Pragya Agarwal is the author of (M)otherhood: On the choices of being a woman in addition to three other widely acclaimed nonfiction books for adults on racism, gender bias and reproductive rights, and a picture book for raising non-racist children. Her latest book, Hysterical: Exploding the myth of gendered emotions was one of The Telegraph’s best big ideas books of 2022, as well as Waterstones and The i newspaper’s best non-fiction of 2022. Pragya is a professor of social inequities, behavioural and data scientist, and founder of a research think-tank investigating gender inequities. Sara Cooper is Head of Collections and Exhibitions at Towner Eastbourne, where she is responsible for the exhibition programme and for the permanent collection, including overseeing acquisitions. I needn't have worried. The first scene plunges us into a world of mingled sadness, beauty and joy. Pace and tone are spot on. Voices and images come and go, held lightly together by Edmund Joliffe's marvellous score - music I could imagine ER whistling as he worked. Watercolours, wood engravings and lithographs appear before us, hover for a moment or two, then fade away. The voices of Eric (Freddie Fox) and Tirzah (Tamsin Greig) convey the brightness - in all senses - of the characters. There are familiar faces - Anne herself, ER's grand-daughter Ella Ravilious, Grayson Perry, Alan Bennett - and one or two I wasn't expecting. Ai Weiwei's interjections are memorable. Anne Desmet is fantastic on wood engraving.

Join Peter Hall, Head of Exhibitions from The Lightbox as he provides detailed information on each of the tapestries, along with explanations of the ten art works that informed them.Join us at Tate St Ives for this exciting seminar showcasing new perspectives on modern British art and artists. Of course, artistic relations with the past are not always harmonious. The most prominent figures in modern British art have endured the greatest ribbing. Take Henry Moore (1898–1986), for example, whose ubiquitous oeuvre has been critically reappraised by a range of artists including Bruce Nauman (b.1941) and Simon Starling (b.1967). The discussion will take place from 6.00pm to 6.45pm, after which there will be 15 minutes for an audience Q&A. The discovery of Soutine’s paintings in the early 1950s was a significant moment for Kossoff, who was already finding his way towards the kind of direct and expressive use of paint he saw in his predecessor’s work. Soutine grew up in Belarus before migrating to Paris as a young man, while Kossoff was born and raised in London, his parents having arrived there from Ukraine as children. Although their life experiences were very different, the two artists shared a Russian Jewish heritage which perhaps brought a particular cultural sensibility to their work. To create transcendent works from the stuff of everyday life became Kossoff’s mission, as it had been Soutine’s. With Katy Norris, Curator, Exhibitions, Tate St Ives and Melanie Stidolph, Curator Public Programme, Tate St Ives.

Kate Bryan, Art Curator, Writer, Advisor and Broadcaster Head of Collections at Soho House globally Autumn 2022 sees the publication of Revisiting Modern British Art, published by Lund Humphries in association with The Ingram Collection.I'll be at Sotheby's in London on Sunday 20 November, discussing A Sense of Place in Modern British Art with Simon Martin and Frances Christie. Then, on Friday 25 November, I'll be joining Jo Baring and Sara Cooper at Towner, Eastbourne. We'll be going Behind the Scenes of the Museum, which sounds intriguing - I do love a museum store! Speakers include: Pragya Agarwal, Jody Day, Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Hettie Judah, Holly Slingsby, Lucy Willow and Sophie J Williamson. Please see the speakers' bios for more information.

Join us for a panel discussion on the legacy of Modern British art and the influences between generations of women artists from the twentieth century to the present day. Sophie J Williamson is a curator based in London and Margate. She is initiator and convenor of Undead Matter, an on-going programme focused on the intimacy of being with dying and its dialogue with the geological. From 2013-2021, she was Exhibitions Curator at Camden Art Centre, and was previously part of the inaugural team at Raven Row, (2009–13). Speakers: Anna Liber Lewis (artist), Bianca Chu (researcher, advisor to the Kim Lim Estate), Naomi Polonsky (Associate Curator, The Women’s Art Collection), chaired by Jo Baring (Director, Ingram Collection)Jo Baring is Director of the Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art. Author for arts publications and a regular speaker at art institutions and galleries, Jo is the co-writer and co-presenter of the critically acclaimed podcast, Sculpting Lives. This podcast focussing on women sculptors was listed by The Royal Academy, The Guardian and The Evening Standard amongst others as one of the best arts podcasts. In 2016 she set up The Ingram Prize, a contemporary art prize that has been highlighted by The Times as a Critics Choice for Visual Arts. Jo is the editor of Revisiting Modern British Art, a new book on the period that has been highlighted as a ‘gamechanger’. The Ingram Collection is one of the largest and most significant publicly accessible collections of Modern British Art in the UK.

To me, these books are primarily guides for the time-travelling armchair flaneur: books to marvel at and dream in. It's important to note, however, just how little has been written about the supremely talented Boucher before now, in any language. Most of the material I drew on in my essay (with help from my A-level French) was unearthed by Tim Mainstone, who made it is his mission to discover every known fact, story or piece of gossip about this brilliant precursor to Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden. In fact Tim spent years trawling obscure databases and publications for information not only about Boucher but also about publisher Marcel Seheur and - last, but definitely not least - the brilliant author Pierre Mac Orlan, whose waspish prose poems add a strange, dark mystery to the original book. They are included in the new edition, alongside translations by Shaun Whiteside. Breakdown of anticipated expenses (travel, accommodation, and any other costs you plan to claim for) Kerri ní Dochartaigh is a mother and writer from the North-West of Ireland, now living in Clare with her family. As well as these, she makes and mends; sows and grows; swims and walks. She writes about nature, literature and place for The Guardian, The Irish Times, the BBC and others. Her first book, Thin Places, was published by Canongate in Spring 2021, for which she was awarded the Butler Literary Award 2022, and highly commended for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2021. Her second book, Cacophony of Bone, is coming out in May 2023 with Canongate. A catalogue with top notch colour reproductions of all works is being published by Hastings Contemporary. It features an essay by yours truly and another by art historian Simonetta Fraquelli, who co-curated Soutine / De Kooning, and it was designed by Lucy Morton, previously designer of my Ravilious and Bawden catalogues for Dulwich Picture Gallery. Accompanies exhibitions at The Higgins, Bedford (15 October 2022 to 16 April 2023) and The Lightbox (15 October 2022 to 8 January 2023).Presenting new perspectives on established narratives, subjects range from British Surrealism and the rise of corporate and public patronage, to nationality and British identity. Complemented by a range of striking images, this publication succeeds in showing the strength of the British artistic tradition while also encouraging the reader to rethink and explore the existing narrative. Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion with Ravilious-specialist James Russell, director of the Ingram Collection Jo Baring and Towner’s Head of Exhibitions and Collection Sara Cooper to discuss how specific artists, such as Eric Ravilious, provide focal points for collections. Through this careful and original reconsideration, modern British art emerges in an expanded form, more relevant than ever and more urgent in its message.’ – Kate Bryan, Art Curator, Writer, Advisor and Broadcaster Head of Collections at Soho House globally Pilot Boat is Lot 12 in Sotheby's auction of Modern British & Irish Art, which will be held on 23 November. You can view the lots between 18-23 Nov. This is definitely a book to have on the bedside table and dip into repeatedly, not least because it is so beautifully illustrated. Anyone who has ever produced an art book will know that the cost of images can be prohibitive. Well, no expense has been spared here, and the pictures are every bit as lively and eclectic as the text.