Exhibitions & News

An Intimate Vocabulary

Aisha Seriki , András Ladocsi, Yi Zhou, Ying Qi Liang, Lola Collins, Dingyue Fan

The annual graduate exhibition of the Affordable Art Fair, exploring how we communicate without words

Private View: Wednesday 18 October. Open 19 to 22 October 2023 @ Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London

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A Coalescence of Daydreams

Amanda Seibæk, Connie Stewart, Dami Ayo-Vaughan, Ella West, Lucy Hutchings, Erica McQueen, Prab Naththarampatha, Ziyan Lui

The annual recent graduate exhibition at the Affordable Art Fair, explores notions of home, belonging and self through a kaleidoscope of pioneering young voices.

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Will the new UK government support the art market?

ArtThou Founder Hugo Barclay speaks to The Arts Newspaper about the need for the UK government to work with art industry to overcome post Brexit cross border trade challenges

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Solo Exhibition: Magical Thinking

Craig Coulthard

3 - 24 September @ Sierra Metro

Preview Saturday 3rd September from 1pm.

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BRICK, BLOCK, INK, STONE

Craig Coulthard’s exhibition, featuring new works produced over the last two years at Sierra Metro Gallery. Craig speaks with Cheryl McGregor about the omniscience of the artist, and his aim to find a resting place between the pragmatic and the mystical

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Solo exhibition: SALVE (a Romanesque greeting)

David James Grinly

An exhibition that questions systems of visual and harmonic arrangement in light, centred around an archaeological interest in the slippery, particularities of digital photography

Sierra Metro, Edinburgh

Affordable Art Fair appoints Hugo Barclay as Fair Director

Barclay, Founder of ArtThou and formerly Programme Director at London Art Fair, joins Affordable Art Fair

“I have long admired the Affordable Art Fair for the access it gives to the art world and the important role the fairs play to hundreds of galleries and artists globally, where it is revered as a platform for emerging young artists to springboard to successful careers.”

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Solo exhibition: Egg Woke

Charlotte Hicks

What does feminism look like today? Where wokeness is misappropriated and weaponised. Charlotte Hicks, latest exhibition investigates the ubiquity of female objectification in the media

Solo exhibition: Beyond The God’s Eye

Cian Dayrit in partnership with Nome Gallery

Discusses the term ‘spacio-cide’ and the impact of colonialism, empires on the modern world

Solo exhibition: RUNES

Arthur Laidlaw

Exploring the conversation around neo-pagan communities, our relationship towards historical symbols and the manipulation of iconography in Northern Europe

Inside the charity art exhibit that’s breaking down borders

The exhibition might be turning its focus outwards across borders, but its contributors have geography in common – all 30 artists involved are currently practicing in Scotland. It’s a focus that Barclay says has been eye-opening for him, given he’s recently moved north after eight years working in the art scene in London. “There’s definitely this new wave of artists coming out to Scotland that have a huge amount of talent.” - Hugo Barclay

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The No Borders Initiative features in 37 papers across Scotland

“It is a positive initiative to encourage generosity, championing some of the best emerging artists coming out of Scotland and supporting Maggie’s, which helps some of the most vulnerable in society.” - Founder of ArtThou, Hugo Barclay

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