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You still have a month to save up $500 for an addition to your art collection — existent or not.
That amount can get you an artwork by one of 50 local artists (including Terence Tan, Diana Francis, José Sintnicolaas and Shen Jiaqi) participating in Affordable Art Fair’s SG50 Feature Wall. The international art fair, which started in London in 1999 and held in several cosmopolitan cities, has been in Singapore since 2010. It became a bi-annual event in 2014 and this is the second time a Spring edition will be held.
Though targeted towards first-time collectors, expect to jostle with eagle-eyed art addicts who know a good bargain when they see one. Prices range from $100 to $10,000. As of press time, around 47 particpating galleries are from Asia, and some 22 galleries are from the rest of the world.
There is also a Live Artists’ Studios that gives visitors a glimpse of a visual artist’s creative process, as well as a Childrens’ Art Studio. An “AAFter Glow” night on Friday is a chance to unwind in the company of paintings. Affordable Art Fair is on 17-19 April at F1 Pit Building.
Yours for S$3400 — “Queenie” by Leila Jeffreys, photographic fine print in a series of 50.
