The Whitechapel Gallery presents Imprint 93, Matthew Higgs» collaborative 1990s
mail art project in its first archive exhibition.
Printed Matter presents Imprint 93, an archive exhibition focused on the 90s
collaborative mail art project conceived and carried out by Matthew Higgs.
This archive display brings together rarely seen material from a 90's
mail art project featuring artists such as Jeremy Deller, Martin Creed, Peter Doig, Chris Ofili and Fiona Banner.
As mailing a letter has taken on a certain charm in an era of instant communication, Whitechapel Gallery's revival of Matthew Higgs»
mail art project called Imprint 93, feels especially fitting.
Having witnessed the phenomenal rise of young British artists in the early 1990s, he contacted those he knew and admired and invited them to make a work for
his mail art project, Imprint 93.
Inspired by the independent publishing movements of the 60s and 70s, Higgs has invited artists to participate in
this mail art project with small sized works that could fit in an A5 envelope.
Johnson's body of work spans many media, but he is most known for his intricate and complex collages, and
his mail art project, The New York Correspondance [sic] School, a movement that utilized the postal system as a means of distribution outside of the commercial art world and that eventually reached international proportions.