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The Painting Show

The Painting Show
Library Shelf Location 20.YOUN
Publication Date 2016
Description

This exhibition presents a selection of recent works by fifteen British artists who demonstrate the richness and vigour of contemporary painting in the UK. Featuring new acquisitions to the British Council Collection, alongside generous loan works, The Painting Show presents work by Merlin Carpenter, Stuart Cumberland, Dexter Dalwood, Kaye Donachie, Michael Fullerton, Celia Hempton, Morag Keil, Fiona MacKay, Lucy McKenzie, Dawn Mellor, Alan Michael, Michael Simpson, Sue Tompkins, Neal Jones and Pádraig Timoney.

The artists included in this exhibition have been selected because of the different ways in which they can be perceived as manipulating their own individual status as a painter. Be it by denying the romanticism imposed upon the act of painting, aping historical styles to communicate personal agendas, aggravating the museum collection by inserting subversive figures or rejecting and manipulating the male gaze.

This text is published on the occasion of a British Council Touring Exhibition “The Painting Show”, inaugurated at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius. Lithuania (22nd January – 7th March 2016)

ISBN 9780863557798
Quantity 1
Pages 154
Authors Richard Riley, J P Stonard, Linsey Young
Format Paperback
Publisher British Council
Related Artists Merlin Carpenter, Stuart Cumberland, Dexter Dalwood, Kaye Donachie, Michael Fullerton, Celia Hempton, Neal Jones, Morag Keil, Fiona Mackay, Lucy McKenzie, Dawn Mellor, Alan Michael, Michael Simpson, Padraig Timoney, Sue Tompkins
Category Painting
Language English

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