www.artuk.org @artukdotorg

What is Art UK?

Glyn Warren Philpot (1884 – 1937) Henry Thomas

Pallant House Gallery

• Cultural education charity

• Leading website for people interested in art in UK public collections

• Platform shared by over 3,000 UK public art collections

Who are we?

• Make art accessible – for enjoyment, learning and research

• Enable global audiences to learn about the nation’s art

• Support public collections to share their art

Our mission

Why we exist

Noel Coward (1899 – 1973)White Cliffs, Dover, Kent

Dover Collections

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Art UK photographing the oil paintings in Wolverhampton Art Gallery

What’sIncluded

Leslie Arthur Wilcox (1904 - 1982)

Somerset (British Railways poster artwork)

National Railway Museum

3,290 Collection Locations

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SharedDigital Infrastucture

John Currie (1883 – 1914)Mark Gertler (1891 – 1939)

The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

artuk.org

Database of artworks

3,000+ Participating Collections

Collection Portal and Permissions Portal

ShopArt

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Tagger

Digitisation

Auguste Rodin (1840 – 1917)Eve

Water Gardens, Harlow

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Afterglow, Venice by Albert Goodwin (1845 – 1932), Royal Watercolour Society

Audiences

Malcolm Drummond (1880 – 1945)19, Fitzroy Street (Walter Richard Sickert’s studio)

Laing Art Gallery

Our Audience• 2.4 million unique users in last 12 months

• Growing 15% pa

• c.50% from overseas

• Personal interest or research accounts for c.70% of visits

• 22% use it to search for paintings of subject matter

• 7% use it to plan visits

Source: Google Analytics, Nov 18 Survey

Digital Access

William Shiels (1783-1857)Orkney and Shetland SheepNational Museum of Rural Life

URL and Name

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URL and Name

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Design: Curation Tool

This shows the proposed interface

which allows users to edit their

albums before saving and/or

publishing to the site.

Note it allows user to set top-level,

work specific descriptions and

custom date fields which will in turn

drive views such as slideshows and

timelines.

Design: Curation Tool (continued)

This second image shows the

timeline visualisation, one of the

options available to users when

publishing collections.

Cultural Tourism

Unknown artistTom SayersBeamish, The North of England Open Air Museum

Shop

Samuel John Peploe (1871 – 1935)Interior with a Japanese Print

University of Hull Art Collection

COLLECTIONS ON THE ART UK SHOP• Bank of England• Barber Institute of Fine Art• Bradford Museums and Galleries• Bruce Castle Museum• Bushey Museum and Art Gallery• City of Edinburgh Council• City of London Corporation (Guildhall Art Gallery)• The Courtauld Gallery• Dorich House• Ferens Art Gallery; • Fife Cultural Trust (Fife Council)• Gainsborough’s House• Gallery Oldham• Gregynog Hall• The Highlanders Museum• Highlife Highlands• The L. S. Lowry Collection• Leicester Arts and Museums Service• Manchester Art Gallery• McLean Museum and Gallery• The Munnings Art Museum• Museums Sheffield• National Heritage Centre for Horseracing & Sporting Art, Palace House• National Library of Wales• National Museum Wales• National Museums Northern Ireland

• Nottingham City Museums (Nottingham City Council)• Oriel Môn• Penlee House Gallery & Museum• The Pier Arts Centre• Plymouth City Council: Museum and Art Gallery• PMSA• Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation• Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow• Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture• Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies• Royal Welch Fusiliers Regimental Museum• Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum• Salford Museum & Art Gallery• The Scout Association Heritage Service• Southend Museums Service• Staffordshire Museum & Art Collection• The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum• Tullie House• University of Dundee Art Collections• Valence House Museum• Victoria Museum and Gallery, Liverpool University• Wellcome Collection• Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust

Learning

Children from Chaddlewood school looking closely at the

Joshua Reynolds painting that visited them during

Masterpieces in Schools

The Monet Arriving at Onny Primary School for Masterpieces in Schools

‘I would be absolutely thrilled to take part in hosting an artwork through this programme. Given our

geographical location and the outlying nature of our community it is difficult for our students to have access

to works of art. It would certainly be appreciated by our pupils and staff.’

‘My school is rural and is over 100 miles from a major art gallery (Glasgow). The children do not have the

opportunity to engage with ‘real’ artists unless through an initiative such as your own.’

‘We are a very small rural school in a very picturesque area. Our nearest art gallery is nearly 100 miles away

in Glasgow which makes it difficult for our pupils to see art close up. We would be thrilled if we were chosen

for this project.’

‘It would be great for our pupils in Junior school to get the opportunity to see sculpture ‘in the flesh’.

Logistically and financially it is difficult to organise visits to galleries within the school day as many of our

pupils travel to school by bus or train and we need to be back by the end of the school day. For our pupils,

the ability to get up close and hands on with sculpture would be a positive and enriching experience.’

Culture Street Filming at Dorich House Museum, London (June 2018)

The Superpower of Looking

Ronald Forbes (b.1947)Cultivated Tourist

University of Abertay

Conclusions

John Lavery (1856 – 1941)The Dentist

British Dental Association Dental Museum

CONCLUSIONS

• We enable global audiences to learn about art in the UK

• Our digital infrastructure is shared by all UK public art collections

• No other country has such a resource

• Provides collections outside big cities major opportunities to

encourage cultural tourism, encourage learning and grow income

• Exploit its potential!