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Killip, Chris
Youth, Jarrow
1976
Hiorns, Roger
Nunhead
2004
Caro, Anthony
Slow Movement
1965
Organ, Margaret
Loop
1978
Barlow, Phyllida
untitled: dunce
2015
Bacon, Francis
Head VI
1949
Auerbach, Frank
Jym in the Studio
1963
Phillipson, Heather
True To Size
2015
Tillmans, Wolfgang
Gedser
2004
Ofili, Chris
Popcorn Shells
1995
Unwin, Phoebe
Sleeper
2012
Johnson, Claudette
Figure in Blue
2018
Prodger, Charlotte
BRIDGIT
2016
Hockney, David
We Two Boys Together Clinging
1961
Riley, Bridget
Movement in Squares
1961
Caulfield, Patrick
Oh Hélène, J'erre en ma chambre (Oh Helen, I roam my room) Poemes et Planches - Jules Laforgue French Edition B
1973
Phillips, Ciara
Things I associate with you
2014
Perry, Grayson
Spirit Jar
1994
Lucas, Sarah
Self Portrait with Fried Eggs (from Self Portraits series 1990-98)
1996
Burke, Vanley
Educational Outing from Handsworth from Inside series
1968
Hatoum, Mona
+ and -
1994
Mellors, Nathaniel
Hippy Dialectics
2010
Freud, Lucian
Girl in a Green Dress
1954
Warren, Rebecca
Regine
2007
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Sunderland Culture present Received Wisdom
29 Jan 2020
We are pleased to announce that Sunderland Culture will present the first of its major Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme exhibitions.
Opening on 1 February 2020, Received Wisdom challenges the notion that creativity and innovation are the preserve of youth by bringing together a body of work created by older artists, drawn from the Arts Council Collection’s extensive range of modern and contemporary British art.
Wide-ranging and dynamic, the exhibition confronts our assumptions about ageing by celebrating both artists who have enjoyed long...
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