Collection news

Tomorrow the Art Fund will launch its brand new ART GUIDE app. The app is free and promotes more than 600 museums, galleries, castles and historic houses across the UK – including the Mead Gallery.

For more information www.artfund.org/assets/pdf/Art_Guide_Art_Fund_App.pdf .

We have recently installed three new sculptures on campus. They are by the distinguished Japanese artist Atsuo Okamoto and are a very kind gift from him to the University. In an unveiling ceremony on the 21st March, Atsuo explained that he wanted his sculptures to make people think, perfect for works on a University campus.

The sculptures are on the lawn outside Coventry House not far from Lilian Lijn's Koan. If you haven't already been to see them they are well worth a visit.

One of the artists in the running for this year’s Turner Prize is George Shaw who is represented in the University art collection with one of his trademark urban paintings and a series of twelve atmospheric etchings.

The painting Scenes from the Passion: The Swing is currently hanging in the Arts Centre near the entrance to the Mead Gallery. Nine of the etchings are on display in the Education Building at Westwood and three others can be seen in Scarman House.