Welcome to Art UK – the digital platform for the nation’s art. A cultural education charity, we enable over 3,000 UK institutions to collaborate effectively as a group by showcasing the nation’s art ...

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The concept of a rockstar dates only from 1960, yet the phenomenon is neither modern nor dependent on TV or the media. In fact, Angelica Kauffman was the equivalent of a rockstar in the eighteenth ...

Not every old building contains a tangible atmosphere (whether for good or ill) that captures generations of people. Tabley Old Hall, once situated on its pretty little island, certainly had this ...

In the Ben Uri Collection is a remarkable double-sided piece, originally catalogued for the colourful pastel (recto) of a Welsh chapel (since identified as Tenby in Pembrokeshire, South Wales), signed ...

Ronald Rae (b.1946) is a prolific artist who has worked continuously from the age of 15. In addition to a lifetime of hand-carving large granite monoliths, Rae has also developed parallel creative ...

At the close of the nineteenth century and the dawn of the twentieth, Glasgow emerged as a vibrant hub of creativity and artistic innovation. Among the key figures of this cultural revolution were ...

George Frost (1745–1821) stepped out into the cold, sun-drenched air of a late afternoon in early October, ready to shake off his day's work at the office of the Blue Coach in Ipswich by striding ...

Many artists working during 1900–1945 were drawn to the rural parishes surrounding Stroud and Painswick, in South Gloucestershire. These parishes offered a distinct 'sense of place', epitomised by ...

Scottish conceptual artist Scott Myles is interested in social structures of exchange, creating artistic interventions that subtly subvert the transactional logic of capitalist commerce. Working in a ...

In 1857, the renowned writer Frances Power Cobbe visited Rome – a bustling artists' colony full of pioneering painters and sculptors – where she met Welsh sculptor John Gibson. She described him as 'a ...

(b London, 11 May 1889; d Bournemouth, Hampshire, 11 July 1946). English painter, book illustrator, writer, photographer, and designer. Nash was one of the most individual British artists of his ...