Arts Council Collection

Profile

The Arts Council Collection supports artists in this country through the purchase and display of their work. Since it was founded in 1946, the Collection's acquisitions policy has always been characterised by a spirit of risk taking combined with an informed appraisal of current practice. As a consequence the Arts Council Collection is now the largest national loan collection of modern and contemporary British art in the world, and includes fine examples of work by all of this country's most prominent artists. It is the most widely circulated of all of Britain's national collections and can be seen in exhibitions in museums and galleries across the UK and abroad.

The Arts Council Collection is managed by the Southbank Centre, London, on behalf of Arts Council England and is based in London and at Longside, Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The base at Longside enables the Arts Council Collection team to extend its sculpture conservation and research programmes and to increase public access to the sculpture collection through increased lending and exhibition initiatives. A diverse and stimulating range of exhibitions from the Collection, including displays of some of the most recent acquisitions, can be seen in the adjacent Longside Gallery .

represented artists

Kenneth Armitage      Frank Auerbach      David Austen      Francis Bacon      Sarah Beddington      Peter Blake      Victor Burgin      Anthony Caro      Patrick Caulfield      Tony Cragg      Michael Craig-Martin      Adam Dant      Cathy de Monchaux      Richard Deacon      Peter Doig      Tracey Emin      Cerith Wyn Evans      Barry Flanagan      Lucian Freud      Anya Gallaccio      Liam Gillick      Antony Gormley      Paul Graham      Richard Hamilton      Mona Hatoum      Barbara Hepworth      Susan Hiller      Damien Hirst      David Hockney

Howard Hodgkin      Gary Hume      Callum Innes      Isaac Julien      Alan Kane      Anish Kapoor      Idris Khan      Leon Kossoff      Langlands & Bell      Brad Lochore      Richard Long      Sarah Lucas      Lisa Milroy      Henry Moore      Ben Nicholson      Chris Ofili      Julian Opie      Eduardo Paolozzi      Grayson Perry      Paula Rego      Bridget Riley      Yinka Shonibare      Bob & Roberta Smith      Mark Wallinger      Gillian Wearing      Rachel Whiteread      Bill Woodrow