With the Graduate Art Prize now in its third year, Works in Print and Herbert Smith Freehills are delighted to announce the shortlist for this year’s competition. Finalists were chosen from a nationwide selection of graduating students, with entries from 30 different Universities from all corners of the United Kingdom – making this year’s Prize […]
Prize Winner Alecsandra Raluca Dragoi
Works in Print are very excited to announce that the winner of this year’s Art Graduates Prize is talented photographer Alecsandra Raluca Dragoi from University of Portsmouth. Alecsandra was awarded the £1,000 prize at a prestigious Private Viewing on 6th November at co-sponsor Herbert Smith Freehills’ offices, in the heart of the City of London. […]
Art Graduates Prize 2014 Shortlist Announced
Works in Print and Herbert Smith Freehills are excited to announce the shortlist for this year’s Art Graduates Prize. Entries were open to any graduating artist from any UK university and we had a very high standard of entrants following a hectic summer of talent scouting at degree shows! 22 shortlisted artists have been selected […]
The London Collection
Works in Print has a great number of images of places from around the world. Our London Collection is a series of images showing different facets of the city from the late nineteenth century to the present. Below is a selection of images, both historical and contemporary, that document spaces and places of the city […]
Trisha McCrae Owens
The Price and Value of Art by Colin Ruffell
There are several formulas that artists adopt for determining the price for their art. A simple formula just tots up the costs of making the art and adds something on top, bearing in mind that a gallery will usually double the artist’s asking price, add tax, and come to the price for the public to […]
Abstract Art
For some abstract art provokes a negative reaction. Its lack of representation, or reference to nature or an object, occasionally gives rise to the assumption the artist has insufficient skill to produce a picture or sculpture of recognisable reality; or that she or he has thoughtlessly placed paint or other media on a surface. While […]