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British Council Arts
Image: Minor Incident IV. Artist: Willie Doherty.
Archived Painting and Drawing Projects
These projects have reached the end of their tour and the works in the exhibitions have either been returned to the lenders or now form part of the British Council Collection. Through this archive you can learn more about our past projects that include painting and how they inform our current programme of work.
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Artifice
Image: Artifice.Group exhibition exploring the uncertainty of perception and the status of the artificial as the antithesis of ‘nature’ or ‘truth’ incorporating a variety of media including sound, text, projections and video as well as photography, painting and sculpture.
John Constable
John Constable Study of the trunk of an elm tree (detail), 1821 Major solo exhibition of John Constable, one of the masters of European painting. Selected by one of Britain’s greatest living artists, Lucian Freud.
Double Vision
Exhibition featuring work by fourteen artists selected for the DAAD British Artists' Programme, presenting a cross-generational section of Britain's artistic landscape by artists who have all spent time living and working in Germany. Covers a broad spectrum of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, installation as well as sound and video work.
Happy Outsiders
Exhibition presenting the work of middle and younger generation artists living and working in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee, providing an overview of artists whose work explores the external and internal world in a contemplative or ironic manner.
Gary Hume
A solo exhibition of thirty works showing the development of the artist’s practice over the past decade.
The Fifties
Exhibition of 35 paintings made by 23 British artists over the decade which followed World War II, includes important works by Prunella Clough, Sandra Blow, Terry Frost, Victor Pasmore, Roger Hilton, Barbara Hepworth, Peter Lanyon, Alan Davie, Ben Nicholson, Patrick Heron and Graham Sutherland.
Landscape
Providing an opportunity to examine the enduring interest shown by contemporary British artists in the richness and complexity of the landscape tradition in art, the exhibition incorporates a variety of media including sound, text, projections, video, photography and realist and abstract painting and sculpture.
Tailsliding
Exhibition featuring 12 young British artists currently creating eclectic work within the conventions of painting and sculpture.
Dimensions Variable
Focusing on new developments in British Art, the exhibition demonstrates the depth, variety and diversity of work being made by younger artists in the UK today. The works are drawn from the British Council Collection and include painting, photography, video, sculpture and sound by artists who have made a significant contribution to recent developments in British art.
Francis Bacon
The exhibition focuses on a particular aspect of Bacon's work - his portraits. Many of these are simply heads, shown close-up and stripped of surrounding paraphernalia. Some are of lovers - Peter Lacy and George Dyer; some of friends - Lucian Freud and Michel Leiris.
Bridget Riley Paintings
The artist has herself selected thirty-five paintings, complemented by a large group of over seventy studies and cartoons.  The selection includes  black and white paintings from the 1960s, as well as giving an analysis of the evolution of her work through the decades up to the present day.
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