Art world report·London
£1 Claw Machine at Minor Attractions Gives Frieze Week Its Cheapest Shot at Owning Art
Harlesden High Street presents a fairground-style claw machine by Savannah Harris in Room 113 of The Newman hotel during Minor Attractions' fourth edition, where visitors can try to win an artwork or a gemstone by the artist for £1.

Minor Attractions, the hotel-room art fair that has become a fixture of Frieze Week, has moved to a new home for its fourth edition. The fair now occupies 16 rooms across the first floor of The Newman, a hotel in Fitzrovia that opened earlier this year, after three editions at The Mandrake. More than 75 galleries are taking part, with curator Sophie Barrett-Lennard pairing London galleries with visiting international exhibitors and pushing them toward collaborative, experimental room presentations.
Among the pairings, Harlesden High Street — the gallery Barrett-Lennard also directs — is presenting a new installation by Savannah Harris in Room 113 of The Newman at 50 Newman Street. Harris has installed a fairground-style claw machine stocked with special prizes, including artworks by emerging artists and gemstones by the artist herself. Visitors can try their luck for £1, making it arguably the cheapest chance to walk away with art during the week's commercial frenzy.
The presentation runs from 13 to 17 October, 12–8pm daily, alongside the fair's wider programme of 16 room takeovers. Minor Attractions has also launched Major Futures, a non-profit arm supporting emerging practitioners, with its inaugural programme funding three independent presentations during Frieze Week through a charity auction and optional donations on ticket purchases — a response to tightening UK cultural funding.
Harris is known for immersive, economy-minded projects; earlier this year her show 'Gloria's' transformed her own gallery into a functioning coffee-shop-like environment. The claw machine continues that interest in art's social and commercial rituals, placing the mechanics of chance and desire at the centre of a Frieze Week otherwise defined by five-figure transactions.

