The touring Affordable Art Fair is back in London this March: here’s how to make the most of it.
Art is many things, it’s pioneering, agenda-setting, and in conversation with everything around us … we could go on and on. The Affordable Art Fair is encouraging it to be two more: affordable and accessible. With 1,000s of original pieces on display (each available to buy, starting from £100) the fair is a very welcome opportunity to add a few more artists to your list of favourites – and perhaps a few to your wall too. Coinciding with Women’s History Month (March), there’s an exciting new installation for the first time ever, championing women in art.
Here’s what to see at this year’s Affordable Art Fair.
What Is It?
The Affordable Art Fair is similar to many other iconic art fairs (laid out by different booths housing galleries who represent artists) except it’s all about spotlighting emerging artists – as well as those who are no strangers to the art scene – to a wider audience of people. It’s also about celebrating buying art and enjoying it outside of an art gallery setting.
Artwork by Margaux Carpentier
What To See
Stoke Newington based multi-disciplinary artist Margaux Carpentier is leading the fair’s campaign this year, with her vibrant pieces that experiment with multiple colours, forms, and mediums. Spot her work throughout the fair (including right at the entrance), each installation drenched with symbolism to interpret, as vivid as her use of colour. For the first time this year, a special curation of contemporary female artists called Resilience in Bloom is on display, examining the pressures and pleasures of womanhood via painting, textiles, sculpture, and more. Plus, British-Lebanese artist Aya Haidar will lead a communal tapestry making session on select dates. There are so many highlights across the fair, but we’ll let you discover them for yourself. Perhaps you’ll find your new favourite painter, sculptor or photographer here?
Why Go?
The Affordable Art Fair is a really exciting opportunity to discover and support emerging artists, established artists who you might not know about already, and independent galleries and print shops who showcase these great artworks. Love a piece of artwork on display? Looking to start investing in art? Everything you see, you can buy. For a reasonable price too, which is quite rare in the art world.
Where and When Is It?
Just west of Battersea Power Station, find Evolution London, comfortably sitting within Battersea Park, right by The Thames. A large tented-style space is hosting the fair this March, with an incredible range of booths to meander through, as well as a cafe on the first floor with an aerial view over all of the art. The fair will also be showing in Hampstead in May (7th until 11th), so keep an eye out for that too.
All image credit: Affordable Art Fair
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