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, with social entrepreneur and CEO of Second Floor Studios & Arts, Nichole Herbert Wood and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair’s Director Jack Bullen 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.

Justin Small, CEO & Founder of Lead Sponsor, Future Strategy Club, introduces individual speakers around the agency mission of Creative for Good.

Sam Furness, Founder of Creative Quests 

Sam is a cultural producer and artist who believes in the potential for creativity and curiosity to reignite our connection to each other, ourselves and the places we exist. 

He is the founder of Channel Twelve, a creative impact studio designing experiences that unlock the creative potential in everyone. Since 2021 Channel Twelve’s core programme Creative Quests has attracted 1200 people from 24 countries. Creative Quests is a collective experience that helps people around the world explore their creative potential alongside a worldwide community of fellow Questers. Each Quest challenges people to embrace a creative theme for one month, giving them a framework to fill their life with illuminating new perspectives on the world around them. 

Sam will be talking on collective creativity and global connectivity.  

Robin Harris, Founder and Creative Director of Finding Rhythms

Jazz musician Robin Harris began delivering creative music projects in HMP Wormwood Scrubs in 2005. He quickly realised that empowering prisoners to create their own music through reflection had incredible effects on their well-being. 

In 2012 Finding Rhythms was officially born and has since produced over 100 albums of original music, written and performed by people in custodial and community settings. 

Robin will be talking about the power of songwriting and music in exploring personal narrative and stories, particularly for those affected by the criminal justice system. 

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.

Leading art market writer Melanie Gerlis (Financial Times; The Art Newspaper) joins Fair Director, Jack Bullen, Carolin von Massenbach (Head of Prints & Multiple, Bonhams) and Anders Petterson (CEO & Founder, ArtTactic) to 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.

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.

Justin Small, CEO & Founder of Lead Sponsor, Future Strategy Club, introduces individual speakers around the agency mission of Creative for Good.

Gary Izunwa, Co-Founder & CEO of Tangent

Gary is the Co-Founder & CEO of Tangent - a digital platform that makes job referrals accessible to everyone and NOT just the privileged few with the best networks. Prior to Tangent, Gary started his career at LinkedIn and then led social mobility programmes at the British Council. For his efforts advocating for social mobility, Gary is now a prolific public speaker, a recipient of the 2021 McKinsey & Company Achievement Award and has been recognised in the Forbes 30 Under 30 2024 Class for Social Impact.

Gary will be talking on social mobility in the creative industries. 

Vanessa Bunn, Participation Manager at Mountview (Sat)

Vanessa is a Curator, Producer and Facilitator who specialises in collaborating with young people to develop ways of using art as a force for good in their lives. As Participation Manager at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, she guides Mountview's work with and for young people and community and teaches on two of the MA degree programmes. Vanessa initiated Peckham Sessions at Mountview in 2023. This annual programme cultivates opportunities for Peckham residents to collaborate with local artists and organisations to develop new skills, explore their creativity and connect with each other in a supportive, fun, and inspiring environment.

Vanessa is also an Ambassador at Theatre Peckham, where she has co-curated the last two Peckham Fringe festivals and, most recently, produced the engagement elements of a project about Theatre Peckham's rich community heritage. As part of the 24/25 Space for Change cohort at A New Direction, Vanessa is committed to collaborating with other participatory arts leaders to establish actionable routes into developing equitable creative career pathways for the next generation. 

Vanessa will be sharing how the programmes at Peckham Sessions are opening up creative opportunities across generations of Peckham residents. 

Oliver Projects founder, Katherine Oliver, will host an informal talk with exhibiting artists Suzanne Moxhay, Theadora Ballantyne-Way, and Bobbye Fermie. The group will discuss the themes and ideas that they explore through their work, and their respective printmaking processes.

Location: Booth 10

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 designer & founder of Adẹ̀kọ́ & Co. Studio; Tolù Adẹ̀kọ́ 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.

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 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 

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), Founder & Creative Director of PROCREATE PROJECT CIC, Dyana Gravina, and leading Artist-Mothers; Katherine Jones RA, Flavia Pinto & Cat Roissetter, 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?

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.

The theme and text for the website is: "Why Print? Exploring What It Is and Why It Matters". This will cover both the fundamentals and broader significance of print, including its cultural relevance, resilience in a digital age, and potential for social impact. It promises to be a thought-provoking discussion, appealing to new collectors and seasoned enthusiasts alike.

Speakers will include:

• Robert Kennan, Phillips

• Lindsay Dewar, Art Tactic

• Mike Taylor, Paupers Press

• Vishal Shah & Renata Kudlacek, BBA Gallery Berlin

• Thomas Murphy, founder of Make Ready

• Jo Stockham, Head of Print RCA 

Tracy 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, Magda Stawarska, Heather Peak, Dr Heather Mullender-Ross, Rebecca Chesney, Creative Director of WCPF, Lizzie Glendinning and a leading UK museum Curator.

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. 

The University of West England’s, Centre for Print Research present exhibiting Artists in conversations, exploring the crossovers between craft, print and new technologies that push the boundaries of printmaking.

Carinna Parraman, Director of The Centre for Print Research at University of the West of England, Bristol will be talking with Laura Clarke Oaten, Master-Printer at CFPR, and R James Healy  about printing innovations at the CFPR  and the Cabinet of Curiosities. 

They will discuss the intersections between the artist and the machine, the translation between the handmade and the digital, reflecting on James’ recent work and other inspiring and innovative examples from the artist in residency programme at CFPR.

R James Healy has collaborated with major visual effects studios worldwide on music videos and feature films.

This is the second year the CFPR Editions and the Cabinet of Curiosities will be showing at Woolwich and will be bringing new exciting collaborative artworks and conversations. 

Check out their discussion with Tracy Hill, Chuck Elliot,  Mike White, Carinna Parraman, Laura Clarke from 2023.