London’s Art Fair Week: The Future Can Wait

Following last year’s exceptionally successful debut, The Future Can Wait returns once again to a new location at the Old Truman Brewery. From Wednesday it will showcase more than 50 key artists in a museum-scale exhibition that injects new energy into Britain’s biggest artworld week by offering an alternative to the art fair formula.

Conciding with the high-profile Frieze Art Fair in Regent’s Park, The Future Can Wait profiles an exciting spectrum of names to watch, from Gavin Nolan, Gayle Chong Kwan and Piers Secunda, to rising stars Sam & Luke Jackson and Alexander Hoda.

Showing across 22,000 square feet of The Old Truman Brewery the artists known loosely as The New London School will work across a variety of mediums including painting, video, sculpture and performance.

It is the specifically curatorial emphasis of The Future Can Wait that sets it apart from the traditional art fair model, as well as the platform it provides for emerging and mid-career artists to engage directly with collectors and the art-going public.

Curators Zavier Ellis and Simon Rumley have spent the last year rolling out the concept internationally, showing members of The New London School in Europe and North America. With their proven eye for spotting future greats, Ellis and Rumley’s new edition of The Future Can Wait 2008 is certainly one to watch.

Images © Hugh Mendes, Tim Ellis & Alex Gene Morrison, courtesy of The Future Can Wait www.thefuturecanwait.com

The Future Can Wait
Old Truman Brewery
81 Brick Lane
E1 6QL

11am – 6pm, 15 – 19 October 2008