spectral, thinly outlined, mechanically stripped from some unknown elsewhere but without gaining any better purchase on their ontological ground – shimmering outlines devoid of gravity, floating and often even cut-out, so that the figural solidity of a particular form is discarded in favour of a simple hole. These Bodies Without Organs – as Deleuze and Guattari insist upon: ‘a hole is as much a particle as that which passes through it.” J A K E C H A P M A N Lizzie and Jack have worked with Cat Roissetter since 2015 where they hosted her celebrated painting exhibition, A Thousand Plateaus, at their London gallery and included work in subsequent mixed exhibitions and the inaugural Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, for which Roissetter’s dark yet playful etchings were integral to the early formulations around the Fair itself. Roissetter returned to the gallery in 2018 to present a solo drawings exhibition based on three uncanny narratives, illustrated by this exceptional artist and draughtswoman. Roissetter’s practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. Delicate reimagining of intimate, dreamlike, and often nightmarish mis-en-scénes, draw from a diverse range of source material, including 18th century English portraiture, pornography, found photographs and children’s literature among other things. Colourful cherub-like forms, uneasy eroticism, and an abstraction developed through a unique use of materials, beautifully manifest in an ambiguous world of nostalgia, nuance and suggestion. Roissetter joined Lizzie on The Brocket Residency in 2024 with her young baby. It was a great opportunity to explore avenues for new working practices while navigating motherhood and childcare. She spoke about her experience, and that of an artist-mother at the 2024 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair’s, ‘Motherhood & Making’ panel discussion with leading artists and commentators such as Katherine Jones RA and Hettie Judah. Cat Roissetter is based in Sheffield, UK.
Rudolph Taylor
Rudolph Taylor is an artist and printmaker whose work expands on how classical representation can be used to show an increasingly global and multicultural world. Through the use of archives and utilising his skills as collaborative printmaker, Rudolph utilises collage and drawing to reinterpret classical western art to reflect the world today. Mixing up bodies with clothing and objects from across the world and centuries he depicts the complexity of being multiracial, while also creating a space in which these individuals can exist in the fullness of their multifaceted identities. Taylor’s recent works use lithography as a way to draw on the history of reproduction within printmaking, but through the manipulation of the imagery he creates scenes and environments outside of their time. While from a distance one might feel the work is recognisable, upon closer observation the complexities of Taylor’s world reveal themselves, subverting the original expectations. Taylor received his BFA in Studio Arts from Syracuse University in 2019, where he concentrated in printmaking and received the Bruce Manwaring Printmakers Award. He then went on to complete the Tamarind Printer Training program in 2022, and soon after worked as a collaborative printmaker at Paulson Fontaine Press in Berkeley, CA. He is currently pursuing his MA in Print at the Royal College of Art. Taylor has exhibited work all over the United States and has worked on projects that are housed in archives in New York, New Mexico, and California.
