Arts Council Collection acquires works at Frieze from four U.K. artists.
Julianknxx, Tanoa Sasraku, Anne Tallentire, and Mark Corfield-Moore at Frieze London © Belinda Lawley. Courtesy of Frieze London.
At Frieze London, the Arts Council Collection has acquired pieces from four emerging U.K.-based artists through a newly established fund to cultivate and curate work from early career artists. This year’s inaugural selection includes Julianknxx, Anne Tallentire, Mark Corfield-Moore, and Tanoa Sasraku.
The new Acquisition fund, supported by patrons such as Zelie Walker-Noble, Tala Cingillioglu, Suling C. Mead, and the Thornton family, is valued at approximately £40,000 ($49,000).
Among the artists selected is Julianknxx, the Sierra Leonean artist recently noted for his moving image installation “Chorus in Rememory of Flights” (2023), which documents untold stories from the Black diaspora and is open now at the Barbican in London. The Arts Council Collection acquired the artist’s new film, Black Room (2023).
Known for her cross-medium “terratypes,” Tanoa Sasraku presented Jacket Front R (2023) at Frieze’s Focus section, which also caught the attention of the council’s collection committee. The artwork, representative of the artist’s practice, comprises foraged Cornish and Ghanian earth pigments, chalk, thread, seawater, and newspaper to create an amalgamation of materials and cultures.
Anne Tallentire has been living and working in London since 1984, and is currently professor in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College. Her sculpture These Aggregations 2 (2000), featuring pink, brown, and yellow colored planks placed against a wall, has now been incorporated into the Arts Council Collection.
Additionally, the Arts Council Collection acquired Mark Corfield-Moore’s Gilded (2023), a painting of a golden gate on woven textiles. Earlier this year, Corfield-Moore was shortlisted for the John Moore Painting Prize.
Correction: A previous version of this article featured the wrong spelling of Tanoa Sasraku.