Adam Dant's '10 Creatures of London Legend' Portfolio Lottery Tickets Now Available

The hot-off-the-press print portfolio 'Ten Creatures of London Legend' consists of 10 Chiaroscuro Woodblock prints by celebrated draughtsman and printmaker Adam Dant. Each image is constructed in the manner of a medieval bestiary, and depicts legendary creatures of London lore, both ancient and modern.

These mystical creatures have been depicted in the environment they inhabit, either currently or previously, allowing viewers of the prints to tour the city of London and encounter the beasts in their 'natural' homes. 

To coincide with the launch of these wonderful prints, the artist and TAG Fine Arts will be holding a lottery raffle, in the fashion of 18th century popular print promotion. You can now purchase one of 200 personalised woodcut lottery tickets here, giving you the opportunity to win a complete boxed set.

Adam Dant | 10 Creatures of London Legend | 10 Chiaroscuro woodcuts, title page and description | Edition of 40 | Signed and editioned by the artist | Image size 20.3 x 25.4 cm; Paper size 25.4 x 35.5 cm | All images can be viewed here.

London Original Print Fair | Royal Academy

24 - 27 April | RA Burlington House | London W1J 0BD | Stand 37

Next week we look forward to returning to the Royal Academy for the London Original Print Fair. We will be launching exclusive new works from artists including Ryan Callanan, Stanley Donwood and Robin Duttson.

The fair will be hosting a special 'Young Collectors' Evening' from 6 - 10 pm on Friday 25th April, with talks, tours and demonstrations by professionals taking place throughout.

As part of the event acclaimed paper-cut artist Justine Smith will be joining us on Stand 37 to launch her 'Value English' and 'Luxury English' embossed, signed and numbered open editions. Join us to see Justine turning money, including bank notes direct from the Royal Mint, into art, which will be available to purchase in exchange for donations to the charity St Margaret's Hospice.

Stephen Walter | Group Exhibition | Danielle Arnaud

123 Kennington Road | London | SE11 6SF | Until 13 April 2014
Open Fri, Sat and Sun, 2-6pm and by appointment

A group exhibition featuring the work of Stephen Walter is currently on show at Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art. Titled Enclosure, it focuses on 6 contemporary artists and their exploration of ideas around utopian dreams, containment and escape.

Among the artworks on display is Stephen's extraordinary original drawing, Nova Utopia, which is being exhibited in its bespoke hagioscope frame. This map revisits Thomas More's famous fictional state of Utopia a century after it has been transformed by a capitalist revolution.

Stephen Walter | Nova Utopia | 2013 | Archival Inkjet Print Available

Heidi Whitman | Heaven, Hell and Here | Until April 20

Christopher Henry Gallery | 127 Elizabeth St. | New York | NY 10013

Heidi Whitman's stunningly intricate imagined maps can currently be explored at the artist's solo show, Heaven, Hell and Here at the Christopher Henry Gallery, New York City. 

The exhibition consists of three site specific artworks - Heaven, Hell  and Here - which have been created by the artist through the deconstuction and rearrangement of hundreds of sheets of paper.

Heaven resembles a delicately woven series of blue celestial islands that rise gracefully from the floor to ceiling of the gallery. Hell, which is partly inspired by the horrors of Dante's Inferno, is a compendium of reds and blacks that evoke an apocalyptic landscape and the fires of the underworld. Finally, Here brings the viewer back to the 'real' world with the charting of an individual's journey through the urban landscape, which is here visualised in a network of interconnected paper, string and wires.

Overall the unique vision put forward in Heaven, Hell and Here brings together the imagined and the real to create a wonderfully complex and ethereal paper universe.

Volta NY | Katsutoshi Yuasa | Armory Week

Volta NY |  Thurs 6 March - Sun 9 March | 82 Mercer NY10012

This week sees the opening of the Seventh Edition of Volta NY. Coinciding with the city's annual Armory Show, the fair showcases solo projects from the most exciting contemporary artists. These include Katsutoshi Yuasa, who is exhibiting a selection of his stunning wood-cut prints with YUKI-SIS Gallery, Tokyo.

The display, titled 'Woodcut As A New Way Of Photography,' examines how Katsutoshi combines his own digital photographs with the traditional Japanese technique of woodcutting to create haunting images that fuse objective reality with the artist's subjective perception.

Art14 | Olympia Grand Hall | 28 Feb - 2 Mar 2014

Thurs 27 Feb: 6pm - 9pm | Fri 28 Feb & Sat 1 Mar: 11am - 7pm |
Sun 2 Mar: 11am - 5pm

TAG Fine Arts are delighted to be exhibiting at Olympia Grand Hall, Kensington this week as part of Art14. In only its second year the event, which showcases over 140 international contemporary galleries, has been described by Time Out as 'a must for the art fair calendar.'

We will be exhibiting a range of artworks from artists including Ryan Callanan, Stanley Donwood, Ed Hodgkinson and Katustoshi Yuasa.

Also taking place during the fair will be an exciting series of talks from leading art world figures such as Iwona Blazwick, Julian Schnabel and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, and a specially curated food programme, Food4Art, featuring four of London's Top Chefs

Rob Ryan | Colette, Paris | Valentine's Day

Colette | 213 Rue Saint Honore | 75001 Paris |
Exhibition: 3rd - 22nd Feb 2014 |  Valentine's Day Book Signing

This February the Parisian concept store Colette will be showing a selection of papercuts and screenprints by Rob Ryan in their gallery space, alongside a pop-up shop selling a range of Rob's products.

The display will include several works from Rob's highly accalaimed exhibition 'There Is Only Time,' held in Autumn 2013 by TAG Fine Arts, in collaboration with Sims Reed Gallery.

Rob will be signing copies of his books, including his most recent publication, the beautifully illustrated 'The Invisible Kingdom,' in store on Valentine's Day,
14th February, 5:00 - 6:30pm

If you can't make it to Paris, signed copies of The Invisible Kingdom are now available from our website. The perfect gift this Valentine's!

Rob Ryan |  It Was Just The Beginning | 2013 | Hand-cut papercut

 

Rob Ryan | Starry Night | 2010 | Limited edition screenprint