For the fourth in our series of Frieze week blog posts, we hear what Stephanie Farmer, Visual Arts Research and Information Manager, saw at Frieze Art Fair:
"Partly as a result of Nicolas Trembley’s curated section The Nineties, various galleries in this year’s Frieze have focussed on work by one artist. British Council Collection artists are strongly represented in these types of displays and recent drawings of slogans by Michael Landy at Thomas Dane and Wolfgang Tillmans' photographs at Galerie Bucholz were a particular highlight.
I currently look after the British Council’s Visual Arts Library and it was exciting for me to see a new printed artist’s booklet by Laura Aldridge and to consider its relationship to the other works by her on display at Koppe Astner's stand at Frieze Art Fair. As part of the British Council’s UK/Nigeria 2015-16 season, she spent time in Nigeria working with artists at the Nike Centre for Art and Culture in Abuja. Aldridge interweaves colours, textures and forms creating a rhythm that flows between the vessels on display, their plinths with their fabric cladding, and the flat surfaces of the publication."
