The Mystery of British Culture

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Born in Cambridge, Adam Dant lives and works in London after studying Graphic Design at Liverpool School of Art (1987–90), and Fine Art and Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, London (1989–91). In 2002, he won First Prize in the Jerwood Drawing Prize, London. In 1995, Dant created the ‘Donald Parsnips Daily Journal’, an art world pamphlet, that appeared daily for five years. He is known for his "mockuments" – works based on floor plans of the Louvre, the National Gallery and Tate Britain, in which flowcharts lead from image to image to create a psycho-history of the institution being anatomized. Dant was the official Election Artist for the 2015 general election.

Places

Subjects

television, female portrait, male portrait, satire, tree, donkey, bird, worm, river, man, woman, BBC, carrot, house, tent/marquee, column, balcony, table (as Subject), ship

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, hand-coloured

Artist

Adam Dant (1967 - )

Title

The Mystery of British Culture

Edition

3/40

Date

2001

Medium

Hand-coloured lithograph

Dimensions

height: 69.80 cm, width: 87.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the Contemporary Art Society, Art Futures 2002 Exhibition, April 2002

Inscription

lower left: Adam Dant / 3/40 2001

Provenance

Contemporary Art Society, Art Futures 2002 Exhibition

GAC number

17685