Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Art Works

(asked on 5th September 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the contract awarded to Momart Ltd on 25 July 2023, procurement reference 103763, what the series of artworks were for which her Department required the services of an artwork shipping and transportation company.


Answered by
John Whittingdale Portrait
John Whittingdale
This question was answered on 13th September 2023

The artwork referenced was transported for display at the British Embassy in Washington DC from the Government Art Collection (GAC), which promotes British art, culture and creativity through displays in UK Government buildings worldwide.

Please see the following table, which includes the series of artworks referenced in the request.

GAC

Artist/Maker

Title

Medium

Date

15293

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens

Design for the Cenotaph

Pen and ink and crayon on paper

October 1919

18271

Frank Bowling

Kaieteurtoo; Poured Paintings

Acrylic on canvas

1975

19033

Andrew Pierre Hart

Alter-native trace S3:E3s: Valerie and The illusion transmitters

oil on canvas

11021

John Hoyland

28.4.73

Acrylic on canvas

1973

19115/1

Rana Begum

1163 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

19115/2

Rana Begum

1164 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

19115/3

Rana Begum

1165 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

19115/4

Rana Begum

1166 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

19115/5

Rana Begum

1167 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

19115/6

Rana Begum

1168 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

19115/7

Rana Begum

1169 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

19115/8

Rana Begum

1170 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

19115/9

Rana Begum

1171 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

19115/10

Rana Begum

1172 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

19115/11

Rana Begum

1173 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

19115/12

Rana Begum

1174 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

19115/13

Rana Begum

1175 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

19115/14

Rana Begum

1176 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

19115/15

Rana Begum

1177 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

19115/16

Rana Begum

1178 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

19115/17

Rana Begum

1179 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

19115/18

Rana Begum

1180 Foil

spray paint on aluminium foil

2022

18792

Laura Gannon

Enormous Changes at the last minute

Acrylic and ink on primed linen

2018

19003

Yinka Shonibare CBE

Diana of Versailles (Diana)

fibreglass sculpture, hand painted Dutch wax batik, watercolour globe

2019 - 2020

3560

Ivon Hitchens

June Poppy

Oil on canvas

18922

John Rainey

The Deflatables; XUK

porcelain

2019

19039

Grayson Perry

Morris, Gainsborough, Turner, Riley

tapestry

2021

4956

Vanessa Bell

Flowers

Oil on canvas

1930s

6416

Winifred Nicholson

Flower Piece

Oil on canvas

late 1920s

8177

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson

Tiller Girls

Oil on canvas

1926(?)

10956

Bridget Riley

Blaze IV

Reproduction print

1963

12198

Patrick Heron

Three Cadmiums, Four Discs

Oil on canvas

April 1966

12716

Eileen Agar

Guardian of Memories

Oil, crayon and collage on board

1938

17281

Yuko Shiraishi

Grey and Red (2)

Oil on canvas

1994

17329/1

Cornelia Parker

Feather that went to the Top of Everest; Up Down Charm Strange; [In the jacket of Rebecca Stevens, the first British woman to climb Mt. Everest]

Photogram

1997

17329/2

Cornelia Parker

Feather that went to the South Pole; Up Down Charm Strange; [In the sleeping bag of Sir Ranulph Fiennes on his trip across Antarctica]

photogram

1998

17329/3

Cornelia Parker

Feather from Benjamin Franklin's Attic; Up Down Charm Strange; [With thanks to the Benjamin Franklin Museum]

photogram

1998

17329/4

Cornelia Parker

Feather from Freud's Pillow; Up Down Charm Strange; [From his couch] [With thanks to the Freud Museum]

photogram

1998

17329/5

Cornelia Parker

Raven Feather from the Tower of London; Up Down Charm Strange

photogram

1998

17329/6

Cornelia Parker

Feather from a Wandering Albatross; Up Down Charm Strange; [With thanks to the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge]

photogram

1998

17513

Mark Power

GERMAN BIGHT Thursday 24 August 1995; The Shipping Forecast

Silver gelatin print with text sand-blasted on glass

2000

19031

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami

Tongue on Fire

oil and acrylic on canvas

2021

19106

Lindsey Mendick

A Girl After My Own Heart

glazed ceramic

2022

19107

Lindsey Mendick

A Sense of Occasion

glazed ceramic

2022

19108

Lindsey Mendick

National Treasure

glazed ceramic

2022

19109

Lindsey Mendick

She's Only Gone and Done It

glazed ceramic

2022

19110

Lindsey Mendick

Swelling with Pride

glazed ceramic

2022

19111

Lindsey Mendick

You Do It So Well

glazed ceramic

2022

19114/4

Rachel Whiteread

Untitled (Bubble); TenTen; TenTen

lithograph on paper

2022

18824/15

Tacita Dean

Foreign Policy (screenprint edition); TenTen

screenprint on paper

2019

19016/12

Lubaina Himid

Old Boat, New Weather; TenTen

Screenprint

2021

18007

Mark Titchner

Everything Beautiful is Far Away

Unique archival inkjet print on Diabond (aluminium and acrylic sheet)

2003-2005

18023

Mark Titchner

Only the First Step is Difficult

Unique archival inkjet print on Diabond (aluminium and acrylic sheet)

2005

18408

Alan Kitching

Printing in London 1476-1995

Coloured letterpress

1995

16803

Joe Tilson

Apollo Pythion

Lift ground etching

1990

16352

Sir Howard Hodgkin

Sand

Hand-coloured lithograph

1983-1985

16351

Sir Howard Hodgkin

Blood

Hand-coloured lithograph

1983-1985

12777

R B Kitaj

Four in America; In Our Time: Covers for a Small Library After the Life for the Most Part

Screenprint

1970

18556

Raymond Spurrier

Carmel

Screenprint

18846

Corin Sworn

The Slow Liquidity of Glass

C-type photograph on paper

2013

10094

Alistair Grant

Blush II

Lithograph

10093

Alistair Grant

Blush I

Lithograph

17408

Boyd and Evans

Wupatki, Arizona

Cibachrome photograph

1999

14496

Bryan Organ

Stars and Stripes

Colour etching and aquatint

1976

14495

Bryan Organ

Stars and Stripes

Colour etching and aquatint

1976

14494

Bryan Organ

Stars and Stripes

Colour etching and aquatint

1976

14493

Bryan Organ

Stars and Stripes

Colour etching and aquatint

1976

18882

Shauna McMullan

165 Stars, Found in GWL Lending Library

digital pigment fine art print on paper

2012

18778

Walter Stoneman

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965)

Photograph

1941

17616

Marta Marcé

Untitled

Lithograph

2001

18555

Raymond Spurrier

Rubber Stamp Works, New Orleans

Screenprint

13368

Noel Forster

Fairfield

Acrylic on linen

1977

18146/4

Hew Locke

The Prize; The Rivington Place Portfolio

Digital images with silkscreen cut into 43 pieces and re-collaged onto a three dimensional object, with

2006

11512

John Hoyland

Grey Blue on Green; The New York Suite

Screenprint

1971

11513

John Hoyland

Red Block on Pink; The New York Suite

Screenprint

1971

Reticulating Splines