Collection Highlights - Agnes Etherington Art Centre Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Gain interdisciplinary insights into histories embodied by artworks from Agnes’s collection, featuring polyvocal perspectives and dynamic features that encourage close-looking.

Installation view of Luis Jacob, Anarchist Free School Minutes, 1999, (2002) showing a black hand chair, a low table, a red milk crate, and pages of the manifesto framed on the wall in the corner of a room.

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- Radical Education in Practice: Reflections on the Anarchist Free School

Isaac is depicted as a nude young man, bound to rock and wood on the ground. Abraham kneels beside him, wearing a scarlet robe and drawing his knife.

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- A Way of Seeing Through Edge Play: Queering Isaac and the Biblical Nude Body

Collection Highlight

- Radical Education in Practice: Reflections on the Anarchist Free School

Collection Highlight

- A Way of Seeing Through Edge Play: Queering Isaac and the Biblical Nude Body

Close-up of a wooden figure's bearded face and chest, showing breast-like mounds.

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- The Unnamed Genderfluid Figure: Transgender and Intersex Interpretations of Medieval Christian Art

A black-and-white print of Mary seated with St Elizabeth, she breastfeeds her son Jesus, while she hands a bobble to St John the Baptist and Joseph works behind them.

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Elisabetta Sirani - The Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist

around 1650-1660

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Horatio Walker - Turning the Harrow – Early Morning

1898

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Godfrey Kneller - A Scholar in His Study

About 1668

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