The Nine British Art is delighted to be welcoming clients to visit our stand at London Art Fair after a two-year hiatus. It’s a venue which provides seasoned and aspiring collectors with a unique opportunity to discover and connect with exceptional Modern and Contemporary Art. Before the postponement of London Art Fair in January, we had planned a special focus on the sculpture in our collection, and the intervening four months has given us the chance to further refine our selection to include modern british sculpture by Robert Adams, John Hoskin, Denis Mitchell, Paul Mount and Brian Wall.
We’re also pleased to be showcasing a broad range of paintings too. Our successful Jonathan S Hooper exhibition, Between The Granite & The Strandline, came to a close at the end of last month, but there’s still a chance to experience his intriguing paintings close up at London Art Fair. Hooper was born and raised in North Cornwall, and the way in which his most recent work both speaks of that landscape and his relationship with it offers his oils a rare spirituality and power. It’s spring, so we particularly appreciate the wild, colourful energy of Cat 8 Gorse Storm: Treswallock Downs now - but there are a variety of moods and approaches in this new collection.
There are several new Modern British acquisitions we’re excited to take to the Fair, including a study for one of the surrealist highlights of Ceri Richards’ career: Twelve Lithographs for Six Poems by Dylan Thomas (1964) There’s also more surrealist work from Conroy Maddox - La Grand Review (1951) - while Henry Cliffe offered a similarly bold take on colour in his sculptural oil Composition (1959). Bringing matters right up to date, The Nine British Art’s commitment to contemporary art also extends to recent shows from Leigh Davis and Jeremy Gardiner. We’re pleased to present some more of their exciting landscape-inspired abstractions at London Art Fair, as well as paintings from Peter Joyce, Keith Milow, and Gary Wragg.
But we end where we started; with sculpture. We’re displaying contemporary sculptors such as Robert Fogell and Richard Fox at the Fair. But sculpture doesn’t get much more up to date than Jonathan Clarke’s Stock (Ewe with Lambs). A playful composition of sand-cast aluminium blocks that references one of his large-scale public artworks in London, this minimalistic work is perfect in proportion and relationship - and just cast in 2022. A classic example, then, of our aim at London Art Fair; from Maddox’s 70-year-old surrealist painting to a months’-old cast from an exciting contemporary sculptor, we want to celebrate the breadth and quality of work at The Nine British Art. We hope you can join us at Stand 39.
London Art Fair, 21st-24th April. For tickets and more information go to https://www.londonartfair.co.uk
