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PRATT CONTEMPORARY
PRATT EDITIONS
Pratt Contemporar y
Printers and publishers of contemporar y prints and
artists’ books
Pratt Contemporary is multi-faceted, offering
technical exper tise to ar tists in the field of
printmaking, specialising in screenprint, intaglio,
relief and inkjet techniques. The studio has
a continuous publishing programme for its
own ar tists as well as providing a proofing and
editioning service to independent ar tists and
publishers.
Founded in 1977 by Bernard and Susan Pratt, Pratt
Contemporary has evolved through a multitude of
different activities that include sculpture, painting
and drawing. Since its inception the core activity
has been printmaking and the guiding principle has
been one of collaboration and dialogue between
printer and ar tist. Alongside the studio’s broad
knowledge of traditional printmaking techniques
it continues to experiment with new methods
and materials as they become available.
Now in its thir ty-third year, what is clear is the
studio’s commitment to printmaking as a vigorous
language for visual ar tists and its impor tance in the
development of their work. Pratt Contemporary
does not stick to the tried and tested - ‘being
facilitators for ar tists is what’s exciting.’
Pratt Contemporary is a member of the
International Fine Print Dealers Association
(IFPDA) and the Fine Press Book Association
(FPBA).
Ana Maria Pacheco is an artist of extraordinar y
diversity. Pr imarily a sculptor, she is also a painter
and printmaker. Her work has evolved from a
tradition of making that lies between South American
and European culture, drawing on a r ich variety of
cultural references. She is currently working on
a series of reliefs in alabaster, bronze and wood,
exploring the metaphor of the journey, a recurrent
theme in her work.
Ana Maria Pacheco was born in Brazil. Following
degrees in both Ar t and Music, she taught and
lectured for several years at universities in Goiás
before coming to London in 1973 on a British
Council Scholarship to the Slade School of Fine
Ar t. Since then she has lived and worked in
England. From 1985-89 she was Head of Fine Ar t
at Norwich School of Ar t. She has lectured widely
and has been on various educational boards. In
1999 she received the prestigious Ordem do Rio
Branco from the Brazilian Government. She has
received Honorar y Degrees from the University
of East Anglia and Anglia Polytechnic University
and in 2003 was made a Fellow of University
College London.
From 1997-2000 she was Associate Ar tist at the
National Galler y, London, which culminated in a
major exhibition of her work that toured on to
fur ther venues in the UK.
Pacheco has exhibited widely in the UK and
abroad including the National Galler y, London;
British Museum, London; Hereford Museum
and Ar t Galler y; Aldeburgh Festival of Music
and the Ar ts; Wallspace at All Hallows on the
Wall, London; Herber t Ar t Galler y & Museum,
Coventr y; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Brighton
Museum and Ar t Galler y; Hayward Touring
(Prints); The Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and
Ar t Galler y; Wolverhampton Ar t Galler y; Norwich
Castle Museum; Trout Galler y, Dickinson College,
Pennsylvania, USA; Galleri F15, Moss, Norway
(touring); Kunsthalle Wien, Austria; Salander-
O’Reilly Galleries, New York, USA; PanAmerican
Ar t Projects, Miami, USA; Kilkenny Ar ts Festival,
Ireland; Dak’Ar t 2000, Senegal, West Africa;
Trondhjems Kunstforening, Trondheim, Norway.
Collections include
British Museum; British Librar y; Tate Galler y;
Victoria and Alber t Museum; Ar ts Council England;
Government Ar t Collection: Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford; Birmingham Museum and Ar t Galler y;
Wolverhampton Ar t Galler y; Norwich Castle
Museum; Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester ;
Trondhjems Kunstforening, Trondheim, Norway
New York Public Librar y, USA; Fogg Ar t Museum,
USA; Por tland Ar t Museum, USA; Sweet Briar
College, Virginia, USA; Setagaya Ar t Museum,
Tokyo, Japan; Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
Sculpture Exhibitions 2010-11
Shadows of the Wanderer
St. John’s Church, Water loo, London
29 October - 23 December 2010
Studio 3 Galler y, The Jarman Building,
University of Kent, Canterbury
18 January - 9 April 2011
An Ancient Dark Night Descended Upon My Soul
Drypoint, 2010. Printed on Somerset Satin White
410gsm in an edition of 15 plus 3 ar tist’s proofs,
2 publisher’s proofs, 1 printer’s proof and 1 archive
proof. Plate: 99.7 x 75.8 cm (391/4 x 293/4 in)
Ana Maria Pacheco
Guardians I & II
Drypoint, 2010. Printed on Somerset Soft White
300gsm in editions of 20 plus 3 ar tist’s proofs,
2 publisher’s proofs, 1 printer’s proof and 1 archive
proof. Plates: 32.8 x 25.8 cm (127/8 x 101/8 in)
Guardians III & IV
Drypoint, 2010. Printed on Somerset Soft White
300gsm in editions of 20 plus 3 ar tist’s proofs,
2 publisher’s proofs, 1 printer’s proof and 1 archive
proof. Plates: 32.8 x 25.8 cm (127/8 x 101/8 in)
The Sphinx that learned to fly 1-6
Drypoint, 2010. Printed on Somerset Soft White 300gsm
in editions of 25 plus 3 ar tist’s proofs,2 publisher’s proofs,
1 printer’s proof and 1 archive proof.
Plates: 12.5 x 10 cm (5 x 4 in)
Marcus Rees Rober ts
Following his degree in English at Cambridge,
Marcus Rees Rober ts studied Film Theory at the
Slade School of Fine Ar t, where he wrote his
thesis on German Expressionist Cinema. He went
on to complete a second post-graduate course in
printmaking at the Slade. In 1977 he was awarded
the Slade Prize and appointed teaching assistant
in printmaking.
In 1980, Rees Rober ts moved to Scotland to
lecture at Edinburgh College of Ar t. In 1982 he
was appointed Visiting Professor at the University
of Central Florida and in 1989 as Lecturer in
charge of Printmaking at Edinburgh College of Ar t,
a post he held until 1995, when he returned to
live and work in London. He is currently Visiting
Lecturer at West Dean College, West Sussex.
Memory’s Wound
This new series of etchings is related to much of
the work Rees Rober ts has been making over the
last eighteen months. Reading Paul Celan has had
a deep influence on his work. Bukovinian Jewish,
writing in German, this great poet survived the
Holocaust in body but, in Michael Hamburger’s
phrase, not in spirit.
As well as prints, Rees Rober ts has been working
on ar tist’s books, paintings, and films, all with a
similar theme. It is not only the recurring ideas of
Celan’s work that interests him, it is the way these
ideas are expressed in such inventive but sparse
and fractured language.
Exhibitions include
The London Original Print Fair at the
Royal Academy of Ar ts
The New York Print Fair, Park Avenue Armory
UK Fine Press Book Fair, Oxford Brookes
University, Oxford.
Por tland Ar t Museum, Oregon, USA
(International Print Exhibition)
University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA;
Hodges Taylor Galler y, Char lotte, USA
The Slade Galler y, London
Strang Print Room, University College London;
Blackburn Museum and Ar t Galler y
Steven Harris, New York, USA
Sussex Barn Ar t Galler y, West Dean College.
Collections include
British Museum
Victoria and Alber t Museum
University College London
Ashmolean Museum Oxford
Blackburn Museum
Scottish Ar ts Council
Pallant House, Chichester
Memory’s Wound I & II
Etching, 2010. Printed on Velin Arches Blanc 400gsm
in editions of 15 plus 3 ar tist’s proofs, 2 publisher’s
proofs, 1 printer’s proof and 1 archive proof.
Plates: 58.2 x 84.2 cm (23 x 331/4 in)
Memory’s Wound III
Etching, 2010. Printed on Velin Arches
Blanc 400gsm in an edition of 15 plus
3 ar tist’s proofs, 2 publisher’s proofs,
1 printer’s proof and 1 archive proof.
Plate: 58.2 x 84.2 cm (23 x 331/4 in)
Krist ian Krokfors
Kristian Krokfors was born in Finland in 1952.
From 1973-74 he studied Ar t at the University of
Industrial Ar ts in Helsinki. In 1974 he moved to
England to study at Leicester Polytechnic, where
he received his BA in 1977. From 1977-78 he
completed the Advanced Printmaking Course
at Croydon College of Ar t before returning to
Helsinki, where he currently lives and works.
In 1985 Krokfors received Finland’s Young Ar tist
of the Year Award, a prestigious national event
organised by the City of Tampere and the Tampere
Ar t Museum. From 1988-90 he spent two years
living and working in New York City. In 2001 he
returned as ar tist-in-residence under the auspices
of the Finnish Foundation for the Visual Ar ts, the
Cultural Institute for Finland in the USA.
Kristian Krokfors is an eminently serious artist. His
works are in no sense didactic , but if you were to
ask what they are “about”, the answer would spring
unbidden, without any verbal prompting from him.
Yes, they are, they must be, about the environment.
They take as their evident, immediate subject the
splendours and miseries of town planning and
urbanism’s shaky relations with whatever belt of
green it chooses to girdle itself with. They look at the
dr yness of the desert, the acrid smoke that belches
from factories, the wind that shakes the barley - or
would, if there were any barley left to shake. . . .1
1 Extract from exhibition catalogue:
‘Kristian Krokfors: Paintings and Works on Paper’
Foreword by John Russell Taylor
Pratt Contemporary, 2008
Exhibitions include
Tampere Ar t Museum, Finland.
Amos Anderson Ar t Museum, Helsinki, Finland.
Henie-Onstad Ar t Museum, Oslo, Norway.
Galleri Futura, Stockholm, Sweden.
Galleria Bronda, Helsinki, Finland.
Dannenberg Galler y, New York City, USA.
Lemonstreet Galler y, Dublin, Ireland.
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland.
Galleri Norske Grafikere, Oslo, Norway.
Galler y Alex, Washington DC, USA.
Galleria Uusitalo, Helsinki, Finland.
Galería Manuel, Ojeda, Las Palmas, Spain.
Osborne Samuel Galler y, London.
The London Original Print Fair at the
Royal Academy of Ar ts
The New York Print Fair, Park Avenue Armory
Collections include
The Museum of Contemporary Ar t, Helsinki.
The Amos Anderson Ar t Museum, Helsinki.
Helsinki City Ar t Museum.
Tampere Ar t Museum.
The State Collection.
Par liament of Finland Collection.
Alber tina Collection, Vienna, Austria.
Chicago Ar t Institute, USA.
World Bank, Washington DC, USA.
Office of Public Works, Dublin, Ireland.
University College Dublin, Ireland.
The Ar t Museum of Cracow, Poland.
The State Collection, Sweden.
City of Nurnberg, Germany.
City View 1 & II
Etching, 2008. Printed in editions of 35
plus 4 ar tist’s proofs, 1 publisher’s proof,
2 printer’s proofs and 1 archive proof.
Plates: 59.5 x 49.5cm (231/2 x 191/2)
Red Space - Blue Canal - Beach Scene
Moon and the Chimney - Beach Houses - City Scene
Etching, 2009-10. Printed on Somerset Soft White 300gsm
in editions of 45 plus 5 ar tist’s proofs, 2 publisher’s proofs,
1 printer’s proof and 1 archive proof.
Plates: 29.8 x 24 cm (113/4 x 91/4 in)
Sarah Woodf ine
Sarah Woodfine was born in England in 1968.
From 1987-8 she studied Fine Ar t at Winchester
School of Ar t and from 1988-91 at Liverpool
School of Ar t. In 1995 she completed a three
year postgraduate course in sculpture at the
Royal Academy Schools, London.
Woodfine’s practice has always had a cer tain
element of gothic darkness, most recently taking
the form of three-dimensional constructions
in cases and glass domes, exploring imaginar y
worlds that border between the familiar and
fantastical. Whilst these constructions simultane-
ously present themselves as solid formed repre-
sentations, they also seem like facades - almost
like stage sets with nothing behind them. She
explores the implication of what can be concealed
and has become fascinated by the psychological
implications of multiple viewpoints.
Awards, Residencies and Projects
Commissioned by Graves Ar t Galler y to
produce a new work for the permanent
collection (2010)
Ar tangel Nights of London Interaction
Project (2006)
The Nelson Touch Collaboration between
Aspex Galler y and The Maritime Museum,
Por tsmouth (2005)
First Prize, Jerwood Drawing Prize (2004)
Drawing Ar tist in Residence at MIMA (2002)
Exhibitions include
Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Ar t, London
The Jerwood Drawing Prize
The Drawing Room, London
Harewood House, Yorkshire
Ha Gamle Prestegard, Norway
Hales Galler y, London
Galleri F15, Norway
Trondjheims Kunstforening, Norway
Haugesund Billedgalleri, Norway
MIMA, Middlesbrough
Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition
Aspex, Por tsmouth
Museum of Garden History, London
Compton Verney, Warwickshire
Maritime Museum Por tsmouth
Sheffield Millennium Galler y
Abbot Hall Ar t Galler y, Cumbria
The London Original Print Fair at the
Royal Academy of Ar ts
The New York Print Fair, Park Avenue Armory
Public Collections include
Victoria & Alber t Museum, London.
MIMA, Middlesbrough
Ha Gamle Prestegard, Norway
Still Life 1
Still Life 2
Etching, 2009. Printed on Canford acid-free card and
mounted in glass dome. Editions of 15 plus 2 ar tist’s
proofs, 1 publisher’s proof, 1 printer’s proof and 1
archive proof.
Still Life 1: 23.5 x 22.4 cm dia (91/4 x 83/4 in)
Still Life 2: 15.4 x 15.4 cm dia (6 x 6 in)
Derek Mawudoku
Derek Mawudoku was born in London in 1959
and graduated from Goldsmiths College of Ar t in
1987 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Ar t.
His powerfully expressive works are drawn
directly from his own life experience. His recent
prints are based on the reinterpretation of images
taken from sketchbooks, self-por traits, doodles
and imaginar y emotional landscapes.
. . . he depicts the world as he finds it, without elevat-
ing authorial presence, enhancing or exaggerating
the drama of his subject. The imager y is always
raw and uncompromising. Often it is heavy with
psychological affect . . . fear . . . joy . . . pain . . .
Sometimes it is child-like, giddy, funny; sometimes
angr y. Always it is intensely human. 1
Exhibitions include
Printworks, Unit 2, London Metropolitan
University
The London Original Print Fair at the
Royal Academy of Ar ts
The New York Print Fair, Park Avenue Armory
UK Fine Press Book Fair, Oxford Brookes
University, Oxford
Adjustments & Errors, The Bag Factory,
Johannesburg, South Africa
Edition - 100 Years of British Printmaking,
SW1 Galler y, London
Stephen Lawrence Galler y,
University of Greenwich, London
Morley Galler y, London
Clapham Ar t Galler y, London
The Galler y at Willesden Green Librar y
Centre, London
Stockwell Studio Open (1990-92)
Kettles Yard, Cambridge
Galerie Hard Koppon, Amsterdam
Adam Galler y, London
Residencies
Sir John Cass Depar tment of Ar t,
London Metropolitan University (2010)
The Bag Factory, Johannesburg,
South Africa (2006)
Winchester Project, London (1995)
John Kelly Boys School (1992)
Ar tists in Schools, St. Lukes Primary School,
Cambridge (1988)
Collections
His work has been acquired by The British
Museum and is in a number of private
collections in the UK and USA.1 Jon Thompson
Introduction to exhibition catalogue:
‘Feed Me: The Monotypes of Derek Mawudoku’
Exquisite
Ar tist’s Book, 2009. Thir teen hand-coloured intaglio prints by Derek Mawudoku with text by Adrian Burnham.
Printed on Somerset Textured Soft White 300gsm in an edition of 15 plus 2 ar tist’s proofs, 2 publisher’s proofs
and 1 printer’s proof. Text set in Garamond. Plates: 24 x 32.8 cm (91/2 x 13 in)
Full linen case binding in a slipcase: 33.5 x 39 x 2.5 cm (131/4 x 151/4 x 1 in)
Each print available individually in a separate edition of 10 + 2 ar tist’s proofs, 2 publisher’s proofs and 1 printer’s proof.
Mark Hayward
Mark Hayward was born in 1979 in England.
From 2003-7 he studied at the University for
the Creative Ar ts, Canterbury (formerly KIAD)
where he received a First Class Honours Degree
in Fine Ar t. He went on to complete an MA in
Fine Ar t Printmaking at the Royal College of Ar t,
London (2007-9) and at his postgraduate degree
show he was a recipient of the Tim and Belinda
Mara Award.
In 2007 Hayward was awarded a placement at
Pratt Contemporary. He is currently developing a
new series of drawings and animations, alongside
which he continues to work in the studios assisting
other ar tists with the production of their work.
In 2009 Air-raid (animation) was selected for the
Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition, which toured
to fur ther venues in the UK.
Exhibitions include
Ar t Projects - invited to represent the ‘Ar t
Projects Video Booth’ with a solo show of
multiple moving image works, London Ar t
Fair, 2010
Eyestorm, London Ar t Fair, 2010
Jerwood Drawing Prize, London (touring)
Show One, Royal College of Ar t, London
Bandstand, Cafe Galler y, London
All Sold Out, More Around the Corner, New Cross
Project Space, London
The London Original Print Fair at the
Royal Academy of Ar ts
The New York Print Fair, Park Avenue Armory
UK Fine Press Book Fair, Oxford Brookes
University, Oxford
Fight With Punch
Looped animation (18 seconds) on DVD, 2008
Produced in an edition of 171, each signed DVD is presented in a hand-made wallet
with an original production ‘cel’. Wallet: 14.5 x 14.5 cm (53/4 x 53/4 in)
Body Armour
Screenprint, 2010. Printed on G.F. Smith Bier paper in an edition of 75 plus 8 ar tist’s proofs
2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs. Image: 20.3 x 20.3 cm (8 x 8 in)
Snatch
Screenprint 2010. Printed on G.F. Smith Bier paper in an edition of 50 plus 5 ar tist’s proofs
2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs. Image: 32 x 36 cm (121/2 x 141/8 in)
Challenger
Screenprint 2010. Printed on G.F. Smith Bier paper in an edition of 50 plus 5 ar tist’s proofs
2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs. Image: 43 x 65 cm (17 x 251/2 in)
Little Bird
Screenprint 2010. Printed on Korean hand-made paper in an edition of 50
plus 5 ar tist’s proofs 2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs.
Paper : 87 x 60 cm (341/4 x 231/2 in)
Helter Skelter
Screenprint 2010. Printed on Korean hand-made paper in an edition of 50
plus 5 ar tist’s proofs 2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs.
Paper : 87 x 60 cm (341/4 x 231/2 in)
Hugo Wilson
Hugo Wilson was born in 1982; he currently lives
and works in London.
From 2000-4 Wilson received classical training in
fine ar t at the renowned Char les H. Cecil Studio
in Florence, Italy. He went on to study at City
and Guilds in London, where he received his MA
in 2008.
Five of his recent etchings explore the genetic
rules that were formulated by the evolutionary
biologist, J.B.S Haldane, which state: When in the
offspring of two different animal races, one sex is
absent, rare, or sterile, that sex is the heterozygous
(heterogametic) sex. Wilson is gripped with the
notion that the ‘creator’, or whatever controls
these things, allows cross-breeding to go so far, yet
the product will never be able to have children;
there can only be the one singular individual
animal. Beefalo, Zeedonk, Liger, Habit and Cama
are Wilson’s realisation of genetic anomalies in
response to Haldane’s rule.
Exhibitions include
Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Modern
Ar t, South Korea
Anticipation Two, London
Project B, Milan, Italy
London Original Print Fair at the
Royal Academy of Ar ts
Wonderland, New Ar t from London, curated
by James Putnam, Assab One, Milan, Italy
The Age of the Mar vellous
One Marylebone, London
East Wing Nine Collection
Cour tauld Institute of Ar t, London
Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
Tunnel 228, London
Curwen & New Academy Galler y, London
Maddox Ar ts, London
Ar tefiera Bologna, Italy - Unosunove Ar te
Contemporanea, Rome
COSA Galler y, London
Eleven Galler y, London
BP Por trait Prize 2005, National Por trait
Galler y, London
Habit
Zeedonk
From a series of five etchings, 2009.
Printed on hand-made paper in editions of 10
plus 1 ar tist’s proof and 1 printer’s proof.
Paper : 38.5 x 54cm (151/8 x 211/4 in)
Freder ic Morr is
Frederic Morris was born in 1985. Following a
First Class Honours Degree in Illustration from
Middlesex University in 2007, Morris went on to
study Fine Ar t Printmaking at the Royal College
of Ar t, where he received his MA in 2009.
Morris ironically glamourises the darker aspects
of society, where he depicts a world in a state of
mental and physical disrepair as the consequence
of over-indulgence and consumerism .
Exhibitions include
Royal Academy Summer Show 2010
RE Annual Exhibition at Bankside Galler y,
London
Collectible 2, The Bargate Monument
Galler y, Southampton
Rising Stars, Coombe Galler y, Devon
Royal Academy Summer Show, 2009
Show One, Royal College of Ar t, 2009
Bandstand, Cafe Galler y, London
All Sold Out, More Around the Corner,
New Cross Project Space, London
Hockney Galler y, Royal College of Ar t
Awards
Vivien Leigh Prize, Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford, 2010.
Gwen May Trust Award, Bankside Galler y,
London, 2010.
And the Fields Roared with Revelling Outcry
Etching, 2009
Printed on Somerset Soft White 300gsm in an
edition of 25. Plate: 90.8 x 60.3 cm (353/4 x 233/4 in)
Kangaroo Court
Etching, 2009
Printed on Somerset Soft White 300gsm in an
edition of 25. Plate: 59.4 x 67.4 cm (231/2 x 261/2 in)
Flesh and Blood
Etching with aquatint, 2010. Printed on Somerset Satin White 410gsm in an edition of 25
plus 5 ar tist’s proofs 2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs.
Plate: 61 x 76 cm (24 x 30 in)
Mud Larks
Etching with aquatint, 2010. Printed on Somerset Satin White 410gsm in an edition of 25
plus 5 ar tist’s proofs 2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs.
Plate: 50.8 x 63.5 cm (20 x 25 in)
Hand Made
Good Food, Good Company
Open Wide
Swallow
Tuck In
Screenprint with hand colouring, 2010. Printed on Somerset Satin White 400gsm in an edition of 20
plus 5 ar tist’s proofs, 2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs. Paper : 38 x 28 cm (15 x 11 in)
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