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 6 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) is an artist originally from the East Hampshire South Downs, now living and working in London. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2013, Hartley has continued to explore surface as a way of understanding emotional connection to the land, and the psychological spaces that exist between memory and desire. These spaces consider half-lived experiences, the political and emotional confusion of modernity, and the tension between false barriers and the urgency to release and escape. Recurring motifs of jagged edges, hovering awkward shapes, and ambiguous, gleaming fragments of text run through her work. At times impatient, at others tender, her paintings often contradict themselves- seeking both confrontation and gentleness.
Hartley’s process often begins with returning to the basics: mono-printing with the silk screen or monotype from the relief press, where intuition guides her hand. From these small beginnings, larger works evolve into site-specific installations that extend across gallery walls and billboards. Recently, Hartley has returned to traditional approaches to surface- laying grounds of gesso to build sculptural paintings in oil, beeswax and pigment. These new works continue her enduring preoccupation with surface; binding together fragments of her past with what she imagines still to come.
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.
Ines Fernandez de Cordova
Ines Fernandez de Cordova’s (b.1992) multidisciplinary practice unfolds across several stages, grounded in the sculptural forms she creates using plaster or jesmonite. These works act as entry points into uncanny, imagined scenes. She embraces the delicate and often unstable nature of her sculptures, using repetition and collage to imply movement, while her printmaking practice serves to arrest that motion, fixing each composition in time.
Born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, Fernandez de Cordova has lived and worked in London since 2011. Alongside her artistic practice, she works as a print technician at Camberwell College of Arts and with artist Anita Klein. She studied at Camberwell College of Arts, earning an MA in Visual Arts: Printmaking (2015–2017) and a BA in Illustration (2012–2015), following a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design from CCW, University of the Arts London (2011–2012). Her first solo show was at Blue Shop Gallery in 2020,
Ned Elliott
Ned Elliott (b.1995) is an artist born and raised in London. He graduated from the Royal Drawing School’s Drawing Year in 2023 having previously studied History at University of Bristol. Recent group shows include the London Art Fair, 2025, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, 2024, Social Tapestry, Chilli Art Projects, 2024, Drawn Together, Royal Drawing School, 2024, Works on Paper 6, Blue Shop Gallery, 2024, Transparency, Bankside Gallery, 2024, A Curious Cloud, Soho Revue, 2024, RBSA Print Prize, RBSA Gallery, 2024, The Very Hours Pass Unnoticed, Warbling Collective, 2024, Best of the Drawing Year, Christie’s, 2023. Prizes include The Janie Roberts Prize for Excellence in Drawing (Royal Drawing School, 2023), and The Young Artist Award (Royal Watercolour Society, 2024). In 2023 he was awarded a residency at Rhode Island School Of Design in the USA. His work is held in the Royal Collection.
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