The Ingram Collection is one of the UK’s largest and most accessible collections of Modern British & Contemporary Art. Curated by Jo Baring, this exhibition showcases some classic Modern British artworks by artists associated with The Ingram Collection, such as Dame Elisabeth Frink, and includes some of Edward Bawden’s celebrated views of London, such as The Tower of London, and The Pagoda and The Palmhouse at Kew Gardens.
The exhibition also celebrates The Ingram Prize, an annual purchase prize established in 2016 to formalise the collection’s support of artists in the early years of their careers. Featured artists include Sin Wai Kin, nominated for the 2022 Turner Prize, and winner of the Ingram Prize in 2017. To mark their Turner Prize nomination, the exhibition will present Sin’s Ingram Prize-winning film, ‘Cthulhu Through The Looking Glass’. Other contemporary artists include Olivia Bax, whose work was most recently acquired for the Arts Council Collection, and Kristina Chan, a recipient of the 2020 Ingram Prize.
The exhibition is accompanied by a major new book, Revisiting Modern British Art, published in October by Lund Humphries in association with The Ingram Collection. In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking publication, experts in their field address specific aspects of British art of the twentieth century. Complemented by a range of striking images, this publication succeeds in showing the strength of the British artistic tradition while also encouraging the reader to rethink and explore the existing narrative.
Pictured: Robert Duckworth Greenham (1906-1975), On the beach, 1934, oil on canvas © Estate of Robert Duckworth Greenham
