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Art UK is an art education charity and digital space that connects everyone with the UK's public art collection.

Art UK is a cultural education charity. We enable global audiences to learn about the UK’s national art collection. Our website is the showcase for art in every UK public collection and is a collaboration between over 3,200 British institutions. The art you see on Art UK is for everyone – for enjoyment, learning and research. These artworks are in museums, universities, town halls, hospitals and o

ther civic buildings across the country. As 80% of this art is not on public view, Art UK allows you to see art that you would not normally be able to visit. Art UK is free for all to enjoy. It is through the generosity of a wide range of public and private funders that we are able to make this possible.

Walter Sickert was born in 1860 🎈He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in t...
31/05/2026

Walter Sickert was born in 1860 🎈

He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the mid and late 20th century.

He was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London, read more about the group 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-camden-town-group-modernity-and-misogyny

1) 'Camden Town Portrait' 📷 Amgueddfa Cymru

2) 'Saint Rémy' 📷 Jerwood Collection

3) 'Gallery Box at the New Bedford Music Hall, London' 📷 Museum of London

By Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942)

29/05/2026

National Biscuit Day calls for a celebration 🍪

Luckily, Art UK has art for days. Learn a little more about this still life painting with Verity Babbs.

'Still Life with a Biscuit Tin and Pots' by Roger Eliot Fry (1866–1934) 📷 Walker Art Gallery

We would love to know what you think of Art UK 💭This survey will take 15 minutes to complete, and your responses will he...
28/05/2026

We would love to know what you think of Art UK 💭

This survey will take 15 minutes to complete, and your responses will help us focus our work on your needs 👉 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GSLW9T2

You will also have a chance to win one of twenty £25 Amazon vouchers. A big thank you for doing this from all of us at Art UK!

28/05/2026

A vibrant new mural in Colchester! 🎨

Firstsite Colchester's Young Art Kommunity, Firstsite YAK, have been working on a project to create a colourful mural with Scotty from Brave Arts 🙌

Over the past weeks, the group explored spray can techniques, learned about Scotty’s practice, and brought their ideas to life through this incredible mural. These clips capture the group in action on their last workshop.

A huge thank you to the YAKkers, Scotty from Brave Arts, and Firstsite for an inspiring project 💗

This activity is part of our murals digitisation and engagement programme, read more 👉 https://artuk.org/about/murals-project

✨ Last chance to buy 🖼️Black Outdoor Art is a community art project and social initiative, that uses outdoor advertising...
27/05/2026

✨ Last chance to buy 🖼️

Black Outdoor Art is a community art project and social initiative, that uses outdoor advertising as a platform for Black British creativity.

👉 Leaving the Art UK Shop at the end of May, now is your last chance to buy a print from Black Outdoor Art: https://shop.artuk.org/marketplace/seller/profile/shop/black-outdoor-art-2898

Black Outdoor Art commissions, produces and displays artwork created by the Black British creative community, from artists and designers, to illustrators, around themes of racism, equality, empowerment, and lived experience in the UK.

1) 'Diversity and Equality and Inclusion and Empathy'

2) 'Mary Seacole'

By Greg Bunbury (b.1976) © Greg Bunbury. 📷 Black Outdoor Art

27/05/2026

Come with us to discover murals in Belfast's city centre 🎨

It's thought that nearly 2,000 murals have been recorded in Belfast since the 1970s.

Make sure to look down alleyways and side streets – around every corner there's a new mural waiting to surprise you!

👉 If you love public art, you can explore over 6,000 murals from across the UK at https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/view_as/grid/search/2026--work_type:mural

Artists featured:
Smug
Studio Giftig
Asbestos
Ana Fish
Kitsune Jolene
Lidia Cao
ROA
Phlegm
Annatomix
Sancho Medina
Wee Nuls
HERA
Visual Waste
Conor Harrington
Sr Papa Chango
EMIC
Kev Largey
Friz
Woskerski
Glen Molloy
BustArt
JamTwo
Mark Malarko

© the artists. 🎥 Emma Taggart / Art UK

Getting ready for the beach in this heatwave? Art history can give you a few handy tips for inspiration ☀️For centuries,...
26/05/2026

Getting ready for the beach in this heatwave? Art history can give you a few handy tips for inspiration ☀️

For centuries, artists have celebrated the joy of n**e bathing.

It’s all about letting go and letting it all hang out, read more in this story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/letting-it-all-hang-out-the-joy-of-n**e-bathing

1) 'Bathers, 1926' by Thomas Saunders Nash (1891– 1968) © the artist's estate. 📷 Manchester Art Gallery

2) 'Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses)' by Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) 📷 National Gallery

3) 'Sketch for 'Morning Splendour'' by Henry Scott Tuke (1858–1929) 📷 Poly Falmouth

4) 'On the Beach, Spanish Bathers' by Bernard Meninsky (1891–1950) 📷 Pallant House Gallery

We're hiring 📣We're looking for a Digital Content Editor based in Wales to lead on the creation of powerful, inclusive c...
26/05/2026

We're hiring 📣

We're looking for a Digital Content Editor based in Wales to lead on the creation of powerful, inclusive content that highlights the richness and diversity of Welsh art and collections.

Apply by 9am on Wednesday 3rd June 2026 👉 https://artuk.org/about/jobs

26/05/2026

🍫 What does a chocolate box have to do with sculpture? 🤔

In this episode of Your Art, Unlocked, art dealer and art historian Dickon Hall visits F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, to unlock a surreal, headless sculpture by Frederick Edward McWilliam 👉 https://rss.com/podcasts/artuk/

Curator Dr Riann Coulter explains that McWilliam used many found objects in his work, including things we might think of as rubbish. 'Chocolate Soldier ' was in fact cast from the insides of a chocolate box – so this is no ordinary military figure!

'Your Art, Unlocked' is brought to you by Art UK and supported by Bloomberg Connects The series explores unexpected objects in museum collections.

🎧 Listen and follow each week wherever you get your podcasts.

'Chocolate Soldier' by F. E. McWilliam (1909–1992) © copyright of the FE McWilliam Estate. 📷 F. E. McWilliam Gallery and Studio

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