The Priseman Seabrook Collection

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Priseman Seabrook Collection
Established2014
Founders Robert Priseman and Ally Seabrook
Location
  • United Kingdom
Website www.priseman-seabrook.org

The Priseman Seabrook Collection is a British-based private collection founded by the artist Robert Priseman and his wife Ally Seabrook. [1] [2] 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, [2] and is a collection partner of Art UK.

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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 [3] and was exhibited publicly for the first time in 2014 at the Huddersfield Art Gallery [4] while works from the other two elements of the collection were first displayed at the Minories Art Gallery in Colchester during 2016. [5] [6]

Subsequent exhibition loans have been made to the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, [7] The University of Suffolk, The Cut, Halesworth [8] Jiangsu Art Gallery, Nanjing, Artall, Nanjing, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin and Yantai Art Museum, China. [9]

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. [2]

History

The collection was created in 2014 and contains over 180 works of art by painters including Iain Andrews, Amanda Ansell, Claudia Böse, Julian Brown, Simon Burton, Simon Carter, Lucy Cox, Pen Dalton, Alan Davie, Nathan Eastwood, Tracy Emin, Lucian Freud, Terry Greene, Susan Gunn, Susie Hamilton, Alex Hanna, David Hockney, Marguerite Horner, Linda Ingham, Matthew Krishanu, Andrew Litten, Cathy Lomax, Paula MacArthur, David Manley, Nicholas Middleton, Paul Nash, Stephen Newton, Mandy Payne, Alison Pilkington, John Piper, Eric Ravilious, Greg Rook, Colin Self, Stephen Snoddy, Graham Sutherland, Judith Tucker, Julie Umerle and Mary Webb. [10] [11]

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. [12] 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. [13] [14] [15]

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. [16]

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Robert Priseman

Robert Priseman is a British artist, collector, writer, curator and publisher who lives and works in Essex, England. Over 200 works of art by Priseman are held in art museum collections around the world including the V&A, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Musée de Louvain la Neuve, The Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, The Mead Art Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art and The National Galleries of Scotland.

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 the inaugural Sovereign European Art Prize. In 2014 she was commissioned to create a twenty-metre painting for the £11.6 million low carbon building project 'The Enterprise Centre' at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. She is a member of Contemporary British Painting.

Simon Burton was born in Yorkshire, England in 1973 and received a first class bachelor's degree at the University of Brighton in 1995, before completing his MA in 1997 at the Royal College of Art. Described by Lucian Freud in 1997 as, "the most promising young artist in Britain today," Burton received the Birtle prize for painting (1995), a travel award to ARCO studios in Lisbon, Portugal (1996), The John Minton Travel award (1996), The Jenny Hall Scholarship (1996) and worked in the U.S.A under the patronage of Robert and Susan Kasen-Summer (1997–98).

Nicholas Middleton was born in London, England in 1975, he studied at London Guildhall University 1993 - 1994 and Winchester School of Art where he was awarded a BA Honours Fine Art in 1997. In 2006 he was the Visitors' Choice prizewinner at John Moores Painting Prize 24 and in 2010 Middleton was a Prizewinner and the Visitors' Choice Award prizewinner at John Moores Painting Prize 2010. His paintings are "primarily influenced by the experience of the urban environment as a visual arena where unexpected juxtapositions occur". He is a member of Contemporary British Painting.

Susie Hamilton

Susie Hamilton is an English artist.

Matthew Krishanu

Matthew Krishanu was born in Bradford, England in 1980. He graduated from The University of Exeter with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and English Literature in 2001 and completed a master's degree in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University College of the Arts London in 2009. His exhibitions include 'Contemporary British Painting', Huddersfield Art Gallery (2014), 'Another Country', The Nunnery, London (2014), 'We Were Trying to Make Sense', 1Shanthiroad Gallery, Bangalore, (2013), 'In Residence', Parfitt Gallery, London (2010); 'The Mausoleum of Lost Objects', Iniva, London (2008).

Simon Carter (artist)

Simon Carter is an artist and curator who was born in Chelmsford, Essex in 1961.

Judith Tucker

Judith Tucker was born in Bangor, Wales in 1960. She completed a BA in Fine Arts at the Ruskin School of Art, St Anne's College, Oxford, (1978–81) an MA in Fine Arts (1997–98) and a PhD in Fine Arts at the University of Leeds (1999–2002). Tucker is co-convenor of LAND2, a research network of artists associated with higher education who are concerned with radical approaches to landscape with a particular focus on memory, place and identity. She exhibits regularly in the UK and Europe. Between 2003 and 2006, Tucker was an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts.

Marguerite Horner

Marguerite Horner is a British artist who won the 2018 British Women Artist Award. Her paintings aim to investigate, amongst other things, notions of transience, intimacy, loss and hope. She uses the external world as a trigger or metaphor for these experiences and through a period of gestation and distillation, makes a series of intuitive decisions that lead the work towards completion.

Claudia Böse was born in Nueremberg, Germany in 1963. She is an abstract painter and has been based in Suffolk, England, since 2002. Böse graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in 1996 and is a member of the artists network Kunstnetz International. Her work has been exhibited in London, Oxford, Birmingham, Manchester, Berlin, Neukölln, Freiburg, Valparaiso and Miami. Her work has been acquired by Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Hamburger Universität für Wirtschaft und Politik, The Priseman Seabrook Collection and the University of Oxford.

Contemporary British Painting

Contemporary British Painting is an artists' collective of over 60 members, founded in 2013 by Robert Priseman with the assistance of Simon Carter. It is a platform for contemporary painting in the UK "seeking to explore and promote critical context and dialogue in current painting practice through a series of solo and group exhibitions; talks, publications and an art prize". ‘Contemporary British Painting’ also facilitates the donation of paintings to art collections, galleries and museums in the UK and around the world.

Julian Brown is a British artist. He lives and works in London. He studied at Liverpool John Moores University, England (1993–96) and Royal Academy Schools, London (1998–2001). His work is heavily influenced by childhood visions and the folk-art from his Polish mother. He was long-listed for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2016 and in 2012 was shortlisted for the Marmite Prize in Painting IV (2012–13). Brown has exhibited his work nationally and internationally and is a member of Contemporary British Painting.

Linda Ingham was born in 1964, in Cleethorpes, England. She is a British artist who studied European Humanities before achieving an MA in Fine Art from Lincoln University of Art, Architecture & Design in 2007.

Lucy Cox (artist)

Lucy Cox born in Chard, Somerset, UK, is a British abstract artist and curator.

Andrew Parkinson (Andy) was born in 1959 in Burnley, Lancashire, England and lives and works in Nottingham, England. He studied art at Trent Polytechnic graduating in 1980.

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. Greene is a member of Contemporary British Painting.

David Manley, artist, educationalist and arts administrator was born in Devon and lives and works in North West Leicestershire, UK. He received a Diploma in Art & Design, Fine Art from Falmouth School of Art in 1972 and a Higher Diploma in Art & Design, Fine Art from Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham Polytechnic in 1974. He also has a Master of Arts (MA) in Photography from De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. In 1975 Manley was awarded a painting fellowship at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design. There followed a career in arts administration including Visual Arts Director and Head of Public Affairs at East Midlands Arts, UK. In 1994 he was appointed Assistant Dean of the School of Art and Design at the University of Derby and became Dean of the school in 1995. In 2003 he was appointed Dean of the new Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology at the University of Derby and in 2007 Director of Cultural Development.

Andrew Litten

Andrew Litten is a Cornwall-based English artist born in 1970 in Aylesbury, UK. His paintings have been exhibited in the United Kingdom, including the Tate Modern in London, China, USA, Germany, Australia, Mexico, Poland and Italy.

Huddersfield Art Gallery

The Huddersfield Art Gallery is an art gallery in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, northern England. The gallery is run by Kirklees Council who own "Figure Study II", the first painting by Francis Bacon to enter a public art gallery in the UK. It was purchased by the Contemporary Art Society in 1946 and offered to Kirklees Council in 1952, after it was rejected by Tate which, at the time, had felt Bacon not to have been an important artist. The gallery is currently closed for refurbishment and will be reopening in 2021.

Amanda Ansell

Amanda Ansell 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 seven years, she returned to her native Suffolk in 2006 to begin an artist residency at Firstsite, Colchester. The same year, a body of work was selected for exhibition at Kettles Yard, Cambridge and she was nominated for Jerwood Contemporary Painters.

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