British Art Fair
BRITISH ART FAIR 2025
Modern and Contemporary British Art
25 - 28 September
Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York HQ, King’s Road, London SW3 4RY
Hospital Rooms - Time Flies at British Art Fair
Hospital Rooms, the charity transforming mental health hospitals through contemporary art, is British Art Fair’s 2025 Charity Partner. At the fair, they will present a new site-specific installation and launch a limited edition print by British-Indian artist Sutapa Biswas to raise funds for their national programme.
Still from Digital Art School with Sutapa Biswas, My Gathered Star, 2024. Photo © Hospital Rooms (Kim Szalavicz)
Edition on sale from: 25 September 2025 (Collectors' Preview)
Artist signing on: 25 September, 5.30pm-6.30pm
Available online from: 26 September via Hospital Rooms’ website (hospital-rooms.com)
Visitors to British Art Fair 2025 will be invited to step into a unique, immersive installation created by Hospital Rooms - a charity known for radically transforming mental health hospital environments in collaboration with world-class artists. Titled Hospital Rooms - Time Flies, the installation will offer a moment of reflection and calm amid the bustle of the fair. Featuring soft textures, artist studio materials, curated sound and film, the space highlights Hospital Rooms’ approach to co-creation, care and beauty in unexpected settings.
The installation will also celebrate the launch of a new limited edition print by Sutapa Biswas, available for sale throughout the fair, with all proceeds going directly toward Hospital Rooms’ work in NHS mental health services.
About Sutapa Biswas
Hospital Rooms is proud to collaborate with renowned Indian-born, British artist Sutapa Biswas for a special fundraising edition. Sutapa Biswas’ work has, for over forty years, investigated how overarching historical narratives from across the globe collide with the often-undocumented personal stories. Her practice questions the complexities of racial and gendered power relations born out of tangled colonial histories – especially the implacable incursions on daily life resulting from the residual power structures borne out of these histories.
Biswas’s works have been exhibited internationally including at Tate, Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven), The British Museum, ‘Mixed Bathing World 2015’ Triennial (Beppu, Japan), ‘6th Havana Biennial’, Neuberger Museum (New York, USA), Art Gallery of Ontario (Canada), Iniva (London), Whitechapel Gallery (UK), Nara Roesler gallery (São Paulo), Douglas Cooley Gallery (Reed College, USA), The Photographer’s Gallery (UK). Her artworks are in public collections including Tate, UK Government Art Collection, Arts Council England, Reed Gallery (USA), Graves Gallery, Sheffield Museums and Galleries (UK), and Cartwright Hall, Bradford Museum and Art Gallery (UK).
Sutapa Biswas first collaborated with Hospital Rooms on a project at Garnet Ward (2017), a mental health unit for older people in North London, and Springfield Hospital in South West London (2022). She has also led two Digital Art School workshops, designed for people in inpatient mental health units across the country to take part in.
The edition will launch at British Art Fair during the Collectors’ Preview (25 September). VIP guests and Hospital Rooms’ Patrons and Friends will receive priority access, with the editions made available to the wider public via Hospital Rooms’ website from Day 2 of the fair. Sutapa Biswas will sign the works in person at the fair on Thursday 25 September at 5.30pm.
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NOTES TO EDITORS
Ramsay Fairs
British Art Fair is owned by Ramsay Fairs. In 2024 the company, which runs 20 fairs worldwide, celebrated its 25th anniversary. Affordable Art Fairs can now be found in 15 cities including Amsterdam, Berlin, Brisbane, Brussels, Hamburg, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, New York and Singapore. VOLTA Art Fair takes place annually in Basel. With over 250,000 visitors a year, Ramsay Fairs has earned a global reputation for hosting stylish art fairs at all levels of the market, as well for introducing art to generations of collectors.
The 2025 British Art Fair Team
British Art Fair Co-Founder, Gay Hutson, and Will Ramsay CEO, Ramsay Fairs, are advised by a committee which includes dealers: Jamie Anderson, Jenna Burlingham, Colin Gleadell, Zavier Ellis, James Hyman, Peter Osborne and Richard Selby. The fair also has a vetting committee to authenticate the works shown.
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British Art Fair 2025 Associate Partner: Riverstone Living
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British Art Fair 2025 Collectors’ Preview Partner: Plowden & Smith
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Saatchi Gallery
Since 1985, Saatchi Gallery has provided an innovative platform for contemporary art. Exhibitions have presented works by largely unseen young artists, or by international artists whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK. This approach has made the Gallery one of the most recognised names in contemporary art. Since moving to its current 70,000 square feet space in the Duke of York’s Headquarters in Chelsea, London, the Gallery has welcomed over 10 million visitors. The Gallery hosts thousands of school visits annually and has over 6 million followers on social media. In 2019 Saatchi Gallery became a registered charity, beginning a new chapter in its history.
www.saatchigallery.com Registered Charity Number: 1182328
BRITISH ART FAIR
Modern and Contemporary British Art
25 - 28 September 2025
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Collectors' Preview, Thursday 25 September, 11am– 9pm
Friday 26 September, 11am – 9pm
Saturday 27 September, 11am – 7pm
Sunday 28 September, 11am – 5pm
Last entry is half an hour before the fair is due to close.
Ticketing
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Collectors’ Preview - £60
General Admission - £25
Concessions - £22
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