The Priseman Seabrook Collection is a British-based

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founded by the artist Robert Priseman and his wife Ally Seabrook. It is composed of three distinct categories: 21st Century British Painting, 20th and 21st Century British Works on Paper and Contemporary Chinese Works on Paper, and is a collection partner of Art UK. The Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting is the only art collection in the United Kingdom dedicated to painting produced in Britain after the year 2000 and was exhibited publicly for the first time in 2014 at the

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Art Gallery while works from the other two elements of the collection were first displayed at the Minories Art Gallery in

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during 2016. Subsequent exhibition loans have been made to the

China Academy of Art China Academy of Art (), also translated as China National Academy of Fine Arts, was founded in Hangzhou in 1928 by the government of the Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China and the renowned educator Cai Yuanpei. It was the first a ...

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, The University of Suffolk, The Cut, Halesworth Jiangsu Art Gallery,

Nanjing Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Map Romanization, alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu Provinces of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and t ...

, Artall, Nanjing,

Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts The Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (TJ Arts; ) is a public art college in Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It ...

, Tianjin and

Yantai Yantai, formerly known as Chefoo, is a coastal prefecture-level city on the Shandong Peninsula in northeastern Shandong province of People's Republic of China. Lying on the southern coast of the Bohai Strait, Yantai borders Qingdao on the ...

Art Museum, China. The focus of each collection is placed on painting and drawing made by hand, with the emphasis being designed to explore and question the relevance of the handmade work of art in the period of the digital revolution.

History

The collection was created in 2014 and contains over 180 works of art by painters including

Iain Andrews Iain Andrews (born 1974) is an contemporary English painter. He lives and works in Manchester, England. He received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA Hons) in Fine Art and a Master of Arts (MA) in Painting from University College of Wales, Ab ...

Amanda Ansell Amanda Ansell (born 1976) is an English artist. She studied Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts between 1995 and 1998 and then at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1998 to 2000. After living in London for sev ...

, Claudia Böse, Julian Brown, Simon Burton, Simon Carter, Lucy Cox,

Pen Dalton Penelope Dalton is an artist, critic and writer. Education Dalton trained at Goldsmiths, University of London and Brighton University and gained a PhD in Creative studies from Plymouth University in 2008. Career Dalton taught studio practic ...

, Alan Davie,

Nathan Eastwood Nathan Eastwood was born in Barrow-in-Furness, England in 1972. He graduated from Byam Shaw School of Art in 2009. Eastwood was a finalist in the 2007 'Celeste Art Prize' and won the inaugural 'East London Painting Prize' in 2014. He paints e ...

Tracy Emin Tracey Karima Emin, CBE, RA (; born 3 July 1963) is a British artist known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork. Emin produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and ...

, Lucian Freud,

Terry Greene Terry Greene is an artist living and working in West Yorkshire. He received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Art & Design from Bradford College and a Master of Arts (MA) in Theory of Practice from Leeds Metropolitan University (now Leeds Beckett Univ ...

Susan Gunn Susan Gunn is a British artist. She was born in present-day Greater Manchester, England in 1965, and studied at Norwich University of the Arts where she was awarded a First Class BA Honours in Fine Art Painting in 2004. In 2006 she was awarded ...

, Susie Hamilton, Alex Hanna,

David Hockney David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists o ...

, Marguerite Horner, Linda Ingham, Matthew Krishanu, Andrew Litten,

Cathy Lomax Cathy Lomax (born 1963) is a London artist, curator and director of the Transition Gallery. She is mainly known for her figurative paintings which often focus on the female image and are inspired by 'the seductive imagery of film, fame and f ...

, Paula MacArthur,

David Manley David Manley may refer to: * David Manley (philosopher), American philosopher * David Manley (artist) David Manley, artist, educationalist and arts administrator was born in Devon and lives and works in North West Leicestershire, UK. He received ...

, Nicholas Middleton, Paul Nash,

Stephen Newton Stephen Cox Newton (21 April 1853 – 16 August 1916) was an English cricketer who represented, and captained, Somerset County Cricket Club in the late 19th century. During a 14-year first-class cricket career, he also represented Cambridge ...

, Mandy Payne, Alison Pilkington, John Piper,

Eric Ravilious Eric William Ravilious (22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942) was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He grew up in Sussex, and is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs and other English lands ...

, Greg Rook,

Colin Self Colin E Self (born 1941 in Rackheath, Norfolk) is an English Pop Artist, whose work has addressed the theme of Cold War politics. As a student at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1961 to 1963 Colin Self received encouragement for his drawing ...

, Stephen Snoddy, Graham Sutherland, Judith Tucker, Julie Umerle and Mary Webb. The core of the initial collection was formed from donations, painting swaps and small scale purchases, with the aim of finding and exhibiting more obscure artists alongside those with established reputations. This has been further added to with the annual purchase of the winning painting from the 'Contemporary British Painting Prize' which then enters the Priseman Seabrook collection. In 2017 the charity Art UK who enable the public to see images of all the approximately 210,000 oil paintings in public ownership in the United Kingdom via catalogues and a website made The Priseman Seabrook Collection a partner.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Priseman Seabrook Collection, The British art Private art collections