Gwen John
Foster, Alicia (2010) Gwen John. In: Grand National / Art from Britain (Contemporary British Art). Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, pp. 311-314. ISBN 9788299834209
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Alicia Foster was commissioned to write this essay to a survey show of British artists, both historical and contemporary, which explored their work in the context of shifting ideas of national identity, and in an international context.
The essay on the earliest artist to be included, servered to loacte the artist, and the exhibition, within the context of national identity and culutral border crossings, and brought the idea of British art and its complex history to a Norwegian audience.
The exhibition Grand National took place at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Fabrikkgata 11 B
NO-3320, Norway between
9 May – 3 October 2010.
The exhibition catalogue of which the essay on Gwen John is a part has text in Norwegian and English.
Grand National is the most extensive exhibition of works by British artists to be held in Norway in well over a decade.
Artists in the exhibition:
Annie Attridge /BANK / Glenn Brown / Lynn Chadwick / Spartacus Chetwynd / Chrome Hoof / Marcus Coates / Keith Coventry / Shezad Dawood / Jeremy Deller / Jack Duplock / Angus Fairhurst / Saul Fletcher / Gwen John / Dryden Goodwin / Douglas Gordon / Paul Graham / Derek Jarman / Isaac Julien / Emma Kay / Le Gun / Alastair MacKinven / Andrew Mania / Cornelia Parker / Mark Wallinger / Rebecca Warren
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