WCPF25 | The new ones-to-watch
WCPF celebrates emerging artists, unrepresented talent and the new ones-to-watch with our unique Curated Hang section of the Fair which continues to give opportunities to hundreds of international artists each year
Discover new names and help support the artistic development of many up and coming artists with our collection of boundary-pushing work from artists who have applied for our annual international open call and have been rigorously selected by a panel of industry experts to hang alongside invited artists and celebrated names in a curated exhibition.
This year we recieved over 6000 applications to take part in our celbrated Curated Hang where many artist recieve awards, prizes and opportunities to help in developming thier practice and give further exposure from exhibitions, residencies or public intitional aquisition. Many works find new homes in significant private and public collections, while many artists go on to find gallery representation.
MEET THE 2025 PANEL
(image | Rudolph Taylor, Boogie With Unpercieved Frequencies, 2025. Unique work, 55.9 x 76.2cm)
Alba Urquia, The Shadow of my Soul is my Body, 2025
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF PRINT
Unlike most fairs, where an artist requires gallery representation to show at a fair of this scale, our model allows artists from all over the world to hang alongside some of the biggest names in contemporary art.
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair is a space for conversation, experimentation, and to push the limitations of their practice, situating them within a innovative contemporary art space, with like-minded peers, galleries, curators and commentators, not often accessible for independent artists.
COLLECT THE NEW ‘ONES TO WATCH’
From a collecting point of view, print as a medium, offers the diversity of process, and multiple access points (from an editioned work by a new name to a unique work by a more well known artist) to educate an aspiring collector, and give them the confidence to grow their collection further.
Whether your an avid collector of screenprints or etchings, looking for hot new talent, or engaged in discovering new approaches to contemporary art, you can’t buy bad at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. Our panel of industry experts have already done the hard work for you through our Curated Hang, and our galleries are hand picked because of their dicerning eye and beautiful portfolios of original work.
Madeleine Wood, Silly Games, 2025. Unique work, 51 × 51cm
Jo Cohn, All That I Am, 2025. 100 × 40 × 30cm, Edition of 3
ART THAT LEAVES AN IMPRINT
From our year-round initiatives, art sales and exhibitions, to our partnerships, awards and our pinnicle event, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair’s live event is a showcase for the impactful artists, collaborations and projects that drive the WCPF ethos.
At the Fair itself, we continue to make exhibition space avaiable for prizewinning artists to install solo presentations, or collaborative projects, that reflect their groundbreaking processes or narrative. We host our annual WCPF Artists selected by our team, the Boodle Hatfield Prize wal, and our Printmaker’s Printmaking prizewinner, a peer review pize selected by exhibiting artists. We also host exhibiton space for the WCPF x RCA Graduate Award winner, this year dedicated to Tamsin Loxley’s mutifaceted installation intergrating print, sculptural artifacts and the earth.
Tamsin Loxley, This Shared Ground, 2025. Unique work, 150 × 300cm
