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Preparing for Underage Festival 2012

We’re in a mood for a celebration as we have been busy formulating plans with Tate Collectives for Underage Festival and they are coming along swimmingly! Last years festival was a sight to behold with blind-folded drawing, guerrilla gardening, badge …

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Migration Redefined: Inua Ellams in Conversation

Last week Tate Collectives and The Great British Art Debate spoke with Inua Ellams, a word and graphic artist, through a live twitter Q&A to ask his opinion on migration, Britishness and contemporary art practice. On reading back his reflections, …

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Questioning Inheritance in Art

‘The Family in British Art’ exhibition is in its last week at Sheffield Museums before it moves to Laing Gallery in May. In its current form, the exhibition has 5 themes which group works under the titles inheritance, childhood, couples …

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The Great British Art Debate at Camp Bestival 2012

After a ragingly successful tour of the festival circuit last year, which managed to include a giant collaborative watercolour painting and a heated debate with Gavin Turk at Camp Bestival, militant craft-making and take-away animal heads at Underage Festival, as …

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My Granddad’s Car, Identity and Britishness

The Great British Art Debate is always searching for artists who are working in and around Britishness and art, nationality and identity. With this in mind, we were delighted to be introduced to artists Sayed Hasan and IAMKSO, two contemporary …

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Diversity in The Family in British Art

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 …

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