Selected Prints

Monotype · Stateless

Selected to represent those without a country — the stateless and the displaced. Her contribution stands as a testimony to those whose identity cannot be mapped to any political boundary.

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Screenprint · Iraq

Dia Azzawi is one of the most significant figures in modern Arab art. His work fuses calligraphic tradition with a contemporary visual language of protest, grief, and endurance. His screenprint for the portfolio brings the full force of that tradition to bear on the theme of hope.

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Plastograph · Nigeria

Bruce Onobrakpeya is one of Nigeria's most celebrated artists and the inventor of plastography — a printmaking process of his own devising that combines relief printing with experimental textures drawn from Urhobo cultural traditions. His contribution is among the most technically distinctive in the portfolio.

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Lithograph · Poland

Józef Szajna was a Polish artist, theatre director, and survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. His work — dense with memory, trauma, and the stubborn will to persist — carries a weight born of direct witness. His lithograph for the portfolio is among its most historically charged contributions.

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Screenprint · England

John Piper (1903–1992) was one of England's most celebrated printmakers, renowned for his atmospheric landscapes and stained-glass commissions. His screenprint for the portfolio is characteristic of his lyrical, richly layered approach to colour and light.

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Lithograph · Morocco

Mehdi Qotbi is one of Morocco's foremost painters and printmakers, known for works that integrate Arabic calligraphy with abstract expressionist gesture. His lithograph for the portfolio moves between script and image in a field of charged, luminous marks.

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Linocut · Nepal

Nominated to represent Nepal, Bajracharya's linocut brings the visual traditions of the Kathmandu Valley to the portfolio — a language shaped by centuries of religious imagery and craft practice, here turned toward the present.

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Linocut · Swaziland

Austin Hleza represents Swaziland (now Eswatini) in the portfolio. His linocut draws on the bold graphic traditions of Southern African printmaking, with imagery rooted in the landscapes and cultural life of the kingdom.

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Etching and aquatint · Mexico

Leticia Ocharín's etching and aquatint combination draws on the rich Mexican tradition of printmaking, in which the graphic arts have long served as both artistic and political instrument. Her work is among the most tonally complex prints in the portfolio.

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Woodcut · Japan

Fumio Kitaoka is one of Japan's most respected printmakers, working within the long tradition of Japanese woodcut (mokuhanga). His work for the portfolio brings the precision and meditative clarity of East Asian printmaking to the shared theme of hope and renewal.

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Screenprint · Zaire

Chéri Samba represents Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) in the portfolio. His screenprint is vivid and direct, characteristic of the popular figurative tradition of Kinshasa that gained international recognition in the late 1980s.

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Screenprint · USSR

Andrej Roiter was among the younger generation of Soviet conceptual artists when he contributed to the portfolio in 1990 — a moment of profound transformation in the USSR. His screenprint carries the ambiguities and energies of that historical inflection point.

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Screenprint · Ireland

Robert Ballagh is Ireland's foremost printmaker and one of its most politically engaged artists. His screenprint for the portfolio reflects his long commitment to human rights, social justice, and the visual power of popular culture.

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Screenprint · New Zealand

Kura Te Waru Rewiri brings a Māori perspective to the portfolio, embedding the visual culture and tikanga of Aotearoa New Zealand within the international conversation about hope. Her screenprint is among the most culturally specific and formally distinctive works in the collection.

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Etching · Israel

Rivka Freidman's etching brings the intimate, delicate line of the intaglio tradition to a work of quiet emotional intensity. Her contribution is among the most personally expressive in the portfolio — a private language reaching toward something universal.

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Lithograph · Jordan

Rima Farah represents Jordan in the portfolio. Her lithograph speaks in a visual language shaped by the cultural crossroads of the Levant — a meeting point of ancient traditions and contemporary pressures — rendered with lyrical restraint.

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Screenprint · Faeroe Islands

Marius Olsen represents the Faeroe Islands — one of the smaller and more remote territories in the portfolio. His screenprint brings the austere beauty and distinctive cultural identity of the North Atlantic archipelago to the international conversation.

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Linocut · Namibia

Themba Massala represents the newly independent nation of Namibia — whose liberation struggle and the spirit of John Muafangejo give the entire portfolio its name and theme. His linocut is made in the bold graphic tradition of Southern African printmaking.

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Etching and aquatint · Bangladesh

Monir Islam represents Bangladesh — a young nation with a culture shaped by the Bengal Renaissance and the struggle for independence. His etching and aquatint work explores light and mark with characteristic delicacy.

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Screenprint · Brazil

One of three Brazilian artists in the portfolio — Brazil's size and federal structure allowed for multiple national representatives. Andrea Cristina Las brings a distinctly Brazilian visual sensibility to the screenprint medium.

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Screenprint · Brazil

Sergio de Moraes contributes a second Brazilian screenprint to the portfolio — one of several works from this country, which as a large federation was allocated multiple representatives. His work reflects the energy and colour of Brazilian contemporary art practice.

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Etching and aquatint · Norway

Guttorm Guttormsgaard represents Norway in the portfolio. Working in etching and aquatint, the work deploys the full tonal range of the combined intaglio technique to create an image of atmospheric depth.

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Etching and aquatint · Portugal

Henri da Silva employs the aquatint process to create a work of luminous tonal depth. The soft, granular surface lends the image a quality of atmospheric light — porous, hovering between states, open to interpretation.

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Monotype · Morocco

Tibari Kantour is a second Moroccan representative in the portfolio. His monotype — a unique or near-unique impression — occupies the border between print and painting, retaining the spontaneous mark of the artist's hand in the final image.

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Lithograph and silkscreen · Canada

Will Gorlitz is a Canadian artist whose practice has explored the relationship between text, image, and meaning. His combined lithograph and silkscreen work for the portfolio is formally inventive, working at the intersection of two distinct printmaking traditions.

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Linocut · Malta

Alfred Chircop represents Malta — one of the smaller island nations in the portfolio. His linocut brings the Mediterranean light and the compact graphic energy of island culture to the international collection.

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Linocut and collage · Colombia

Ofelia Rodriguez's combination of linocut and collage extends the conventions of the print beyond a single process, incorporating found and assembled elements into the final image. Her work for the portfolio is one of its most formally experimental contributions.

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Etching · Finland

Outi Heiskanen is one of Finland's most distinguished printmakers. Her etchings are known for their mythic resonance, drawn from Finnish folk tradition and reanimated through a fierce contemporary sensibility. Her contribution carries the dark wonder of the North.

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Lithograph · Ivory Coast

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré was a visionary artist and thinker from Côte d'Ivoire who created his own pictographic writing system, Bété, based on everyday observations. His lithograph for the portfolio is characteristic of his meticulous, visionary draughtsmanship.

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Etching · Mauritius

Neermala Luckeenarain represents Mauritius — an island nation of extraordinary cultural complexity in the Indian Ocean. Her etching brings the layered visual culture of that meeting-point of Africa, Asia, and Europe to the portfolio.

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Lithograph · Czechoslovakia

Ivan Kamarek represents Czechoslovakia at a pivotal historical moment — the country was in the process of transforming after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. His lithograph carries the particular weight of that transition.

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Linocut · Bulgaria

Yuly Mintchev's linocut brings an Eastern European sensibility to the portfolio — the bold, graphic directness of the medium employed with an economy that carries great expressive weight. The work was made at a moment of profound political transformation in Bulgaria.

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Etching and aquatint · Denmark

Lars Ravn represents Denmark in the portfolio. Working in the combined etching and aquatint tradition, his print plays tonal depth against precise drawn line in a work of quiet formal rigour.

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Etching and aquatint · Sweden

L. G. Lundberg represents Sweden in the portfolio. The large-format etching and aquatint makes full use of the tonal possibilities of the combined intaglio technique — a work of considered restraint and precise atmospheric quality.

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Etching · Gibraltar

Mario Finlaysson represents Gibraltar — one of the smallest territories in the portfolio and its fellowship sponsor. His etching reflects the particular identity of a place that is simultaneously Mediterranean, British, and distinctly its own.

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Screenprint · Canada

David Alexander is a second Canadian representative in the portfolio. His screenprint occupies a different register to Will Gorlitz's contribution — bold, direct, and immediate, with the graphic confidence characteristic of Canadian print art of the period.

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Etching · Zimbabwe

Helen Leiros represents Zimbabwe — one of the smallest works in the portfolio in terms of image area, yet concentrated in its intensity. Her etching demonstrates that scale is not a measure of ambition in printmaking.

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Lithograph · Peru

Alberto Quintanilla draws on the deep visual traditions of Peru — pre-Columbian imagery refracted through a contemporary sensibility. Drawn directly onto stone with a greasy crayon, the work has the quality of something both ancient and immediate.

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Diptych lithograph · Venezuela

Gien Sujo's diptych lithograph is the largest work in the portfolio by dimension, spanning two sheets to create a composite image. Its ambition of scale mirrors the expansive possibilities of the project itself.

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Linocut · Ghana

Atta Kwami represents Ghana — one of the smaller works in the portfolio, but richly concentrated. His linocut brings the formal vocabulary of West African visual culture to the relief printing tradition with assured economy.

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Etching · Réunion

Patricia Seznec represents Réunion — the French island territory in the Indian Ocean — bringing a perspective shaped by the complex cultural identity of a community that spans European, African, South Asian, and East Asian traditions.

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Woodcut · Greece

Yiannis Goupzis contributes the smallest work in the portfolio, a miniature woodcut whose modest scale belies its formal intensity. The woodcut tradition in Greece has deep classical roots — Goupzis works within and against those roots.

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Lithograph · USA

Leon Golub (1922–2004) was one of America's most important political artists, known for monumental paintings of mercenaries, interrogations, and the mechanics of power. His lithograph for the portfolio — one of several American contributions — brings his unflinching moral vision to the printmaking medium.

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Lithograph · Luxembourg

Gast Michels represents Luxembourg in the portfolio. His lithograph is characteristic of the European school of post-war figurative abstraction — a language that articulates feeling through form rather than explicit narrative.

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Etching and aquatint · Iceland

Helgi T. Fridjonsson represents Iceland — a land of volcanic light, extreme seasons, and a literary tradition of exceptional depth. His large-format etching and aquatint deploys the full tonal capacity of the intaglio technique.

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Linocut · Jamaica

Judith Salmon represents Jamaica — a country whose culture of creative resistance and resilience is inseparable from its history of struggle. Her linocut brings the bold mark-making energy of that tradition to the international collection.

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Offset lithograph · West Germany

Walter Dahn was a leading figure in the Neue Wilde movement — the German Neo-Expressionist surge of the early 1980s. His offset lithograph for the portfolio represents West Germany in the final year of its existence as a separate state, carrying the particular charge of that historical moment.

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Screenprint · Niue

Noelene Pasisi represents Niue — one of the smallest self-governing nations on earth, a coral island in the South Pacific. Her screenprint brings the visual culture of Polynesia to a project that genuinely spans the globe.

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Etching · Scotland

John Bellany (1942–2013) was Scotland's greatest figurative painter, whose work drew on the fishing culture of the East Neuk of Fife and a profound engagement with mortality, redemption, and joy. His large-format etching for the portfolio reflects the full drama of his mature vision.

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Screenprint · France

Robert Combas is one of the founders of the Figuration Libre movement — the French counterpart to American Neo-Expressionism and Italian Transavanguardia. His screenprint is exuberant, densely populated, and irreverent, a celebration of the low, the popular, and the joyful.

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Screenprint · Wales

Harry Holland represents Wales — one of four contributions from the constituent nations of the United Kingdom. His screenprint works in the tradition of narrative figuration, bringing a literary sensibility to the visual image.

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Etching · Singapore

Goh Ee Choo represents Singapore in the portfolio. His etching reflects the cross-cultural artistic environment of one of Asia's most cosmopolitan cities — a place where Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Western visual traditions meet and interact.

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Lithograph · Japan

Eizo Sakata is a second Japanese representative in the portfolio — Japan's size and cultural prominence warranting two contributions. His lithograph works in a different register to Kitaoka's woodcut, exploring the tonal possibilities of stone printing.

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Etching and aquatint · Brazil

Ana Maria Pacheco is a Brazilian-born sculptor and printmaker who has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since the 1970s. Her work — visceral, mythic, unsettling — draws on Catholic iconography and the violent undercurrents of political life. Her etching and aquatint for the portfolio is among the most psychologically charged in the collection.

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Screenprint · Libya

Ali Omar Ermes is one of the most celebrated calligraphic artists working in the Arabic tradition. His screenprints transform single Arabic letters into monumental fields of meaning — the letter as image, as sound, as philosophical proposition. His contribution to the portfolio is among its most visually arresting.

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Lithograph · Belgium

Dacos represents Belgium in the portfolio — a country whose rich printmaking tradition encompasses Symbolism, Expressionism, and Surrealism. The lithograph brings that layered history to the shared theme with characteristic European self-consciousness.

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Screenprint · Netherlands

Rob Scholte was one of the most discussed Dutch artists of the 1980s, known for his appropriation of mass media imagery and his probing of the machinery of representation. His screenprint for the portfolio is characteristic of his playfully destabilising approach to the image.

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Etching · East Germany

Hubertus Giebe represents East Germany in the portfolio — alongside Walter Dahn for West Germany. The juxtaposition of these two contributions mirrors the divided nation's contrasting concerns in the year before reunification. Giebe's etching reflects the expressionist tradition of German printmaking.

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Screenprint · Egypt

Edly Rizqullah is one of two Egyptian representatives in the portfolio. His screenprint draws on the visual culture of a civilisation of five thousand years while engaging with the contemporary concerns of a society navigating modernity.

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Lithograph · Senegal

Iba N'Diaye was one of West Africa's most significant painters and printmakers, and a key figure in the international art world's engagement with African modernism. He also served as one of the portfolio's international consultants. His lithograph is a work of deep compositional intelligence.

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Serigraph and woodcut · Australia

Vivienne Littlejohn represents Australia in the portfolio, combining serigraph and woodcut techniques in a single work — one of the portfolio's more technically hybrid contributions. The combination produces an image that integrates the direct mark of relief printing with the colour field of screen printing.

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Screenprint · Slovenia

Joze Ciuha represents Slovenia — then newly independent from Yugoslavia. His screenprint is luminous and meditative, drawing on a visual language shaped by the landscape and spiritual traditions of Central Europe.

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Etching · The Philippines

Fil Delacruz represents the Philippines — an archipelago whose cultural identity spans indigenous, Spanish colonial, and American influences. His large-format etching is among the most expansive intaglio works in the portfolio.

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Screenprint · Algeria

Houria Niati is an Algerian artist known for her powerful challenge to Orientalist representations of North African women. Her screenprint for the portfolio is both visually striking and politically urgent, reclaiming visibility from a tradition of objectification.

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Screenprint · USA

Michael Rubin contributes a square-format screenprint — the only work in the portfolio with equal width and height dimensions. The square format gives the image a centred, meditative quality distinct from the predominantly portrait or landscape orientations of its neighbours.

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Screenprint · Kurdistan

Walid Mustafa represents Kurdistan — a nation without a state, whose people and culture span several countries. His inclusion in the portfolio carries particular resonance in a project that explicitly transcends national boundaries and political borders.

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Etching · Canada

Otis Tamasauskas is a third Canadian representative in the portfolio — Canada's size as a federation warranting multiple contributions. His etching reflects a different aspect of that vast country's cultural geography.

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Screenprint · Palestine

Laila Shawa is one of Palestine's most internationally recognised artists. Her screenprints are rich with political and cultural imagery — graffiti from the walls of Gaza, the visual language of resistance and loss. Her contribution to the portfolio is among the most historically significant in the collection.

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Screenprint · Taiwan

Lin Chin Lin represents Taiwan in the portfolio. His screenprint draws on the visual traditions of Chinese culture as they have evolved and diversified within the particular political and cultural context of Taiwan.

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Woodcut · South Africa

Philippa Hobbs represents South Africa — in 1990, the year of Nelson Mandela's release and the beginning of the end of apartheid. Her woodcut is made at one of the most charged political moments in South African history, and carries that historical electricity.

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Woodcut · Rep. of Slovakia

Miroslav Moucha represents the Slovak Republic — Slovakia and the Czech Republic are both represented separately in the portfolio, reflecting the distinct cultural identities within Czechoslovakia before its eventual peaceful dissolution in 1993.

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Screenprint · Egypt

Hussein el Gebali is a second Egyptian representative in the portfolio. His screenprint explores the rich visual heritage of North Africa through a contemporary graphic language, making connections between the ancient and the immediate.

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Linocut · Channel Islands

Maurice Boots represents the Channel Islands — the British Crown Dependencies in the English Channel with their distinct Franco-British identity. His wide-format linocut creates a panoramic image with the bold graphic energy characteristic of the medium.

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Screenprint · Qatar

Ali Hassan represents Qatar — one of the Gulf states whose engagement with contemporary art has grown dramatically since the portfolio was assembled. His screenprint draws on the visual culture of the Arabian Peninsula.

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Etching · Czech Republic

Jiri George Dokoupil is one of the most internationally prominent Czech artists of his generation, associated with the Mühlheimer Freiheit group and known for his restless formal inventiveness. His etching for the portfolio is characteristic of his disciplined approach to works on paper.

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Screenprint · India

Krishna Reddy is one of the most significant printmakers of the twentieth century. He studied with Atelier 17 in Paris under Stanley William Hayter and later taught at New York University, where he transformed generations of printmakers. His contribution to the portfolio is from one of the form's true masters.

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Screenprint · Austria

Franz West (1947–2012) was one of Austria's most internationally celebrated artists, known for his tactile Adaptives — sculptural objects designed to be held and used — and for his characteristically irreverent approach to the boundaries of art and life. His screenprint for the portfolio is wry, direct, and unmistakably his.

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Screenprint · Barbados

Mark Maynard represents Barbados in the portfolio. His screenprint draws on the visual culture of the Caribbean — its colours, its rhythms, and the complex histories of a region shaped by the Atlantic world.

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Woodcut · China

Xin Yin represents China in the portfolio, contributing a woodcut that draws on the ancient Chinese tradition of relief printing — a tradition that predates the Western woodcut by many centuries. The work places that deep cultural inheritance in dialogue with the present.

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Screenprint · Syria

Ghassan Al Sibai represents Syria in the portfolio. His screenprint brings the visual culture of the Levant — shaped by Arabic, Ottoman, French, and ancient Semitic traditions — to the international conversation about hope.

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Linocut · India

Krishen Khanna is one of the founding figures of Indian modernism — a member of the Progressive Artists' Group and a painter of extraordinary emotional intelligence. His linocut for the portfolio draws on his lifelong engagement with the human figure in states of joy, grief, and collective ritual.

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Screenprint · Bermuda

Sharon Wilson represents Bermuda — a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic with a distinctive cultural identity shaped by its history as a crossroads between continents. Her screenprint brings that layered inheritance to the international collection.

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Photograph · USA

MANUAL — the collaborative practice of Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom — contributed a photographic work in which the creative process is embedded in both the making and the development of the image. Their practice consistently explored the intersection of photography, technology, and cultural meaning.

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Screenprint · Vatican City

Sandro Chia represents Vatican City in the portfolio — the smallest sovereign state in the world and the seat of the Catholic Church. One of the leading Italian Transavanguardia painters, his screenprint brings a rich visual intelligence to this unique territory's contribution.

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Screenprint · Canada/Quebec

Denyse Beaudry Leduc represents Canada/Quebec — her designation acknowledging the distinct cultural and linguistic identity of Francophone Canada. Her screenprint reflects the particular creative energy of Québécois visual culture.

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Lithograph · Saudi Arabia

Faisal Samra represents Saudi Arabia in the portfolio. One of the Gulf region's most internationally active artists, his work engages with the body, identity, and cultural transformation. His lithograph for the portfolio is considered and formally assured.

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Screenprint and lithograph · USA

Mark Kostabi is known for his instantly recognisable imagery of featureless, anonymous human figures in archetypal urban situations. His screenprint and lithograph combination for the portfolio deploys that signature language in a work that is by turns melancholy and darkly comic.

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Screenprint · Montenegro

Marina Abramovic — one of the world's most celebrated performance artists — represents Montenegro (then part of Yugoslavia) in the portfolio. Known for works in which the body is subject to extreme endurance and vulnerability, her screenprint translates that intensity into the graphic medium.

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Hand-coloured screenprint · USA

Robert Longo is known for his monumental drawings of figures in extremis and his engagement with the aesthetics of power and spectacle. His hand-coloured screenprint for the portfolio is one of only two works to incorporate hand colouring — making each impression of the edition subtly unique.

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Screenprint and lithograph · USA

Andreas Serrano closes the portfolio as its final entry. Known internationally for his large-format photography exploring religion, race, and the body, his screenprint and lithograph combination brings his characteristic investigation of the sacred and the transgressive to the printmaking medium.

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