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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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Funding Opportunities: Paul Mellon Centre

December 7th, 2023

Funding Opportunities for the Study of British ArtDeadline: 31 January, 11:59pm Applications are now open for the spring 2024 round of the Paul Mellon Centre funding programme. The programme supports […]

Call for expressions of interest from artist-curators to be future Dreamy Place curator

November 20th, 2023

Videoclub is searching for an Artist-Curator to work with them on the next Dreamy Place Festival, to co-curate and deliver the festival with us. Deadline for submissions: 12pm, Monday, 18 […]

Call for Applicants: Graduate Summer Programme, Paul Mellon Centre for British Art Studies

November 15th, 2023

Deadline: midnight GMT on 1 December 2023 The Graduate Summer Programme (GSP) is a lively research and practice-led two-week programme of workshops, discussions, and encounters with historical archives and contemporary […]

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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portrait photograph of Philip Modiano in suit and jacket, a black and white imagege portrait photo of Gina smiling, head and shoulders, in gallery setting, her head framed by a Turner painting on the wall behind photo of Gill standing, seen from side looking out of shot to the left, a large near-monochrome artwork featuring tree forms and other organic shapes, and lines, behind portrait photo of Cicely, arms folded and smiling, looking at the camera three-quarter length portrait photo of Alice seated on a chair, smiling, in a studio setting portrait photo of Moira wearing brown and blue a darkened gallery interior, bare red floor, a window behind admitting some daylight, in the foreground two figures in silhouette, crouching; to the left the darkened space is illuminated by a large neon of two Chinese or Japanese characters

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British Art after Britain

Our upcoming conference, ‘British Art after Britain’ will take place on 24 – 25 November 2023 at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow. Visit the conferences page to learn more.

Seminars

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

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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
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

Black British 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

The Ignorant Art Schools
Image of Donald Rodney's sketch: First of England 1983 . A sketch of a man and woman on a rough crossing is presented next to the original victorian painted depiction.

Race, Empire and the Pre-Raphaelites
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
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
An artwork showing a protest scene with people holding placards

Art and the Women’s Movement in the UK 1970–1988
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

New Dialogues: Art created historically in mental health settings
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
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
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

British Art UnCanon

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