10 Artworks Under £10k at Frieze London 2024

Hal Fischer, Street Fashion: Basic Gay, from the series ‘Gay Semiotics’, 1977, printed 2017

Carbon pigment print 76.2 × 61 cm. Edition of 15. Presented by Project Native Informant

Hal Fischer captured the style of a generation of San Francisco gay men from the legalisation of homosexuality in 1975 up to the eruption of the AIDS pandemic in the early 1980s. ‘Gay Semiotics’ uses the language of structuralism to create a body of work laced with humour.

Maria Loizidou, The Shell of Our Soul (III), 2024

Hand-woven stainless steel, 60 × 46 × 46 cm. Presented by Kalfayan Galleries

Maria Loizidou finds power in fragility. Her series ‘The Shell of My Soul’, formed of handwoven and hammered sculptures, explores the concept of home and memory, exposing the complex interplay between environment and identity.

Ruby Sky Stiler, No Title #3, 2024

Woven book pages and acrylic, 28.6 × 19.7 cm. Presented by Alexander Gray Associates

Ruby Sky Stiler’s experimental ‘Book Weavings’ play with the modernist grid in a tribute to feminist craft traditions. Repurposing and painting book pages, Stiler weaves lenticular images built from glimpses of layers and text.

Georgina Hill, Nativity Scene in Bardonecchia, 2024

Newspaper papier-mâché, straw, steel, LED bulbs, hand-blown glass, circuit board, electrical hardware, 14 × 38 × 38 cm. Presented by South Parade

Georgina Hill challenges forms and use of her mediums, from stained glass to motorized domestic objects. Confounding expectations, Hill’s ‘City Lights’ installation offers moments of social and material connection and disjuncture.

Joydeb Roaja, Generation Wish Yielding Trees and Atomic Tree 42, 2021

Ink pen on paper, 60 × 42 cm. Presented by Jhaveri Contemporary

Joydeb Roaja explores the region of Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, portraying its 11 Indigenous groups and their denied rights. In Roaja’s line drawings, figures entwine with forms from the natural world, army personnel and weaponry, recalling the historical military occupation of the area that remains imprinted in the communities’ collective memory.  

Corrine Slade, An Infinite Loop of Love, 2023

Acrylic, oil, and oil pastel on canvas, 112 × 114.3 cm. Presented by The Breeder

Corrine Slade’s high-contrast palette immerses her female protagonists in scenes of nature and companionship. In response to a world that simultaneously scrutinizes and overlooks Black women, Slade’s sublime environments act as retreats for her subjects that do not exist for them in the real world. 

Maryam Ayeen, Untitled, 2024

125 × 97 cm. Presented by Dastan Gallery

Maryam Ayeen interrogates the interaction between human beings and artificial intelligence, imagining the alternative, unreal world produced by a computer. Inspired by the intricacy of Persian miniature paintings, Ayeen’s detailed patterns veer towards the psychedelic, mimicking AI-generated aesthetics.

CFGNY, Two Jars, Two Vases, Sweater (Orange) II, 2021

Glazed porcelain, 21.5 × 21.5 × 14 cm. Presented by Hot Wheels

CFGNY’s use of porcelain reveals the medium’s fragile history and its roots in Chinese craft traditions. Cast from discarded clothes and knick-knacks from the dollar store, the sculptures rewrite the formal language of the vessel in contemporary, consumerist terms.

Divine Southgate-Smith, My voice resonating through ancestral planes, shaking me down to the hips, 2024

Burnished ceramic, 50 × 40 × 12 cm. Presented by Nicoletti

My voice resonating through ancestral planes, shaking me down to the hips (2024) stems from Divine Southgate-Smith’s study of the collection of African craft and design at Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts in Norwich. Embracing Souleymane Bachir Diagne’s definition of African sculpture as a ‘riddle of a way of seeing’, the work is formed of a line-up of ceramic horns believed to enable communication with ancestors.

Ayla Tavares, Gesture or mesure of things, 2024

Graphite on ceramic, 23 × 26 × 9 cm. Presented by Hatch

Presented as part of ‘Smoke’, Ayla Tavares’s series ‘Matéria Matéria’ consists of ceramic wall pieces integrating small frames with various designs in relief. Together, the works express geological and cosmic phenomena. 

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^{Main Image: Ruby Sky Stiler, No Title #3, 2024. Woven book pages and acrylic, 28.6 × 19.7 cm. Courtesy: Alexander Gray Associates}