This October, The Other Art Fair returns to disrupt the conventional Frieze week experience, offering switched on Londoners an unmissable event to remember. This edition features a vibrant programme including a bona fide Instagram sensation as Guest Artist, live tattooing, immersive installations, poetry readings, DJs, a brand-new merch shop, and, most importantly, the chance to buy stunning artwork directly from over 150 incredible emerging talents.
The Other Art Fair has always been committed to combatting gender imbalance within the arts and this edition is no exception, with a 50/50 male to female featured artist ratio. This edition features a fantastic line of women artist, with Sara Shakeel leading the way as Guest Artist, special immersive installations created by Eve De Haan and Sara Roberts, and much more….
EVELYN MORGAN
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Finding new ways to present a portrait and drawing on her graphic design background, Evelyn Morgan’s unapologetic enthusiasm for colour and interest in fashion and makeup artistry all inform her vibrant, cutting-edge contemporary works. Creating through digital sketches in a playful manner, she experiments with composition, line, and shape to produce fine art meets fashion illustration wonders. For Morgan, her creative process is intuitive and a reflection of herself, capturing a certain mood, feeling or thought at any given moment.
EMILY KIRBY
Emily Kirby’s semi abstracted figures linger in enveloping natural landscapes. Her paintings explore colour and form through blocked sections through which sculptural figures emerge organically. Having lived in a number of very different locations, including Zambia, Spain, New Zealand, and the UK her works often elicit a distinct sense of place and environment in which her subject’s dwell, and draw influence from a wide range of cultures and experiences. Emily currently lives in Brighton, and her work has been exhibited internationally including in London, Lusaka, Dubai, New York, Prague and Valladolid.
NADIA ATTURA
Balancing the real and the surreal, Nadia Attura’s pieces transport the viewer to distant, sun-drenched and hazy lands. Vintage, pastel tones and an illustrative approach imbue the pieces with a dreamlike feel that is further enhanced by her meticulous collaging technique. Capturing the world through analogue and digital cameras, she layers fragmented scenes to create charming, imagined landscapes, applying washes, paints, ink and chalk onto the final edition works. Nadia has successfully exhibited at The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and her work has been featured in VOGUE and The New York Times.
SERENA SINGH
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Serena Singh embodies colour and texture inspired by her Swiss Indian upbringing. Born in Basel, Switzerland, Serena connected with drawing at an early age as she was fascinated by image of the human figure. In her latest works she explores topics of identity and self-discovery, while taking a critical look at the primacy of individualism in contemporary society.
ZENA BLACKWELL
Zena Blackwell’s awarding-winning paintings and drawings investigate the chaos, humour, and beauty of motherhood and childhood. Based in Cardiff, Wales she captures the struggles, triumphs and quotidian moments that make up family life with grace, compassion and beauty. She works from the viewpoint of a mother, creating pieces that evoke empathy and understanding and voice the often-overlooked experience many mothers share. She has exhibited globally and her work is held in the National Library of Wales’ permanent collection, along with private collections in the USA, France, Japan, Australia and UK.
OTTELIEN HUCKIN
Ottelien Hucklin’s Gold-leaf paintings are inspired by a craft called ‘japanning’, a 17th century European decorative method that was developed to imitate Japanese lacquer and is officially on the Heritage Crafts Association’s (HCA) red list of endangered crafts. For Hucklin, the time-consuming process perfectly contrasts her fluent approach to drawing, creating stunning, highly detailed outcomes. To create the rich and reflective surface, each panel must receive 30 layers of pigmented shellac varnish over the course of a couple of weeks, then be hand painted with gilded with gold leaf and Indian ink.
LIZ WHITEMAN SMITH
Liz Whiteman Smith makes affordable, colourful screen prints of global destinations, playful characters and iconic London buildings, often inspired by her travels locally and further afield. She creates series of multi layered screen prints, working from her own photographs and drawings, always with the aim of making people smile. She is an elected member of the Southbank Printmakers Gallery and runs the North London Printmakers collective. You can find her work at Conclave Gallery, Brighton, Espacio Gallery, London, and in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s archives.
HANNAH GILSON
Hannah Gilson is a London based illustrator and educator whose mixed media practice combines painting, screen printing and drawing. She looks to pop culture and joyful aesthetics for her digital and hand drawn works. She recently showcased her work at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, where was nominated for the Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize. Her illustration and design clients include Anthropologie, IKEA, House Of Hackney, La Redoute and ES Magazine.
HELGA STENTZEL
Helga Stentzel is a Russian-born visual artist based in London. She works across a wide range of media including illustration, photography, video and stop motion animation and is widely known for her ‘household surrealism’ and documentation of the brighter side of the mundane. Her close line animal series has been particularly popular, an unusual and uncanny celebration of the natural world. She has been featured by The Guardian, The Times, Creative Boom, Colossal and many more, plus she has over 200K Instagram followers drawn to her account for its playful and light-hearted take on the everyday.
The Other Art Fair has created something different, combining affordable art with unforgettable experiences, with editions now in London, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Sydney, and Melbourne. Hailed as ‘the future of art’ by The Guardian, The Other Art Fair will delight and inspire visitors with its diverse and immersive programme that has previously included interactive, taxidermy classes, immersive dining, charity collaborations, guest artist installations, workshops, and a colourful line-up of renowned Guest Artists. If you’re looking for unusual encounters, this one’s for you.
