Wimbledon Art Fair runs May 14–17
- Wimbledon Art Fair will return to Wimbledon Art Studios in southwest London from May 14 to 17, opening more than 180 working studios to visitors. - Organizers are pitching the four-day event as free-entry and artist-led, with thousands of works sold directly by makers at 10 Riverside Yard. - The fair runs alongside London’s May art calendar, including Photo London opening the same week. (photolondon.org)
Wimbledon Art Fair will run from Thursday, May 14, to Sunday, May 17, 2026, at Wimbledon Art Studios in southwest London. (wimbledonartfair.com) The fair says more than 180 artists and makers will open their working studios at 10 Riverside Yard, London SW17 0BB, with free entry for visitors. (wimbledonartfair.com 1) (wimbledonartfair.com 2) Unlike a conventional booth fair, the event is built around studio visits, with buyers walking through artists’ actual workspaces and purchasing directly from them. (wimbledonartfair.com) (wimbledonartstudios.co.uk) The organizers say that format removes gallery commission from the transaction and frames the show around original works described as affordable and available across a wide range of budgets. (wimbledonartfair.com) (eventbrite.co.uk) Opening hours are scheduled for 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday, with a launch night from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., then 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. (wimbledonartfair.com 1) (wimbledonartfair.com 2) Visitors are being asked to pre-book free tickets, which the fair says also enter them into a £200 art-spend prize draw and unlock early access to its online Mini-Masterpiece sale. (wimbledonartfair.com) The fair describes itself as artist-led and biannual, hosted within the wider Wimbledon Art Studios community rather than as a standalone commercial fair staged in temporary booths. (eventbrite.co.uk) (wimbledonartstudios.co.uk) For London buyers, the timing places Wimbledon Art Fair in the same mid-May window as Photo London, which is scheduled for May 14 to 17 at Olympia with a VIP preview on May 13. (photolondon.org) That overlap gives collectors two very different routes into the market in the same week: an artist-run open-studios event in SW17 and a major photography fair at a large central London venue. (wimbledonartfair.com) (photolondon.org) Wimbledon’s pitch is straightforward: four days, 180-plus studios, free admission, and direct access to the people making the work. (wimbledonartfair.com)
