‘Rank’: picturing the social order 1516 – 2009.Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
Preview Thursday 14th May 6 - 8pm
Exhibition dates 15th May - 11th July 2009
Who do we think ‘we’ are? ‘Rank’ asks: how have we imagined the shape of our society? It brings together nearly 100 contributors, putting masterpieces from almost all England’s national collections – the British Library, Tate, British Museum, V&A and the Arts Council Collection – next to images from the Working Class Movement Library, and those from numerous libraries and archives.
It places works by some of the greatest names in British art with new research from academic experts and public agencies, so that pictures of our myths and stereotypes our national life sit alongside those based on hard fact. All, though, seek to visualise the ways in which our societies is, and has been ordered and classified.
The exhibition will tour to the Grundy Art Gallery,
Blackpool, from 24 July - 12 September 2009.
The exhibition is accompanied by a 144 page fully illustrated catalogue with essays by the journalist Polly Toynbee, historian rofessor Keith Wrightson, geographer Professor Daniel Dorling, and sociologist Gordon Fyfe. Co-published with Art Editions North
and distributed by Cornerhouse Publications.
List of contributors in chronological order: (historical artists)
Fra. Didacus Valades (active 1570s)
Thomas More (1478 - 1535)
Ambrosius Holbein (c.1494 - c.1519)
Clement Walker (1595 - 1651)
Thomas Hobbes (1588 -1679)
with Abraham Bosse (c1602/4-1676)
John Overton (active 1630s)
John Goddard with Richard Dey (active 1650s)
John Lecester with John Hancock (c.1602 /4 - 1676)
Gillis van Tilborch (c.1625 -1678)
Gregory King (1648 - 1712)
Hubert-François Gravelot (1699 - 1773)
James Gillray (1756 - 1815)
Charles Williams (1793 - 1830)
William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
Charles Jameson Grant (active 1820s)
George Cruikshank (1792 -1878)
Ernest Jones (1819 -1869)
John Moore (active 1830s)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
J Dickinson (active 1830s)
Fred Ellis (1885 -1965)
R.J. Hamerton (1822 -1875)
John Leech (1817 - 1864)
Henry Mayhew (1812 -1887)
William Powell Frith (1819 -1909)
Sir John Tenniel (1820 -1914)
George Bernard O'Neill (1828 -1917)
General William Booth (1829 -1912)
Charles Booth (1840 -1916)
Gustave Doré (1832 -1883)
Walter Crane (1845 -1915)
Théophile Steinlen (1859 -1923)
'Cynicus' / Martin Anderson (1854 -1932)
Will Dyson (1880 -1938)
Eric Gill (1882 -1940)
List of contributors in chronological order continued (living artists):
Gerhard Richter (1932 -)
Alasdair Gray (1934 -)
Victor Burgin (1941 -)
Jenny Holzer (1950 -)
Dexter Dalwood (1960 -)
Simon Bedwell (1963 -)
Heath Bunting (1966 -)
Chad McCail (1961 -)
Evan Holloway (1967 -)
Misteraitch (1967 -)
Rory Macbeth (1968 -)
Markus Vater (1970 -)
Mustafa Hulusi (1971 - )
AOC Architecture (Tom Coward, Daisy Froud, Vincent Lacovara, Geoff Shearcroft) (b.1971 - 1974)
Josh On (1972 -)
Benrik (Ben Carey, b. 1973, Henrik Delehag, b.1973)
Mark Titchner (1973 -)
Daniela Rossell (1973 -)
Nina Beier (1976 -)
and Marie Lund (1975 -)
Eva Stenram (1976 -)
Ben Branagan (b.1978)
and Gareth Holt (b.1978)
Ant Macari (1976 -)
Darren Cullen (1983 -)
Adam Latham (1981 -)
Victoria Kochowski (1984 -)
Ruth Ewan (1980 -)
I Love Capitalism (active 2000s)
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