By Lizzie Edmonds An exhibition honouring the work of print-maker and prolific London Underground poster artist Paul Catherall will open this week. Paul Catherall, ‘Futures Past — 20 Years of Linocuts’ is a celebration of the Coventry-born artist’s 20-year career, and will open at Gallery@Oxo on the South Bank. The artist, who now lives in Stoke Newington, […]
By Katy Cowan This spring, the acclaimed British printmaker Paul Catherall returns to the South Bank for a major retrospective, spanning 20 years of his bold and beautiful linocuts. Taking in old classics, including his now iconic prints of Battersea Power Station, the National Theatre and Tate Modern; commissions for high profile clients including the Southbank Centre, […]
By Aimee McLaughlin The designer was commissioned by the charity to create a linocut print of the 18th century bridge as part of a campaign to restore the world heritage site. Conservation charity English Heritage has launched a crowdfunding campaign as part of a £3.6 million project to save the world’s first iron bridge, featuring […]
By Pamela Buxton Searching out the spare lines of brutalism and modernism: interview with artist and printmaker Paul Catherall. ‘Basically it’s a sophisticated potato-cut,’ says illustrator Paul Catherall rather self-depreciatingly of his distinctive linocut printing technique. For nearly 20 years, Catherall has been capturing architectural landmarks in his strikingly graphic style. Each design is a […]
‘Chances are, if you live in London you’ll have seen one of Paul Catherall’s prints. Certainly indebted to classic transport posters from artists like Tom Purvis and Tom Eckersley, they pull the city – or renderings of it at least – into the modern age, kicking and screaming with their bold but retro colour schemes […]
By Tabish Khan You may not have heard of artist Paul Catherall, but you’ve probably seen his work. It’s regularly used in Transport for London’s posters, and one of his works is currently being used in the #LondonIsOpen campaign — you may even be sitting across from one of these posters while reading this article. […]
By Elly Parsons Printmaker and one-time Wallpaper* cover artist Paul Catherall is no stranger to hard work. Each one of his architectural prints takes around six weeks to complete – and there are dozens of them in a bountiful new selling exhibition at London’s For Arts Sake gallery. ‘The process is pretty laborious,’ Catherall explains. […]
Paul Catherall’s bold linocuts of London architecture are instantly recognisable. He’s had commissions ranging from the Royal Shakespeare Company to the House of Commons, and his 2003 Tate Modern artwork is part of the LT Museum’s current Tube-themed Poster Art 150 exhibition. Other south London landmarks to been Catherall-ed include the “great Brutalist monuments” of the […]
By Emily Gosling Known for his iconic linocuts of London cityscapes and London Transport posters, printmaker and illustrator Paul Catherall is to have his largest exhibition yet at the Oxo Tower, London next month. It seems like the perfect setting for Catherall. He says, ‘The location of the Oxo Tower is great. It just suits […]
Underground art: The colourful past of the Tube By Rob Sharp There are two wooden oars, adorned with smiling faces and peaked, collegiate caps, shouting through angular megaphones. An advertisement for the Cambridge versus Oxford boat race on the Thames, it is a Wodehouse-esque appreciation of tradition that is inclusive and colourful. The artwork in […]
Trellick Tower, Tate Modern, Elephant & Castle - illustrator Paul Catherall tells Jessica Holland about his obsession with the city’s more eclectic buildings. “I’ve always loved London architecture - especially the stuff that isn’t picture postcard,” Paul Catherall says, explaining why he’s obsessed with making prints of the capital’s more eccentric landmarks. ” They’re uncelebrated […]
Paul Catherall: ‘Shaping the City’, the.gallery@oxo Prints of London by Paul Catherall, whose posters of landmarks like Blackfriars Bridge and Tate Modern may be familiar from being featured by London Transport. Oxo Tower Wharf, May 1 – 18 2008, Bargehouse Street, SE1 9PH, 0207021 1686 www.coinstreet.org
Spring 2008 Paul Catherall’s architectural linocuts are rapidly becoming stars in the firmament of great British design. Art historian Clare Barry looks at the artist’s career to date. On the Tube, years ago, I saw a London Underground poster promoting the opening of Tate Modern, a striking design that immediately demanded my attention. The image, […]
