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£100,000 of art up for grabs in giveaway

Louise Jury, Chief Arts Correspondent
16 Oct 2009


Free art worth £100,000 will be given away in London this weekend, including a piece by one of the world's most expensive living female artists.

Fifty artists have sent in works, including Bob and Roberta Smith, Harry Pie and Marlene Dumas, who sold a work for £3.1 million at Sotheby's last year.

The giveaway is the conclusion to the last ever Free Art Fair, which is at the Barbican until Sunday.

Organisers, led by founder Jasper Joffe, urge visitors to remember that "art is about more than just money" in a response to the commercial art fair Frieze. Visitors register their first and second art choices with a form, then names are drawn at random on Sunday.

A spokesman said: "We won't tell what's gone till the end because we want people to take something they really love, not just anything they can get."

Meanwhile, another satellite to Frieze has shifted from central London to a series of Victorian industrial buildings in Shoreditch High Street this year.

Zoo 2009, a not-for-profit event for emerging contemporary art, is presenting four shows with 21 stands from commercial and non-commercial organisations. It runs until Monday.

See www.freeartfair.com, www.zooenterprises.com

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