People Watching

Over a hundred years of British portraiture with The Ingram Collection and Dorset Museum & Art Gallery

Exploring the concept of image and portraiture in British art, ‘People Watching’ will feature approximately 50 works of sculpture, paintings, drawings, and photography from 1915 to the present day. These internationally significant works of art from The Ingram Collection of Modern British Art will be showcased alongside our own collection, some of which have never been publicly displayed before.

Represented artists include Dame Elisabeth Frink, Robert Duckworth Greenham, Dame Barbara Hepworth, Anita Klein, Kofi Perry, Dod Procter, David Remfry, and Bridget Riley. The exhibition will explore how artists continued to develop portraiture into the 20th and 21st centuries, and how the idea of what a portrait can be has changed. It will examine self-portraits, portraits of people at work or leisure, how artists have captured their family members, and how they have utilised portraiture in fantastical and imaginative creations. Whether quiet and reflective or playful and provocative, each portrait invites you to consider what it really means to look — and be looked at.

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People Watching