© The Estate of Reg Butler
This autumn, The Ingram Collection will be the focus of an important exhibition at Canary Wharf. Sculptures from The Ingram Collection of Modern British Art(16 September to 15 November 2013) will be the first exhibition in Canary Wharf’s public art programme to feature objects selected from a private collection. Amongst the masterpieces on display will be important works by Dame Elisabeth Frink RA, Lynn Chadwick RA, Kenneth Armitage RA and Sir Eduardo Paolozzi RA.
Ann Elliott, Exhibition Curator, says:
“Since 2001 our temporary exhibitions programme at Canary Wharf has focussed largely on the work of living – mostly British – artists. It is therefore very timely to look at the work of earlier artists whose progressive, even radical ideas and unique creativity opened up more possibilities for future generations.”
© The Estate of Elisabeth Frink
“British Modern Art, which is the focus of Chris Ingram’s impressive collection, is a true reflection of the times in which these sculptures were made. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw far-reaching and momentous changes in the artistic and wider cultural life in Britain. Visual artists’ response to industrial, scientific, political and social change and crucial events such as the First and Second World Wars gave rise to periods of immense creativity. Not all was comfortable. Artists were able to reject traditional modes of working through combining abstraction with expressive form, visualising differently what they knew and observed. Barriers between academic figuration and abstraction were broken down.”
“Within the Ingram Collection it is possible to see British Modernism at its most creative and influential. We are immensely privileged to show this selection at Canary Wharf.”
For further information about the exhibition, please visit http://www.canarywharf.com/