Sluice Art Fair
{{Short description|British biennial contemporary art fair}}
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Sluice Art Fair (also known as Sluice{{Cite web |last=Jupp |first=Emily |date=2013-10-17 |title=Alternative London art fairs |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/exhibitions/alternative-london-art-fairs-satellite-stars-8866242.html |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=The Standard |language=en}} or stylized as Sluice__) is a London-based biennial contemporary art fair open to alternative galleries and art organisations run by artists and curators.
History
Sluice Art Fair was founded by artist Karl England and art historian Ben Street in 2011 with the first iteration of the fair taking place in Mayfair at the same week as the Frieze Art Fair.{{Cite web |title=Sluice Art Fair: celebrating the diversity of artist-led practice |url=https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/sluice-art-fair-celebrating-diversity-of-artist-led-practice/ |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=a-n The Artists Information Company |language=en-GB}} Galleries included Transition Gallery, Fordham and Studio1.1.{{Cite web |title=Sluice Art Fair 2011 |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/art/sluice-art-fair-2011 |access-date=2024-10-25}}http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/art363336 Culture24, (1 September 2011). In 2013 the art fair moved to Bermondsey opposite White Cube and expanded to incorporate galleries from Cardiff, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton, Athens, Barcelona, and Brooklyn, New York.[https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-to-make-british-art-better-in-2014/ Vice.com] Vice, (7 January 2014).http://londonist.com/2013/10/sluice-art-fair-breaking-the-mould The Londonist, (6 October 2013). The third iteration of the London-based fair, Sluice__2015, will take place in London's Oxo Tower.http://www.oxotower.co.uk/events/sluice__2015/ Oxo Tower website, (7 January 2014).
In 2014 Sluice collaborated with collaboration Centotto & Theodore:Art on the Exchange Rates international expo in Brooklyn, New York.https://www.a-n.co.uk/events/exchange-rates-the-bushwick-international-expo a-n, (16 September 2014).
References
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External links
- [http://www.sluice.info/ Sluice__] official website