Whisper Gallery Opens in London With a Group Show

Written by Ewan McPherson Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:12

London.- Jamie Wood’s Whisper Gallery opened on June 9th with with a group show of limited edition prints and original works by artists including, Bruce French, Pakpoom Silaphan, Marco Bettoni, Patrick Hughes, Lyle Owerko, Russell Young, D*Face, Sarah Woodfine, Mark Hayward, Stuart Semple, Nick Gentry and George Morton-Clark.

For many of the artists exhibiting at Whisper, working within print expands the boundaries of their usual practices and allows them to explore techniques and processes which are often a new string to their bow, such as screen printing, lithography and etching.  Contemporary artists Bruce French and Pakpoom Silaphan have worked closely with Bernard Pratt of Pratt Contemporary to create a series of limited edition prints, based on the original artworks they exhibit at Scream. Whisper will exhibit work by  leading  contemporary printmakers including Alison Lambert, Mark Hayward and Matt Small, all of whom work in portrait and figurative studies.

Pop Art by Russell Young and Andy Warhol, and Urban Art by D*Face and Swoon will also be exhibited. Within Whisper’s program there will also be exhibitions of original works by painters such as Nick Gentry and George Morton-Clark. “Print making has become a crucial part of how I realise my work, taking my idea from the page - be it paper or computer  screen  - to the end result. The passage has been transformed by the infinite ways in which I can manipulate and reproduce the work, from traditional screen prints to printed sculptures”. Bruce French. At Whisper they aim to explore printmaking as a medium in all its forms, with three dimensional etchings by Sarah Woodfine, light boxes by Marco Bettoni and screen prints on Perspex by Bruce French, Whisper Gallery will showcase more than works on paper, they will explore the most innovative ways printmakers are working today.


Whisper works with artists both in the UK and internationally, emerging and established, along with leading print studios to showcase fine art limited edition prints. For many of our artists, working within print expands the boundaries of their usual practices and allows them to explore techniques and processes new to them as artists. Whisper's philosophy is to make contemporary art accessible to more people. Director Jamie Wood, an avid art collector with an appreciation of modern and contemporary art, came up with the ethos for Whisper when he decided art collecting should not only be an elitist pastime for those with disposable incomes. Jamie feels that anyone with a passion for art should be able to have access to their favourite artists, not just on the walls of a museum or on the pages of an auction catalogue, but in their own homes. So he approached some of the most talented and innovative artists working today, both in the UK and internationally, emerging and established, to work with the leading print studios to create a suite of limited edition prints. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.whisperfineart.co.uk/

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