This year at the British Art Fair – there’s Modern, Contemporary & Digital start at the bottom with Modern and progress to the future at the top – to help you navigate we have picked 10 artworks to see you on your way to the TOP.
Reach 2024, Untold Garden – PIVOTAL: DIGITALISM
Bronze sculptures that help you feel another’s presence through the warmth of your hand, visualised through AR but felt through your heart. If Rothko was alive now this is how he might communicate his feelings. You touch together irrespective of location and see the colours warm through yellows orange and red pulsating with love. @untoldgarden
CEM HASIMI in collaboration with objkt.one PIVOTAL: DIGITALISM
Originally from Turkey, my artistic journey in London began as an award-winning art director, where I crafted compelling narratives for top brands. This experience laid the groundwork for my transition to digital art and animation, allowing me to infuse personal experiences into my creative work. My art, merging insight with innovation, has captivated audiences from New York to Lisbon, renowned for its authenticity and depth.
Continually evolving, I explore new artistic styles and techniques, striving to push the boundaries of digital art. My path is more than just creating; it’s about connecting and inspiring through creativity’s universal language, driven by a relentless pursuit of learning, experimentation, and the desire to move people with the transformative power of art.
AI Sam – PIVOTAL: DIGITALISM
AI.S.A.M, a London-based AI photographer, seamlessly merges the real with the artificial, challenging our perceptions of authenticity in virtual worlds. His groundbreaking work in AI photography captures moments within fabricated environments, artfully blurring the lines between physical and digital existence. Through this innovative exploration, AI.S.A.M reshapes our understanding of reality and meta, and positions himself at the forefront of a new artistic frontier, where AI and digital consciousness redefine our existential experience. @ai.s.a.m
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm – PIVOTAL: DIGITALISM
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm is an award-winning artist with a dedication for ARTificial Intelligence, machine learning, discourse theory and human existentialism. Cecilie has studied Fine Art at University of the Arts London and Royal College of Art London. Falkenstrøm presents I See It, So You Don’t Have To a 2×3 metre Jacquard- woven cotton and viscose wall- hanging. The visuals for the work were generated using artificial intelligence (ML diffusion). @ceciliefalkenstrom
Derek Boshier – WHITFORD FINE ART Stand 1
Whitford Fine Art present Derek Boshier, Pepsi Dreaming, 1962.
Boshier (19th June 1937 – 5th September 2024) was one of the 1962 graduates of the College of Art, who established Pop Art as a movement. Together with his fellow students David Hockney, Allen Jones, Peter Phillips and Kitaj, he participated in the landmark Pop Art in Britain at the Young Contemporaries exhibition.
Boshier had his first one-man show, Image in Revolt, at the Grabowski Gallery, 1962, and has had several hundred international solo and mixed exhibitions since. In 1963 he represented Britain at the Paris Biennale. His participation in early Pop Art exhibitions established him as a central figure of the movement. In 1964 he was included in the Pop exhibition at Hague, Vienna and Berlin and in 1976 in Pop Art In England in Hamburg, Munich and New York.
Boshier taught at the Central College of Art and Design, London and at the Hornsey College of Art, London until 1973, and from 1975-9 he taught at the Royal College of Art, London. In 1980 Boshier joined the University of Houston, Texas, eventually becoming professor.
Boshier’s art has gone through various phases, touching on Pop and Op Art, hard-edge Abstraction and politically radical conceptual art.
Keith Vaughan – CHRISTOPHER KINGZETT Stand 10
Christopher Kingzett present Keith Vaughan Yellow Seated Figure, 1950.
Born in Selsey, Vaughan attended Christ’s Hospital school. He was employed in an advertising agency until the war when, as an intending conscientious objector, he joined the St John’s Ambulance; in 1941 he was conscripted into the Non-Combatant Corps. Vaughan was self-taught as an artist. His first exhibitions took place during the war. In 1942 he was stationed at Ashton Gifford, near Codford in Wiltshire.
Also during the war Vaughan formed friendships with the painters Graham Sutherland and John Minton, with whom he shared a studio after demobilisation in 1946. Through these contacts he formed part of the neo-romantic circle of the immediate post-war period. However, Vaughan rapidly developed an idiosyncratic style which moved him away from the neo-romantics. Focusing on male figures, his work became increasingly abstract.
Vaughan taught at the Camberwell College of Art, the Central School of Art and latterly at the Slade School.
Vaughan is known for his journals, selections from which were published in 1966 and more extensively in 1989, after his death. As a rather private man, troubled by his sexuality, he is known largely through these journals. He was diagnosed with cancer in 1975 and committed suicide in 1977, recording his last moments in his diary as the drugs overdose took effect.
Beth Carter – BEAUX ARTS BATH Stand 47
Beaux Arts Bath present Beth Carter Reading Minotaur VI
Beth studied at Bath College and at Sunderland University. She won first prize in the Northern Graduate Show 1995 at the Royal College of Art. She then travelled to Sri Lanka and India to study mythological sculpture and later to New Zealand, Mexico, Gambia, Kenya and Tanzania to further explore the precedents for this genre of sculpture.
Beth currently has three large bronzes on show in Mougins in Southern France at invitation of the Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, part of the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death. Picasso spent the last twelve years of his life in Mougins, in his villa next to the exquisite, Notre Dame de Vie Chapel, until he died in April 1973. His house was named L’Antre du Minotaure (The Minotaur’s lair). Two of Beth’s giant bronze sculptures are now in the grounds of the Chapel, and a smaller scale Minotaur is inside surrounded by a collection of photos of Picasso taken by Lucien Clergue. The Musée d’Art classique de Mougins have also have purchased a small bronze minotaur sculpture for their collection. It is currently displayed in front of Picasso’s images of the ‘Dying Minotaur’. Beth’s work is also at the Louvre-Lens.
Damien Hirst- Clarendon Fine Art Stand 51
Claredon Fine Art present a wall of Damien Hirst’s The Secret Gardens Paintings.
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Abe Odedina, Virginia Damtsa & The African Art Hub Stand 10 SOLO CONTEMPORARY
Virginia Damtsa & The African Art Hub Present Abe Odedina, King Time 2024.
Abe Odedina (born 1960, Ibadan, Nigeria. Lives between London and Salvador Bahia) embarked on his artistic journey after a successful career in architecture, beginning his painting career on a transformative trip to Brazil in 2007. Odedina’s work is characterized by its exploration of common humanity through figurative propositions, reflecting his ideas, experiences, and emotions. His unique sense of colour is influenced by his Nigerian heritage, his life in London and his time spent in Salvador de Bahia.Abe Odedina’s artworks are a testament to the universality of the human experience, weaving the poetry of life with everyday miracles. Drawing inspiration from Haitian Voodoo practitioners, painters of the Sacred Heart, anonymous African craftsmen, and his daily walks in Brixton, Odedina’s work revives and deconstructs classic themes. By blending ancient Greek and Yoruba mythologies with everyday life, he sparks dynamic narratives that bridge different eras and cultures.
Matthew Collings A Modest Show Stand 02 SOLO CONTEMPORARY
A Modest Show present Matthew Collins – @amodestshow / @matthew.collings
British Art Fair 26th – 29th September 2024 Saatchi Gallery britishartfair.co.uk
