The Family Matters exhibition is now at its second GBAD venue, Museums Sheffield, under the title The Family in British Art. It will be travelling to Laing Gallery and Tate Britain later in the year.

In keeping with the GBAD spirit, the exhibition aims to start discussion and question how families in art have varied over time and locality. This spirit of debate has encouraged the exhibition to tackle the challenge of representing 21^st century ideas of family alongside historic and contemporary pieces from gallery collections.

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Here at the Great British Art Debate we are always keen to get creative about the ways in which we can debate identity, nationality and art. So it’s great to hear that Museums Sheffield is hosting a day’s worth of events dedicated to discussing how the work of the Blk Art Group addressed identity in relation to culture and politics in 1980s Britain and how these debates are still very much alive today.

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