Online Viewing Room The Story of the Next Generation

28 May - 30 September 2021

In 2017 my work was collected by The Ruth Borchard Collection. This year, in conjunction with The Ruth Borchard Portrait Prize, recent self-portraits by artists in the Next Generation Collection are presented online; new works alongside work already held in the Collection tracing the shifts and continuities apparent in each individual artist’s practices.

In 2011, the Next Generation Collection was established to continue Ruth Borchard’s project into the twenty-first century. Alongside the Prize, the fundamental tenet of the Next Generation Collection is to bring together diverse artists, rarely traditional portraitists, who briefly, inquisitively, turn their eye upon themselves. Subject and object become one and the same, seeing and being seen elide in a moment of revelation and self-reflection. Artists represented in the collection range from those at the outset of their artistic practice to those with established professional careers. It also holds a multitude of media and includes artists usually known for practices other than painting. As a whole body of work, the Collection traces the trends in contemporary art practices. Dedicated to self-portraiture the Ruth Borchard Collection is a unique body of British and Irish visual art from 1921 to the present day.