Affordable works by the likes of Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst and Grayson Perry will be on sale to art lovers in Manchester later this month.
The city’s popular Buy Art Fair, famed for bringing hundreds of galleries, artists, talks, tours and workshops to Old Granada Studios, has announced that the Royal Academy of Art will be exhibiting for the first time.
The prestigious institution – whose membership includes art world luminaries such as David Hockney, Anish Kapoor – will be bringing their portfolio of unique and limited editions by Royal Academicians and other significant contemporary.
Thom Hetherington, CEO of Buy Art Fair, described it as a major coup for the fair, which started in 2008 and has 3,000 pieces of art from 100 exhibitors with prices from £50 to more than £5,000.
He said: “Every art lover worth their salt would love a piece by Emin or Hirst on their walls, and to have so many pieces by artists of this calibre on sale in Manchester is incredible.”
ART: Tracey Emin’s With You Or Without You will be on sale at the Buy Art Fair
“We’re extremely proud to be presenting work by artists including Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry and Gary Hume, all whom have made limited editions for our RA Editions programme,” said Art Sales Programme Curator, Katherine Oliver. “Sales of these works are crucial in supporting the RA Schools and the Academy’s non-profit making activities, given that the institution receives no public funding”.
Emin is best known for her piece ‘My Bed’ which was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999 and is about to go on display at Tate Liverpool.
Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry is best known as a ceramicist, but also had a critically lauded show of exuberant tapestries ‘The Vanity of Small Differences’, at Manchester Art Gallery in late 2013.
He uses imagery and text to chronicle social concerns, his own formative experiences and to tell the story of his alter ego, Claire.
Damien Hirst’s work will be available to buy from The Drang Gallery.
ICONIC: Works by Damien Hirst, including For The Love Of God, are sure to wow art lovers
His most famous work, ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991’ of a shark in formaldehyde, has become one of the most iconic images of 90s contemporary art. Pieces available to buy at the fair include ‘For The Love Of God’, ‘Methylamine-13c’ and ‘To Begin’.
The Drang Gallery are also set to bring works by pop artist Sir Peter Blake, who is best known for co-creating The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover as well as sleeves for The Who, Eric Clapton and Paul Weller.
Buy Art Fair and The Manchester Contemporary, takes place from 22-25 September at the Old Granada Studios. For more information click here.
