For Frieze London 2025, the art world descended on the capital’s much-loved Regent’s Park — a moment to celebrate contemporary art in its myriad forms. From established names to new and emerging figures, Frieze offered an immersive snapshot of modern art’s vast landscape — a celebration of cutting-edge, globe-spanning creativity.

We joined curator and author Gemma Rolls-Bentley inside the tent, where she took us through a selection of some of her highlights of the fair, from Turner Prize award nominated artists to those challenging the perception of trans women throughout history.

Ebun Sodipo, You Cannot Destroy Me, Soft Opening

Ebun Sodipo is a British-Nigerian artist who uses research, excavation and storytelling to subvert notions of race and gender, as defined by history and its images. For Frieze 2025, she presented You Cannot Destroy Me alongside Soft Opening, a presentation consisting of collages that reconstruct and reinterpret social and art history, restoring neglected historical figures as a way of plotting pathways for trans futures. The sculptures were bronze casts of the hands of the artist’s close community, referencing stories of historic Kenyan figures called the Mugwe, who were said to take husbands and wear women’s clothes, representing the precursors of modern trans women.

Sarah Ball, Stephen Friedman Gallery

Sarah Ball is a Cornwall-based artist who explores modes of self-expression through the genre of portraiture. Her presentation at Frieze London, in partnership with the Stephen Friedman Gallery, brought together large and small-scale paintings alongside a series of 20 works on paper. The “beautiful and quite haunting portraits”, as described by Gemma Rolls-Bentley, represent a sensitive exploration of the human condition and how it is outwardly conveyed through clothes, hairstyles, jewellery and make-up.

Nnena Kalu, Arcadia Missa

Glasgow-born, London-based Nnena Kalu is an artist whose work is rooted in two-dimensional sculptures and installations, where she binds, layers and wraps materials to explore space, scale and materiality. Her presentation at Frieze London alongside Arcadia Missa saw the artist present a series of drawings — vibrant, swirling, joyous vortexes that immerse and mesmerise. Much like her sculptural work, the drawings represent an exploration of a continuous line, of shifting and ever-evolving forms. Nnena is also one of the four artists who has been nominated for this year’s Turner Prize, the most prestigious art award in the UK.