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Tate Britain Exhibition

Prunella Clough

24 March – 27 August 2007
Prunella Clough Wasteland 1979

Prunella CloughWasteland 1979

© Estate of Prunella Clough 2007 All Rights Reserved DACS

Prunella Clough Wasteland 1979

Prunella Clough Wasteland 1979

Throughout her long career British painter Prunella Clough was fascinated by the urban and industrial landscape. Her paintings captured the working lives of labourers and scrutinised the surfaces and textures of the contemporary environment. She transformed seemingly commonplace subjects – lorries and factory yards, the detritus of street and gutter, the bright colours of plastics – into images of compelling mystery and beauty.

Prunella Clough Samples

Prunella Clough Samples

Clough's first solo exhibition was in 1947; in 1999, the year of her death, she won the prestigious Jerwood Painting Prize. Athough critically acclaimed as one of the most interesting British artists of the postwar period and highly respected among her peers, Clough remains virtually unknown to the wider public.

This exhibition focuses on Clough's figurative paintings of the 1940s and 50s and her late abstract work, highlighting the remarkable consistency that underpins the artist’s distinctive body of work. Bringing together key paintings such as Lowestoft Harbour of 1951, painted for the Festival of Britain, and the majestic series of landscapes of her final year, the exhibition provides a rare opportunity to reappraise Prunella Clough's place in twentieth-century British art.

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24 March – 27 August 2007

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