South Africans exhibit at Moniker Art Fair this weekend

THE ANNUAL Moniker Art Fair takes place at The Old Truman Brewery in the heart of London’s East End this year from 5 – 8 October. The fair, that brings together subcultures within the art world and who introduced Bitcoin as a payment method at the fair in 2015, has been at the forefront of urban contemporary art.

“This is Worldarts’s third year at the Moniker International Art Fair and this high energy fair is a perfect fit for us” says owner Charl Bezuidenhout, whose gallery in Cape Town is synonymous with urban art.

‘’For years we have shipped artworks from our gallery in Cape Town to clients in the UK but were only able to reach those who had been to South Africa. Bringing exhibitions to display in the UK took it to another level, so we are excited to return to the Moniker where two of our artists have found a home from home’’. Cape Town artists Kilmany-Jo Liversage and Norman O’ Flynn have both made great inroads in the South African art scene over the past few years.

Liversage is known for her vast and colourful portraits with a fine art as well as graffiti influence. Her works have been included in collections worldwide and she has been invited to the Venice Biennale.
Liversage comments, “Although Cape Town and London is so vastly different, my work feels at home in both. It’s great to be included in a fair where most of the work is more gritty and explorative”.

O’Flynn will be part of the Moniker for the second year – a fair he now never misses. ‘’Moniker Art Fair is a great place for contemporary artists to take your work to a relevant space where universal themes and issues are explored in a more challenging way,’’ says O’Flynn. He uses a variety of mediums for gritty portraits exploring complicated modern society.

Moniker Art Fair runs from Thursday 5th – Sunday 8th October at The Old Truman Brewery (89 Brick Lane, Shoreditch, London E1 6LQ). For more information, visit www.monikerartfair.com or http://www.worldart.co.za