We are loaning a work from the British Council Collection by David Shrigley to Highlanes Gallery in Drogheda, Ireland, for their exhibition Bristle: Hair & Hegemony. 

Bristle: Hair and Hegemony draws on the rich scientific, literary, political and aesthetic contexts in which hair plays a central role. It brings together a range of artworks and objects from the 17th century to the contemporary moment, and from diverse ethnic and cultural contexts. It features work by historic and contemporary artists including Albrecht Dürer, William Hogarth, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Matthew and Mary Darly, Hashiguchi Goyo, James Barry, Abigail O’Brien, Joanne Procter, Stephen Lau, David Hockney, Bharti Parmar, Alice Maher and Helen Chadwick.

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  • Contemporary

    Existing or coming into being at the same period; of today or of the present. The term that designates art being made today.