British Council Collection: My Yard

2 Oct-6 Dec 2009

Overview

Artists Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane curate the third selection of works from the British Council Collection. Their well-known preoccupation with popular culture trickles through their choices, which focus largely on a view of gritty urban Britain. Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane said, ‘This exhibition has ended up being about home. The subject may not be immediately recognizable though, (especially to anyone born after 1970) as in the 1980s the UK got a sort of TV makeover – a lick of paint and some up-lighters etc. but the works we are showing indicate a Britain just below the plasterboard of this ‘flip’ job, a draughty and slightly damp property with foundations that you feel connect it, back through mud and bones, to all you think of when you talk of British history.’