Photo London 2023 opened to previews today and runs until Sunday 14th May featuring 125 exhibitors from 56 cities from across the globe. To help you on your visit FAD has chosen 10 Artists you just have to search out.
Jack Davison presented by Cob A06
Cob present celebrated British photographer Jack Davison for his international art fair debut. Bringing together key examples from Photographic Etchings – his 2022 debut solo show at Cob, the gallery’s presentation at the fair unveils 3 new editions in the series – as well as two examples of Davison artist proofs. MORE
Li Yuan-Chia presented by The Lyc Foundation W09
The LYC Foundation is the estate of Chinese British artist Li Yuan-Chia. An artist, curator, poet and archivist, Li Yuan-chia ranks among the most original and radical of post-war artists. Born in south China in 1929, Li Yuan-chia studied art in Taiwan where he is considered to have been one of the founding fathers of Chinese abstract painting in the 1950s. Travelling from Taiwan to Italy and then to England, he arrived in London in 1965 to exhibit at Signals gallery and later showed with the Lisson Gallery. After leaving London in 1968, he spent the remainder of his life in Cumbria in northern England where he established the LYC Museum and Art Gallery in his own home. As well as opening his home and giving exhibitions to over 300 artists in a ten-year period, Li continue to be innovative in his own art work and his poetry. He also continued to evolve his artistic language which was based in the notion of the “Cosmic Point”. This took many forms, some purely visual, others participatory. For Li, the Point was “the origin and end of creation”. He gave it form according to a most refined artistic and poetic sensibility.
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Richard Bell presented by OSMOS F06
Richard Bell (born 1953) is an Aboriginal Australian artist and political activist. He is one of the founders of proppaNOW, a Brisbane-based Aboriginal art collective. Ahead of his takeover of the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with his installation Embassy see him at PhotoLondon. MORE
Maisie Cousins presented by TJ Boulting E13
Concurrent with her show Walking Back to Happiness you can see a small but perfect presentation at Photo London But if you want to see Celery Man you will have to pop into the gallery MORE
Gerard Traquandi & Justine Tjallinks presented by Galerie Sophie Scheidecker W01
Born in Marseille, in 1952. Lives and works in Paris. Gérard Traquandi, painter and sculptor, makes a certain number of drawings and gives importance to the engraving in his creation, a technique he perfectly masters in every expression. MORE
Justine Tjallinks (b.1984) is an autodidact Dutch visual artist. She lives and works in Amsterdam. She started her career in fashion as Art-Director for leading fashion titles in the Netherlands. After years of working with photography as a visual language, she realised that the fashion world and its ideals of human beauty had become creatively limiting for her. In 2014, at the age of 30, she decided to quit her position to become an artist. MORE
Anastasia Samoylova presented by Galerie Peter sillem E07/E08
Anastasia Samoylova, born in Moscow in 1984, lives in Miami. In her artistic work she moves between observational photography, studio practice and installation. In 2020, the USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, showed the ongoing project FloodZone in her first museum solo exhibition, which was published as a book by Steidl in 2019 with over 80 photographs. MORE
Lukaz Owczarzak presented by Black Dwarf Foundation D04
Lukasz Owczarzak born in Szubin/Poland. Attended Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, where he graduated with a master’s degree in Geology. Working outdoors as a geologist he discovered the need to record his observations by camera. His first photographs were connected with nature. The next stage of his development was studio photos. Most interested in concept art, portrait and abstract. He is currently based in Bydgoszcz/Poland and cooperates with various artists. Besides photography, he works with film and design. MORE
Brian Griffiths & Frank Kent presented by sid motion gallery D22
AIR SIGNS are an ongoing series of sculptural works that are presented as photographs. Frank and Brian gather materials from their studio, and occasionally, from the artists’ wider daily lives. Objects are displayed, positioned, and pressed into action within a wobbly cube. This approach values lightness, some chance encounters and codified conversations. It hopes to sketch something of experiencing the world through its objects, something untidy to be felt and thought. Brian Griffiths and Frank Kent both studied painting, became sculptors, and just now, are making photographs. Together they make a friendly return to the flatness of the image. They met at the Royal Academy Schools in London. MORE
Photo London, 11th–14th May 2023, Somerset House, photolondon.org
