APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
To celebrate 15 years of ‘Bainbridge Print Studio’ we are delighted to be hosting The Bainbridge Open 2023.
The Bainbridge Open 2023 seeks to celebrate the breadth of contemporary print practices throughout the UK and abroad. The exhibition will showcase the work of print based artists and provide a platform for emerging and established practitioners to present their work to the public and invited guests.
We have encouraged entries from professional artists as well as early career artists and students, the exhibition will showcase the diversity and breadth of contemporary print-based art practice today. Works have been selected by Eames Fine Art and artist Ian Chamberlain.
Our ethos over the last 15 years has always been to keep our studio prices as affordable and accessible as possible, this event contribute to maintaining our studio ethos.
DELIVERING WORK
Work selected for the exhibition needs to be dropped off framed (unless otherwise agreed ) without wrapping, with mirror plates on both sides. Works selected for the show reel will be digitally showcased and will not need to be delivered.
Exhibited work will have to be signed in on arrival.
If you are needing to courier your work please get in touch via email to arrange - info@bainbridgeprint.com
Delivery times - Friday 9th June, 4 - 7pm and Saturday 10th June, 2 - 5pm
Delivery address - The Handbag Factory, 3 Loughborough St, London SE11 5RB - PLEASE NOTE LOUGHBOROUGH STREET IS IN THE CONGESTION ZONE. There is a tesco opposite with a car park which is not in the zone.
Exhibition : The Handbag Factory, 3 Loughborough St, London SE11 5RB
PV/ Prize giving - 14 June 6-9pm
Exhibition continues - 15 June - 23 June, Wednesday - Saturday 2pm- 6pm
Collection of works - Saturday 24 June 4:30 - 7pm and Monday 26 June 10 - 7pm
Selectors
We are very excited to have the wonderful Eames Fine Art Gallery and the accomplished artist Ian Chamberlain as selectors for the Bainbridge Open 2023.
Eames Fine Art is an art gallery and collectors' studio on Bermondsey Street, London SE1 specialising in selling original prints such as etchings, lithographs, linocuts and drawings.
Founders of Eames Fine Art, Rebecca and Vincent Eames, are both qualified art historians and share a real passion for 20th and 21st century art. They met studying History of Art at UCL and went on to gain extensive experience in the London art and design market before setting up their own business as private art dealers in 2004. In 2013 they opened their gallery on Bermondsey Street in central London.
Ian Chamberlain is an artist and academic living in Bristol. he is currently a senior Lecturer in M.A Multi- Disciplinary Printmaking at the University of the West of England, (UWE) Bristol. Through drawing and printmaking Ian Chamberlain reinterprets man-made structures as monuments in the landscape. These structures are architectural metaphors of past and current technological achievements. He has had a long-standing fascination with technology and architectural forms especially the structures within industry, agriculture, science and the military. These have included Goonhilly Earth station, The Lovell Telescope Cheshire, The Atlantic wall WWII defences, Maunsell Sea Forts in the Thames estuary and the Acoustic Sound Mirrors on the South Kent Coast.
Ian is interested in the use of a traditional Print process such as etching being used to record subject matter that is generally at the cutting edge of technology for its time. The etchings become an extension of his drawing allowing him to record the location through the interlinking processes of drawing and printmaking. His latest body of work focuses on humankind's basic need for shelter. The work takes reference from a broad range of architectural forms, using the shelters as a metaphor to highlight notions around Isolation, boundaries and also the need to rebuild and start anew. The prints and drawings emphasise and capture layered architectural forms, showing them in a state of flux and transition. They are part of an emerging inter-disciplinary approach combining drawn photographic and hand printed methods.
He exhibits widely both nationally and internationally, his drawings are held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Tate Modern, London; Bristol Museum; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; The University of Chichester collection; The Ashmolean, Oxford and Chippenham Museum.
Key dates:
Deadline for submissions - Sunday 21 May, Midnight
Artists are notified - Friday 26 May
Delivery of works - Friday 9 June, 4 - 7pm and Saturday 10 June, 2 - 5pm
Private View - Wednesday 14 June, 6 - 9pm
Exhibition open - Thursday 15 June - Saturday 24 June
Collection of works - Saturday 24 June 4:30 - 7pm and Monday 26 June 10 - 7pm