The Art Car Boot Fair has been re-booted, everything is ready to go, technology may have sunk the first attempt at an on-line version of the Fair a couple of weeks ago but hey, the best things come to those who wait, the 2020 (on-line) edition of the long running slightly anarchic institution that is the 2020 Art Car Boot Fair will happen on your screens this Sunday – “The Viral ACBF will be a bespoke new online experience bringing you the anticipation, the buzz, the queues, direct interactions, unexpected delights, random art drops, countdowns, and all manners of surprises!”. Yoy can find out lots more and explore some of the art via  ORGAN THING: The Art Car Boot Fair has been re-booted, it happens on-line this Sunday, here’s a flavour of just some of the exuberance you’ll find…

The ongoing series of Ten paintings painted during the month of September will all be available via the fair on Sunday, they won’t be avaiable anywhere else before Sunday, eac one will be on sale at a  price of £10, the fair opens (on-line so you can view it from all over the world) at middat on Sunday October 4th, people who are members (more details via that link you jsut passed) get in first at Miday, those who have bought a £5 dat ticket get in from 2.30pm, the final hour starts at 5.30pm and entry will be free to all at that point.

““Just like its famous physical manifestation, the viral edition promises all the fun of the fair combined with an exuberance of new talent to boot. Art Car Boot Fair favourites including Gavin Turk, Polly Morgan, Pam Hogg, Marcus Harvey, Jeremy Deller, Pure Evil, Kristjana S Williams, Sara Pope and Mat Collishaw will be joined by a host of exciting new artists, such as Rankin, Noel Fielding, Helen Beard, Claire Partington, Hayden Keys, Charlotte MacMillan and Robert Cooper”. There’s something like 100 invited artists taking part, do explore the Organ feature t oexplore lots of the art and to get a flavour

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I will have a number of other new and recent paintings, some of the new Skyline pieces, some of the stars and the stripes (or the Stars And Stripes) and such…

 

The Art Car Boot Fair is always one of the highlights of the London art year. True, we have been chased on-line this year, we’re not in the sunshine with our boots full of art and the music flowing, there won’t be all the people watching and the socialising, and who knows how the browsing will work? The glimpses behind the curtain that goes up at Midday on Sunday October 4th look exciting to me. There’s something like a hundred or so artists and galleries involved, there’s contemporary painters, print makers, street art flavours, drawing, ceramics, there’s zooming into studios, live performance, life drawing, exclusive limited editions, drops, one off pieces that you won’t be able to get your hands on anywhere else and vitally, because you are buying direct from us artists, you’ve not getting galleries or dealers or the middlepeople taking a slice which means that, in the spirit of a car boot fair, you’re going to find some really great prices on some great pieces – this is lifeblood for us artists, this is where art gets to let his or her hair down (does art have a gender?) the Spirit of a Fate Worse Than Death, this is where you get to interact directly with us, we kind of like that. Personally I have my eye on a Julia Maddison tea towel ot maybe that Tony Beaver absynth glass although I do like those Ian Dawson pieces and an Emma Harvey pony, or that Chris Stead print of the tapes or…

ORGAN THING: The Art Car Boot Fair has been re-booted, it happens on-line this Sunday, here’s a flavour of just some of the exuberance you’ll find…