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Lancelot Ribeiro Heads – In and Out of Our Time 18 September – 29 November every Wednesday to Friday Lancelot Ribeiro, Paranoid, 1965 Estate of Lancelot Ribeiro Born in Bombay 1933, Settled in Britain 1962, Died in London 2010. Working in partnership with the Estate, Ben Uri Reasearch Unit is delighted to present this focus exhibition by Ribeiro, a leading emigre Indian artist who made his life and career here in Britain from 1950. Featuring 20 paintings and drawings, it focuses on his preoccupation with portraiture and imagined heads from both the 1960s and the 1990s. A complimentary display of heads and portraits in the lower galleries are from the Ben Uri Collection. Ben Uri 80+ Online and 3D exhibitions 100+ Podcasts & interviews 100+ School and family programmes 100+ Arts and Mental Health interventions Britain’s only dedicated museum and research centre studying, digitally recording and celebrating the Jewish, Refugee and wide Immigrant contribution to British Art since 1900 100+ Films and artist insights 400+ Collection artist biographies 400+ Research papers, essays, catalogues and PhD theses 600+ Archive exhibitions records 900+ Collection artworks on benuricollection.org.uk 3300+ Research Unit profiles on buru.org.uk / diaspora-artists.net 10,000 Pages of archives from 1915 Research Unit Benuri.org & Buru.org.uk open 24/7 to suit you / Gallery exhibitions open every Wednesday to Friday at Boundary Road, London NW8 Europe’s leading museum and research centre on the wide immigrant contribution to British art since 1900 seamlessly engaging with our gallery exhibitions and research library.
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Lancelot Ribeiro

Heads – In and Out of Our Time

18 September – 29 November every Wednesday to Friday

Lancelot Ribeiro, Paranoid, 1965 Estate of Lancelot Ribeiro

Born in Bombay 1933, Settled in Britain 1962, Died in London 2010. Working in partnership with the Estate, Ben Uri Reasearch Unit is delighted to present this focus exhibition by Ribeiro, a leading emigre Indian artist who made his life and career here in Britain from 1950.

Featuring 20 paintings and drawings, it focuses on his preoccupation with portraiture and imagined heads from both the 1960s and the 1990s.

A complimentary display of heads and portraits in the lower galleries are from the Ben Uri Collection.

Ben Uri

80+ Online and 3D exhibitions 100+ Podcasts & interviews 100+ School and family programmes 100+ Arts and Mental Health interventions

Britain’s only dedicated museum and research centre studying, digitally recording and celebrating the Jewish, Refugee and wide Immigrant contribution to British Art since 1900

100+ Films and artist insights 400+ Collection artist biographies 400+ Research papers, essays, catalogues and PhD theses 600+ Archive exhibitions records

900+ Collection artworks on benuricollection.org.uk 3300+ Research Unit profiles on buru.org.uk / diaspora-artists.net 10,000 Pages of archives from 1915

Research Unit

Benuri.org & Buru.org.uk open 24/7 to suit you / Gallery exhibitions open every Wednesday to Friday at Boundary Road, London NW8 Europe’s leading museum and research centre on the wide immigrant contribution to British art since 1900 seamlessly engaging with our gallery exhibitions and research library.

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