Counter Editions Women in Print: eight artists, eight prints, out 10 November
Counter Editions Women in Print is a new set of eight limited edition prints made with Tate. One third of the profits go to the galleries. Early access opens at 2pm on Tuesday 10 November 2026, and the general launch follows at 2pm on Wednesday 11 November. All eight prints have now been shown, each in an edition of 75. Below is what each one looks like, what earlier Counter Editions prints have cost and how to be ready on the day.
Section 01 / The launch
What Counter Editions Women in Print is
Eight women artists, one new limited edition each, sold to raise money for Tate.
Counter Editions announced the portfolio on its website and Instagram. It brings together eight artists from different generations and backgrounds, and each made her edition with the Counter Editions studio in Margate. Every print is signed and numbered, each is an edition of 75, and each sheet measures 76 x 60cm.
The line-up mixes a household name in Tracey Emin with painters who are much better known inside the art world than outside it. It also spans four generations, from Katherine Bradford, born in 1942, to Michaela Yearwood-Dan, born in 1994.
Meanwhile, three of the eight have strong Margate links. Laura Footes and Sophie von Hellermann both live in the town, and Emin runs her TKE Studios there too. Von Hellermann's print is a picture of Margate itself.
Section 02 / The artists and their prints
The eight prints in Women in Print
All eight prints, now revealed.
Katherine Bradford, Skyswimmers (2026)
Bradford was born in New York in 1942 and splits her time between New York City and Brunswick, Maine. She is best known for loose, glowing paintings of swimmers and divers, and Skyswimmers is exactly that. Small figures in swimsuits float across a deep blue night, past clouds and a moon. Below them, a rainbow-edged circle sinks into a pale blue sea. It is a 32-colour screenprint.
Bradford says she broke her own habit with this one. Her swimmers usually rest in water under a sky, but here she put a glowing planet right at the bottom of the picture, which she says anchors the whole flying scene.
Her reputation built late, after she returned to art school for an MFA in 1987, and she won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011. Her work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, according to Artsper's artist page.
Tracey Emin, We sleep together (2026)
Emin is the most familiar name here and the artist Counter Editions has worked with most. Her print shows her lying in a dark, weightless space with two small cats beside her. Above it run five handwritten lines that each begin "I lay down". Counter Editions links the composition to ancient Egyptian art, where cats were sacred guardians tied to both earthly life and the afterlife.
The studio photos show her brushing the words on backwards, so they read the right way round once printed. Emin trained in fine art printmaking at Maidstone College of Art. She has also made more prints in Margate than any other artist in this set.
"I love the excitement of being out of control."TRACEY EMIN, ON PRINTMAKING
If you saw A Second Life at Tate Modern, you will know how much of her work starts as a drawn line. That is why it moves so well into print.
Laura Footes
Footes is a British painter based in Margate who trained at the Royal Drawing School in London. She paints crowded rooms and gardens from memory, often in deep reds and purples. She was also the first Tracey Emin Fellow to be mentored independently after a residency at TKE Studios.
Her print, revealed on 6 November, is a reclining nude in pinks and crimsons. A woman lies face down across rumpled bedding, her hair swept up into the folds of the sheets. Behind her stand a tall panelled door and a hazy house, so the bedroom and the street seem to run into each other. The studio photos show the colour being rolled out on the press, and Footes working into the print by hand with a brush. It is a lithograph, though Counter Editions has not published the title yet.
Footes says printmaking clears her head after long stretches of painting, and calls Counter Editions the place "where I come to reset and play".
Ulala Imai, Memory (2026)
Imai was born in 1982 in Kanagawa, Japan, where she still lives and works. She paints still lifes of her children's soft toys, figurines, toast and fruit. Memory takes one of those toys outside. A yellow teddy bear sits wedged in the branches of a magnolia in full flower, against a hard blue sky. It is a 24-colour screenprint, and the title matches her 2023 show at Xavier Hufkens in Brussels. Her work sits in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Imai describes the image as the bear looking out from beneath a tree that announces the arrival of spring, under a cloudless sky. She says screenprinting let her recreate its expression in a new way. The studio photos show the cut stencils for the magnolia branches and stacks of finished sheets on the drying racks.
Anne Rothenstein, Into the Distance (2) (2026)
Rothenstein was born in 1949 and grew up in Great Bardfield in Essex, surrounded by artists and designers. She worked as an actress for over a decade before painting full time. Her figures are flat and strange, often merging into landscapes and rooms. She already has one Counter Editions print, Under a Red Cloud (2025).
Her Women in Print edition, Into the Distance (2), is a coastal landscape in blues, greens and cream. A figure in a long dark coat stands on a path by the water, looking out across a bay of dark rocks, while a windswept tree leans over the shore. It is a 20-colour screenprint, a step up from the 13 colours of Under a Red Cloud.
Rothenstein spent months each year in Dorset for much of her life. She now works full time in her London studio and says she has not seen the sea in about ten years, yet images of landscapes she may never see again still come to her as she paints.
Antonia Showering, You are Me (2026)
Showering was born in London in 1991 and now works from a studio in Somerset. She paints soft, layered scenes of family, dogs and water, and You are Me has all three. Two figures sit by a river in washes of orange, green and crimson, one leaning back against the other. Behind them are swimmers, and a dog rests on the bank. It is a 10-colour lithograph.
She joined Timothy Taylor in 2021 and had her first US solo show in New York in 2025. She also made a print with Counter Editions for the ICA's 75th anniversary portfolio in 2023.
Sophie von Hellermann, Main Sands (2026)
Von Hellermann was born in Munich in 1975 and studied in Dรผsseldorf and at the Royal College of Art in London. She lives in London and Margate. Since 2022 she has also been Professor of Painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. She is represented in London by Pilar Corrias.
Main Sands is named after Margate's main beach. It shows the artist as a free spirit on the sand under a pink and yellow sunset. Below her, small green figures on horseback cross the beach. She built it from four layers of lithographic colour, then went back in by hand to add the glowing sky. The loose, fast brushwork is the same as in her paintings. Lithography suits her because the plate records each stroke as she made it.
Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Help Me Break (2026)
Yearwood-Dan was born in London in 1994. Her large, mostly abstract paintings combine text, ceramics, gold leaf and glass beads, and deal with Blackness, queerness and healing. She joined Hauser & Wirth in 2024.
Help Me Break is an 18-colour screenprint in deep blue, turquoise, pink and mauve, with handwritten phrases drawn across it. One runs up the left edge: "Will you dare to imagine it differently?" The Margate studio also lays small pieces of 24-carat gold leaf onto every print by hand. As a result, no two copies catch the light in quite the same way.
Her first UK museum show, The Practice of Liberation, has just closed at the Whitworth in Manchester. It reopens at Towner Eastbourne on 21 November 2026, ten days after her print goes on sale, and runs until 14 February 2027. Entry is free.
Section 03 / The track record
Counter Editions and Tate: how earlier releases worked
This is not the first time the two have made prints together.
Counter Editions started in 2000 in a rented London office with eight artists. Today it works with more than 100 artists and has made over 300 editions from a 5,000 square foot studio in Margate. Every print goes through a collaboration between the artist, a master printer and the curatorial team.
Its best-known Tate project is the Tate Modern 21 Years portfolio from 2021. That was also eight prints, by artists including Tacita Dean, Lubaina Himid, Rachel Whiteread and Emin, and a third of sales went to Tate. Women in Print follows the same model, with one third of the profits going to Tate. New Art Editions has the edition details published so far.
Tate also runs its own editions programme, which has raised money for the galleries since 2000. One example on CoolCuration is Howard Hodgkin's Indian Leaves print, sold through Tate.
Section 04 / Buying
When and how to buy the Women in Print prints
Two launch days, and a first price for the full set.
The prints go on sale only through Counter Editions, individually or as the complete portfolio, in two stages:
- Tuesday 10 November, 2pm GMT: early access, for people signed up to the Counter Editions list.
- Wednesday 11 November, 2pm GMT: the general launch, open to everyone.
That replaces the earlier plan to release the individual prints in two batches on 11 and 12 November.
The portfolio of all eight comes in a cloth-bound box. New Art Editions lists it at ยฃ15,000, with a launch price of ยฃ12,000. That works out at ยฃ1,500 a print at the launch price. The individual prices are still to be announced.
Until then, these earlier Counter Editions prices give a sense of the range:
- Tracey Emin, I Need Tomorrow series (2026): six lithographs in editions of 50, at ยฃ12,000 each. The boxset and two of the prints have sold out.
- Anne Rothenstein, Under a Red Cloud (2025): a 13-colour screenprint in an edition of 50, at ยฃ3,500.
- Tacita Dean, An Organised Whole (2021): the Tate Modern 21 Years print, in an edition of 125, at ยฃ1,200.
Emin's editions in particular tend to sell out fast. So if you want one, sign up for launch updates on the Counter Editions homepage before the day you plan to buy. Counter Editions says the list gets first access and special launch prices.
Once you buy, UK delivery is free with Counter Editions, by tracked courier with a signature on delivery. Prints arrive unframed, and the studio points buyers to Darbyshire for framing, which adds to the total cost.
If these prices are beyond what you want to spend, there are cheaper routes. My guide to affordable art in the UK covers fifteen prints and originals under ยฃ500.
Counter Editions Women in Print: frequently asked questions
When does Counter Editions Women in Print launch?
Early access opens at 2pm GMT on Tuesday 10 November 2026 for people on the Counter Editions list. The general launch follows at 2pm GMT on Wednesday 11 November. I checked this on 7 November 2026.
Which artists are in Women in Print?
Katherine Bradford, Tracey Emin, Laura Footes, Ulala Imai, Anne Rothenstein, Antonia Showering, Sophie von Hellermann and Michaela Yearwood-Dan. Each made one new limited edition.
What are Laura Footes' and Anne Rothenstein's Women in Print prints?
Rothenstein's is Into the Distance (2) (2026), a 20-colour screenprint of a blue and green coastal landscape with a lone figure in a long coat. Footes has made a lithograph of a reclining nude in pinks and crimsons, with a panelled door and a house behind the figure. Its title has not been published yet.
What is Tracey Emin's Women in Print edition?
We sleep together (2026), a two-colour lithograph in an edition of 75. It shows Emin lying in a dark space beside two small cats, under five handwritten lines.
What is Sophie von Hellermann's Women in Print edition?
Main Sands (2026), a lithograph of Margate's main beach under a sunset sky, built from four layers of colour and finished by hand.
How many of each print are there?
Each of the eight prints is an edition of 75, signed and numbered by the artist.
How much will the prints cost?
New Art Editions lists the full portfolio at ยฃ15,000, with a launch price of ยฃ12,000. Individual prices have not been announced. For comparison, Emin's 2026 I Need Tomorrow lithographs cost ยฃ12,000 each, and Anne Rothenstein's 2025 Counter Editions screenprint costs ยฃ3,500.
Can you buy the eight prints as a set?
Yes. All eight come together in a cloth-bound portfolio box, sold alongside the individual prints.
How much goes to Tate?
One third of the profits from the portfolio goes to Tate.
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