There are just a few days left until London Art Fair opens its doors to launch the international art calendar for 2024. With so much to see and experience at LAF24, Fair Director Sally Bent has put together her highlights to give you a glimpse of the outstanding work that will be on display. See her top picks below.
Sally Bent is the Fair Director of London Art Fair, which encompasses museum quality Modern British art and international and emerging contemporary art. Every year, London Art Fair connects over 120 of the best galleries from around the world with both seasoned and aspiring collectors, providing a unique opportunity to discover and champion the most outstanding modern and contemporary art of our time.
Sally has worked across a variety of events encompassing art and craft over her career, from large scale events to boutique Fairs. She prides herself on providing a platform for emerging talent to thrive and in connecting audiences with art which will inspire them.
Taking inspiration from our Museum Partner stand, Piano Nobile are showing this fantastic Duncan Grant. Displaying his daring abandonment of traditional constraints in still-life painting, boldly painted works like this secured Duncan Grant’s reputation as a central proponent of modern British art and a leading artist of his generation.
Hitchens is particularly well known for panoramic landscape paintings created from blocks of colour. Featuring swathes of bright colour, many painted in the open air surrounding his secluded Sussex home.
From the series, The wound is the place where the light enters, Red-head, Leila Jeffreys is best known for captivating images of birds from Australia and around the world that explore and subvert the traditions of portraiture. Her avian subjects are photographed at human scale with a startling attention to colour, line, form and composition.
The combination of bold colours and dynamic marks in this piece are very arresting. Rather than using brushes the artist works using scraps of plastic rather than a brush which build up layers giving many of her pieces a sculptural quality.
Frances Priest is a pattern obsessive and lover of colour, making work that explores cultural histories and narratives associated with ornamental motifs and patterns. The intricate patterns and bold use of colour in these pieces are outstanding.
New to Encounters, Perve Galeria’s exhibition celebrates the unique dialogues that can be generated from a diverse, global outlook. It brings together artists from dierent generations and locations who share an interest in the physical, mnemonic and psychological eects of landscapes and architectures.
Also exhibiting in Encounters for the first time, Thamesmead Texas’ exhibition ‘Flood Drought Food Dreaming’ brings together three uncompromising, energetic and wholly unique painters from the Fitzroy Crossing region of Western Australia.
This work from Sonia Kurarra is a fantastic example of the artists work, who is known for her vibrant, energetic paintings that celebrate her riverland home.
Enitharmon Editions can be found in our new Prints and Editions section. These lithographs from Caroline Wallker bring together scenes of domesticity touching on themes of women’s domestic labour, with night scenes depicting everyday activities. The rich colours are incredibly atmospheric drawing you into the image.
Also within our new Prints & Editions sections, MMX Gallery will be showing photographic from a variety of artists. These images taken by Haruna Ogata and Jean-Etienne Portail in a studio in Paris, “for the pure creation of a still life photo”, won the Still Life category in the Sony World Photography Awards.
Nooka Shepherd is showing with Soho Revue in Platform, which this year focuses on works which shine a light on Queer life and Love. “Tarot Under the Hill” is an ongoing project between the artist and gallery Soho Revue. This initial body of work encompasses the Major Arcana, but both the artist and gallery endeavour to gradually expand the series into a full tarot deck.
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The gallery is delighted announce the opening of their new gallery in Hampshire with an inaugural ‘Winter’ exhibition.
Jenna Burlingham Gallery has expanded with a move to a much larger building, Rope House, on the same street as their original space in Kingsclere. This was once a 19th-century rope merchant’s home and workshop and now has the feeling of an informal townhouse. With open galleries at ground level and drawing rooms upstairs, paintings, prints, sculptures and ceramics are displayed throughout as part of interior settings.
Sumi, or Japanese ink, has been used for Oriental calligraphic works and paintings for a long time. The need for works in Sumi, an art form backed by a long unbroken history, remains strong.
In contemporary art, which is filled with an indiscriminate mix of materials and representation techniques, works produced based on Sumi are specifically referred to as “Sumi_ism” and at #7 exhibition a collection of works from Reiko Tsunashima and Sogen Chiba, Mizuho Koyama are displayed from this field.
Kerlin Gallery are delighted to present ‘Stuck on dawn,’ Marcel Vidal’s first solo exhibition at the gallery.
Celebrated for his diverse practice and immersive sculptural installations, the exhibition brings together three series of work in Marcel Vidal’s first exhibition dedicated exclusively to painting.
A review of Ikon’s artistic programme in the 1990s, presenting work by 40 artists who showed during this period. With Elizabeth Macgregor as Director, Ikon’s outlook was increasingly international, whilst also showing an eclectic mix of British artists including Basil Beattie, Permindar Kaur, Keith Piper, Yinka Shonibare, Georgina Starr and Mark Wallinger.
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Inspired by London Art Fair’s partnership with Charleston, the Modernist home of painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, the 2024 Platform section of the Fair brings together art that shines a light on Queer love and life selected by guest
The countdown to London Art Fair is officially on with just a matter of weeks to go until we launch the international art calendar for 2024 from 17 – 21 January. To keep your cultural calendar busy for the remainder
