Zoo Art Fair Zoo Art Fair Zoo Art Fair was a London-based non-profit art fair held annually in October. The event got its name from its first venue, the London Zoo in Regent's Park, and it "established a reputation for showcasing new and innovative contemporary British art". According to Kit Hammonds, a lecturer at the Royal College of Art, in London, the event was "doing something quite interesting", but later "lost its viability" due to competition from the Frieze Art Fair. The last Zoo Art Fair was held in 2009. The fifth Zoo Art Fair was held from 17–20 October 2008 at Royal
Free Art Fair for free in three empty shop spaces in Portman Village, near Marble Arch, London. It was described as the "most radical departure from art fair commercialism" that year. Taking place in October at the same time as the Frieze Art Fair it was written about as an alternative asking questions of the market driven art fairs. In 2008 the fair took place again near Marble Arch. It was reported that £100,000 of art was given away with people queuing up for two nights to get artwork by artists including Gavin Turk and Stella Vine. In 2009 the fair moved to