Tate Britain

Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life results from an invitation extended to the distinguished art historians T.J. Clark and Anne M. Wagner to reappraise Lowry for a new, extended audience. Including works by Lowry from Tate collection and significant loans, the exhibition re-assesses his contribution as part of a wider art history, showing how he engaged fruitfully with the French tradition, and argues for his achievement as Britain’s pre-eminent painter of the industrial city.

Admission

Ticket prices to be announced shortly

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/lowry-and-painting-modern-life

This display will look in detail at A Cornfield 1817 by John Constable, an important painting in Tate’s collection. It will offer fresh insights by juxtaposing Tate’s picture with Constable’s version of the same composition from the National Gallery.

Suitable for

Admission

Free

At Tate Britain see a focused selection of work by Gary Hume (born 1962), one of Britain’s most renowned contemporary painters, shown at Tate Britain in parallel with a survey of the celebrated British painter Patrick Caulfield (1935–2005), illuminating the comparable work of these two artists from different generations.

Admission

Ticket prices to be announced shortly

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/gary-hume-and-patrick-caulfield

Basic Design was a new and radical approach to training in art schools and this display will explore the role that it played in revolutionising art education across Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.

Suitable for

Admission

Free

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/display/bp-spotlight-basic-design

A screening of documentary and feature films related to LS Lowry’s life and work and the broader historical period.

This event is related to the exhibition Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life

When

6:30-9pm

Admission

Admission £9.00

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/film/lowry-on-film

A display examining the relationship between still and moving images in the early twentieth century. Focusing on two famous works in the Tate collection, Burne-Jones’s King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 1884, and G F Watt’s Hope 1886, this display examines the relationship between the still and the moving image in the early twentieth century.

Admission

Admission free.

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk

In May 2013 Tate Britain will present an exhibition of new and recent work by painter Rose Wylie. Wylie makes large scale energetic and compelling images drawn from memory and inspired by her veracious appetite for visual culture, whether ancient wall paintings, work by other artists, films, news stories or her observation of daily events.

Admission

Free

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/display/focus-rose-wylie

Leading British artist and Turner Prize winner, Simon Starling, will create a major new project for the Tate Britain Commission 2013, supported by Sotheby's. The annual commission invites artists to make work in response to Tate's collection of British and international art. Through his work, Starling reveals hidden histories, processes and economies that bring objects, images or events into being

Suitable for

• Any age

Keith Arnatt was a British conceptual artist who used photography as a way of documenting perfromative acts that question the status of art and the role of the artist. Using recent acquisitions, this display will show the range of Arnatt’s work and his singular use of photography, focusing on his work of the 1970s and 1980s.

Suitable for

Admission

Free

Drawing for Free Thinking is a new wall drawing for Tate Britain, designed to wrap around the Manton stairwell. Inspired by the long tradition of twentieth-century constructivism and by David Tremlett’s involvement in conceptual art in the 1970s, Drawing for Free Thinking consists of broad blocks of strong colour, straight lines, squares and rectangles. It explores floor plans and architectural features the artist has encountered at the gallery such as doorways or windows abstracted into geometric shapes. Tremlett and his team of assistants work with pastel crayons which they rub directly onto the wall with the palms of their hands.

Admission

Free

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/david-tremlett-drawing-free-thinking

Look again at the British landscape through the lens of contemporary psychogeographers and new nature writers. Journey through some of the 18th to 21st century works in Tate’s collection with writer and artist Justin Hopper and explore how societal changes are reflected through the artist’s imagination of our environment. Develop your own language of landscape through writing and discussion in the galleries.

Suitable for

Admission

Adult £120

Liminal invites families into a physical, material and social experience of sculpture through touch, interaction and collaboration. Supported by a changing artist devised programme.

Created by artists Abigail Hunt and Kieren Reed.

Suitable for

• Especially for children
• Family friendly

Admission

Admission free. Booking required for some events.

Website

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/daily-activities/liminal

Join us this summer at Tate Britain for a special series of fun family workshops led by professional artists. The series includes stop-frame animation workshops, film screenings, secret performances and artist-led drawing workshops.

Suitable for

• Family friendly

Admission

Free

Curator’s Tour: Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life

2 September 2013

Join one of the curators of Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life, Helen Little, on a tour of the exhibition, followed by a private view.

Suitable for

• Any age

When

6:30-8pm

Admission

Adult £20.00

A screening of documentary and feature films related to LS Lowry’s life and work and the broader historical period.

Suitable for

When

6:30-9pm

Admission

Adult £9