5 unmissable artworks you can see for free at Frieze Sculpture 2026

Every autumn, the Frieze art fair takes over Regent’s Park in central London, bringing with it the crème de la crème of the art world. But with tickets to the fair costing upwards of £100, its punters are mostly the all-black-wearing, unusual-haircut-sporting industry elites who can actually afford the pieces on offer.

But that’s why Frieze Sculpture is so great. The annual exhibition is staged in the open air of Regent’s Park and is totally free to visit, meaning us regular folk can still get a slice of the arty pie. 

Curated by London-based curator and writer Fatoş Üstek, this year the display is designed as a web of interconnected objects, linked together by materials, stories and communities, under the loose theme of ‘hybridity’. We went along to have a look. Here are the five best sculptures we saw. 

The 5 best sculptures at Frieze London 2026

1. ‘Dreams and Salt’, Angel Otero

There’s something of both The Truman Show and Monsters Inc to this intriguing azure door poking up out of the ground. Behind the open door, steps – either an entrance or an exit, depending on your interpretation – lead into a dark void beneath the earth. According to Otero, the sculpture is emblematic of migration, representing the emotional distance that grows between a person and their homeland. 

2. ‘Warrior Figure’, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran

Quite the jaunty little fellow, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran’s two-metre-tall figure has golden shells for its nipples, clay pots rising from its shoulders and appears to have a septum piercing. Drawing on South Asian artistic tradition, Warrior Figure has two faces. It was built in wet clay and cast in bronze using an ancient wax technique. 

3. ‘Eye of the Needle’, Conrad Shawcross

This is an artwork you could stare at for hours. Conrad Shawcross’s mesmerising elliptical monolith is made from perforated anodised aluminium. Inspired by the concept of deep time and cosmic geometry, looking through this piece’s awesome hexagonal tessellations feels like being hypnotised. 

4. ‘Black Palm’, Douglas White

This towering seven-metre-tall palm tree is intimidating in its stature. Crafted from reclaimed steel and tyres sourced from roadsides in Central America, it’s hard not to think of forest fires when looking at its blackened exterior and ragged tyre-palm leaves. 

5. ‘Wyrm’, Catriona Robertson

Appearing like a giant worm bursting from the soil, Catriona Robertson’s sculpture is crafted from reclaimed plywood, timber and corrugated iron and has a childlike playfulness to it. By using discarded urban materials, Robertson’s work directly references the changing city landscape. 

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