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Perry, Grayson
Spirit Jar
1994
Boyce, Sonia
Lay back, keep quiet and think of what made Britain so great
1986
Hatoum, Mona
+ and -
1994
Paterson, Katie
Totality
2015
Anderson, Hurvin
Is it okay to be black?
2015
Lucas, Sarah
Self Portrait with Fried Eggs (from Self Portraits series 1990-98)
1996
Shonibare, MBE, Yinka
The Crowning
2007
Bacon, Francis
Head VI
1949
Freud, Lucian
Girl in a Green Dress
1954
Bell, Graham
Baylham Mill
1940
Hart, Emma
Fork Face
2017
Mellors, Nathaniel
Hippy Dialectics
2010
Ofili, Chris
Popcorn Shells
1995
Hiorns, Roger
Nunhead
2004
Wearing, Gillian
60 Minutes Silence
1996
Hockney, David
We Two Boys Together Clinging
1961
Caro, Anthony
Slow Movement
1965
Wardill, Emily
Born Winged Animals and Honey Gatherers of the Soul
2006
Riley, Bridget
Movement in Squares
1961
Warren, Rebecca
Regine
2007
Perry, Grayson
Expulsion from Number 8 Eden Close
2012
Hodgkin, Howard
Indian Room, from 5 Rooms
1968
Cragg, Tony
New Stones - Newton's Tones
1978
Hepworth, Barbara
Icon
1957
Tillmans, Wolfgang
Gedser
2004
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Birmingham MPs select artworks in new ACC National Partners show, Women Power Protest
5 Nov 2018
Ahead of the opening of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery’s new National Partners exhibition, Women Power Protest, MPs Jess Phillips (MP for Birmingham Yardley), Preet Kaur Gill (MP for Birmingham Edgbaston) and Dame Caroline Spelman (MP for Meriden) visited the museum to choose their favourite artworks.
The three MPs were given a sneak peek at the exhibition which was programmed as part of the Arts Council Collection’s (ACC) National Partnership Programme and brings together artworks from the...