Last week several Bushwick galleries packed up and took the show on the road across the pond to London for the third annual Sluice Art Fair. The fair, one of the numerous fairs to pop around town for Frieze London week, is a relatively small, independent fair devoted to new and cutting edge contemporary spaces. Among the galleries invited to participate were Bushwick’s own et al Projects, Parallel Art Space, Schema Projects, Theodore: Art, and Wayfarers.

Karl England, one of Sluice’s organizers told us in an email last week, “So much of what Sluice is about is the network of artists, curators and gallerists creating the art world they want to inhabit. Sluice is much more of a collaboration than the standard commercial fair.” He went on to gush about the participating Bushwick galleries, saying “It’s great that so many Bushwick galleries have bought into the Sluice idea of what an art fair can be and shows what a vibrant scene Bushwick has, with a great appreciation of the value of grassroots collaboration.”

Well, Karl, we agree and couldn’t be prouder of Bushwick’s strong representation in the fair.