Artworks

This publication and exhibition aims to tell the story of the Polish community in Britain and Poland's recent turbulent history through the lens of art. With London's special status as the former seat of the Polish Government-in-Exile for half the twentieth century, and Britain's role as the country where many Polish migrants chose to settle, the publication and exhibition will investigate the extraordinary story of a peripatetic nation which never gave up dreams of freedom, whilst proudly holding onto patriotic images steeped in national history, culture and religion. The publication and exhibition will bring together a century of artworks and archival material by both celebrated and lesser-known Polish-born artists from the Ben Uri Collection (over 1300 artworks in total) and from Polish institutions and private collections.

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