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Viewing The London Print Fair at Somerset House

Above Pablo Picasso

The Wick Culture - Brian Eno, Untitled, 2025

Above Brian Eno, Untitled, 2025

Above Andy Warhol

Above Clement Clausse

Above Pablo Picasso

Above Brian Eno, Untitled, 2025

Above Andy Warhol

Above Clement Clausse

London Original Print Fair

Somerset House
20 – 23 March, 2025

The London Original Print Fair (LOPF) returns this week, with a three day event taking over Somerset House’s s sprawling Neoclassical buildings. This year the fair achieves a landmark: it’s 40th edition, and there are plenty of special celebrations planned, including artist talks with Chris Levine (Friday 21st March) and Stanley Donwood, discussing his collaborations with Thom Yorke (Sunday 23 March), and new editions being launched exclusively for the fair.

Founded in 1985 by a committee of eight print dealers, the London Original Print Fair first took place in the Royal Academy of Arts, where it ran every year until 2022 (with the exception of an online edition in 2020, during covid). The first edition had just sixteen exhibitors; in 2025, the fair welcomes fifty this year.

When LOPF began, the world, and the art world, was a vastly different place. They have helped forge an infrastructure around collecting printmaking and have helped a new generation discover an appreciation for the varied and diverse art form. As director Helen Rossyln says “I came into this because I love prints. So that is really our primary focus – getting other people to understand how wonderful prints are, and how you can have such fun collecting.”

Viewing Baseera Khan at Niru Ratnam

The Wick Culture - Installation view, Baseera Khan 'Pocket Diary'. Image courtesy of the artist and Niru Ratnam London. Photo by Studio Damian Griffiths

Above Installation view, Baseera Khan ‘Pocket Diary’. Image courtesy of the artist and Niru Ratnam London. Photo by Studio Damian Griffiths

The Wick Culture - Baseera Khan, Pink Liver Water Lily, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist and Niru Ratnam London. Photo by Studio Damian Griffiths

Above Baseera Khan, Pink Liver Water Lily, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist and Niru Ratnam London. Photo by Studio Damian Griffiths

The Wick Culture - Baseera Khan, Coppice Maroon Heart, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist and Niru Ratnam London. Photo by Greg Carideo.

Above Baseera Khan, Coppice Maroon Heart, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist and Niru Ratnam London. Photo by Greg Carideo.

Above Installation view, Baseera Khan ‘Pocket Diary’. Image courtesy of the artist and Niru Ratnam London. Photo by Studio Damian Griffiths

Above Baseera Khan, Pink Liver Water Lily, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist and Niru Ratnam London. Photo by Studio Damian Griffiths

Above Baseera Khan, Coppice Maroon Heart, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist and Niru Ratnam London. Photo by Greg Carideo.

Baseera Khan: Pocket Diary

Niru Ratnam
7 March – 17 April 2025

Baseera Khan is the New York-based multimedia artist who has made a name in the US for paintings, sculptures, installations and performance works that draw on their South Asian heritage and consider the implicit, oft invisible, intersections between labour, family, religion and power. Khan has exhibited at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, High Line, New York and the Brooklyn Museum, among others — but this is set to be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK.

A group of new chromatic paintings, Red Paintings, are Khan’s reworking of the notes and images contained in a pocket notebook Khan’s father carried, in which he noted births and deaths and important events. This archive of newspaper clippings, certificates, political cartoons, currency transfers and prayer times are the basis for Khan’s understanding of their identity, and relationship to the world – memory, myth and fact merged as one.

Elsewhere, Khan creates arresting sculptures, also in bold red, inspired by deities and Khan’s own body, once again blurring the boundaries between self and the outside world, between the individual and collective, past and present. A second gallery continues this theme, with chandeliers by Khan animating the room like glittering disco balls.

Viewing Celia Paul at Victoria Miro Gallery

The Wick Culture - Celia Paul, Painter at Home, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro

Above Celia Paul, Painter at Home, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro

The Wick Culture - Celia Paul, Reclining Painter, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro

Above Celia Paul, Reclining Painter, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro

The Wick Culture - Celia Paul, Colony of Ghosts, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro

Above Celia Paul, Colony of Ghosts, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro

Above Celia Paul, Painter at Home, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro

Above Celia Paul, Reclining Painter, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro

Above Celia Paul, Colony of Ghosts, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro

Celia Paul: Colony of Ghosts

Victoria Miro Gallery
14 March – 17 April 2025

Celia Paul’s eighth solo exhibition at Victoria Miro opens this week, and later this month, an expansive new monograph on the artist will be published by MACK to coincide, celebrating five decades of Paul’s riveting, profound and stirring paintings of the complexities of life through people she cherishes. This show focuses on the inevitable passing of time, and Paul’s relationship to it, through painting.

There are new self-portraits, as well as a poignant portrait of her four sisters, as well as sumptuous new seascapes, and paintings of the artist’s Bloomsbury studio. Figures who appear at times are plucked from Paul’s past as she reflects on the years, on what has changed – and what hasn’t – what can be captured in paint, and what slips away.

Shifting in atmosphere, many of the paintings are imbued with a certain kind of melancholy and feeling of solitude, and inevitably grief, as the artist looks at her world and considers the death of her husband, in 2021, and her own ageing. In her forthcoming monograph, which includes new essays by Hilton Als, Karl Ove Knausgaard and Edmund de Waal, among others, the artist writes: ‘My young self and I – we are the same person. I can stretch out my old hand – with its age spots – and hold my young unblemished hand.’