INTROE explored Frieze London and Frieze Sculpture, moving from artist interviews in Regent’s Park to the galleries inside the fair and independent spaces across the city.
The fair brings an international crowd of artists, gallerists, collectors and visitors to a large white tent in Regent’s Park. Beyond it, outdoor sculpture and gallery exhibitions extend the week’s activity across London.
Frieze Sculpture
In Regent’s Park’s English Gardens, Frieze Sculpture brings together work by 11 international artists. Curated by Fatoş Üstek, the free outdoor exhibition runs until 1 November 2026.
Catriona Robertson: WYRM
While exploring the gardens, we were fortunate to speak with two of the featured artists about their work. One was Catriona Robertson, an artist and sculptor based in London, who told us about her large sculpture WYRM presented by Muse Gallery. A burrowing worm constructed from reclaimed materials and corrugated metal, it reimagines the relationship between art, urban waste and our connection to the land. The idea came from a concern for the environment and a desire to unearth the truth that lies beneath human activity and the waste we leave behind.
“I’m interested in the ideas of urban geology and future fossils, and how we are affecting and disrupting ecologies with human activity.”
Regent’s Park feels like a natural habitat for WYRM. Catriona added that the sculpture is designed to weather with the elements, embracing its natural charm.
“I feel it’s a sculpture that belongs outside, enjoying the elements.”
Watch Catriona Robertson's full interview
Matyáš Chochola: Concrete, History and Future Forms
Our second conversation was with Czech artist Matyáš Chochola, who brings three monumental sculptures to Frieze Sculpture: MACE II, METEOR and BRUTALIST, presented by The Chemistry Gallery. Part of his series of twelve works Virtues and Vices of Our Time: 300 Years Later, they reimagine Matthias Bernard Braun’s Baroque allegories, carved in the early 1700s for the Kuks estate in eastern Bohemia.
“There was a baroque castle full of baroque sculptures, which were figurative allegories of virtues and vices... I had to recreate them in a more abstract way, in the version of current contemporary society.”
Where Braun’s figures belonged to a shared moral order, Chochola’s emerge from a world without one. Made with Czech company Voxell, they were 3D concrete printed with deliberate glitches, then finished by hand with glass, bronze and brass. Each stands three to four metres tall.
“I had the aim to touch correlations of future and historical themes, so they will lead us to some otherworldly gap in between of time, a presence, future and past, so we can see them as mementos of some different era which may be already disappearing, or maybe just coming.”
Watch Matyáš Chochola's full interview
Inside Frieze London
After exploring the English Gardens, we headed inside Frieze London. The fair’s sections ranged from Focus, which supports young galleries and emerging artists, to Artist-to-Artist and the main Galleries section, bringing together contemporary art from around the world.
Attending on the VIP day, we watched gallerists, dealers and collectors meet around the work. The fair has now closed, but the artists and galleries continue their programmes beyond Frieze week.
Beyond the Tent
Across London, independent galleries also marked Frieze with their own exhibitions. We spoke with Soup Gallery’s director Hector Campbell, who jointly owns the gallery, about Communication Breakdown by Kyvèli Zoi, which ran until 24 October, and with Anna Sebastian about her solo exhibition The Same Dust at IMT Gallery.
IMT has confirmed that The Same Dust has been extended until 15 November 2026. Read both conversations in ANTI-FRIEZE: Where Community, Not Deals, Defines Art.
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