King & McGaw Turner Prize Print Collection at Port Hotel

Now showing

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Now showing 〰️

Fiona Rae, King & McGaw Print

To celebrate the eagerly awaited Turner Prize at Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, which opens on 28th September 2023, special edition prints from King & McGaw’s Turner Prize collection are now being exhibited at Port Hotel until the end of December 2023.

The exhibition honours previous Turner Prize artists, dating back to the 1980s when the Turner Prize first launched. Archive prints from three artists are on display throughout Port’s restaurant which, with its abundance of natural light, pouring in from the sea-front, makes for an ideal gallery space.

Expect to see framed prints by Sir Howard Hodgkin, one of Britain’s greatest colourists and contemporary painters, who scooped the Turner Prize in 1985. Known for using saturated colours and expressive brush strokes, he painted directly onto the back of old picture frames or salvaged wood – therefore blurring the traditional distinction between object and image.

Special editions by Fiona Rae are also on display, working beautifully within the palette of Port Hotel’s environment. Rae, who was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1991, is known for her inventive use of colour, line, imagery and gesture – which fuses together to form an abstract-pop universe. 

Completing the trio of artists on show is printmaker Patrick Caulfield whose special edition pop-art prints are bold, bright and superbly executed. Taking the everyday object and elevating it to art status, Patrick was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1987 for his landmark solo show “The Artist’s Eye”.

All framed prints exhibited at Port Hotel will be available to buy via a King & McGaw QR code. Prices start at £120.

 King & McGaw are proud sponsors of the Turner Prize 2023 at Towner Eastbourne.

Soak up the creativity of Turner Prize artists, past at Port Hotel and present at Towner Gallery this Autumn/Winter in Eastbourne.