LONDON.- The Art Car Boot Fair celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this year with the launch of an additional event – the Art Cycle Basket Fair.

The Art Cycle Basket Fair will run in an adjacent space to the main fair and involve artists bringing everything they need by bicycle, cargo bike or electric bike and will feature work by the art stars of the future, many of whom have been recommended by Art Car Boot Fair veterans such as Sir Peter Blake, Gavin Turk, Rachel Howard and Mat Collishaw.

Both fairs will take place at Granary Square, King’s Cross, London on Sunday 16 September 2018, 12 – 6pm, on and around the piazza outside Central Saint Martins college of art. The venue has been made possible by the King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership.

All of the artists will be personally pitching up and selling their original, exclusive artworks at astonishing just-for-the-day prices from the back of cars, from stalls and from bicycle panniers, baskets and trailers. The theme of the main fair will be ‘The Cross’.

Santander and Transport for London will be providing three of its de-commissioned Santander Cycles to be dressed for the event by recent graduates of University of the Arts London. Ed Eustace’s bicycle will be sprayed gold and adorned with plaster cast animal-based sculptures including a centrepiece of an octopus emerging from a gramophone, Blake O’Donnell will festoon his bike with artificial flowers, while Iranian-born Nazanin Moradi will decorate hers with vibrantly patterned paint and cloth elements. A Santander spokesperson said: ‘This is a great demonstration of our commitment to helping people and communities prosper. We are delighted to be able to offer our cycles for the event to showcase some really talented young artists.’

Says Karen Ashton, the fair’s founder: ‘The Art Cycle Basket Fair came about because we are embracing a more eco-friendly future and also our Cycle Editions can access a greater range of interesting urban spaces. This new event will celebrate Art on a Bicycle, the Art of the Bicycle and the Bicycle as Art. It seemed a fun way to develop our key ethos of bringing art to the people, and to offer people the chance to snap up an artwork by up-and-coming and emerging artists.’

The event will also launch Art of the DJ, in collaboration with the Black Door Agency, presenting Andy Weatherall, who will be DJ-ing and selling his exclusive 12”s and woodcuts, Justin Robertson, a live DJ show from Kevin Rowland (of Dexys Midnight Runners’ fame), and rounding off with Miranda Sawyer & Lulu Levan.

This year, the Art Car Boot Fair has a new artistic partnership with the ground-breaking social network Vero. Vero is a platform designed with artists and creators in mind and a globally-recognised app after becoming the no.1 social media app in 18 countries earlier this year.

Says Vero co-founder and CEO Ayman Hariri: ‘Providing artists and creators with new ways to connect directly with audiences online in a friendly, ad-free environment without the barriers of algorithms is a big part of what Vero is all about, so we are excited to partner with the Art Car Boot Fair to bring art to the people in such a fun, accessible way.’

Entry price to the main fair is £10.00 for early birds (from 12pm to 3pm), £5.00 from 3pm to 5pm, and free after 5pm.

Entry to the Art Cycle Basket Fair is free with your ticket to the main fair, or £5 standalone, which also gives you entry to the main fair for free after 3pm.