London Art Fair 2022

It definitely feels like life has returned to normal and all the cancelled or delayed events in 2020 and ‘21 are now back on track and we won’t have to wait until September to go to all possible festivals and events. London Art Fair starts on the 20th of April with a preview evening and goes on until Sunday the 24th. It will take place in the Business Centre in Islington.

This year will see the participation of over 100 galleries from around the UK and the world, including Austria, Japan, Portugal, Sweden, and Australia, with new exhibitors Tanya Baxter Contemporary, Mothflower and David Kovats; alongside returning names such as Piano Nobile, James Hyman and Purdy Hicks. The Fair will feature work by some of the world’s most renowned artists working across a variety of media, including Henry Moore, David Hockney, Bridget Riley and Paula Rego.

These are the various sections this year…

Photo 50

Andy Sewell, from Known and Strange Things Pass, 2020, Image Courtesy of the Artist

Photo50 is the Fair’s critical forum for examining distinctive elements of current photographic practice. For 2022, Photo50 will be curated by Rodrigo Orrantia presenting works by British and UK-based artists responding to the idea of an island, looking at practices expanding the possibilities of photography. No Place is An Island will feature the work of fourteen artists, some of which will show brand new works created especially for Photo50. Exhibiting artists include Esther Teichmann, Dafna Talmor, Martin Seeds, Tom Hunter and Sarah Pickering.

Art Projects

Ivan Villalobos, Untitled, 2021, Mixed media on canvas, Image Courtesy of Perve Galeria

Established in 2005 to support emerging galleries, Art Projects returns to showcase the freshest contemporary art from across the globe. Amongst the diversity of the selected work for 2022 there is a sense of wishing to relook towards the future. Many of the featured artists look inwards at their own emotions, beliefs and mythologies, but with a keen eye on what these subjects mean for the wider world, asking: how do my own experiences mirror and contrast with those of others, and how can times of reflection and re-evaluation help us build the world we want?

Museum Partnership

Miriam Schapiro, Madness of Love, 1987

London Art Fair has partnered with the New Hall Art Collection for its annual Museum Partnership. The New Hall Art Collection is a permanent collection of modern and contemporary art by women at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. The exhibition Myth-Making and Self-Fashioning: Women Artists from the New Hall Art Collection presents over 20 artists including Maggi Hambling, Eileen Cooper and Miriam Schapiro from the largest collection of art by women in Europe.

Platform

Andy Burgess, Allegria, 2021, Courtesy of Cynthia Corbett Gallery

For this year’s annual themed section, guest curator Candida Stevens has chosen Music and its part in Contemporary Art, working with 10 galleries whose artists have created new work exploring the intersection of visual art and music, and the ways in which contemporary art can incorporate aspects of movement and rhythm. The display will range from abstract work referencing the riff of jazz music with off-key colour and off-kilter form to figurative artists representing the process of composition across both art forms.

https://www.londonartfair.co.uk/
21 - 24 APRIL 2022, BUSINESS DESIGN CENTRE, ISLINGTON