10 Works Under 10K From Frieze London and Frieze Masters
From Ryan Gander and Niki de Saint Phalle to Nike Davies-Okundaye and Jonathan Baldock, preview some of the more accessible works from this year’s London fairs, from the Viewing Room and on-site
From Ryan Gander and Niki de Saint Phalle to Nike Davies-Okundaye and Jonathan Baldock, preview some of the more accessible works from this year’s London fairs, from the Viewing Room and on-site
EMMA TALBOT
Animal Guide, 2022
Silkscreen print onto Mitsumata Washi paper
47 x 33cm
Edition of 35, signed and numbered
£450
Presented by Whitechapel Gallery at Allied Editions, Stand P5 at Frieze London
The figure in MaxMara Prize winner Emma Talbot’s work is always faceless, serving as an avatar for the artist herself but also a figure that Talbot hopes that people might project onto as a kind of avatar for themselves. This poignant edition is presented by Allied Editions and the Whitechapel Gallery, all proceeds from the sale of these works directly support the Whitechapel’s exhibition and education programmes. Learn more about Talbot’s practice with our film about her Special Project at Frieze London, 21st Century Herbal, here.
This edition by Ibrahim Mahama features an image of building work in progress at Mahama’s Red Clay studio complex in Tamale, overlaid with archival imagery from a former state-run paint factory in Tema, Ghana. Initially established by the Ghanaian State in the period of post-Independence, the paint factory was privatised in the 1990s and later deserted. While setting up a temporary studio in the empty building some years ago, Mahama came across an abandoned trove of documents from the factory, which he then began to physically incorporate into his work.
All proceeds from the sale of Mahama's editions will go towards funding the Frieze x Deutsche Bank Emerging Curators Fellowship at the Whitworth. Learn more about the edition and Fellowship here, and purchase the edition here.
Composed around visual puzzles and unusually assembled objects, the works of Ryan Gander are catalysts for thinking, defying accustomed conditions and viewer perceptions (STPI Gallery, Frieze London, Stand C14).
In this photograph, a woman mimes Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man against a large natural sculpture: a giant boulder on the shoreline of Connemara, where artist Dorothy Cross lives and works. Learn more about artist Dorothy Cross’s relationship with the natural world with her artist film for Frieze London (Kerlin Gallery, Frieze London, Stand IN6)
NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE
Leaping Nana, Nana Power, 1970
Silkscreens on vellum paper
75 cm x 56 cm
Edition 115/115
Under $5,000
Presented by Galerie Mitterrand at Frieze Masters
Niki de Saint Phalle was a Franco-American artist who began her career as a painter in 1950. Her work quickly moved towards bright assemblages, reliefs, and sculpture. She later became a member of the Nouveaux Réalistes group, and in 1965 began creating her curvaceous and flamboyant figures she called Nanas, wrought in various media (Galerie Mitterrand, Frieze Masters, Stand A7)
JONATHAN BALDOCK
Masque III, 2021
Glazed ceramic
33.66 cm x 24.13 cm
£5,000
Presented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery at Frieze London
Jonathan Baldock’s series of ceramic ‘masques’ exude vibrant hues and comical expressions: ripples of clay suggest folds of skin, whilst cuts and bulbous protrusions evoke features such as eyes, ears and nostrils (Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, Frieze London, Stand D17)
TAREK LAKHRISSI
Out of the Blue, 2019
HD Single channel video
00:13:01
Edition 2 of 5 (+1AP)
£6,900
Presented by VITRINE at Frieze London
Out of the Blue is Tarek Lakhrissi's most ambitious film work to date, commissioned and first exhibited at La Galerie CAC, Noisy-Le-Sec, FR. A Science Fiction short, the film takes place at a radical moment in time when our politically conservative era is at a threat of coming to an end because of an alien invasion – beginning with the kidnapping of the world’s CEO’s. Drawing on the rich writings of queer futurity, Lakhrissi avoids traditional apocalyptic narratives to instead explore the nature of transition itself and José Esteban Muñoz’s notion of the ‘threshold’, a juncture that the artist describes as “A space where there is utopia and possibility” (VITRINE, Frieze London, Stand H27)
DAIGA GRANTINA
A middle, 2022
wood, ink, string, aluminum
24 cm x 15 cm x 9 cm
€7,500
Presented by Emalin at Frieze London
Daiga Grantina's sculptures investigate the encounters between materials and their resulting relationships of harmony and dissonance. Her abstract vocabulary uses forms from bodies and landscapes to create indescribable matter, a sculptural investigation of the formless and misshapen (Emalin, Frieze London, H15)
CHANDRAGUPTHA THENUWARA
Reminiscence III/ Thorns, 2019
Brass Cast
18 cm x 13 cm x 13 cm
£7,500
Presented by Saskia Fernando Gallery at Frieze London
Artist, activist, curator and educator, Chandraguptha Thenuwara (b. 1960, Sri Lanka) is a luminary amongst contemporary Sri Lankan artists, serving as an outspoken commentator on the contemporary politics of his home country throughout his career.
His artistic iconography often includes the lotus flower (a symbol of the mind rising from murky waters in Buddhism, now turned into a nationalist trope as the end of a lion’s tail), fallen bodies, barbed wire, barricades, canons and Buddhist stupas. Learn more about Thenuwara’s practice with his Indra’s Net artist video, produced for curator Sandhini Poddhar’s special section at the fair (Saskia Fernando Gallery, Frieze London, Stand IN9)
NIKE DAVIES-OKUNDAYE
Marriage of the gods, 1982
Batik with natural dye
132.08 cm x 58.42 cm
Under $10,000
Presented by Kó at Frieze Masters
Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye is an internationally celebrated batik and Adire textile artist. Born in 1951 in Ogidi, Nigeria, she is a prominent figure in the revival of traditional Nigerian arts. Adire designs traditionally incorporate cultural and historical symbols and meanings, combined into larger overall patterns that are recognized in Yoruba culture. The artist was initially drawn to the craft due to its cultural significance as a “woman’s art,” passed down by successive generations of women (kó, Frieze Masters, Stand S25)
GABRIELE BEVERIDGE
Eternal Field, 2022
Polyurethane paint, steel shop-fittings
250 cm x 240 cm x 5 cm
Edition Unique
£10,000
Presented by Seventeen at Frieze London
Beveridge’s materials often derive from places of commerce, particularly those where we prepare and process our bodies, or more accurately where we pay others to perform labour on our surfaces. Display and presentation are persistent themes throughout her practice. The artist often includes found photographic imagery, cropped posters and promotional material found in hair and nail salons, alongside photograms, glass and other natural materials into her work. Learn more about Beveridge’s practice with our recent interview (Seventeen, Frieze London, Stand A15).
Main image: Detail of Niki de Saint Phalle, Leaping Nana, Nana Power, 1970. Courtesy of Galerie Miterrand
