British painter William Monk is presenting a new series of paintings at Pace Gallery's solo booth at Frieze London 2025. The works, created during a residency at the Neuendorf House in Mallorca, feature obsessive cactus forms and a sentinel figure evolving from his earlier Ferryman series. Monk's studio visit reveals his meticulous process of controlling every detail, with paintings that recall Seurat and Bonnard in their dense, rhythmic brushwork.
The presentation matters because Pace CEO Marc Glimcher explicitly frames Monk's career as a deliberate counterpoint to market volatility, with a policy of 10% price increases every two years and no auction sales. This positions Monk as a case study in sustainable primary-market valuation, resisting the boom-and-bust cycles that have affected other artists. The booth also marks a homecoming for the London-born artist who has built his career in New York over the past decade.