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Wardill, Emily
Born Winged Animals and Honey Gatherers of the Soul
2006
Wearing, Gillian
60 Minutes Silence
1996
Hart, Emma
Fork Face
2017
Hatoum, Mona
+ and -
1994
Hockney, David
We Two Boys Together Clinging
1961
Shonibare, MBE, Yinka
The Crowning
2007
Cragg, Tony
New Stones - Newton's Tones
1978
Hiorns, Roger
Nunhead
2004
Bell, Graham
Baylham Mill
1940
Caro, Anthony
Slow Movement
1965
Mellors, Nathaniel
Hippy Dialectics
2010
Boyce, Sonia
Lay back, keep quiet and think of what made Britain so great
1986
Anderson, Hurvin
Is it okay to be black?
2016
Perry, Grayson
Spirit Jar
1994
Paterson, Katie
Totality
2015
Freud, Lucian
Girl in a Green Dress
1954
Hodgkin, Howard
Indian Room, from 5 Rooms
1968
Perry, Grayson
Expulsion from Number 8 Eden Close
2012
Ofili, Chris
Popcorn Shells
1995
Riley, Bridget
Movement in Squares
1961
Warren, Rebecca
Regine
2007
Hepworth, Barbara
Icon
1957
Lucas, Sarah
Self Portrait with Fried Eggs (from Self Portraits series 1990-98)
1996
Bacon, Francis
Head VI
1949
Tillmans, Wolfgang
Gedser
2004
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Applications Now Open for the National Partners Programme 2019-22
9 Oct 2018
Following the success of the first Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme, we are seeking three new regional partners to form a network of galleries and museums to present and curate exhibitions over a three-year period drawn from the Arts Council Collection.
The National Partners Programme was launched in 2016 to mark the 70th anniversary of the Collection, which is the most widely circulated national loan collection of modern and contemporary British art in the world. Our works are loaned out to a wide range of exhibitions across England and...
The Arts Council Collection is the UK's most widely seen collection of modern and contemporary art.
With nearly 8,000 works by over 2,000 artists, it can be seen in exhibitions and public displays across the country and beyondThis website offers unprecedented access to the Collection, and information about each work can be found on this site.