Blue Shop Gallery at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair | 2024
Blue Shop Gallery is exhibiting for the 5th time at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair and this year we are thrilled to bring a selection of exquisite 1/1 totally unique monotypes by 4 British artists. Print can be traditionally static but you can expect to find bursts of colour, pigment and emotion in our selectiomn this year, please do come and join us.
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, the leading international art fair for original contemporary print, presents a unique alternative model that is revolutionising the traditional art market, disrupting the elitist nature of art fairs, and pushing the boundaries of print.
BSG EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Sammi Lynch
Born in 1995 in North West England, Sammi Lynch now lives and works in London. She studied at Manchester School of Art and Kingston School of Art, and is a graduate of 'The Drawing Year', a postgraduate scholarship program at the Royal Drawing School, London. Her inaugural solo show was at Blue Shop Gallery and her first European solo show took place at Solito Gallery, Naples. Lynch's work has since been selected for a number of notable group exhibitions, including 'As She Is', curated by Rejina Pyo at Soho Revue. April 2025 marked her US debut with a two-person show at Scroll Gallery in New York and she will present new work in a forthcoming exhibition in Canada in Autumn 2025. Previous UK exhibitions include Annely Juda Fine Art, Lychee One, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair and London Original Print Fair. A recent collaboration with Burberry - designing a series of limited edition silk scarves - was shortlisted for the V&A Illustration Award.
Lynch's practice is grounded in a deep, intuitive relationship with the natural world. Working directly in the landscape with pastel on paper, she captures fleeting impressions of place with immediacy and clarity. These spontaneous drawings form the foundation of her studio work, where they are translated into richly textured oil paintings and prints. Through this process of transformation - from observation to memory, from paper to canvas - Lynch creates more-than-geographical landscapes that are as emotionally resonant as they are visually compelling.
Rooted in a sense of place - windswept moors, mountain paths, wide skies - Lynch's paintings are not literal depictions but emotional distillations through colour and composition. Returning often to familiar sites, she captures how both land and perception shift over time. These works convey a layered sense of memory and change, balancing clarity with ambiguity. Through expressive brushwork, bold colour and textured surfaces, she evokes scenes that feel both deeply personal and collectively familiar. Often unpopulated, her landscapes still bear subtle signs of human presence: the curve of a path, a distant fence, a pair of swimmers stilled in the water, absorbed into the quiet drama of their surroundings.
Alice Hartley
Alice Hartley (b.1988 in the South Downs where she grew up) graduated from Kingston University in 2010 with a BA Hons in Illustration and from the RCA in 2013 with an MA in Fine Art Printmaking, she has since been selected for New Contemporaries, had residencies in Canada, New York and Athens. Hartley lives and works in South East London and continues to exhibit around the UK, Europe and North America
Hartley set out in printmaking, making large scale woodcuts, her work referenced dreams, familiar landscapes and with fragments of her own text. Her time in the printmaking department at the RCA encouraged her to push scale as far as she could and take her mark making to a more expressive outlet in mono screen printing. The mark became more intuitive, forceful and the voice more urgent.
Over the last 10 years Hartley has used this process to make giant site-specific installations, filling gallery walls, billboards, disused car parks and shop fronts. Her palette is recognisable as is her text, from it we get a sense of something deeply personal but always ambiguous.
Ollie Marr
Ollie (he/they) grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, between the Atlantic Ocean and the foothills of Table Mountain. The dissonance of being in a city and immersed in nature led Ollie to a career exploring the connections between human society and natural systems, a subject they continue to examine in their practice. Drawn to how light falls on natural and manufactured objects in the landscape, Ollie paints or draws initially from life, finding harmony in the shapes and structures of the land. Each piece then evolves through drawing, printmaking, weaving, and painting from memory. This body of work explores landscapes in and around the UK including Cornwall, London, and Scotland. These monotypes explore how colour and working from memory influence the tonal drawings Ollie made on walks in different parts of the UK during the winter of 2024-25. Ollie works from their studio in East London.
Emmma O’Hara
Emma O’Hara (b.1993) is a visual artist based in Cork City, Ireland. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Print & Contemporary Practice from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2016. Following her graduation, Emma received Cork Printmakers Studio Bursary Award (2016) and was awarded the Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award in both 2022 and 2023. She was also selected for a three-month residency at Rimbun Dahan Arts Centre, Malaysia, in 2022.
Emma’s notable exhibitions include One Who Walks the Clouds - Hang Tough Gallery, Dublin (2021), The Sun Casts a Shadow - The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork (2022), Strangers We Will Stay - SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin (2023), It takes two to speak the truth with Evelyn Goold - Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery.
Emma is a long-standing member of Cork Printmakers, as well as a member of the National Sculpture Factory and a studio holder at Sample Studios. Emma’s work has been collected by a number of public collections, including the Office of Public Works (OPW) and the Irish National Collection at the Crawford Art Gallery.
OPENING HOURS
Thursday 13 November 12.00 - 20.00
Friday 14 November 12.00 - 20.00
Saturday 15 November 12.00 - 18.00
Sunday 16 November 12.00 - 18.00