Ocula Magazine: What Are Galleries Bringing to Frieze London 2023?

Tanoa Sasraku, Pocket L (2023). Newsprint, foraged Ghanaian earth pigment, digital pigment print, tailor's chalk, fixative spray, thread, St Ives seawater. 57.5 x 57.5 x 4.5 cm (22 5/8 x 22 5/8 x 1 3/4 ins). Photo: Jack Elliot Edwards. © Tanoa Sasraku. Courtesy the artist and Vardaxoglou Gallery, London.

Sam Gaskin
Ocula Magazine
Thursday 5 October 2023

Owners and directors of six leading galleries share highlights of their booths ahead of Frieze London, which runs from 11 to 15 October.

Alex Vardaxoglou, Founder of Vardaxoglou Gallery, London:

In my gallery's first art fair presentation I am excited to show Tanoa Sasraku's newest 'Terratypes', a body of work which draws on the artist's personal and historical connection to the British landscape.

Tanoa Sasraku's Terratypes are unique, sculptural hybrids of painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, and textiles.

These particular works include minerals Tanoa foraged in spring 2023 from coastal Ghana, the homeland of her late father who worked there as a couturier.

Informed by her experience of his death when she was a teenager growing up in the West Country, the artist here fuses together red iron earth pigments, foraged from mining regions of both Ghana and Cornwall, whilst using garment patterns to re-imagine her father's body via the tools of his trade.”