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| Anna Katrina Zinkeisen, The Dark Lady, 1938, oil on canvas, Nottingham City Museum and Galleries |
As always the
London Art Fair is a mixed bag. Star of the show is the not-for-sale Art UK
exhibit where five art stalwarts; Sonia Boyce, Haroon Mirza, Oscar Murillo and
Rose Wylie, have each selected work from UK regional collections. This means
that an eclectic group of works, that I imagine have been stashed in cupboards
in small provincial museums, have their five minutes in the 2018 limelight.
Rose Wylie’s choices include Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid’s In Spinster’s Salt Collection. While Haroon
Mirza has used an algorithm to make his selection, thereby subverting the very
idea of the elitist notion of selecting itself, and has maybe turned up with my
favourite painting of the bunch, Anna Katrina Zinkeisen’s The Dark Lady.
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Lubaina Himid, In Spinster’s Salt Collection, 1989,
New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
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