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Market gardening: Artists’ responses to the art market
Charlie Fox’s critical response to the different positions taken up by dealers and curators vs non-object based artists within the art market.
On a sunny October afternoon last year, fifty or so artists gathered at the ICA to participate in NAN’s first London Roadshow – Seeds of change. The ‘networking’ day was organised by Artist’s Networks Coordinator Emilia Telese and was billed as: “The first of a series of events for artists organised by NAN in collaboration with arts organisations and artist-led initiatives in London, Yorkshire and Wales, exploring how artists in different areas of the UK relate to the art world and market in light of current and future trends in state funding..”1 There were eight speakers organised into two panels. Ostensibly we had come together to discuss and learn about the London art world; to share tips, opportunities, and strategies for negotiating between our practice and the practicalities of ‘the market’. The backdrop, seated in the elegant Nash room of the ICA looking out on St James’s Park, provided a constant reminder of the shadowy ghost of Frieze Art Fair. This large, deafening event that quite literally encloses the trees of Regents Park within its vast supermarket structure. Here, the market in all its red-bloodedness, opaque and...
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