The Future is Today: Prints and the University of Warwick, 1965 to now

Prints are an accessible art form, cheaper to produce and share than other mediums. 

Artist Joseph Beuys noted that ‘prints are ideas in circulation’ and this is one of the inspirations for the founding of the University of Warwick Art Collection in 1965. 

Alongside the university, the Art Collection is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, a major survey exhibition of prints from the University Art Collection and from other museums, artists and private collectors, examines the ideas that have been explored by successive generations over the last 60 years.

Artists include: The Atlas Group, Polly Apfelbaum, Fiona Banner, Peter Blake, Sonia Boyce, Leonie Bradley, Christian Noelle Charles, Tracey Emin, Ruth Ewan, Ellen Gallagher, Richard Hamilton, Hastings and Quinlan, Lubaina Himid, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Yinka Ilori, R.B Kitaj, Lakwena, Liliane Lijn, Julian Opie, Ciara Phillips, Quinlan and Hastings, Robert Rauschenberg, Eric Ravilious, Paula Rego, Larry Rivers, Deiter Roth, Ed Ruscha, Ben Sanderson, Khadije Saye, Shanzai Lyric, Yinka Shonibare, George Shaw, Sin Wai Kin, Emma Stibbon, Graham Sutherland, Joe Tilson, Mark Wallinger, Andy Warhol, Jeremy Wood and Lu Williams.

The exhibition contains a free, working print studio where visitors can experiment making their own monoprints inspired by the exhibition.