Frieze Art Fair Frieze Art Fair Frieze Art Fair is an international contemporary art fair in London and New York. It takes place every October in London's Regent's Park and since 2014, has also been running on New York's Randall's Island. The fair is staged by Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, the publishers of "frieze" magazine. Frieze Art Fair features more than 170 contemporary art galleries, and the fair also includes specially commissioned artists’ projects, a talks programme and an artist-led education schedule. Although staged for the purpose of selling work, the fair has become a cultural entertainment event and out of its
David Thorp of George Bush's home state that won him the £25,000 Turner prize. Thorp was Curator of the annual Outdoor Sculpture Park for the Frieze Art Fair in London from 2005 to 2011, selecting and exhibiting up to twenty large outdoor sculptures from an international submission. From June 2009 to March 2011 Thorp oversaw a period of transition at the ICA, London. He became the Interim Head of Programme while the process of appointing a new Director was underway. As well as supervising the exhibition and cinema programme he reinstated Live Art as a central part of the ICA's activities. From