About London Art Fair
London Art Fair was founded in 1989 by London’s Business Design Centre in Islington – where the Fair still takes place today – with the aim of providing a space to showcase exceptional Modern and Contemporary Art, to discover and to buy. Launching with just 36 UK galleries London Art Fair has grown steadily over the years with well over 100 galleries now regularly exhibiting and 25,000 visitors attending the Fair. London Art Fair provides an established home for Modern British Art, whilst embracing an increasingly international and contemporary outlook, with new galleries from around the world.
Nurturing collecting at all levels, from prints and editions starting in the hundreds, to major works by internationally renowned artists – notable sales at the Fair include works by Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Theodore Ereira-Guyer, Derek Jarman, and Charlotte Keates – London Art Fair provides a platform for nurturing talent too and has played host to acclaimed artists early in their career as well as established names, with Chris Ofili and Jenny Saville awarded ‘rising star’ awards at the 1996 edition.
The Fair’s extensive gallery line up showcases a diverse cross-section of art from emerging talent to established art world favourites; alongside an inspiring programme of curated talks, panel discussions and artists insights.
The Fair will also provides expert insights into innovative curatorial concepts in contemporary art through its critically acclaimed curated spaces: Encounters, offering a platform for the next generation of artists and gallerists; Photo50; showcasing current trends in contemporary photographic practice; and Platform in featuring a selection of galleries presenting well-known, overlooked and emerging artists that align to an overarching annually changing theme.
Since 2014, London Art Fair has also selected a regional museum partner to work with each year to create a unique exhibition that enables our visitors to experience the heritage, quality and significance of regional collections. The Fair’s 2022 Museum Partner, The Women’s Art Collection, celebrated the breadth and diversity of women’s creativity and their role as artists, curators, collectors and patrons. Exhibits included work by Maggi Hambling, Eileen Cooper and Miriam Schapiro.
For 2024 London Art Fair is delighted to announce that they will be partnering with Charleston, the modernist home and studio of Bloomsbury group painters to celebrate their upcoming 50th anniversary.
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