The Affordable Art Fair
The first edition of the Affordable Art Fair was in 1999 in London’s Battersea Park. The fair has now expanded to 10 cities across the world, including London, New York, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Hamburg, Brussels, Singapore, Milan, Stockholm and Melbourne, with over 185,000 art enthusiasts visiting each year. The fairs showcase a mix of local, national and international galleries with a wide array of affordable artworks by established and rising stars. Below, please find some of our top picks from the online fair this year. For more information navigating the online viewing room, feel free to contact Arianna Mastro who would be happy to hand select pieces for you.
Dana Piazza, Woven lines 26
Gallery: Muriel Guepin Gallery
Dana Piazza's creates drawings full of illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highly obsessive ink drawings on paper are built upon algorithms, a set of instructions that details how he will draw each series. Different algorithms and geometric patterns result in multiple drawing series that appear divergent but all of Piazza’s work is focused on explorations of chance, discovery and time. Unintentional changes in the mark are inevitable and create distorted and moving images that almost appear as 3D renderings
Kelly Grace, Curl Set
Gallery: Luste Gallery
Kelly Grace is an established artist known for her evocative and compelling paintings and drawings depicting vintage inspired scenes and subject matter. Kelly was born in Toronto in the 70’s and raised in the rural area of Stouffville, Ontario. Her paternal grandparents were travelling puppeteers in the local fair and carnival circuit in California in the 1950’s. This grandfather was also a clown and a painter. She strives to channel this familial creative influence in her work.
Stefan Gross, Flower Bonanza III
Gallery: Chiefs & Spirits
Stefan Gross is an artist from The Netherlands. He has developed a material of his own he calls ‘oil plastic’. It results from dyeing industrial plastic with classic oil paints. It is surface and paint in one and enables him to extend the painted surface three-dimensionally. ‘Oil plastic’ is a translucent and behaves, at a relatively low temperature, like glass. A lot of the plastic Gross uses, is recycled. In his work, Stefan Gross depicts, in a colorful way, the fall of a society based on growth. “The world is a serious place these days. This is a problem I address in my work.” He shows the beauty and potential of industrial production in a look back on the times in which we now live.
Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart, Influencer
Gallery: Lustre Contemporary
Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart is an emerging young artist who uses photographic self-portraiture to create compelling and at times unsettling images that draw the viewer’s full attention to her chosen subject matter.
James Sparshatt, El amor
Gallery: Capital Culture
James Sparshatt is a British photographic artist whose work dramatically captures the vibrancy and emotional intensity of life. His black and white images of music and dance from the Latin world; the flamenco of Spain, tango from Argentina, salsa from the streets of Havana, are full of movement and emotion. He has been exhibited in New York, Texas, London, Spain, Cuba and across the UK. His exhibition at the Royal National Theatre was described in the Sunday Telegraph as “a dazzling collection of black and white images...”
Jenny Wilson, Walking through May with Ebba
Gallery: Marine House at Beer
Jenny Wilson is a self-taught artist now living in Leicestershire. In Wilson’s words, “Nearly all my work is inspired by the ever-changing colors through the passing of the seasons in the local landscape and along roads I travel every day. I never aim to copy but simply to capture feelings and light without focusing on details.”