12:00pm-5:00pm Wednesday-Sunday every week from Wednesday 18 February until Sunday 19 April
Times shown are in GMT (UTC +0) up to the 26th March. For events on or after 27th March times are in BST (UTC +1).
The Heong Gallery at Downing College, The Heong Gallery Downing College Regent Street, CB2 1DQ
This exhibition brings together works by contemporary artists and examples of Tudor-era objects that have provoked and inspired them.
The Tudor period brought the advent of many ‘modern’ ideas in the realms of politics, religion and society; it also witnessed the first two English queens regnant, and the rise of England’s imperial and colonial ambitions abroad. Above all, it produced some of the most exciting and iconic images and objects in British art of any period. By creating conversations across time, Tudor Contemporary explores themes such as: the representation of power; bodily presentation and bodily regulation; artistic responses to gender, race and ‘otherness’ in the context of British and imperial histories; magic, technology and hidden forces; the question of artistic artifice and art’s (in)ability to give access to ‘real’ historical subjects.
As well as featuring loans from local historical collections, the exhibition will include work by several contemporary artists including: The Singh Twins, Mat Collishaw, Natasja Kensmil, Serena Korda, Chan-Hyo Bae, Stephen Farthing and Jane Partner. Their responses to, and re-imaginings of, significant Tudor figures and artistic genres enable the past to speak in urgent and exciting ways to present audiences.
Opening hours during the exhibition are 12–5pm, Wednesday to Sunday. Entry is free.
