The Art Fund believes that everyone should have the opportunity to
experience great art at first hand, and has been campaigning energetically on
behalf of museums and galleries from its earliest years.
As an independent, membership-based charity which receives no funding from
government, The Art Fund is uniquely well placed to help shape arts policy and
speak out on behalf of museums and their visitors.
The Art Fund campaigns under three broad headings:
- to promote acquisitions
- to secure proper government funding for museums
- to promote the widest possible public access to works of art
The Minton Archive
The Minton Archive is one of the greatest industrial archives in
Britain. Charting the history of the Minton company, it contains exquisite
drawings by artists such as Augustus Pugin, Christopher Dresser and Louis
Solon and is of significant artistic, heritage and social value.
The archive is now under threat of being broken up. Click here to register your
support and find out more. |
Support our Queen and Country petition
The Art Fund has launched an online petition for
public support to help Turner Prize winning artist Steve McQueen
OBE complete the original vision of his work Queen and
Country.
We think Queen and Country is a unique and important work of
art, in the highest tradition of war art commissions. The work takes the
form of a stamp cabinet containing a series of facsimile postage sheets
bearing multiple portrait heads, each one dedicated to a member of the
British armed forces who has been killed in Iraq. Steve McQueen regards
that his work will only be complete when Royal Mail agrees to issue the
work as postage stamps.
The Art Fund has bought the work outright for the Imperial War
Museum, and has launched an appeal to help Steve McQueen finish
his powerful memorial to those who have lost their lives during the Iraq
conflict. Learn more about the appeal and sign our online
petition.
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