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Two sculptural works by Hayley Tompkins acquired for Touchstones Rochdale

The acquisition of 'Untitled' (2015) and 'Chair' (2013) supports the museum’s ongoing programme of using contemporary art to newly contextualise and reinvigorate elements of their social history collection Read more
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CAS Annual Award Winner Elizabeth Price’s new work opens at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

The Daily Telegraph described the two-screen digital video as "the artwork of the year" Read more
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Sara Barker work acquired for The Whitworth, The University of Manchester

At the boundary between sculpture and painting, Sea Heaves in a Glass, 2015, will be going on show at The Whitworth from 10 March 2016. Read more
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Nathaniel Mellors’ most ambitious film to date opens at the Harris Museum, Preston

Mellors won the CAS Annual Award in 2014 and has created an absurdist drama that uses the control of language as its core theme. Read more
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Hito Steyerl film acquired for GoMA, the first work by the artist to enter a UK Collection

Abstract (2012) commemorates a childhood friend of Steyerl’s who became a revolutionary and was killed in the Kurdish region of Turkey in 1998 when fighting for the PKK. Read more
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Natalie Dower’s ‘Red Flyer’ (1989) is Reunited with Mead Gallery, Warwick

Last year, the Contemporary Art Society acquired a significant work by Natalie Dower for the Mead Gallery, University of Warwick Art Collection. The founding collection of the University of Warwick was a group of abstract, Read more

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Two Significant Films by Ben Rivers Acquired For Royal Pavilion & Museum, Brighton & Hove, and Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

'Ah, Liberty!' (2008) and 'Origin of The Species' (2008) both capture contemplative portraits of individuals living at the margins of society. Read more
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Recent Acquisition of ‘Production Line, 2015’ Breaks Boundaries in Conventional Museum Collecting

The work is ephemeral, almost a performance, and will only exist in all three collections as an archive which includes time-lapse photography and film. Read more
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Three drawings by David Shrigley purchased for Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford

The Contemporary Art Society has purchased three drawings by Turner Prize nominee David Shrigley as a gift for Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford. The works can be viewed at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery from Friday 29 November in anticipation Read more

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Recent Gifts, Acquisitions and Bequests: August 2012

Mary Redmond, commissioned for Paisley Museum & Art Galleries, and Laure Prouvost, acquired for Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester. Read more
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Recent Gifts, Acquisitions and Bequests

Eva Rothschild for the Hepworth Wakefield and Elizabeth Magill for Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens Read more
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Recent Gifts, Acquisitions and Bequests

Andrew Kerr for the Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery, University of Glasgow and Keith Vaughn to collections across the UK Read more
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Recent Acquisitions, Gifts and Bequests

Kerry Tribe, The Last Soviet, acquired for the Imperial War Museum, London and John Smith, The Black Tower acquired for the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull Read more
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Recent Acquisitions, Gifts and Bequests

Co-acquired for five national museums and galleries Read more
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Recent Acquisitions, Gifts and Bequests

Eric and Jean Cass have dedicated over 35 years of their lives to supporting artists Read more
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