Past
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Visual Politics
Recent Acquisitions by The Hyman Collection 10 Jan - 1 May 2022 This exhibition presents a curated selection of works from the Hyman Collection based on recent acquisitions. In tribute to the intersectional feminist bell hooks who does in December 2021, its title references one of her best known publications on visual art. The works included address such themes as history and memory, society and politics, sexuality and gender and encourage the viewer to create their own dialogues between works. Read more -
A Different Mirror
Photographs from the Hyman Collection. Photo Oxford Festival, Oxford 15 Oct - 15 Nov 2021 A Different Mirror presents a dialogue between two generations of socially engaged photographers from the pioneering work of Jo Spence and Alexis Hunter, grounded in 1970s feminism, to the recent projects of three young artists: Heather Agyepong, Eliza Hatch and Bindi Vora. Selected from The Hyman Collection, the private collection... Read more -
Jo Spence. From Fairytales to Photo Therapy
Photographs from the Hyman Collection at Arnolfini, Bristol 19 Dec 2020 - 20 Jun 2021 Spence has been an integral figure within photographic discourse from the 1970s onwards. Throughout her diverse projects she is well known for her highly politicised approach to photography and the representation of her own struggles with cancer. From Fairy Tales to Phototherapy focuses on the intersection between arts, health and... Read more -
A Picture of Health
Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection at Arnolfini, Bristol 14 Nov 2020 - 1 Jul 2021 The exhibition, which runs from 14 November to 21 February 2021, and its forthcoming programme have been co-curated by Creative Shift and Fresh Arts, Bristol's leading organisations, providing creative wellbeing activities, to adults who are experiencing or are vulnerable to, isolation and mental health challenges. A Picture of Health aims... Read more -
Modern Nature
Photographs from the Hyman Collection at the Hepworth Wakefield 13 Jul 2018 - 22 Apr 2019 This online exhibition is an expanded version of the show presented at the Hepworth Wakefield. It includes more recent acquisitions such as a series of works by John Davies in which he records the trees in an urban park threatened by a property development; constructed, conceptual views of nature by... Read more -
The Hyman Collection Donation
Yale Centre for British Art 16 Jan - 29 Mar 2018 The Yale Center for British Art has expanded its collection of photographs through a generous gift of 125 works from the Londonbased collectors Claire and James Hyman. The gift includes prints by famed British photographers Bill Brandt (1904–1983), Tony Ray-Jones (1941–1972), and Martin Parr (b. 1952), and it introduces works... Read more
