Partnership projects

In a pilot partnership in 2024, the Government Art Collection worked with London Gallery Weekend to acquire artworks from participating galleries.

Ten years, ten prints. Every year, an outstanding British artist creates a print for the Government Art Collection, with the support of philanthropists Sybil Robson Orr and Matthew Orr.

Art X-UK is the Government Art Collection's annual project that supports work by artists across the UK, alongside regional and national partners.

Every year, the Government Art Collection showcases the collection of a gallery outside London in 10 Downing Street. This year’s display comes from the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle.

Every year, the Government Art Collection showcases a museum or gallery collection from outside London in 10 Downing Street. This year, these works are from the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea.

Every year, the Government Art Collection has worked with a museum or gallery collection from outside London to showcase artworks in 10 Downing Street. In 2022, the Herbert in Coventry was chosen.

This November, as part of Coventry UK City of Culture 2021, the Government Art Collection is helping transform Coventry city centre's shop windows into a public museum.

Find out more about Ways of Seeing, an exciting collaboration in 2019 between the Government Art Collection and Waltham Forest, the first London Borough of Culture.