Tracey Emin, Paula Rego and Mat Collishaw exhibition opens today at the Foundling Museum
27 January, 2010
by: Spoonfed Arts Team
A major exhibition featuring works by Paula Rego, Tracey Emin and Mat Collishaw opens today at the Foundling Museum .
Three big guns of the contemporary art world have joined forces for the first time for this major exhibition at the Foundling Museum that opens today.
Tracey Emin, Paula Rego and Mat Collishaw are all artists of international repute, known for – amongst other things – their explorations of ideas surrounding infancy, motherhood, life and death.
Tracey Emin presents a series of discarded baby items in bronze that she first exhibited at the 2008 Folkstone Triennale; Mat Collishaw has produced a range of photographs of Indian street children with eighteenth century backdrops; and Paula Rego is showing life-size paintings, exploring the difficulties inherent in becoming a young mother.
Ever since the eighteenth century, when William Hogarth invited leading artists of the day to exhibit there, the Foundling Museum has become famous for championing vulnerable children and mothers and raising awareness of society's failings.
'Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin & Paula Rego: At the Foundling' continues until 9th May 2010.
Image credit: Mat Collishaw, 'Children of a Lesser God'
Watch a video of the artists talking about their works.
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