Past Exhibitions
For a list of current exhibitions visit the Arts Council Collection website.
1942 Collection of oil paintings, watercolours and drawings
1944 The CEMA collection of oil paintings, watercolours and drawing by British Artists
1944 A Third Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings
1945 A Forth Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings
1946 CEMA Collection of oil paintings, watercolours and drawings
1947 CEMA Collection of watercolours and drawings
1947 A selection from the CEMA Collection of oil paintings (Part I)
1947 A selection from the CEMA Collection of oil paintings (Part II)
1950 The Arts Council Collection (Part I)
1950 The Arts Council Collection (Part II)
1952 The Arts Council Collection (Part I)
1952 The Arts Council Collection (Part II)
1952 The Arts Council Collection (Part III)
1952 The Arts Council Collection Wartime Purchases
1955 The Arts Council Collection: a selection from the oil paintings (Part I)
1955 The Arts Council Collection: a selection from the oil paintings (Part II)
1955 The Arts Council Collection drawings
1955 A selection from the Arts Council Collection paintings, drawings sculpture
1956 Etching from the Arts Council Collection
1958 The Arts Council Collection of Paintings and Drawings
1958 Towards Impressionism (Part I)
1958 After Impressionism (Part II)
1958 Romantic and abstract (Part III)
1958 Since the war (Part IV)
1958 Contemporary British Sculpture
1958 New Painting 58-61
1961 Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection
1963 Recent Trends in Painting
1964 New Painting 61 - 64
1966 British Painting before 1940
1966 British Painting 40 - 49
1966 British Painting 50 - 57
1968 Painting 64 - 67
1968 Sculpture 60 - 66 from the Arts Council Collection
1968 Sculpture 60 - 67 from the Arts Council Collection
1969 Arts Council Collection 1967 - 68
1970 Arts Council Paintings 68 - 70
1972 Eight Individuals
1972 Objects and Documents
1973 Square Collection
1973 Image Reality Superreality
1973 Beyond Painting and Sculpture
1974 Art as Thought Process
1974 11 Sculptors, one decade
1974 An Element of Landscape
1974 George Rodger
1975 Drawing of People
1975 New Work 1
1975 New Work 2
1975 Bert Hardy
1975 The Real Thing: an anthology of British photographers 1940 - 50
1975 Bill Brandt Early Photographs 1930 - 1942
1975 British Image 1
1976 Sculpture for the Collection
1976 The Human Clay
1976 Arts Council Collection 75/6 Exhibition
1976 Other Eyes
1977 Thurston Hopkins
1977 Traditional British Calendar Customs: photographs by Homer Sykes
1977 Edward Weston
1977 British Image 2
1977 John Blakemore- British Image 3
1977 New British Image - British Image 4
1978 The Mechanised Image
1978 Constructive Context
1978 A Free Hand
1978 Scale for Sculpture
1978 Perspectives on Landscape - British Image 5
1979 Lives
1979 Languages
1979 A Cold Wind Brushing the Temple
1980 - 81 Modern British Photography 1919 - 1939
1980 - 81 From Object to Object
1981 - 85 Constructed Images: Approaches to Modern Art III
1981 - 84 Romanticism Continued: Approaches to Modern Art IV
1981 - 82 Fragments Against Ruin, a Journey through Modern Art
1981 About 70 Photographs
1981 - 83 Books and Folios
1981 - 84 Andy Warhol, Portrait Screenprints 1965 - 80
1981 - 83 A Mansion of Many Chambers: Beauty and others Works
1982 - 89 The English: Photographs by Ian Berry
1982 Through Children's Eyes
1982 - 83 Anthony Caro
1982 - 83 Inner Worlds
1982 - 83 Through Children's Eyes: a fresh Look at Contemporary Art
1982 - 84 Private Views
1983 - 85 Room for Thought
1984 Arts Council Collection Acquisitions 1979 - 83 (Vol 2)
1984 The British Art Show: old allegiances and new directions 1979 - 84
1984 - 85 Four Rooms: Howard Hodgkin, Marc Camile Chaimowicz, Richard Hamilton and Anthony Caro
1984 Home and Abroad
1984 - 85 Questions about Sculpture
1984 What's New in the Arts Council Collection
1985 Beyond Appearances: sculpture for the visually handicapped and sighted
1985 - 86 Marketa Luskacova: Pilgrims
1986 - 90 Built Up Areas: urban landscapes from the Arts Council Collection
1987 Built-up Areas, Music/Dancing, Water
1987 - 89 The Experience of Landscape
1987 - 89 Human Relations
1987 - 89 Introducing with Pleasure
1987 - 90 Wild Creatures
1988 - 89 Changing Minds: looking at art through Older Children's Eyes
1988 - 89 Dreams, Growing Old, Running Jumping Standing Still, Ritual and Magic, Systems, Telling the Tale
1988 - 90 English Cathedrals: drawings by Dennis Creffield
1989 It's a Still Life
1990 Festival of Fifty-One
1991 Shocks to the System
1992 Ready, Steady, Go: Paintings of the Sixties
1993 Recent British Sculpture
1993 Pop Prints
1993 Prints from Wood
1993 Spotlight on David Hockney: We Two Boys Together Clinging
1993 Spotlight on Riochard Deacon: Kiss and Tell
1993 Spotlight on Tony Cragg: George and the Dragon
1993 Spotlight on Kathy Prendergast: Land
1993 Spotlight on Anish Kapoor: White Sand, Red Millet, Many Flowers
1993 Spotlight on Ben Nicholson: Four Paintings
1994 New Painting
1994 Art Unlimited: Multiples of the 1960's and 1990's
1994 Spotlight on Francis Bacon: Study for Portrait of Van Gogh
1994 Spotlight on Jacqui Poncelet: Carpet
1995 Patrick Caulfield: The Poems of Jules Laforgue
1995 Spotlight on William Tucker: Six Sculptures
1996 ACE! New Purchases
1996 Spotlight on Antony Gormley: Field for the British Isles
1998 Head First: Portraits
1998 Here to Stay: Purchases of the 1990's
1998 Spotlight on Gillian Wearing: 60 Minutes Silence
1999 Edward Weston
1999 Sublime: The Darkness and Light
1999 Spotlight on Terry Frost
1999 Spotlight on Prunella Clough
2001 Out of Line: Drawings
2001 Spotlight on Kenneth Martin
2002 Words
2002 Spotlight on Euan Uglow
2003 Bad Behaviour
2003 Spotlight on Douglas Gordon: Croque Mort
2004 Spotlight on Eduardo Paolozzi
2004 Bad Behaviour - more...
2004 Off the Beaten Track - more...
2005 Antony Gormley: Field for the British Isles - more...
2005 Size Matters - more...
2006 60: Sixty Years of Sculpture - more...
2006 How To Improve The World, 60 Years of British Art
2007 Hayley Newman - more...
2007 Janice Kerbel - more...
2007 Mark Lewis - more...
2007 No Such Thing As Society, Photography in Britain 1967-1987, from the British Council and Arts Council Collection
2008 Hilary Lloyd - more...
2008 Karla Black - more...
2008 Lucy Skaer - more...
2008 Tania Kovats - more...
2008 Toby Ziegler - more...
2009 Unpopular Culture and Nostalgia for the Bad Times - more...
