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Paul Montem Clarke, year of migration to the UK: 1935, born: 1915 Nova Scotia, Canada - died: 1999 Stoke-on-Trent, England

Find out more about Paul Montem Clarke by clicking the link to our Research Unit :
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Image 1: Paul Montem Clarke, Portrait of a Malay Girl, Mary, 1958, © the copyright holder. Image credit: The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Image 2: Paul Montem Clarke, In the Bottle Oven, © the copyright holder. Image credit: The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Image 3: Paul Montem Clarke, The Merry Wives, 1949, © the copyright holder. Image credit: The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

Paul de Monchaux, year of migration to the UK: 1955, born: 1934 Montreal, Canada

Find out more about Paul de Monchaux by clicking the link to our Research Unit:
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Image 1: Paul de Monchaux, PARTITA, 2023, © the artist
Image 2: Paul de Monchaux, HATTERAS 2020, © the artist
Image 3: Paul de Monchaux, COMPASS 2020, © the artist

This week we are highlighting artists from Canada in our collection. Our Buru research database (buru.org.uk) as well as collection site (benuricollection.org.uk) contains significant information about various artists from the country.

Follow along as we share stories and works by remarkable figures including: Paul de Monchaux, Paul Montem Clarke, Percyval Tudor-Hart, Austin Cooper, Eugenie Shinkle and Ben Tobias!

Image 1: Paul de Monchaux, HATTERAS 2020, © the artist
Image 2: Paul Montem Clarke, Portrait of a Malay Girl, Mary, 1958, © the copyright holder. Image credit: The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Image 3: Percyval Tudor-Hart, Evening in Huntingdonshire. Image credit: Birmingham Museums Trust (CC0)⠀
Image 4: Austin Cooper, United Kingdom Machinery at a South African Mine, 1930, Image credit: Manchester Art Gallery (CC BY-NC-ND)
Image 5: Eugenie Shinkle, Siegfried, 2022, © the artist⠀
Image 6: Ben Tobias, Café Zeus, Berlin, © Ben Tobias estate / Bridgeman images.

Zory Shahrokhi, Born: 1963 Tehran, Iran

Find out more about Zory Shahrokhi by clicking the links to our Research Unit and Collection:
https://bit.ly/45ce6pn
https://bit.ly/4jbHMsL

Image 1: Zory Shahrokhi, Swallow (from Flying), c. 2015, © The artist
Image 2: Zory Shahrokhi, Revolution Street 2, 2019, © The artist
Image 3: Zory Shahrokhi, Revolution Street 2, 2019, © The artist

Reza Aramesh, year of migration to the UK: 1986, born: 1970 Ahwaz, Iran

Find out more about Reza Aramesh by clicking the link to our Research Unit:
https://bit.ly/49aizu3

Image 1: Reza Aramesh, Site of the Fall: Study of the Renaissance Garden (Action 219: At 6:30 am, Monday 8 December 1969), 2023. © the artist. Photo credit: Nicola Gnesi
Image 2: Reza Aramesh, Action 143, 2015, © the artist⠀
image 3: Reza Aramesh, Action 165: Study of the Head as Cultural Artefact, 2023, © the artist

Samira Abbassy, year of migration to the UK: 1967, born: 1965 Ahwaz, Iran

Find out more about Samira Abbassy by clicking the link to our Research Unit:
https://bit.ly/3KHGHft

Image 1: Samira Abbassy, Floral Transfusion, © the artist⠀
Image 2: Samira Abbassy, Reincarnated Fears, © the artist⠀
Image 3: Samira Abbassy, Transfiguration, © the artist

Soheila Sokhanvari, year of Migration to the UK: 1978, born: 1964 Shiraz, Iran

Find out more about Soheila Sokhanvari by clicking the link to our Research Unit:
https://bit.ly/496x95M

Image 1: Soheila Sokhanvari, Hey, baby I'm a star, © Soheila Sokhanvari
Image 2: Soheila Sokhanvari, Addicted to Love, © Soheila Sokhanvari
Image 3: Soheila Sokhanvari, The love addict, © Soheila Sokhanvari

Shirazeh Houshiary, year of migration to the UK: 1974

Find out more about Shirazeh Houshiary by clicking the link to our Research Unit:
https://bit.ly/3MFs1y3

Image 1: Shirazeh Houshiary, Effuse, 2017, © the artist
Image 2: Shirazeh HoushiaryThe, Big Picture, 2020, © the artist
Image 3: Shirazeh Houshiary, Pieta, 2021, © the artist

Mohammad Barrangi, year of migration to the UK: 2017, born: 1988 Rasht, Iran

Find out more about Mohammad Barrangi by clicking the link to our Research Unit:
https://bit.ly/4p7MWar

Image 1: Mohammad Barrangi, While Everyone Slept (Dreamscape #3), 2022, © the artist. Image credit: ADVOCARTSY
Image 2: Mohammad Barrangi, Fantasyland #11, 2022, © the artist. Image credit: ADVOCARTSY
Image 3: Mohammad Barrangi, Untitled no. 64, 2020, © the artist. Image credit: ADVOCARTSY

Advocartsy

Explore and read about the richly diverse Jewish, refugee, and immigrant contributions shaping British visual culture - from 1900 to today.

This week at Ben Uri Gallery and Museum:

Artist of the Week: NIRVEDA ALLECK (1975- )
Virtual Exhibition: THE ANTHONY RUDOLF COLLECTION: WORKS GIVEN TO HIM BY THE LATE PAULA REGO
Artwork Spotlight: PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN BY ALBERT ABRAMOVITZ (1879-1963)
Personality Feature: MUMTAZ KARIMJEE (1950- )
Essay: REPRESENTATIONS OF JEWS AND JEWISHNESS IN ENGLISH PAINTING BY THE LATE DR. PETER GROSS
Podcast: BEN URI’S FAMOUS GHETTO THEATRE BY DAVID BOMBERG
Video: HAUNTED IMAGES: THE WAR ART OF LAURA KNIGHT AND PETER HOWSON

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Read here: https://bit.ly/4aFPgBH

This week we are highlighting artists from Iran in our collection. Our Buru research database (buru.org.uk) as well as collection site (benuricollection.org.uk) contains significant information about various artists from the country.

Follow along as we share stories and works by remarkable figures including: Mohammad Barrangi, Shirazeh Houshiary, Soheila Sokhanvari, Reza Aramesh and Zory Shahrokhi!

Image 1: Mohammad Barrangi, Fantasyland #11, 2022, © the artist. Image credit: ADVOCARTSY
Image 2: Shirazeh Houshiary, Effuse, 2017, © the artist
Image 3: Soheila Sokhanvari, Hey, baby I'm a star, © Soheila Sokhanvari⠀
Image 4: Samira Abbassy, Floral Transfusion, © the artist
Image 5: Reza Aramesh, Site of the Fall: Study of the Renaissance Garden (Action 219: At 6:30 am, Monday 8 December 1969), 2023. © the artist. Photo credit: Nicola Gnesi⠀
Image 6: Zory Shahrokhi, Swallow (from Flying), c. 2015, © The artist

Mordechai Moreh, born: 1937, Baghdad, Iraq

Find out more about Mordechai Moreh by clicking the link to our Collection:
https://bit.ly/3L5WHYB

Image: Wooden-Horse, 1983, © Mordechai Moreh