London Art Fair provides a space to showcase the most exceptional modern and contemporary art of our time, to discover and to buy. The Fair is an established destination for both museum quality modern and contemporary work, nurturing collecting at all levels, from prints and editions, to major works by internationally renowned artists. (Main image credit: Walasse Ting, Purple Twin blue Twin, 2001. Courtesy of Catto Gallery)
Where: Business Design Centre 52 Upper Street London N1 0QH
FRIDAY 18 JANUARY 2019 – TOURS
12 – 12.45pm
Art Projects Tour led by curator Pryle Behrman
Tour starts from the Art Projects information desk, Gallery Level 1.
2–3pm or 5-6pm
Photography Highlights Tour led by art historian, critic and curator, Jean Wainwright
Tours start from the Fair Guide sales point on the Ground Floor.
3 – 3.45pm or 6 – 6.45pm
Photography Tour led by London Art Fair Official Tours Partner Sotheby’s Institute of Art
Experience a curated view of the Fair with daily thematic highlight tours led by Sotheby’s Institute of Art’s students. Tours are 45mins long and start at the Fair guide sales point, by the ground floor entrance.
SATURDAY 19 JANUARY 2019 – TALKS
12 – 12.45pm Artist talk: Tom Hammick Printmaking (Flowers Gallery)
Join Tom Hammick for a personal discussion into the artist’s print editions, monotypes and tapestries, in conversation with Joe Hill, Director or Towner Gallery for a discussion into the role of prints as an entry point into collecting and curating art.
1.15 – 2.15pm
How to be an early Patron: Emerging Artists and going beyond the Art Market
How key is consistency to an artist’s 5 year practice of emergence? How does the art market establish, recognise or limit emerging artists and to what extent does this effects collectors sensibilities? Is collecting emerging artists as an entry point into collecting at odds with safer options of collecting established artists prints? How are galleries hybridising their collections and cultivating new artists to shift considerations of value?
With Fred Mann, Gallery Director, New Art Projects, Susan Mumford, Association of Women Art Dealers (AWAD), Mary-Alice Stack, Chief Executive, Creative United. Chaired by Süreyya Wille, Artsy.
2.30 – 3.30pm
Modern British art and photography
How were modern British artists influenced by photography and what have photographers taken from modern British art? Many artists in the 20th century were fascinated by what aerial photography revealed about archaeology and the landscape, for instance. What other kinds of artistic discoveries has the medium led to – and how do painting and photography co-exist today?
David Boyd Haycock is a freelance art historian, author, curator and lecturer. His books include Paul Nash and A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War. He is working on a biography of Augustus John. Peter Hall is the exhibitions manager of the Lightbox in Woking, Surrey, and curator of the upcoming show, ‘Woman in Photography: A History of British Trailblazers’ Chaired by Fatema Ahmed, deputy editor ofApollo.
4 – 5pm
Drawing as Praxis: The reinvention of drawing
Expanded ideas of drawing and representation of line and form has shifted dramatically since the 1960s. Increasingly, drawing intersects with other art forms such as performance, moving image and sculpture, questioning the primacy of one form over the other. How does an evolving understanding of drawing relate to the ways in which an artist’s body of work is contextualised and collected?
Chaired by Melanie Keen, Director/Chief Curator, Iniva with guest speakers.
5.15 – 6pm
A new canon in fine art? Redefining and collecting ceramics
Can ceramics be defined as design objects? How is ceramics increasingly becoming a sophisticated medium as an entry point into collecting through convergence of craft and design? How are ceramists pairing their work as objects of interior, art and value?
Chaired by Isobelle Bolt from Artsy, with Marijke Varrall-Jones, Director, Maak, Tom Kemp artist and Claire Pearce, Director of Thrown Gallery in conversation.
6.15 – 7pm
Painting occasional eureka: Revisiting Paul Feiler and the St Ives School
Painting, said Paul Feiler, is ‘precarious, troublesome, anxious-making’. And yet – just occasionally – it produces ‘a wonderful sense of eureka’. In this illustrated talk, with audio extracts from an interview with Feiler, writer and broadcaster Michael Bird will explore the artist’s life and work that contributed to the modern and abstract British Art scene from the 1940s to the 60s; drawing on Feiler’s relationship with contemporaries among the St Ives School including Peter Lanyon, Roger Hilton and Bryan Wynter. For all these artists – in different ways – painting was an intense process of self-discovery.
SATURDAY 19 JANUARY 2019 – TOURS
1 – 1.45pm
Own Art Tour
Join Own Art for a guided tour around London Art Fair. We will introduce you to exhibiting Own Art member galleries, where you will hear more about their art insights and artists.
2 – 2.45pm
Art Projects Tour led by curator Pryle Behrman
Art Projects Tours start from the Art Projects information desk, Gallery Level 1, below the talks theatre.
3 – 4pm
Art Projects Iniva Tour
By Rodrigo Orrantia, curator, art historian and Iniva trustee.
Thematic Tours led by London Art Fair Official Tours Partner Sotheby’s Institute of Art
Experience a curated view of the Fair with daily thematic highlight tours led by Sotheby’s Institute of Art’s students. Tours are 45mins long and start at the Fair guide sales point, by the ground floor entrance.
12 – 12.45pm
General Highlights Tour
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1 – 1.45pm
Prints & Editions Tour
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2 – 2.45pm
Emerging Markets Tour
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3 – 3.45pm
Contemporary Art Tour
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4 – 4.45pm or 6 – 6.45pm
Modern British Tour
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5 – 5.45pm
Ceramics Tour
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SUNDAY 20 JANUARY 2019 – WORKSHOP
1 – 4pm
Interactive education workshops with Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art
Join this exciting drop-in, interactive workshop, as part of our education programme, inspired by Parasol unit‘s forthcoming exhibition on Korean artist Hyon Gyon. Using a range of mixed media and techniques, participants will be encouraged to explore the meaning of ‘expressionism’ and create a collaborative multi-layered, large-scale mural in the tradition of the art. All ages welcome to attend.
SUNDAY 20 JANUARY 2019 – TOURS
1 – 1.45pm
Art Projects Tour led by curator Pryle Behrman
Art Projects Tours start from the Art Projects information desk, Gallery Level 1, below the talks theatre.
6.30 – 7.15pm
Own Art Tour
Join Own Art for a guided tour around London Art Fair. We will introduce you to exhibiting Own Art member galleries, where you will hear more about their art insights and artists. Tours start from the Own Art desk in Art Projects.
Thematic Tours led by London Art Fair Official Tours Partner Sotheby’s Institute of Art
Experience a curated view of the Fair with daily thematic highlight tours led by Sotheby’s Institute of Art’s students. Tours are 45mins long and start at the Fair guide sales point, by the ground floor entrance.
12 – 12.45pm
Modern British Tour
Register here
1 – 1.45pm
General Highlights Tour
Register here
2 – 2.45pm
Emerging Markets Tour
Register here
3 – 3.45pm
Contemporary Art Tour
Register here
