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London Art Fair
January 21, 2007

We went to the London Art Fair last Wednesday and I've been meaning to write something up about it ever since. I've not attended the LAF before and it really isn't like any of the other fairs that I have been to. Zoo, Frieze, the Affordable Art Fairs have a pretty high proportion [if not a majority in some cases] of, unknown, or at least relatively so, artists. This was pretty much like doing Cork Street and the regional equivalents in one day.

Very useful, I must say and I was very pleased to see an abundance of St. Ives artists, plenty of Hockney's, even the odd Warhol, Hodgkin, Matisse and Picasso. Saying that; a lot of artists that I wasn't previously aware of, or had seen very little of their work, caught my eye. Consequently I've spent whatever spare time I have had since Wednesday looking up these artists and the galleries exhibiting them. The result of which is 65 artists and to a lesser extent a number of galleries I'd like to mention. Which is obviously far too much for one post, so I'll try to pop a couple of them into each post for the next couple of months, by which time I may have re-evaluated my opinion of a few of them!

I was previously concerned that I might have to DJ at Trev's impending 40th Birthday bash and would be otherwise occupied with trying to find some tunes I could bear to play that people would actually dance to! But it seems there are sufficient DJs now so I've been relieved of that responsibility... so I'd better get on with this list. It's probably as well though, as I've just been listening to M.Ward, Vashti Bunyan and Bert Jansch, which haven't been the most popular choices round here and I doubt they'd fill a dance floor either!

Categories: Music, Art, London

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