13 February 2026
Philip Smith
Since its founding in 2011, The Other Art Fair has championed emerging artists, offering an accessible platform that sits outside the conventional gallery system. While the atmosphere is lively and engaging, the work on view is every bit as considered as that encountered in established gallery spaces.
This March, from a strong and varied line-up, we’re highlighting ten artists that we are particularly excited about.
Illustrated: Fragments of Home by Laura Mila
Hyun Yoon is a London-based abstract artist from South Korea. A recent winner of the Pastel Award in Jackson’s Art Prize, her abstract work has a strong sense of space and structure, revealing more the longer you look.
Originally working as a product designer, Yoon shifted her focus during the pandemic towards fine art, allowing a more personal means of expression. Her foundation in design remains clear in her work: there is structure and balance, but also a greater sense of openness and experimentation.
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Jessie is a Bristol-based abstract artist whose bold use of colour and texture scream fun. She works instinctively, building compositions through contrast, texture and movement, creating paintings that feel vibrant, alive and hugely appealing to a contemporary collector.
Her works are numbered rather than titled, allowing viewers to respond instinctively without being guided by language. Jessie’s work isn’t only for minimal, white-led interiors. Bold abstraction can actually lift a layered, characterful room.
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Gabriella’s work centres on the human figure, focusing on small gestures and expressions that feel like glimpses into someone’s private world. Drawing inspiration from her travels, she builds atmosphere through colour and light rather than heavy symbolism. The result is work that feels personal and thoughtful without becoming sentimental.
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Robert Kerr came to painting after years working as a photographer, and that background still shapes his work. His paintings have a strong sense of light and composition, but they’re looser and more expressive than a photograph.
Now based in New Zealand, he works on large canvases using oils, acrylics and resin, often painting vivid tropical landscapes. Colour plays a big role, bold greens, deep blues, flashes of gold, capturing the energy of rainforest light. These are paintings that would sit comfortably in a light-filled contemporary space, somewhere with clean lines and room to command attention.
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Originally from Colombia and now based in London, Laura Mila paints large-scale abstractions shaped by memory and contrast. Soft pinks and pastels form the base of her compositions, interrupted by flashes of red, blue and orange, with darker passages that hint at more complex histories.
What makes the work particularly compelling is her use of gold leaf. It catches and shifts with natural light, giving the surface depth and warmth, something that works beautifully in a considered interior. These are paintings that bring energy to a room without overpowering it, from nursery to living space.
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Ewen Macaulay’s work moves confidently between bold colour and fine line. Best known for his large, expressive landscapes and cityscapes, he also produces breathtaking ink and pen drawings, detailed panoramas that combine precision with energy. In pieces like his panoramic drawing of London, the strength of line and sense of space create a vivid, almost cinematic sweep of city life.
In a spacious, light-filled interior, a double-height hallway, a study or a main living room, his work would bring both scale and narrative.
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Amongst her other work, Sarah Beth Lundblad paints recognisable urban scenes - streets, canal paths and city buildings - but captures them in a way that feels personal rather than documentary. Whether it’s King’s Cross or a familiar stretch of London architecture, her art allows a snapshot of an ever-changing city, focusing on how a place feels at a particular moment.
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Andrew Hunt is a figurative painter based in Sheffield whose work centres on recognisable characters and moments from modern British life. His figures feel familiar, people you might pass on the street or glimpse across a pub or café, caught mid-thought or mid-conversation. These are paintings that reward time. In a characterful home, perhaps a dining room, snug or study, they would add personality and conversation, grounding a space in something distinctly contemporary and recognisably British.
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Filippa was born in Gothenburg but now is based in London. She brings a strong sense of nature into her abstract workand her background in fashion design shows in her instinct for texture, colour and composition.
Her paintings are layered and tactile, often incorporating natural materials she’s gathered on her travels. Growing up surrounded by Swedish woodland clearly left its mark: nature isn’t just a theme in her work, it’s embedded in the materials and the mood.
That same eye carries through to her Instagram. It doesn’t feel promotional; it feels like an extension of her studio. The colours, materials and small details all sit comfortably alongside the finished works, giving a clearer sense of how and why she makes what she does.
In a calm, considered interior, perhaps a Scandinavian-inspired space with natural wood, linen and light, her paintings would feel completely at home adding warmth and texture without overpowering.
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There’s something disarming about seeing a table tennis bat turned into an artwork. Art of Ping Pong plays with that familiarity, inviting people to look again at a simple object and see it differently. By bringing together art, design and play, it weaves creativity into everyday spaces in a way that feels natural rather than forced.
At The Other Art Fair, it stands out because it invites interaction, this is art you can play with, not just observe. In a home or office, these creative works of art would add masses of personality and conversation. A ping pong table in the boardroom? Yes please.
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The Other Art Fair runs from 05 - 08 March at The Truman Brewery, E1 6QR in London and showcases the work of over 175 local and international artists. Book tickets on their website.
"In my abstract work, I explore identity shaped by displacement and resilience. Leaving my native Colombia due to conflict and war profoundly marked my childhood, my art becomes a space where I navigate the emotional terrain of leaving a homeland and forging a new one."
