Nigel Henderson

1917–1985

In Tate Britain

Spotlights: Vital Fragments: Nigel Henderson and the Art of Collage

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In Tate Britain

Walk Through British Art: 1940

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In Tate Liverpool

Constellations: L.S. Lowry

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Biography

Nigel Henderson (1 April 1917 - 15 May 1985) was an English documentary artist, and photographer.

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Artworks

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Nigel Henderson Untitled No. 8 (Shattered Glass)

1959

On display at Tate Britain part of Spotlights
Nigel Henderson, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Untitled (Study for Parallel of Life and Art)

1952

On display at Tate Liverpool part of Constellations
Nigel Henderson Chisenhale Road

1951

On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art
Nigel Henderson Collage

1949

On display at Tate Britain part of Spotlights
Nigel Henderson Bag-wash

1949–53

On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art
Nigel Henderson Head of a Man

1956

On display at Tate Britain part of Spotlights
Nigel Henderson Peter Samuels

1951
Nigel Henderson Collage for ‘Patio and Pavilion’ (the growth of plant forms)

1956

On display at Tate Britain part of Spotlights

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Artist as subject

John Wonnacott The Norwich School of Art

1982–4
Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.31 August 1935]

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Film and audio

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Look Closer

Nigel Henderson: An Independent Eye

Explore Nigel Henderson's experiments with photography and his documentary of the East End
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The Legacy of the Independent Group – Day 1: Session 3, Part 2

Between architecture and advertising, fine art and mass culture, film and technology, how can the theories and practices of the …
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The Legacy of the Independent Group – Day 1: Session 1, Part 3

Between architecture and advertising, fine art and mass culture, film and technology, how can the theories and practices of the …
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The Legacy of the Independent Group – Day 1: Session 3, Part 3 and Session 4

Between architecture and advertising, fine art and mass culture, film and technology, how can the theories and practices of the …
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The Legacy of the Independent Group – Day 1: Session 1, Part 6

Between architecture and advertising, fine art and mass culture, film and technology, how can the theories and practices of the …
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The Legacy of the Independent Group – Day 1: Session 1, Part 4

Between architecture and advertising, fine art and mass culture, film and technology, how can the theories and practices of the …
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The Legacy of the Independent Group – Day 1: Session 1, Part 7

Between architecture and advertising, fine art and mass culture, film and technology, how can the theories and practices of the …
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The Legacy of the Independent Group – Day 1: Session 1, Part 5

Between architecture and advertising, fine art and mass culture, film and technology, how can the theories and practices of the …
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The Legacy of the Independent Group – Day 1: Session 2

Between architecture and advertising, fine art and mass culture, film and technology, how can the theories and practices of the …
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The Legacy of the Independent Group – Day 1: Session 1, Part 1

Between architecture and advertising, fine art and mass culture, film and technology, how can the theories and practices of the …

Features

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Tate Etc

Lives of the Artists: Nigel Henderson

Louis Henderson

Louis Henderson on how the work of his great uncle, Nigel Henderson (1917–1985), still haunts the present
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Independent Group

The Independent Group (IG) were a radical group of young artists, writers and critics who met at the Institute of …
Tate Etc

New brutalist image: Nigel Henderson's photographs at Tate Britain

Nigel Henderson's photographs at Tate Britain
Tate Papers

Building and the Graphic Arts: Adrian Stokes at the ICA

Stephen Kite

Stephen Kite explores the relationship between architecture and the graphic arts in the milieus of the Institute of Contemporary Arts …
Tate Papers

Living in the Long Front

Julian Myers

This essay offers a history and critical evaluation of ideas put forward by the critic Lawrence Alloway in the late …
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Memory frames: Tate Archive

Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair visits the Tate archive and unearths the images of a photographer ‘trembling on the brink of life and …