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Exhibitions

'Uproar!' The Ben Uri gallery punches above its weight

Its exhibition on the London Group is a show many larger public institutions would be proud to have put on

8 February 2014

9:00 AM

8 February 2014

9:00 AM

‘Uproar!’ The First 50 Years of the London Group 1913–63

Ben Uri Gallery, 108a Boundary Road, NW8, until 2 March

Last year saw the centenary of the London Group, a broad-based exhibiting body set up in a time of stylistic ferment in the art world as an independent alternative to the closed shops of the academies. Formed from the amalgamation of the Allied Artists’ Association and the Camden Town Group, it boasted such notable founder members as Lucien Pissarro and Walter Sickert, while Jacob Epstein is credited with naming it.

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