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Sharing expertise, research and ideas on British art

The British Art Network (BAN) promotes curatorial research, practice and theory in the field of British art. Our members include curators, academics, artist-researchers, conservators, producers and programmers at all stages of their professional lives.

All are actively engaged in caring for, developing and presenting British art, whether in museums, galleries, heritage settings or art spaces, in published form or in educational settings, across the UK and beyond.

 

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The Goddess, the Deity and the Cyborg Symposium

April 24th, 2024

This symposium aims to both ‘sit with the trouble’ of goddess feminism and its antagonistic historiography; as well as explore its resonances and revisions that are discernible in twenty-first century contemporary art practice and criticism.

Identity Complex: Identity Representation Within Global Exhibition-Making Symposium

April 18th, 2024

This one-day symposium focuses on identity representation in the context of international, large-scale, survey exhibitions of contemporary art.

Museums Journal: Call for Book and Exhibition Reviewers

April 18th, 2024

Museums Journal, which is published online and in print by the Museums Association, is looking for new book and exhibition reviewers.

Our Members

BAN provides a place for sharing expertise, helps forge connections, and creates time and space for critical exchange and debate. Our activities are defined by our membership and reflect a broad range of expertise, experience and viewpoints.

At the heart of everything we do there is a collective commitment to expanding definitions of British art, acknowledging complex historical truths and their present-day resonances, and communicating the continuing public value of British art collections and curatorial expertise around the UK.

 

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half length image of Sarah standing, smiling, in a gallery interior, decorative squares (De Morgan designs?) behind gallery interior, a table set with electronic equipment to rear left, an audience gathered before it, a squatting figure in a grey teeshirt and cap is talking to them, gesturing A portrait of Beth Hughes potrait photo of Louisa, sunlit interior, head and shoulders, smiling portrait of Mark in a jacket and white shirt A photograph of Sam Metz. She is looking directly into camera.

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ECG Collaborative Project: Leeds Research Trip

Stemming from an ECG workshop which took place at the Leeds Art Gallery in April 2023, four members of the 2023 Emerging Curators Group embarked on a collaborative research trip to better understand the ground-up cultural ecology of the city of Leeds.

Seminars

BAN supports a range of seminars through annual bursaries and collaboration with other organisations. Visit our Seminars page to view previous BAN seminars.

News & Opportunities

Stay up to date with BAN related news and opportunities.

Upcoming Events

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CEED Feminisms 5: Bibliography Launch at Biblioteka

May 15th, 2024

Join us to celebrate the CEED Feminisms Bibliography launch, hosted by Biblioteka.

Art & Poetry: Ekphrastic Ethics in the Gallery Space

May 11th, 2024

This is an afternoon workshop intended to bring poets and visual artists together to learn about ekphrasis and discover new possibilities for collaboration.

Visual Cultures of Colonial India: A Historical Perspective

April 23rd, 2024

This seminar aims to bring to a discussion table the visual cultures of colonial India with which producers and consumers of art objects were engaging.

Current Research Groups

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close up of a tapestry in deep greens and browns, featuring Christian religious imagery including flowers and a crucified Christ

British Catholic Material Culture 1538-1829
a boldly designed image of two figures embracing, one pale yellow apparently seated and female, the other standing and pale green, in an burnt orange setting

Disability in British Art
Image of Wolfgang's Tillmans' Installation at Walker Art Gallery in 2010. A statue of a topless man holding a scythe facing away from camera, and a large grainy photograph of another man.

Queer British Art
screenshot of a Zoom meeting, screens of seven people, six of whom are covering their eyes with their hands, the seventh has their eyes shut - another screen with a small artwork image of a geological cross-section including a skeleton

Art Practices and British Central Eastern European Diaspora

The Ignorant Art Schools
Image of Mary McIntyre's: Aura of Crisis 1998. The photograph shows a ring of empty leather backed chairs arranged in an empty hall.

Northern Irish Art

Black British Art
An artwork showing a protest scene with people holding placards

Art and the Women’s Movement in the UK 1970–1988
collaged poster image, including a painted artwork with South Asian figures and architecture, a chai latte in a person's hand, and a hand being painted with henna - lettering to bottom right 'Chai-Shai: Asian British Art'

Chai Shai: Asian British Art
a view through glass into a gallery interior, with four or more figures indistinctly seen crouching or standing - their figures combine with the reflected view of a street with cars, bikes and buildings

Artist-Run Initiatives in Britain
a visibly digitally generated image resembling a dense forest in emphatic colours, the dense tree trunks a deep brown-purple, bright green waves like grass on the ground. In the midst of this, in a middle distance, a female figure in a blue dress wearing a silvered visor, which obscures their face.

British Digital Art
an interior, an artist's studio, bare white painted walls, a window to the left, with a branch suspended before it, various furniture crowded together on the floor, a wall of photographic images in colour of landscape scenes pinned up to the right - a large rolled canvas to the rear, leaning against a shelf

A Place-based History of Art

New Dialogues: Art created historically in mental health settings

British Art UnCanon

A virtual collection of artworks selected by BAN Members

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