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It’s not long to wait until the other season but first we get to enjoy all the art fairs that October has to offer…it may even be an opportunity to pick up some great gifts for the loved ones in your life. Art is not limited to London: it’s everywhere, and so are art fairs, take a look at the top ten that caught our eye in the list below. If you want to build your own list, take a look at the Art Fair Service or Artforum calendars. STROKE, 4th-8th October, Munich Promoting ‘a fresh new approach on art, design and the urban lifestyle’. STROKE aims to fight the separation between ‘high’ and ‘low’ art by celebrating the creative influence of art, design, music or fashion on each other. Artist will be present throughout the fair where visitors can watch them work on murals, within exhibition booths and sketching on paper. The Other Art Fair, 5th-8th October, London All about artists representing themselves and selling their own work, The Other Art Fair is presented by Saatchi Art. Each contemporary artist at the show has been chosen by a committee of art industry experts, artworks to suit for all budgets will be available to purchase directly form the artists. Supporting the programme of exhibitors will be a program of events including guest artist appearances,, interactive theatre performances and live music. Moniker Art Fair, 5th-8th October, London Returning for its 8th edition Moniker celebrates urban contemporary art, bringing together international artists, galleries, collectors and art lovers. If you live in an E1, E2, EC1, EC2 or N1 postcode area, make sure to take proof of address and you can get a free print by Mr. Frivolous [...]

Innova Art, the award-winning digital media specialist, is sponsoring two inspiring projects at the Moniker Art Fair, The Old Truman Brewery, London E1, 5–8 October 2017. The US mixed media artist Ian Kuali’i , a Moniker Art Fair Featured Artist, has created one of his signature, handcut paper installations especially for the fair. Kuali’i, whose approach is based on “the meditative process of destroying to create”, will be encouraging visitors around and inside his immersive paper sculpture, a work that, as always, draws as much on his ancestral ties to the indigenous people of the Southwest United States and Hawai’i, and his interest in occult symbolism, mysticism and global politics, as the Hip Hop music and art scene that first fired him up as an artist. In a 2016 interview, Kuali’i explained the evolution of his approach: "From graffiti writing, I wanted to simplify the process. I found stencilling through that. I ended up just appreciating the cut more than spraying… It’s a super challenging engineering approach from the standard stencil cutting way." "When you start looking at more of the motion of how some of the cut paper flows and the construction of it — or deconstruction, rather — you start seeing the basic motion of letter form from graffiti. You start seeing the motion of something in passing from pushing a skateboard. There’s a whisper of an old pattern from an Eddie Reategui mini-deck. Even with the cut elements, there’s power."1 In another exciting move, Innova Art is also sponsoring the ‘Postcode Print Release’ project, offering local residents their own very special take-out from the fair: a free print. The image will be provided by the brilliantly witty Mr Frivolous – “an artist [...]