Kate Adams, Director, CEO, and co-founder of Project Art Works, is joining the Art Council Collection Acquisitions Committee.
The Acquisitions Committee make recommendations on purchasing works of art that reflect artistic practice in Britain. They are made up of a changing group of external advisors and eight internal members.
The internal members of the Acquisitions Committee are Alona Pardo, Acting Director, Arts Council Collection, with Ralph Rugoff (Director, Hayward Gallery), and Peter Heslip (Director, Visual Arts, Arts Council England). Sir Nicholas Serota, Chair of Arts Council England, acts as Chair to the Committee.
The external advisers to the Acquisitions Committee usually include an artist, a writer, and a curator, and are appointed for a fixed two-year tenure. There is also an external advisor from one of the Arts Council Collection’s partner galleries; this position is for one year only.
“I am really delighted to be joining the Arts Council Collection Acquisitions Committee. The broad range of British artists represented in the Collection reflects its impressive ethos and values and the incredible diversity of contemporary British art. As an artist, curator and director of a leading supported studio, I will bring experience of the quality and power of collective making and co-creation and very much look forward to the next 2 years of discovery and discourse.” Kate Adams.
Browse the Arts Council Collection here.
In 2023 work by artist Sharif Persaud was acquired for the Arts Council Collection. Read more about the acquisition here.
Image: Gangrene, Sharif Persaud, 2016