<The are a number of different types of art fair selling contemporary
art in London:
Contemporary fairs - The London Art Fair, Art London and Frieze Art
Fair
Mixtures of art and antiques - The Spring Olympia Fine Arts &
Antiques fair. BADA Antiques & Fine Art Fair.
Works on Paper – Art on Paper Fair.
Low priced works – The Affordable Art Fair.
Emerging artists – The Fresh Art Fair.
From a dealer’s perspective art fairs allow works to put in front of a
wider audience than can be achieved at a gallery show.
An article, The Rise and Rise of Art Fairs by Brook S. Mason points to
the increasing number of collectors as one of the main reasons for the
popularity of art fairs. According to David Kusin global spending on
art fairs last year was $1 billion. The fairs offer collectors the
chance to see a huge quantity of work that is impossible to show in an
individual gallery. It is a more efficient way to buy art. The fairs
also allow dealers to compete with auction houses.
New York is the major centre for art fairs with around 20 major
events. Compared to Europe London offers a wider choice of speciality
fairs.
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:g9HOmTiXAkQJ:www.artandantiquesfairguide.com/docs/article1.pdf+%22art+fairs%22+increasing+number&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
More recently the trend has been to provide speciality art fairs and
there has been particular success of fairs offering cheaper art like
the Affordable Art Fairs. The Fresh Art Fair is one of the new breed
of speciality fair. It is aimed at providing work by emerging artists.
There is a selection process to ensure the quality of work is good.
Works are also low priced compared to other fairs with much of the
work costing as little as £500. Around 30 universities and colleges
take part which allows the final year students to make industry
contacts.
http://www.freshartfair.com/2003_consumer/introduction/content.html
http://www.freshartfair.com/
A brief description of a number of London art fairs is given at
http://www.iht.com/IHT/SUP/060599/SP-Lon-1.html
The Guardian has details of art fairs including: The London Art Fair,
Fresh Art, The Affordable Art Fair, British Art Fair, Art Futures, Art
on Paper Fair, and Beatrice Royal.
http://shopping.guardian.co.uk/gifts/story/0,1587,641608,00.html
The affordable art fair.
http://www.affordableartfair.co.uk/
Art Fairs from all over the world list over 150 art fairs.
http://karaart.com/art.fairs/
International art fairs are listed at
http://www.picassomio.com/discover/art_fair/en/>
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