London Art Fair 2011

We went down to the Art Fair held at The Business Design Centre in Islington yesterday.

It is a showcase for contemporary art work, including photography, with 124 galleries showing curated and solo shows.

There is a section for emerging artists in the 'art projects' as well as Photo 50, a showcase for contemporary photography.

Photo50 is our showcase for contemporary photography.  Now in its fifth year it will feature 50 works by artists selected by a distinguished panel with both established artists and less well known figures.  This year’s panel includes Zelda Cheatle, Curator and Director of the Tosca Fund Photography Collection, Celia Davies, Head of Projects for Photoworks, Sebastien Montabonel, European Senior Specialist of Photographs at Phillips de Pury and Joanna Pitman of The Times. We asked each member of the panel to nominate up to three artists and then introduce their work. A Photography Focus Day on Wednesday 19 January 2011 will feature a series of discussions and tours dedicated to contemporary photography.		Scarlett Hooft Graafland / Polar Bear / 2007 / C-print/ 100 x 125cm / Scarlett Hooft Graafland courtesy Michael Hoppen Contemporary
		David Spero/ Studio 3/ Image courtesy of the artist
		Bill Armstrong/ Renaissance 1005/ 2006-7/C-print mounted to aluminium Framed/ 76.2 x 91.4cm/ Edition of 5/ Image courtesy of Hacklebury Fine Art

 

I couldn't resist taking this shot of the roof structure of the exhibition hall.

The works on display covered all artistic genres and no doubt we only saw a small proportion of those on display, it was fascinating and very inspirational.

Off the wall, you could say, I remember the flying ducks my mother used to have on her wall, an example of image manipulation.

This is photograph of New York which has been manipulated to reflect itself.

Here the artist has made a composite from iconic images from around the world. 

This is a beautiful wall panel made up of coloured blown glass, reminded me a little of the marbles I used to play with as a child, or the glass made by Murano glass works in Italy.

Some of the viewers were as interesting as the art works.

Since I am in the process of deciding how best to present my images, it was interesting to see the different treatments used at the show.

On the whole however, I found that most of the contemporary photography was presented  mounted behind a sheet of acrylic, this made some difficult to view since lighting reflected off the surface.