School Prints revives a groundbreaking scheme set up in the 1940s to supply original, high-quality contemporary art to primary schools. Last year, six British artists – Martin Creed, Jeremy Deller, Anthea Hamilton, Helen Marten, Haroon Mirza and Rose Wylie – were invited to create limited edition prints that were gifted to participating Wakefield schools. (Covered)
In 2019, Fiona Banner, Sir Peter Blake, Francis Upritchard and Richard Wentworth created a new series of limited edition prints as part of the scheme. You can order them at The Hepworth Wakefield
Fiona Banner - Windsock Storyboard - 2019
‘Windsock Storyboard is based on my film Tete à Tête in which two mechanically operated windsocks are the main protagonists in a romantic drama set in a classic English landscape around Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Here, they turn their back on each other in a pivotal moment of confrontation.’ - Fiona Banner
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 49.5 x 76 cm
Edition of 40 (plus artist proofs)
Signed and numbered by the artist
Price: £ 500
Sir Peter Blake - Games We Used To Play, Things We Used To Do - 2019
‘I thought about what was different between when I was at school and schools today, and I remembered the games we used to play in the playground. I hope my print will make children smile and that they become involved in working out the different games, maybe asking their mum and dad about them.’ - Sir Peter Blake
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 49.5 x 76 cm
Edition of 40 (plus artist proofs)
Signed and numbered by the artist
Price: £ 600
Francis Upritchard - Surly Baboon - 2019
"Monkeys and Baboons are interesting to me because they look and behave a lot like humans, but are not human. The baboon in this print has a facial expression a little bit like my husband’s when he is in a fake bad mood. I guess a Baboon in a bad mood might have a similar expression, so I’m not sure if this is really a portrait of my husband, or of a Baboon." - Francis Upritchard
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 76 x 49.5 cm
Edition of 40 (plus artist proofs)
Signed and numbered by the artist
Price: £ 600
Richard Wentworth - Weights and Measures - 2019
‘I only photograph ‘things’, and I only photograph what I encounter. I don’t go hunting. I am not a snooper. Looking and seeing often overlap. If we ‘see’ something, is that an ‘image’? When does imagination enter our internal conversation? How do we share? Who do we want to keep out? I am very interested in the narrow line between public and private. The links and the leaves here are in a mad conversation. Human relationships are often quite like this image – in a state of variable mutual accommodation.’ - Richard Wentworth
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 49.5 x 76 cm
Edition of 40 (plus artist proofs)
Signed and numbered by the artist
Price: £ 500
