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John Akomfrah, Peripeteia, 2012. Single channel HD colour video, 5.1 sound. ed. 2 of 5 + 2 Aps. © Smoking Dogs Films; Courtesy Lisson Gallery
2016/17 Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

John Akomfrah

Inspired by the depictions of a black man and woman drawn by Albrecht Dürer in the early sixteenth century, Peripeteia (2012) traces the appearance and disappearance of African lives in early modern Europe.
Rose English, Rose on Horseback with Tail, 1974/2012, C-type photograph, 50.8 x 76.2 cm, Edition 1/6 + 4 APs. © the artist, courtesy Richard Saltoun Gallery and Karsten Schubert Gallery.
2015 York Art Gallery

Rose English

Rose English (b.1950) is an interdisciplinary artist, who has been writing, directing and performing her own work for over 35 years. She has recently been the focus of a major solo show at Kunsthal…
2015 UH Galleries

Noémie Goudal

Noémie Goudal’s (b.1984) latest series of work, entitled Southern Light Stations, reflects the artist’s interest in man-made interventions in the natural world. She continues to photograph her constructions in natural environments, using them to distort the…
Hayley Tompkins, Chair, 2013, Acrylic paint, chair, 82 x 39 x 44 cm. Courtesy the artist and The Modern Art Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow.
2015 Touchstones Rochdale

Hayley Tompkins

Hayley Tompkins (b.1971) was born in Bedfordshire and is based in Glasgow. Her work has featured in British Art Show 8 (touring 2015–17) and other past projects include solo exhibitions at Drawing Room, Hamburg (2015),…
Victoria Morton, Untitled, 2010, Oil paint on wooden panels (2 panels each), 76.5 x 83 cm. Courtesy the artist and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow.
2015 The McManus Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum

Victoria Morton

Victoria Morton (b.1971) is a Glasgow-based artist whose work involves the use of painting, sound, found objects, garments and photography. Her recent shows include The Appearance (Galerie Born Berlin, 2016); Continuum (Hospitalfield Arts, Arbroath, 2015); and…
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, First Flight, 2015, 10 hard-ground etchings on Somerset Soft White Velvet, 300gsm, 39 x 27cm, Edition 1/10. Courtesy Corvi-Mora, London, and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
2015 The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b.1977) lives and works in London. She recently held solo shows Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Verses After Dusk, at the Serpentine Gallery in London (2015); and Capsule 03: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at Haus der Kunst in…
2015 Southampton City Art Gallery

Steven Claydon

Steven Claydon (b.1969) trained as a painter and currently works with sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, film and performance. Claydon has had recent solo exhibitions at Sadie Coles HQ, London (2016) and at both the Bergen…
Dadston, Andrew, Norwich Castle Museum, Black Barbed Wire, 2013 LOW RES
2015 Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery

Andrew Dadson

Andrew Dadson (b.1980) is a Canadian artist who works with painting, sculpture, photography and performance and is interested in the slippages between them. His works have been exhibited widely across Europe and the US, with…
Yuasa, Katsutoshi , Laing Art Gallery, Pseudo Mythology #2, 2011, LOW RES WEBSITE
2015 Laing Art Gallery

Katsutoshi Yuasa

Katsutoshi Yuasa (b.1978) lives and works in Tokyo. Yuasa studied MA Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, London, and is now an instructor at MI-LAB, located at the foot of Mount Fuji. In…
Alison Erica Forde - Lets Dance - Bury Art Gallery (Front side) WEB SIZE
2015 Bury Art Gallery

Alison Erika Forde

Alison Erika Forde (b.1985) was born in Wigan, Greater Manchester, and has been practising art in and around Manchester since graduating from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2008. Forde exhibits regularly in the UK and overseas…
Still from Hito Steyerl, 'Abstract', 2012, Double screen two channel HD video with sound, 7 minutes and 30 seconds. Edition of 7, with 2 APs. Presented to GoMA by the Contemporary Art Society through the Collections Fund, 2016.
2015 GoMA - Glasgow Museum of Modern Art

Hito Steyerl

The acquisition of Abstract (2012) by the Contemporary Art Society for GoMA is the first work by the artist to enter a UK public collection.
Installation view of Mikhail Karikis & Uriel Orlow, 'Sounds From Beneath', 2011-2012. Courtesy the artists.
2015 Worcester City Art Gallery

Mikhail Karikis and Uriel Orlow

Karikis asked the Snowdown Colliery Male Voice Choir to vocalise the industrial sounds of a former coalmine based on their memories and the result is a moving ode to an extinct landscape

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