Give artists’ work a welcome home
Published: 26 August, 2010
• IT’s good to hear that local artist Frank Auerbach’s Mornington Crescent painting might go for over a £1million (Mornington million, August 19) but doesn’t this remind us how much important art has been made here – and, sadly, how none of it gets to be seen where it was actually created?
The work of the Camden Town Group, for instance, is important enough for Tate Britain to dedicate a whole exhibition to them recently – and two of them, Walter Sickert and Spencer Gore, actually lived on Mornington Crescent.
And we continue to have major artists like Auerbach working here.
Isn’t it time we found a way to house and show these artists’ works where they belong – for local residents and people working here, for schoolchildren, and to give tourists another reason to come to Camden? I know at least one major London art museum would consider lending work from their collection.
I’d be interested to hear from anyone who wants to make this happen.
CLLR CHRIS NAYLOR
Liberal Democrat, Camden Town with Primrose Hill ward