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artists & participants
Jankel Adler,
Francis Alys,
Rasheed Araeen,
Francesco Bartolozzi,
Black Audio Film Collective,
Jakob Bogdany,
David Bomberg,
Frank Bowling,
Sonia Boyce,
Agostino Carlini,
Avinash Chandra,
Siegfried Charoux,
Giovanni Batista Cipriani,
Nathaniel Dance-Holland,
Simon du Bois,
Jacob Epstein,
Hans Eworth,
Hans Feibusch,
Naum Gabo,
Benedetto Gennari,
Mark Gertler,
Marcus Gheeraerts II,
Jan Griffier,
Mona Hatoum,
Lubaina Himid,
Cornelius Johnson,
Angelika Kauffmann,
Alexander Keirincx,
Oskar Kokoschka,
Jacob Kramer,
David Lamelas,
Alphonse Legros,
Peter Lely,
Yuan-Chia Li,
Kim Lim,
James McNeill Whistler,
Steve McQueen,
David Medalla,
Gustav Metzger,
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy,
Piet Mondrian,
Ronald Moody,
Rosalind Nashashibi,
Isaac Oliver,
Peter Peri,
Keith Piper,
Donald Rodney,
Isaac Rosenberg,
William Rothenstein,
Kurt Schwitters,
Zineb Sedira,
Dominic Serres,
Anwar Jalal Shemza,
Jan Siberechts,
John Singer Sargent,
Francis Newton Souza,
James Tissot,
Joseph van Aken,
Willem van de Velde der Jüngere,
Anthonis van Dyck,
Antonio Verrio,
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky,
Benjamin West,
Aubrey Williams,
Willem Wissing,
Alfred Wolmark,
Johan Zoffany,
Francesco Zuccarelli
curator
press release
This exhibition explores British art through the theme of migration from 1500 to the present day, reflecting the remit of Tate Britain Collection displays. From the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Flemish and Dutch landscape and still-life painters who came to Britain in search of new patrons, through moments of political and religious unrest, to Britain’s current position within the global landscape, the exhibition reveals how British art has been fundamentally shaped by successive waves of migration. Cutting a swathe through 500 years of history, and tracing not only the movement of artists but also the circulation of visual languages and ideas, this exhibition includes works by artists from Lely, Kneller, Kauffman to Sargent, Epstein, Mondrian, Bomberg, Bowling and the Black Audio Film Collective as well as recent work by contemporary artists.