Soho House Art Fayre arrives in London next month
With talks, workshops and art to shop from 17 artists, here’s everything you need to know about the event at Soho House 76 Dean Street
Monday 7 October 2024 By Chloe Lawrance
The Art Fayre will also host two specially curated art installations, powered by Porsche. The brand’s founder, Ferry Porsche, was a dreamer – and his passion and belief in his vision changed the automotive world forever. Celebrating visionaries who have the courage to dream, like Ferry Porsche, is the inspiration for the installations throughout the House. The first of these will be ‘Stuff of Dreams’, a patchwork tapestry created on the front of the House by multi-disciplinary artist Scarlett Bowman. The second will be artist Beth Rodway’s ‘A Blue Christmas’, featuring a Christmas tree decorated with hand-painted baubles with one-of-a-kind dream-like designs that members can purchase and take home.
Throughout the day, the House will be serving a brunch menu, so be sure to book a table via the Soho House app in advance. There will also be activities hosted by Bombay Sapphire and Woodford Reserve, as well as bar takeovers. Bombay Sapphire’s menu will be inspired by a new citrus-themed art collection at the club, featuring the flavours of lemon, lime, pomegranate and orange, and a citrus-inspired art installation by artist Frida Wannerberger will be displayed along the bar.
On top of the artists’ stalls, Jealous – an artist-led publisher, studio and physical gallery space located in east London – will create an art emporium, including a tombola and art raffle. They will also be selling a range of limited-edition prints and art merchandise by artists such as David Shrigley, Jake Chapman and Jessica Albarn.
Soho Visionaries workshops
Soho Visionaries, powered by Porsche, brings a series of creative workshops, talks, curated dinners and site-specific commissions to the Houses, through which we work to celebrate and support creative changemakers. We’ll be hosting workshops led by some exciting artistic talent to encourage members to reconnect with their creativity.Painting workshop with Charlotte Mei
Charlotte Mei, whose block-colour landscape and figurative pieces feature in the Soho House art collection, will be on hand to guide members through the process of creating paintings based on photographs of meaningful landscapes or objects.
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Mixed media collage workshop with Dawn Beckles
Members will be able to make their own mixed media still-life piece with Dawn Beckles, whose work is on display in several Houses and explores the relationship between the objects we surround ourselves with and our homes, creating a narrative of personal history and cultural identity.
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In the screening room
Throughout the day, the House’s screening room will host talks and interactive events.
Kate Bryan: everything you always wanted to know about buying art
11am to 11.45am
Join Soho House’s Chief Art Director, Kate Bryan, to kick off the day with a talk full of useful advice for how to engage with and buy art for your home.
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Zaha Hadid Architects/ ZHVR Group: VR experience
12pm to 3pm
ZHVR Group, part of Zaha Hadid Architects, was founded in 2014 to introduce the then-emerging technology into architecture and design. In this interactive presentation, members will be able to enjoy this work for themselves in an experience that pushes the boundaries of contemporary space-making and design.
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The Great Soho House Art Quiz
4pm to 5pm
Hosted by artist Jim Moir (Vic Reeves) and Kate Bryan, the Great Soho House Art Quiz will put members’ art knowledge to the test with a surreal low-stakes, high-value celebration of art, hosted in partnership with Bombay Sapphire.
All the artists
Alexandria Coe
Specialising in minimal mark-making – with a focus on the human body and our relationship to it –Alexandria Coe’s work is a mode of self-care, offering a cathartic dialogue between her mind and body. She is based between London and Athens.
Anna McNeil
Living and working between Barcelona and London, Anna McNeil is a British painter whose work explores relationships, with themes of intimacy, communication, identity, and implicit memory.
Beth Rodway
Beth Rodway’s work focuses on telling stories, as she creates spaces for the imagination to fill. Her pieces play with juxtapositions: the disparity between the human-made and the untamed natural world. Beth is a British artist based in Brighton.
Billy Bagilhole
Billy Bagilhole is a Welsh artist based in London. Often created by covering canvases with a mix of salt and thick paint, Bagilhole’s work is informed by a childhood surrounded by his father’s folkloric paintings of animals and religious figures – motifs that have become Bagilhole’s artistic grounding.
Cathy Tabbakh
Cathy Tabbakh is a French contemporary artist of Armenian descent living and working in London. Her work centres on the collision of imaginary and existing forms through the use of structural and botanical elements.
Charlotte Mei
With a bold and playful use of colour, form and gestural mark-making, London-based painter Charlotte Mei creates landscapes, abstract figures, still lifes, and spirited portraits.
Christabel Blackburn
Christabel Blackburn is a painter who creates atmospheric pictures that focus on the interplay between people and space. Using a sensitively reduced visual language, she distils the modern world and our interaction with it into quiet, concentrated scenes. Christabel is based in London.
Dawn Beckles
A self-taught artist with a focus on still life, Dawn Beckles explores the relationship between the objects we surround ourselves with and our homes, creating a narrative of personal history and cultural identity.
Etta Voorsanger-Brill, Bob and Roberta Smith and Jessica Voorsanger
Bringing together their individual practices, this mother, father and daughter trio have come together to create a unique piece of work. Jessica Voorsanger is a New York-born artist, who has been working in London since the early 1990s, exploring ideas of fabric and celebrity; Bob and Roberta Smith is a painter, whose work uses lettering; and Etta Voorsanger-Brill uses zines and printed matter to ‘make the world a better place’.
Frida Wannerberger
Frida Wannerberger is a Swedish London-based artist. Her work critically examines post-feminist ideas, power dynamics and gender roles, presenting a nuanced and powerful vision of femininity.
Gavin Turk
A internationally recognised British artist, Gavin Turk deals with issues of authenticity and the role of the artist. He has pioneered contemporary techniques including waxwork, and the use of rubbish and painted bronze in his art.
George Richardson
George Richardson is a British artist based in London. Using mainly wood and metal, in his sculpture and painting practice Richardson bends, exaggerates and changes the material or form of familiar objects in order to distance them from their cultural and personal reference points – something he describes as an attempt to ‘make sense of’ these items.
Holly Allan
Holly Allan is a London-based artist working predominantly in embroidery. Taking inspiration from everything in her orbit, from nature to the female nude to portraiture, she enjoys the very intimate, meditative and methodical embroidery medium.
Jealous Gallery
Jealous is an artist-led, fine-art print publisher and studio together with a gallery space located in east London’s Shoreditch. For Soho Art Fayre, Jealous will be bringing new and recent works for members to browse and buy.
Jim Moir
While widely celebrated for his career in comedy as Vic Reeves, art has always remained Jim Moir’s first love. His eccentric, surreal and mischievous artwork merges his interest in the natural world and his witty imagination, and has been exhibited at institutions including the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He works out of his studio in Kent.
Kay Gasei
Kay Gasei is a London-based mixed media artist, illustrator and designer of Zambian heritage. His work explores both mythical and historical narratives – as he says: ‘all the minutiae that contribute to the tapestry of life’.
Polly Morgan
British artist Polly Morgan works in taxidermy, concrete and polyurethane, creating sculptural facsimiles made from painted casts as a way of exploring false narratives in an increasingly polarised and digitised society.
Scarlett Bowman
Working with ready-made materials in her practice, Scarlett Bowman is a London-based artist who repurposes everyday objects in her art. She employs traditional craft-based processes and techniques such as assemblage, collage, casting and stitch to combine her finds.
Zaha Hadid Studio
Part of Zaha Hadid Architects, the ZHVR Group was founded in 2014 to introduce emerging Virtual Reality (VR) technology into architecture and design. The group develops VR experiences as a way to push the boundaries of contemporary space-making, focusing on three main categories: the production of VR as a design tool, implementation of VR in space-making, and research into the aesthetic potential of the virtual world.
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