Henningham Family Press

Puppets, Broadcasts and Stress

By - David
Posted on June, 19, 2012June, 19, 2012

I took a walk across town yesterday, south to Kreuzberg. My friend Michael Schoenke had invited me over to watch the European Championship match between Germany and Portugal. The game didn’t start until 8.45pm so apart from that kick-off time I was free of a niggling deadline for what felt like the first time this

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2012 select two prints!

By - David
Posted on May, 22, 2012May, 23, 2012

Two of our prints were selected for this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. 1) Austerity Measure We knew our Credit Crunch edition was good, but we had no idea it would grace the pages of the Financial Times, be certified by a Central London accounting firm, and accepted by the Royal Academy. Now the Summer

Conlon Nancarrow at Purcell Room

By - David
Posted on April, 22, 2012

Yesterday we took the rare opportunity to see and hear some of Conlon Nancarrow’s studies for player-piano at the Southbank Centre. Nancarrow punched his own music rolls, writing music that suited the technology itself, rather than simply using it to approximate a professional pianist. The machine in action was something like a life-support machine with

HFP at POLYply with James Wilkes, Thurs 19th April 2012

By - David
Posted on April, 18, 2012

Hello Friends, Tomorrow we’ll be doing an opening spot with regular HFP collaboratee James Wilkes at a monthly event called POLYply. We will be representing a project called Special Works School, revisiting the WW1 camouflage school that existed in Kensington Gardens, where Fine Artists trained in the aesthetics of subterfuge. We will be road testing

The Clocks Went Forward Tonight

By - David
Posted on February, 13, 2012

I lost an hour somewhere But it’s that time of year I once wrote a song in half an hour it was called Clocks.* I remember trying to write down everything I was thinking from quarter to until quarter past 12 on the night winter officially turned into spring. That was in 1981, upstairs in

Half-handed Cloud & HFP in Pictures!

By - David
Posted on January, 30, 2012December, 19, 2012

Click thumbnail to view image. All pictures taken by Julie Rafalski. Thank you Julie!

Half-handed Cloud and HFP SOLD OUT!

By - David
Posted on January, 19, 2012December, 19, 2012

Wow, what started out as an experiment for Half-handed Cloud and the HFP became a totally SOLD OUT show! The email was ringing off the hook, there were people outside hoping to get in.. and those who did get in really made it a fantastic night for us by jumping in with both feet and

Art Review: “Now Buy This” HFP James Hobbs print

By - David
Posted on January, 9, 2012December, 19, 2012

Leading art magazine Art Review has highlighted a stunning print we commissioned from James Hobbs in their January/February edition, in a section entitled “Now Buy This”. James Hobbs took two adjacent frames from a 16mm film that captures the turbulent tide at Kilnsea… and enlarged and reproduced them as a cyanotype. Two identical diagrams have

‘Special Works School’ accepted at Kandinsky Library, Centre Pompidou

By - David
Posted on January, 6, 2012January, 9, 2012

Last year we became involved with a number of artists and writers in the Special Works School project, founded by James Wilkes and Heather Ring. It’s a collaboration based on a camouflage school based in South Ken during WW1. The first publication (published by Special Works School) has been accepted by Kandinsky Library, Centre Pompidou

Two works acquired by the V&A

By - David
Posted on December, 9, 2011December, 19, 2012

Two of our screenprints have just been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum for their permanent collection. Royal Poster (left aligned) and Imperial Poster (fully justified), are both works from our An Unknown Soldier series, which mediatates on the meaning of a memorial to an unknown soldier in the age of DNA testing. Does