- Venue
- Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead
- Starts
- Wednesday, May 7, 2025
- Ends
- Sunday, May 11, 2025
- Address
- Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, London, UK
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead
Celebrations continue for the Muse Gallery’s 20th anniversary at it’s home location on Portobello Road, with the gallery expanding into new locations in Brentford and Gray’s Inn Road. Defying the trend of many galleries to close their in person spaces and go online, Muse doesn’t stop there, as the gallery now has Hampstead firmly in it’s sights.
It’s inaugural stand at the Affordable Art Fair is a statement of intent by the gallery’s director Damian Rayne, that, while owing it’s origins to the astonishing creativity that the Portobello area fosters, the growing national and international reputation of the gallery’s artists has earned the well-deserved attention of the Affordable Art Fair.
“I have always kept the multi-cultural, multi-faceted values of Portobello as a defining guide to our curatorial decisions at the Muse”, says Rayne, “so it is not a departure from our commitment to supporting local artists, or offering residency opportunities to recent graduates, but an acknowledgement of their much-deserved enhanced reputations, to take them to new markets where their work can find new collectors looking for exciting work that is, as the fair suggests, and as our gallery insists, ‘affordable”.
With recent exhibitions dedicated to honouring the long-standing reputation of legendary Portobello photographer Charlie Philipps, among others, the Brentford and Gray’s Inn gallery’s are also showcasing experimental film and theatre, while also being home to the annual Portobello Film Festival, Portobello Radio and Tavistock Festival.
Works that will be exhibited at the Muse stand include sculpture, photography, painting, textile and drawing, reflecting the commitment to all forms of artistic practice. The five artists selected from Muse’s roster of over 50 artists to introduce Muse Gallery to Affordable, have been selected as they each share a profound interest in the ethereal qualities of the natural world, and art’s ability to communicate things we feel but can’t explain – the very essence of nature and it’s ability to mystify and delight us.
