PRINT PARTNERSHIPS

Hockney x Tyler

Kenneth Tyler was a progressive force in the world of art. His workshops in Los Angeles, Gemini Ltd. (1965) and Gemini GEL (1966-1973) and later in New York State with Tyler Workshop (1973) and Tyler Graphics Ltd. (1974-2001) pushed the artistic and technical boundaries of printmaking and paper making: Rather than limiting an artist’s vision to the constraints of traditional printmaking, his aim was to expand printmaking to match the vision of the artist.

Over the course of his career, Tyler worked with notable artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Frank Stella, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg and embarked on ambitious career defining projects with them. From creating some of the largest and most complex prints in history, to experimenting in the field of papermaking, Tyler initiated collaborative ways of working and created new technologies that expanded the possibilities of printmaking.

ARTISTS TO WATCH

Kate Gibb prints

A year before their meeting, the illustrator and printmaker had completed a masters degree at Central Saint Martins, and – upon graduation – she decided to send out some examples of her work to potential clients. Whatever it was that she sent seemed to have worked as it caught the attention of Tappin, who invited her along to Virgin to hear the album and pitch a potential idea. Gibb was a music fan but, at the time, dance music was hardly on her radar. In an interview in 2014, she talked about her experience of first hearing the record and recalled how Tappin turned to her after it had finished playing and quipped: “It's not Belle and Sebastian, is it Kate?”