Exhibition

In Their Own Words: Artists’ Voices from The Ingram Collection

20 May 2017 – 30 Jul 2017

Event times

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday: 10.30am – 5pm Thursday: 10.30am – 9.30pm
Sunday: 11am – 4pm
Closed Mondays and Bank Holidays

Cost of entry

£4.50 Day Pass or £7.50 Annual Pass | Under 18s Free

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Woking, United Kingdom

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  • Train to Woking station, 25min direct link from London Waterloo
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Works by some of the UK’s best-loved and most influential artists of the 20th century will be exhibited alongside audio recordings taken from the British Library’s extensive ‘Artists’ Lives’ archive

About

This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to explore artworks from The Ingram Collection of Modern British Art whilst listening to audio recordings from the artists that created them, shedding new light on the fascinating personal experiences that shaped their lives, relationships and art.

43 works from The Ingram Collection will feature in the exhibition. The artists selected are some of the best known within the collection: Eileen Agar, Kenneth Armitage, John Bellany, Ralph Brown, Lynn Chadwick, Geoffrey Clarke, Ken Currie, Mary Fedden, Paul Feiler, Elisabeth Frink, Terry Frost, William Gear, Derrick Greaves, Patrick Heron, Josef Herman, Allen Jones, Bernard Meadows, Brendan Neiland, Eduardo Paolozzi, Leonard Rosoman, Carel Weight and Rosemary Young.

The recordings in this Lightbox exhibition are from Artists’ Lives, a National Life Stories project in partnership with the British Library

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CuratorsToggle

Michael Bird

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Eduardo Paolozzi

Sir Terry Frost RA

William Gear

Brendan Neiland

Elizabeth Frink

Patrick Heron

Bernard Meadows

Ken Currie

Allen Jones RA

Lynn Chadwick

Mary Fedden

Carel Weight

Ralph Brown

John Bellany

Eileen Agar

Josef Herman

Kenneth Armitage

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