Who Won Prizes at Frieze London 2023?
Frieze has announced the winners of the Stand Prize, the Focus Stand Prize for newer galleries, and the Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Prize.
Experimenter, Frieze London 2023. Courtesy Linda Nylind/Frieze. Photo: Linda Nylind.
Kolkata gallery Experimenter won the Stand Prize at Frieze London this year.
They were acknowledged for their presentation Do You Know How to Start a Fire, which featured works by seven female artists: Bani Abidi, Bhasha Chakrabarti, Biraaj Dodiya, Reba Hore, Radhika Khimji, Afrah Shafiq, and Ayesha Sultana.
'We are delighted to receive the Frieze Stand Prize, and are grateful to the jury for recognising the nuances and intimate connections between the intergenerational women artists that we present at our stand this year,' said the gallery's co-founders Prateek and Priyanka Raja.
East London's Public Gallery was awarded the Focus Stand Prize for its presentation of works by London-born artist Adam Farah-Saad—the first time the gallery has shown at Frieze. The £5,000 prize goes to a gallery that has opened in the past 12 years.
Special mentions also went to Munich's Nir Altman, Cairo's Gypsum Gallery, and Milan's Clima.
The winner of this year's Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Prize was Jack O'Brien, who caught fairgoers' attention with a plastic-wrapped carriage in the booth of Ginny on Frederick.
Speaking about O'Brien's wrapped objects prior to the fair, gallery founder Freddie Powell said, 'by creating a taught and iridescent skin over the skeleton or scaffolding of the object, Jack unpacks the erotics of restraint and production of desire.'
O'Brien will realise a solo exhibition at Camden Art Centre in 2024.
Camden Art Centre's Director, Martin Clark, said, 'It's only the second time we've made the award to a London-based artist and gallery, and it feels like such an energised time in London at the moment, with so many brilliant new galleries opening and so many exciting young artists living and working here.'
O'Brien said, 'I've always resonated with Camden's considered and experimental programming and [I'm] very excited to start working towards my first institutional solo exhibition there next year as a result of this prize.' —[O]
