'UPROAR!' THE FIRST 50 YEARS OF THE LONDON GROUP OPENING

'Uproar!’: The First 50 Years of The London Group 1913-63 exhibition at the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum was opened by David Glasser, Chief Executive of Ben Uri, on 31st October 2013. The exhibition (1st November 2013 — 2nd March 2014) features artists and works which highlight each decade of the London Group: its Camden Town Group roots, the controversy of the early (particularly First World War) years, Bloomsbury domination in the 1920s; the strong showing of Jewish artists, women artists; Official War Artists; the participation of émigré artists during the 1930s-40s; the 'shadow of the right' during the 1930s, avant-garde sculptors, and the contribution of artists' groups, ranging from the Vorticists to the Surrealists, the Abstract-Creationists and the Euston Road School. Featured artists include ground-breaking early modernists such as Sickert, Fry, Gaudier-Brzeska, Nash, Wadsworth, and more recently, Hepworth, Moore, Chadwick and Kossoff, as well as less-known, but equally controversial, figures such as Eileen Agar, Rodrigo Moynihan and Jessica Dismorr.