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London Art Fair: Platform

Past exhibition
20 - 30 January 2021
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Cabbage Jug and Mugs_circa 1998_Carol McNicoll ©Ruth Ward
Cabbage Jug and Mugs_circa 1998_Carol McNicoll ©Ruth Ward

Each year Platform focuses on a single distinct theme, the section includes galleries presenting well-known, overlooked and emerging artists that align to the theme.

 

At a time when the world is ever changing, curator Candida Stevens presents Folk Art, a view to our cultural heritage, our communities and our identity and how artists who are working in the Folk tradition have chosen to pass on this cultural heritage of knowledge and inspiration.

 

Cultural heritage is unique and irreplaceable, it is an expression of the ways of living, developed over time by a community and passed on from generation to generation. It can include customs, practices, places, objects, artistic expressions and values. The cultural heritage of a community reflects and shapes values, beliefs, and aspirations helping to define people's national identity.

 

With global industrialisation, machines replacing the handmade, cultures all over the world are at risk of losing knowledge, skills and cultural heritage. Artists now working in the folk tradition are expressing the importance of their heritage. Platform explores artists who have revived lost knowledge, developed inherited skills, and sharing inherited legacies. Whilst todays objects may be decorative, once they would have been utilitarian, but the passing on of knowledge remains the same.

 


 

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