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Figure Study II: Joe Hill curates the Towner Collection
The title for the show is taken from a Francis Bacon painting that belongs to Joe鈥檚 home town, the former mining and textiles community of Batley in West Yorkshire. The town currently sits in the top 10% of the most deprived communities in England and Wales. Bacon鈥檚 Figure Study II is on long-term loan to the National Museum of Scotland and the painting (and the collection as a whole) has not been shown in the town in Joe鈥檚 lifetime. The loss of the town鈥檚 gallery in the early 1980s to a now derelict shopping centre means it is unlikely the town鈥檚 residents will have an opportunity to see the collection or know of its existence. Joe only became aware of the provenance of the painting whilst installing it an exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London in 2010.
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The title for the show is taken from a Francis Bacon painting that belongs to Joe鈥檚 home town, the former mining and textiles community of Batley in West Yorkshire. The town currently sits in the top 10% of the most deprived communities in England and Wales. Bacon鈥檚 Figure Study II is on long-term loan to the National Museum of Scotland and the painting (and the collection as a whole) has not been shown in the town in Joe鈥檚 lifetime. The loss of the town鈥檚 gallery in the early 1980s to a now derelict shopping centre means it is unlikely the town鈥檚 residents will have an opportunity to see the collection or know of its existence. Joe only became aware of the provenance of the painting whilst installing it an exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London in 2010.
