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❤️💜 Zimbabwean artist powerful piece ‘Fighting One’s Self’ is this week's

On free display at Tate Modern, Chihota's rich colours and graphic forms draw on themes of loneliness, fertility and the quest for selfhood.

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2022-09-27

is titled: Baba vevana dzokai kumba

The expressive painting was skillfully composed by Keith Zenda, a painter whose works are currently adorning the walls of the National Gallery in Bulawayo.

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2022-08-15

- 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗺 𝗦𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝘛𝘸𝘰 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦, 1951

This work is included in our exhibition 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗚𝗼!, which is on view in the gallery now.

To inquire, please contact info.com.

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2022-05-24



Joan Mitchell
Chord II
1986

‘I don’t set out to achieve a specific thing, perhaps to catch motion or to catch a feeling ... My painting is not an allegory or a story. It is more like a poem’

Find out more ⬇️
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See this work at

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2022-04-05

"It is always especially interesting for me to express the emotional state of my hero in my work."

Learn more about Igor's inspiring creative process:

https://t.co/XVp2YFi5Lt

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2022-02-27

Happy Birthday to 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗸𝗮𝗺𝗶, born on this day in 1962!

𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗸𝗮𝗺𝗶, 𝘝𝘢𝘯 𝘎𝘰𝘨𝘩, 2001
Acrylic on board laid on wood panel, 100.3 x 100 cm.

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2022-02-01

This week our is St Ives harbour and Godrevy c. 1934-8 by Alfred Wallis

This work, along with a number of Alfred Wallis works in our collection, is double sided. On the reverse of this work is Yacht, pink and green.

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2021-11-24



RUTH BROWNLEE
Low Light, Quendale
Mixed Media on Board
35 x 43 cm
£860

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2021-11-09

- 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗶 𝗠𝘂𝘁𝘂, 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘢, 2007

𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘢 is included in our current exhibition, 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗶 𝗠𝘂𝘁𝘂: 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝗺𝘀, on view through 17th December.

Read more about the exhibition: https://t.co/xuaHnKS6mz

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2021-10-12

Featured Artwork of the week

Name: Ian Paras

Artpage:
https://t.co/PHyX44EdZs
https://t.co/N3o6DwaTPl

Title: Jia Han & Birdy

App used: Adobe Photoshop, XP-PEN



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2021-09-23

The scene in this painting by Raphael looks peaceful, but can you see what's unfolding? 👀

'The Agony in the Garden' c.1504 represents Christ's final hours of freedom before the Last Supper.


Until 17 Oct 2021
🎟️ https://t.co/FbxlF0gV26

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2021-09-14

Featured Artwork of the Week

Name: Joshua Patrick Pedregosa

Artpage:
https://t.co/g8jvQI8eOT
https://t.co/NBV20l062p

Title : "A whole lotta OC"

App used: Adobe Photoshop

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2021-09-01

It's the first day of spring 🌸🌼 and we're admiring the pastel blooms and overt theatricality of François Boucher's 'The Toilette of Venus' 1751.

Experience this lavish painting at 'European Masterpieces'.


Get tickets: https://t.co/pgdlvkBIh0

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2021-09-01

This week our is Barbara Hepworth Two Heads 1932, part of Margaret Gardiner's (1904 – 2005) original gift

In 2008 the Hepworth Family Trust gifted Two Heads (Mother and Child) c. 1932 to the Pier Arts Centre Collection

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2021-08-25

For our this week we are celebrating the birth of Alfred Wallis (1855-1942)

Many of the works by Wallis in our collection are double sided, including Yacht, pink and green (recto) & St Ives harbour and Godrevy (verso) c.1934-8

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2021-08-18

Kate Lyddon creates enclosed worlds proffering images that emerge intuitively from her imagination; like the subject of this oil painting, Cloakroom Exchange (2016), which is our

📸 1 , Cloakroom Exchange, 2016 and 📸 2 and 3 (details).

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2021-07-19

This week's is Sylvia Wishart's Untitled, 1966 currently on display as part of our exhibition -Orkney and the Artist

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2021-06-23

1/ This week for we feature work by Tomy Ndebele. Born in 1960 in Tsholotsho and did his art training at Mzilikazi Art and Craft Centre between 1981 to 1984.
Title: Stranded strangers
Medium: Pastels
Dimensions: 51cmx38cm

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2021-05-31

1/This week for we feature A Rhodesian-British artist who set up Mzilikazi Art Centre in 1963. Below is one of his paintings.
Title: Uprising
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 107x107cm
Year: 1986



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2021-05-19

Our is an ink piece that shows Michael Ayrton’s fascination, or obsession, with Greek mythology – part of our upcoming Ayrton retrospective, opening on 29 May.

Image: Michael Ayrton, Demeter and Kore, 1965 © The Estate of Michael Ayrton. Courtesy of

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2021-04-26