The art world descends on London in early October for ‘Frieze week’. Frieze Art Fair and Frieze Masters are annual fairs in Regent’s Park in central London. They bring together over 250 galleries and over 1,000 artists to showcase contemporary, modern and historical works of art from around the world. Alongside Frieze’s fairs, many galleries, artists’ spaces and others independent art fairs across London opens their doors to curators, artists, arts professionals and collectors for a week of exhibition openings, live events, screenings and talks.
Our Visual Arts team have been out and about in London during Frieze week and these series of blog posts offer a snapshot of what we have seen.
For the first in our series of blog posts, Katie Haines, Communications Manager for Visual Arts, focuses on art and the great outdoors:
"Over the weekend before Frieze I went on an Art Licks walking tour of inspiring and pioneering young artists’ spaces around Peckham in south east London, so my Frieze highlights continue this theme of wandering outdoors.
As the autumnal colours arrive in Regent’s Park, large sculptures begin to appear on the lawns. Clare Lilley from Yorkshire Sculpture Park has, for the fifth year running, chosen sculptural works by 19 artists to animate Frieze Sculpture Park and her selection includes works by two British Council Collection artists: Conrad Shawcross and Lynn Chadwick. The sculpture display is free to the public and on view until January 2017.
Meanwhile in south London, artist Gabriel Orozco has embraced a new outdoors challenge at the South London Gallery and designed his first ever garden in collaboration with 6a architects and horticulturists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Circles are a recurring motif in Orozco’s work and they lead visitors to wander around the garden's circular water features, undulating geometric brickwork formations and carpets of grasses and fragrant plants."
