The Priseman Seabrook Collection is a British-based

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founded by the artist

Robert Priseman Robert Priseman (born in Spondon, Derbyshire in 1965) is a British artist, collector, writer, curator and publisher who lives and works in Essex, England. Over 200 works of art by Priseman are held in art museum collections around the world in ...

and his wife Ally Seabrook. It is composed of three distinct categories: 21st Century British Painting, 20th and 21st Century British Works on Paper and Contemporary Chinese Works on Paper, and is a collection partner of

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. The Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting is the only art collection in the United Kingdom dedicated to painting produced in Britain after the year 2000 and was exhibited publicly for the first time in 2014 at the

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while works from the other two elements of the collection were first displayed at the Minories Art Gallery in

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during 2016. Subsequent exhibition loans have been made to the

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, The Cut,

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, Artall, Nanjing,

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and

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Art Museum, China. The focus of each collection is placed on painting and drawing made by hand, with the emphasis being designed to explore and question the relevance of the handmade work of art in the period of the

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History

The collection was created in 2014 and contains over 180 works of art by painters including

Iain Andrews Iain Andrews (born 1974) is a contemporary English painter. He lives and works in Manchester, England. He received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA Hons) in Fine Art and a Master of Arts (MA) in Painting from University College of Wales, Ab ...

Amanda Ansell Amanda Ansell (born 1976) is an English artist. She studied Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts between 1995 and 1998 and then at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1998 to 2000. After living in London for seve ...

Claudia Böse Claudia Böse (born 1963 in Nueremberg) is an abstract painter and has been based in Suffolk, England, since 2002. Böse graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in 1996 and is a member of the artists network Kunstnetz International. Her work ...

, Julian Brown, Simon Burton,

Simon Carter Simon Carter Ltd. Is a British fashion design company specialising in men's accessories and menswear, founded in London in 1985 by its eponymous director. Whilst training as an immunologist in the early 1980s Simon Carter became inspired by the ...

, Lucy Cox,

Pen Dalton Penelope Dalton is an artist, critic and writer. Education Dalton trained at Goldsmiths, University of London and Brighton University and gained a PhD in Creative studies from Plymouth University in 2008. Career Dalton taught studio practice ...

Alan Davie James Alan Davie (28 September 1920 – 5 April 2014) was a Scottish painter and musician. Biography Davie was born in Grangemouth, Scotland in 1920, the son of Elizabeth (née Turnbull) and James William Davie, an art teacher and painter who ...

Nathan Eastwood Nathan Eastwood was born in Barrow-in-Furness, England in 1972. He graduated from Byam Shaw School of Art in 2009. Eastwood was a finalist in the 2007 'Celeste Art Prize' and won the inaugural 'East London Painting Prize' in 2014. He paints ev ...

, Tracy Emin,

Lucian Freud Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. His early career as a painter was inf ...

Terry Greene Terry Greene is an artist living and working in West Yorkshire. He received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Art & Design from Bradford College and a Master of Arts (MA) in Theory of Practice from Leeds Metropolitan University (now Leeds Beckett Univ ...

Susan Gunn Susan Gunn is a British artist. She was born in present-day Greater Manchester, England in 1965, and studied at Norwich University of the Arts where she was awarded a First Class BA Honours in Fine Art Painting in 2004. In 2006 she was awarded t ...

Susie Hamilton Susie Hamilton (born 10 August 1950) is an English artist. She lives and works in London and is represented by Paul Stolper Gallery. Early life and education Hamilton, born 10 August 1950, studied painting at St Martins School of Art and By ...

Alex Hanna Alex Hanna (born 1964) is an English artist. He studied Fine Art at Sunderland Polytechnic from 1983 to 1986. His paintings display arrangements of disposable packaging and objects which have little or no material value. These objects are arrang ...

David Hockney David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English Painting, painter, Drawing, draughtsman, Printmaking, printmaker, Scenic design, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considere ...

, Marguerite Horner,

Linda Ingham Linda Ingham (born 1964 in Cleethorpes, England) is a British artist who studied European Humanities before achieving an MA in Fine Art from Lincoln University of Art, Architecture & Design in 2007. A member of the artist led group Contemporary ...

Matthew Krishanu Matthew Krishanu was born in Bradford, England in 1980. He graduated from The University of Exeter with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and English Literature in 2001 and completed a master's degree in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University Col ...

Andrew Litten Andrew Litten is a Cornwall-based English artist born in 1970 in Aylesbury, UK. His paintings have been exhibited in the United Kingdom, including the Tate Modern in London, China, USA, Germany, Australia, Mexico, Poland and Italy. Litten attend ...

Cathy Lomax Cathy Lomax (born 1963) is a London based artist, curator and director of Transition Gallery. She is mainly known for her Figurative art, figurative paintings which often focus on the construction, codification and subversion of femininity and ar ...

, Paula MacArthur, David Manley, Nicholas Middleton, Paul Nash, Stephen Newton, Mandy Payne,

Alison Pilkington Alison Pilkington (born 1967 in Sligo, Ireland) is an Irish artist. She graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art Painting and Printmaking from Sligo RTC in 1989 and with a BA Hons in Fine Art Painting from The National College of Art and Design, Du ...

, John Piper,

Eric Ravilious Eric William Ravilious (22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942) was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He grew up in Sussex, and is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs, Castle Hedingham and othe ...

Greg Rook Greg Rook (born 1971 in London) is an English painter, known for contemporary figurative paintings capturing the hopes, dreams and successes as well as the disappointments, disillusionment and disasters that radical departures from home life and ...

Colin Self Colin E Self (born 1941 in Rackheath, Norfolk) is an English Pop Artist whose work has addressed the theme of Cold War politics. As a student at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1961 to 1963 Colin Self received encouragement for his drawing ...

Stephen Snoddy Stephen Snoddy (born 1959) is a British artist and gallery director. Career Snoddy trained as a painter at Belfast College of Art where he graduated in 1983 with an MA in fine art. Snoddy moved to Manchester in 1986 and graduated with a Post ...

Graham Sutherland Graham Vivian Sutherland (24 August 1903 – 17 February 1980) was a prolific English artist. Notable for his paintings of abstract landscapes and for his portraits of public figures, Sutherland also worked in other media, including printmakin ...

Judith Tucker Judith Tucker (1960 – 13 November 2023) was a British artist and academic. She completed a BA in Fine Arts at the Ruskin School of Art, St Anne's College, Oxford, (1978–81) an MA in Fine Arts (1997–98) and a PhD in Fine Arts at the U ...

, Julie Umerle and

Mary Webb Mary Gladys Webb (25 March 1881 – 8 October 1927) was an English romance novelist and poet of the early 20th century, whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people whom she knew. Her ...

. The core of the initial collection was formed from donations, painting swaps and small scale purchases, with the aim of finding and exhibiting more obscure artists alongside those with established reputations. This has been further added to with the annual purchase of the winning painting from the 'Contemporary British Painting Prize' which then enters the Priseman Seabrook collection. In 2017 the charity

who enable the public to see images of all the approximately 210,000 oil paintings in public ownership in the United Kingdom via catalogues and a website made The Priseman Seabrook Collection a partner.

References

External links

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