Artangel announce launch of The Artangel Collection at Tate

Artangel announce launch of The Artangel Collection at Tate

08 March, 2011
by: Spoonfed Arts Team

Major new donation and commissioning programme announced.

Artangel today announced the launch of The Artangel Collection, a new initiative aimed at bringing moving image works to a wider UK audience. At a press conference this morning, Artangel Co-Directors James Lingwood and Michael Morris announced the project, which will see 21 film and video works to galleries and museums across the UK.

To mark the 20th anniversary of Artangel, nine existing moving image works will be donated to the Tate. These will join the seven Artangel-commissioned works already owned by Tate to form The Artangel Collection at Tate. The aim is to loan works from this collection to galleries and museums across the UK.

The Artangel Collection will also involve the commissioning of new works in collaboration with Ikon in Birmingham and the Whitworth Art gallery in Manchester – to the tune of £1 million over three years, with a quarter of this funding coming from the Arts Council through National Lottery funding and £150,000 from Esmée Fairbairn.

The press conference took place in the rather amusingly grand surroundings of the former Ladies Smoking Room at the recently renovated St Pancras Renaissance Hotel. A host of art world bigwigs were present, including Tate supremo Sir Nicholas Serota, Julie Lomax from the Arts Council and artists Douglas Gordon and Jeremy Deller, both of whom have been commissioned by Artangel in the past and whose work will form part of The Artangel Collection.

Artangel's recent high-profile projects include Seizure, Roger Hirons' work in which the interior of a flat in Elephant & Castle was lined with blue copper sulphate crystals [pictured above] and The Concise Dictionary of Dress, Judith Clark and Adam Phillips' work that opened up the archives of the V&A over at Blythe House.

The Artangel Collection comprises 21 film and video works by: Francis Alys, Richard Billingham, Jeremy Deller / Mike Figgis, Atom Egoyan, Douglas Gordon, Bethan Huws, Cameron Jamie, Steve McQueen, Tony Oursler, Paul Pfeiffer, Gregor Schneider and Catherine Yass.

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