LOOP Artists: Artists in Print

LOOP Artists: Artists in Print LOOP is an informal co-operative of artists with a background in printmaking. LOOP 2024 will be the nineteenth LOOP show since 2005.

The first LOOP show was in October 2005 at the Menier Gallery. It brought together 12 artist printmakers who had recently completed the Camberwell MA printmaking course. The show was organised and mounted collaboratively, and showed painting and a wide range of printmaking. It sold work, encouraging a second show at the Menier in November 2006. Someone from Bankside Gallery dropped by and asked if

we had considered showing at Bankside. The austere headquarters of the RE and RWS? We hadn't - but it was worth asking, and so our first Bankside show came about in 2007. 'Loop' had become LOOP, and was set to continue. There's been at least one show a year for 18 years in various galleries, but its main gallery is the loopartists.org.uk website. It still is a collaborative show. All decisions are made by the artists, who do all the work involved, from publicity and catering to making the sales, and who make up their own minds what work they will show. The shows have looped individual artists together, and to the public who want to see, and possibly buy the work. Some have exhibited internationally, set up print studios, or pursued teaching careers, while others have continued to work quietly in their own studios, or have recently completed a printmaking MA. The focus has always been on print, but this is not a requirement, as artists are free to show their most recent work in whatever media they are using. The variety and vitality of contemporary print has been evident in all LOOP exhibitions. Tuesday 10th September - Sunday 15th September

Open daily 3pm – 7pm except for Monday as the gallery is closed. Private View: 5pm – 8pm, Tuesday 10th September
Closing Party: 3pm – 6pm, Sunday 15th September
Artists will be present at the Private View and the closing party.

Loop is based on a collective of artists who have shown together for years but, of necessity, the lineup for our annual ...
18/05/2026

Loop is based on a collective of artists who have shown together for years but, of necessity, the lineup for our annual show varies from year to year. It was great to exhibit again in Occupied- Strange Company with erstwhile Loop Artists who all have their own extraordinary practices.
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3. Fungai’s etching plate after her stunning performance. Can’t wait to see how it etches!
4. .greenie
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6. and who gave the opening speech at LOOP 2025

Final day Sunday 17th May. Occupied: Strange Company Safehouses 1&2 , Peckham. If you are in town then pop along to se...
17/05/2026

Final day Sunday 17th May. Occupied: Strange Company Safehouses 1&2 , Peckham. If you are in town then pop along to see this materially diverse work inhabiting these particular spaces. Curated by the artist Julie Hoyle. Images:

Some Loop artists on show in London this weekend - 1 at LOPF (Janet Sang Coverage)2-5 Jo Okell and Pete Shuttleworth bot...
14/05/2026

Some Loop artists on show in London this weekend -
1 at LOPF (Janet Sang Coverage)
2-5 Jo Okell and Pete Shuttleworth both prize winners at the RE Originals at Bankside (really impressive show, on until May 31st)
6. Janet Sang Wave Season screenprint and On the Ground, polymer photgravure at RE Originals
7. Ian Brown Walk With Me: Gê, and Walk With Me: Hydor, etching and screenprint. RE Originals and LOPF
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The 2026 London Original Print Fair is in full swing at Somerset House. Janet Sang will be exhibiting with Royal Society...
13/05/2026

The 2026 London Original Print Fair is in full swing at Somerset House.
Janet Sang will be exhibiting with Royal Society of Printmakers Room 17
https://londonoriginalprintfair.com/exhibitors/78-royal-society-of-painter-printmakers/
Her two prints both made since last year’s fair, are part of her continuing response to events in Western Asia, particularly the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli state in Palestine.
There are several LOOP members showing in Room 17, including Jo Okell, Pete Shuttleworth and Ian Brown. Janet commented ‘ It is always an extraordinary event and proud to be a part of it’

Images:
Shares and Stocks, photopolymer etching with chine colle, 1/4VE (66x50cm)
The prize-winning Coverage, screenprint, 1/10 (76 x56cm).

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Our next artist is Julie Hoyle who conceived, curated and realised Occupied: Strange Company, a contemporary art exhibit...
13/05/2026

Our next artist is Julie Hoyle who conceived, curated and realised Occupied: Strange Company, a contemporary art exhibition set within two abandoned Victorian houses in Peckham. Stripped back and timeworn, the buildings retain traces of former lives, creating a setting that is both compelling and unsettled.
‘Through proximity and placement, works that would not ordinarily be seen together form unexpected relationships across the space.
Painting, sculpture, print, installation, ceramics and moving image are installed throughout the remnants of domestic interiors, shifting the atmosphere of the house and altering how the space is experienced. Moving through rooms, staircases and thresholds, visitors encounter works that move between the intimate and the uncanny, the material and the imagined.
Together, the exhibition forms a temporary community of presences, installed in close proximity, the works begin to speak to one another in unexpected ways, forming subtle and unexpected relationships that create a charged and shifting environment in which the familiar is rendered persistently strange.’

Julie is a contemporary artist working across printmaking, mixed media and ceramics. Her work explores kinship between human, animal and natural worlds, reflecting on shared vulnerability, empathy and our place within living systems.
Rooted in collagraph printmaking and expanded through clay, drawing and light-based installation, Hoyle’s practice combines layered textures, raw line and atmospheric imagery with a balance of beauty and unease.
In her new works Breath and Blood exhibited here
recurring motifs such as organs, vessels, intertwined human, animal and plant forms act as ‘nature’s blueprints,’ suggesting deep biological and emotional connections. Rather than presenting direct ecological narratives, her work approaches these themes through suggestion, atmosphere and poetic association.

Occupied: Strange Company
Private View: Friday 15 May, 5–8pm
Exhibition Open: 15, 16 & 17 May, 11am–4pm
Safehouses, 139 Copeland Road, London SE15 3SN.

Next we are sharing a little more about the work of Ann Norfield who is participating in Occupied: Strange Company which...
12/05/2026

Next we are sharing a little more about the work of Ann Norfield who is participating in Occupied: Strange Company which opens this week.

Her work will be hanging in the part of the Safehouse that was once the kitchen. For Ann the kitchen is the heart of the home. For the project Ann walked around her own kitchen taking photos as a starting point. Although the room is (suitably!) clean and hygienic, the more she looked the more she noticed extra small objects that have accumulated over the years. For next weekend’s exhibition she has drawn and etched a few personal favourites. Each relic drawn here is imbued with an element of personal history, invisible to all but the collector. The artist has collected many, many wishbones over the years, thanks to the number of dinners cooked and eaten. They fill an old sweet tin in the kitchen, suggesting a corner of hope when nothing else can.
These wishbones will feature again in another piece that will be put together on site.

Occupied: Strange Company
Private View: Friday 15 May, 5–8pm
Exhibition Open: 15, 16 & 17 May, 11am–4pm
Safehouses, 139 Copeland Road, London SE15 3SN
Curated by

Images:
From Kitchen Reliquary, 2026, Etching and aquatint, 25 x 20 cm on 300gsm Somerset

As the exhibition Occupied: Strange Companyat Safehouses, Peckham approaches. We are sharing a little more about the wor...
11/05/2026

As the exhibition Occupied: Strange Company
at Safehouses, Peckham approaches. We are sharing a little more about the work of the participating Loop artists.
We begin with Fungai Marima explores themes of womanhood, investigating through video, image projections and photography the liminal space between the undoing of oneself and the process of becoming Self. Las Animas is a collage of fragmented body parts that come together to create a series titled ‘I don’t know why I do the things that I do’ that questions our beliefs, perception of self and how much of an influence the world around us has to the decisions we make, that ultimately make or break us.
(This work Las Animas, (the souls) gives homage to and is inspired by Kiki Smith’s photogravure series Las Animas, 1997.)
To Fibroid is to… is a performance piece by the artist which aims to feel, gesture and articulate the body’s experience of the normalised pains, frustrations of having fibroids. Accompanied by a small publication that has responses from various women to the prompt ‘To Fibroid is to..’ made by the artist on her instagram page and on a simple google form, to archive, highlight inequalities within the health system and amplify the voices of those that are fighting academically and medically to do more research on uterine fibroids which have long term effects on the body.

The performance will be an hour long with an hour interval in between on; Saturday 16 May 2026 1 – 1.30 & 2.30 – 3pm

Occupied: Strange Company
Private View: Friday 15 May, 5–8pm
Exhibition Open: 15, 16 & 17 May, 11am–4pm
Safehouses, 139 Copeland Road, London SE15 3SN
Curated by
Image details: Mufambi (Traveller)
Digital print, lasercut layering on Somerset paper
50 x 50 cm Las Animas series 2020

OPENS TODAY. AAF Hampstead Pop along and see our talented LOOP artist Lynne Blackburn recent prints alongside artists ex...
06/05/2026

OPENS TODAY. AAF Hampstead Pop along and see our talented LOOP artist Lynne Blackburn recent prints alongside artists exhibiting with over 100 galleries. PV 5-9pm the fair runs until Sunday

SAVE THE DATE for a new exhibition curated by Loop’s Julie Hoyle. The exhibition Occupied: Strange Company, which opens ...
26/04/2026

SAVE THE DATE for a new exhibition curated by Loop’s Julie Hoyle. The exhibition Occupied: Strange Company, which opens and runs 15-17 May at Safehouses 1 & 2 Peckham, is a contemporary art exhibition set within the two abandoned Victorian houses which brings together a cross-section of artists from Royal Academicians to emerging practitioners, alongside artists working within disability and community contexts.
Painting, sculpture, print, installation, ceramics and moving image are installed throughout the remnants of domestic interiors, shifting the atmosphere of the house and altering how the space is experienced. More details about this exciting initiative will follow in the next few weeks.

Private View: Friday 15 May, 5–8pm
Open: 15, 16 & 17 May, 11am–4pm
Safehouses, 139 Copeland Road, London SE15.
Images: details WIP - Julie Hoyle, Ann Norfield

‘Pixelation’ After Venice. Relief print at Artichoke Print Studio. Andrew is continuing to experiment with these lino b...
20/04/2026


‘Pixelation’ After Venice. Relief print at Artichoke Print Studio. Andrew is continuing to experiment with these lino blocks using 72 colours in one print and 67 in the other.

Loop artist has been exploring ideas and possibilities in collaboration with Trying out the large wooden letters and ...
20/04/2026

Loop artist has been exploring ideas and possibilities in collaboration with
Trying out the large wooden letters and brass rings she recently bought at STROUD’s Wayzgoose.

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