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Something For Everyone At The Urban Art Fair In Brixton
Thursday 6th June 2013 | Camille
If you feel like absorbing a bit of culture this month you should head to the Urban Art Fair in Brixton on the 13th and 14th July. London’s largest al fresco art fair takes place on the leafy Josephine Avenue SW2.
For the eleventh year running over 200 artists will gather to showcase their work at this event, which will encompass street-art, photography, painting, printmaking and mixed media. If you’ve been keeping your ear to the ground in the art world you might recognise the names of Kerry Eggleton, the printmaker whose work mirrors the disconnect between nature and metropolis that marks lots of us living in the city, and Bob Brown, a mixed media artist whose work is rarely exhibited so if you see something you like you should snatch it up! Then of course there is Jim Hanlon, the highly sought artist that both exhibits and sells to a large number of clients in the UK and Europe, and Sally Muir famous for knitting and for winning the Holburne Portrait Prize. this is just to name a few and all will be exhibiting their work at the Urban Art Fair. Not only will it be a beautiful and creatively engaging day out but it will give you a chance to interact directly with the artists.
This year for the first time the Urban Art Fair will have a Street Art area organised by PositiveArts.co.uk, one of the first and most respected graffiti and street art companies in the UK. In the Street Art area artist will be using nine white walls as their canvas to work on live in front of the crowd. Not only that but in honour of the London Underground’s 150th Anniversary artists will be doing graffiti work on a London Tube train which will then be exhibited in Brixton Square.
What is great about the Urban Art Fair is that while celebrating more traditional art forms like painting and photography this work is shown side by side with more contemporary art forms like graffiti. A lot of people, particularly young people, find themselves identifying more and more with work that just a few years ago would have been dismissed as vandalism. By showing all this work side by side the Urban Art Fair is giving well done and thoughtful street art the respect it deserves. So whether you’re a more traditional art lover there for the paintings or you’ve come for the Street Art area you are bound to see something new and interesting that might just intrigue you.
For more information check out their website http://www.urbanart.co.uk/index.php
Camille Merrells
