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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/the-atkinson-one-day-something-h
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SUMMARY:The Atkinson: The Atkinson: One Day\, Something Happens: Paintings 
 of People
DESCRIPTION:One Day\, Something Happens: Paintings of People\n\nA Hayward T
 ouring and Arts Council Collection exhibition\, curated by Jennifer\nHiggi
 e\n\nSaturday 20 February 2016 - Sunday 22 May 2016\n\nA new Arts Council 
 Collection exhibition of paintings of the figure is being exhibited at The
  Atkinson\, Southport in February\, curated by Jennifer Higgie\, co-editor
  of frieze magazine.\n\nThis exhibition reflects a personal view of a peri
 od of radical change in art\, from Jennifer Higgie\, who herself studied p
 ainting. We can see in many of the paintings the art historical influences
  felt by the artists but this unique touring exhibition primarily captures
  stories and snapshots of lives past and present. The paintings also conve
 y the theatricality of painting. By choosing work by the well-known and no
 t so well known\, the exhibition uses the Arts Council Collection to tell 
 a wider story of the twists and turns of British figurative painting over 
 the past century.\n\nThe paintings range from some of the very earliest by
  date in the Arts Council Collection\, such as the study of a woman by Wal
 ter Sickert (1906) including those and by artists as diverse as Robert Col
 quhoun (Seated Woman and Cat\, 1946)\, Prunella Clough (Lowestoft Harbour\
 , 1951)\, and the Pop artists Richard Hamilton and David Hockney\, who wor
 ked from the 1960s. The present is represented by a group of figurative wo
 rks by contemporary artists including Enrico David\, Michael Fullerton\, D
 avid Noonan\, Renee So\, Martin Westwood and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.\n\nJen
 nifer Higgie said:\n“What a privilege it was to be asked to curate an ex
 hibition from the Arts Council Collection. Spending time immersed in this 
 extraordinary group of over 2000 paintings has been a joy. This exhibition
  took shape organically: I realised that the pictures that particularly at
 tracted me all evoke something theatrical\, in the broadest sense of the w
 ord\; they also hint at some kind of narrative and their gestures – howe
 ver small – are always significant. These wonderful paintings of people 
 also offer a decidedly idiosyncratic snapshot of over a hundred years of l
 ife in Britain.”\n\nJill Constantine\, Head of the Arts Council Collecti
 on\, said:\n“For nearly 70 years\, the Arts Council Collection\, managed
  by the Southbank Centre\, has supported artists based in the UK by purcha
 sing their work. The Collection has been built through the support of the 
 many distinguished artists\, curators and writers who have been invited to
  advise on the purchase of works and it is arguably in this very open and 
 democratic approach to acquisition that the Collection’s greatest streng
 th lies. We are delighted to be working with Jennifer on this exhibition\,
  drawing on her expertise as a curator and a painter.”\n\nAll artists in
  the exhibition will include: Eileen Agar\, Michael Andrews\, Liz Arnold\,
  Walter Bayes\, Peter Blake\, Glenn Brown\, Jeffery Camp\, Steve Claydon\,
  Prunella Clough\, Robert Colquhoun\, Enrico David\, Milena Dragicevic\, M
 alcolm Drummond\, Lucien Freud\, Michael Fullerton\, Alastair Gray\, Roy G
 rayson\, Richard Hamilton\, Georgia Hayes\, David Hockney\, Donna Huddlest
 on\, Jock McFadyen\, Katy Moran\, Ryan Mosley\, David Noonan\, Paula Rego\
 , Ceri Richards\, William Roberts\, Bob Robinson\, Walter Sickert\, Renee 
 So\, Euan Uglow\, Peter Unsworth\, Phoebe Unwin\, Barbara Walker\, Martin 
 Westwood\, Alfred Wolmark\, Rose Wylie\, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
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