De La Warr Pavilion Events
Unpopular Culture by Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry selects from the Arts Council CollectionMay 10th - July 6th 2008
De La Warr Pavilion
British artist Grayson Perry was catapulted into the public consciousness in 2003 when he won the Turner Prize for his delicate coil pots adorned with drawings and text exploring the darker subject matters of everyday life. Perhaps less well-known is Perry's work as a curator. Unpopular Culture highlights this aspect of Perry's practice and offers his personal view of the Arts Council Collection, one of the UK's foremost national collections of British post-war art.
Unpopular Culture examines a period in history which Perry argues was a time "before British Art became fashionable." For his selection, Perry gravitated towards those
painters and photographers whose work reflected real British life and society and which embody a quiet nostalgia and restraint. The exhibition of more than 70 works by 50
artists encompasses a variety of media; figurative painting, bronze sculpture and documentary photography. Spanning the era from the 1940s to Thatcherite Britain of the
1980s, the selection epitomises a time when the nation's sense of self, place and purpose was more clearly defined and free from the modern-day interventions of television,
mass media and digital communications.
Unpopular Culture includes works by; Kenneth Armitage; Frank Auerbach; Ian Berry; Anthony Caro; Lynn Chadwick; Barbara Hepworth; L.S. Lowry; Henry Moore, Paul Nash; Eduardo Paolozzi; Martin Parr; Tony Ray-Jones and Homer Sykes as well as two striking new works by Perry himself.
Also for the exhibition, Grayson Perry has designed a limited edition silk scarf which will be available to buy from the De La Warr Pavilion Shop
Exhibiting Artists: Michael Andrews; Kenneth Armitage; Frank Auerbach; Gerry Badger; Clive Barker; Elinor Bellingham-Smith; John Benton-Harris; Ian Berry; John Bratby; Edward Burra; Anthony Caro; Lynn Chadwick; Robert Colquhoun; Elisabeth Frink; Duncan Grant; Bert Hardy; Anthony Hatwell; David Hepher; Barbara Hepworth; Thurston Hopkins; David Hurn; Bryan Kneale; Margaret Lovell; Alan Lowndes; L.S. Lowry; Henry Moore; Francis Morland; Tish Murtha; John Myers; Paul Nash; Eduardo Paolozzi; Martin Parr; Victor Pasmore; Christine Pearcey; Edwin Pickett; John Piper; Tony Ray-Jones; Alan Reynolds; Brian Robb; William Roberts; George Rodger; Leonard Rosoman; Meg Rutherford; William Scott; Jack Smith; Ruskin Spear; Homer Sykes; William Turnbull; Patrick Ward; Carel Weight; John Wragg; Bryan Wynter.
Admission to this exhibition is free
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De La Warr Pavilion, Marina, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex TN40 1DP. View map.
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About Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry was born in Chelmsford in 1960. He studied at Braintree College of Further Education and received a BA in Fine Art from the Portsmouth Polytechnic. In the early 1980s Perry was a member of the Neo-Naturist group, and took part in performance and film works. He has continued to create work in a variety of media that includes embroidery and photography and is best known for his ceramic works. Grayson Perry won the Turner Prize in 2003 and since has exhibited in throughout Britain, in Europe and the USA. In 2006, Grayson Perry curated The Charms of Lincolnshire a critically aclaimed exhibition of historical artefacts selected by the artist from the Museums of Lincolnshire. After opening at The Collection in Lincoln in February 2006, the show then toured to the Victoria Miro Gallery in London in July 2006.
Grayson Perry occasionally appears at public events as his alter-ego, Claire.
About The Arts Council
The Arts Council Collection was formed in 1946 by the Arts Council of Great Britain and has been managed by The Hayward, Southbank Centre since 1987. From the outset, the intention was to support artists living and working in Britain through the purchase and display of their work, and to tour exhibitions across the country thereby encouraging public appreciation of modern and contemporary art, making it the widest circulated collection of its kind.
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