It’s that time of the year again when the luscious green scenery of London’s Regent’s Park will be adorned with the most magnificent works of modern and contemporary art in the form of outdoor sculptures by a phenomenal cast of international artists and unlike the lockdown days, everyone will freely access and revel in this artistically transformed spectacle.

One of the Autumn Art calendar highlights, Frieze Sculpture Park is a free-to-enter outdoor celebration of some of the world’s best sculptors and for visitors and tourists, it’s like visiting a major museum exhibition, but free and in the rain! 

This year’s exhibition will be open on the 14th of September and will run till the 31st of October. This year’s edition is set to bring together works of international artists including giants of modern art history like Anthony Caro and Isamu Noguchi alongside contemporary sculptors such as Annie Morris, Vanessa da Silva, Rasheed Araeen, Daniel Arsham, Gisela Colón, José Pedro Croft, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Stoyan Dechev, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Divya Mehra, Annie Morris, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Solange Pessoa, Tatiana Wolska, Rose Wylie, and Yunizar.

With works that pique the interest of any art enthusiast and exploring a wide range of themes in the arts such as architecture, geopolitical power structures, and environmental concerns, the selection of works for this year’s Frieze Sculpture Park is curated for the ninth time by Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Claire Lilley. In addition, Serpentine will present Counterspace, marking the first time a public institution has participated in Frieze Sculpture.

The exhibition will also foreground color, with sculptures by Rose Wylie, José Pedro Croft, and Carlos Cruz-Diez, alongside works by Rasheed Araeen, Gisela Colón, and Annie Morris that extend minimal and abstract sculptural vocabularies.

“Each Frieze Sculpture installation brings such a different picture of sculptural practice and it’s heartening that this year is especially global, including artists who herald from South America, South and North Africa, Indonesia, Pakistan, the USA and Canada, and from across Europe. Although the artists span three generations, I see exciting sculptural conversations across time and geography and while many sculptures here relate to social and environmental concerns, there is much-heightened color and dextrous handling of material, resulting in an overall sense that is celebratory. As we learn to live with the pandemic and emerge into public spaces, Frieze Sculpture 2021 allows people to come together in safety and with pleasure and is a tonic for the mind, body, and soul,” says Clare Lilley, Curator of Frieze Sculpture.

The sculpture park fair coincides with the return of London’s biggest annual art fairs, Frieze and Frieze Masters, taking place from the 13th to 17th of October, making the Autumn art schedule exciting enough to feel like we’re almost back to normal.