Sluice art fair returns this year, albeit in a different format. With the sole purpose of raising funds for its 2013 edition, Sluice is staging an exhibition and accompanying publication in which all the work will be for sale at auction.
Curator Ben Street says that money generated from the endeavour will enable Sluice to “better represent a wider range of artist-run, emerging and non-profit art spaces across the UK (& beyond), and to allow us to be an even more effective platform for these spaces.”
Sluice is also launching a publication of the same name, which will be a limited-edition print run of just 100 copies. “It will consist of works of art by artists associated with some of the most interesting artist-run and emerging art spaces, bound in a single volume; it’s a physical version of Sluice,” says Street.
The publication will be on sale during the three-day exhibition at Hanmi Gallery, Fitzrovia, London, from 22-24 October.
The auction, both silent and blind, features 55 works, including pieces by Edwina Ashton, Marco Chiandetti, Gabriel Hartley, Steve Nelson, Whitney McVeigh, Rosalind Davis, Annabel Tilley, Emma Cousin and Andrew Seto, all starting at the same affordable reserve price.
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