Frieze 2025 Highlights
Frieze London is a lively destination for discovering contemporary art in London’s Regents Park. This year, Alexia Sheinman, our Chief Strategy and Brand Officer, was in attendance to peruse the fair’s 168 galleries from 43 countries. Among the many works on display – both from famed and emerging artists – Alexia shares some of her highlights from this year’s event below.
William Wright, “Still Life with Coffee Pot”, 2023-24 at Josh Lilley
Wright’s work is rooted in the objects that populate his domestic and studio life; mundane items such as coffee pots, glasses, or books become almost archetypal in his economy of line and carefully observed surfaces. In this still-life, the coffee pot stands nearly alone, distilled to its essential form, inviting reflection on time, ritual, and the quietly familiar.
Keith Tyson, “The Garden of Babel”, 2025 at Hauser & Wirth
Tyson engages with broad systems, scientific, mathematical, and mythological, in his painting practice. The title evokes the Biblical tower of Babel, suggesting a convergence of voices, languages, and complexity.
Romeo Mivekannin, “Morning in a City after Hopper”, 2025 at Southern Guild
Mivekannin uses black-velvet supports and consciously references both art-historical precedents and colonial legacies. “In Morning in a City after Hopper,” a cityscape evoking Edward Hopper is re-imagined through a tinted velvety ground, the hush of dawn infused with layered cultural memory and a subtle critique of Western pictorial gaze.
Daniel Crews-Chubb, “Guardian II” (Teal and Pink), 2025 at Timothy Taylor
Crews-Chubb’s new Guardian series introduces large‐scale sculptural figures formed from found wood, plaster, and paint. In this version, the teal and pink palette softens the imposing form. Yet, its textured surface and impasto gestures lend it a weathered presence.
Sarah Ball, “Emma F”, 2025 at Stephen Friedman Gallery
Ball’s portrait operates at the intersection of identity and performance. “Emma F” pays homage to fellow artist Emma Finema; The full-scale painting presents the subject seated with unmistakable poise, rendered in oil on canvas. The green bow and precise brushwork elevate the sitter’s composed stature into a thoughtful inquiry on how we choose to be seen.
Lola Stong-Brett, “In My Dreams, You Asked Me to Dance”, 2025 at Carl Freedman Gallery
Stong-Brett’s sweeping oil on canvas captures a dream-like scene of motion and invitation, figures drifting and intertwining amid flowing gestures and layered hues, evoking a gentle beckoning and a fleeting moment of connection.