British Art – Convergence

British Art – Convergence brings together more than 100 works by 74 artists, principally from two major private Portuguese collections, CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian and the Berardo Collection. These works are complemented by relevant external loans from Britain and France to further contextualise a narrative foregrounding the significant cross-national transference that distinguished British art practice in this century.

The question of what constitutes British art is always in flux. The past two decades have seen a major reassessment and foregrounding of the immigrant and diasporic influence on ‘British’ art as part of a move to decolonise the canon. The exhibition demonstrates Britain’s significant artistic dialogues with France, America and Portugal, via both well and lesser-known artists, connected not only by artistic movements and practices, art school training and exhibition platforms, but also through shared personal histories including national and ethnic identities, émigré trajectories and experiences.

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