Frank Bowling OBE RA: Selected Prints

Frank Bowling OBE RA: Selected Prints
6th November, 2024 – 31st December, 2024
Brixton Library
Brixton
Oval
London SW2 1JQ

King & McGaw, the Sussex-based leading art publisher and destination for fine art prints, has partnered with Brixton Library on an exhibition of sixteen special edition prints by Frank Bowling OBE RA, one of Britain’s foremost contemporary artists.

Frank Bowling and DACS – the Design and Artists Copyright Society – began their collaboration with art publishers King & McGaw in 2021. The result is a collection of sixteen giclée prints of Bowling’s masterful paintings ranging from 1968 to 2020.

The collection includes Bowling’s ‘map paintings’ that trace and layer stencils of countries and continents, and ‘poured paintings’ where acrylic paint is poured directly onto the canvas.

In Dan & Them, 1972 and Bartica, 1968-1969, palimpsests of silkscreened photographs of Bowling’s family emerge through washes of vivid magenta paint, which offers an insight into how the artist has integrated printmaking into his painterly practice. Prints of later works from 2020 convey the artist’s ongoing explorations in the possibilities of paint, as in As Above So Below, Toothpick Painting and Penumbral Lite. All featured in the exhibition Frank Bowling: Land of Many Waters at Arnolfini, Bristol in 2021.

See also

The group of 16 prints also includes Middle Passage, 1970, a rich, warm and vibrant work recently exhibited in the major group show Entangled Pasts, 1768-Now: Art, Colonialism and Change at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

Founded in Brighton in 1982, King & McGaw exists to celebrate art. The brand supports the work of museums as well as emerging and established artists, to making art accessible to a wide audience. They work with some of the world’s leading cultural institutions including Tate, National Gallery, V&A and MoMa, and are trusted by established artists and their estates, including The Andy Warhol Foundation, Picasso, Matisse and Basquiat.

Frank Bowling OBE RA: Selected Prints opens on the 6th of November, 2024 until the 31st of December, 2024 at Brixton Library

©2024 King & McGaw

Art Plugged is a contemporary platform inspired by a relationship with the broader arts communities. We provide our audience with curated insight into the world of art, from exhibitions to artist interviews and more.