British Museum exhibition comes to city

Among the works is a piece called Double Consciousness: Be Aware of One’s Intentions (2021). It was created using pencil, watercolours and ink

An art exhibition normally hosted by the British Museum will be coming to Wolverhampton.

Drawing Attention: Emerging Artists in Dialogue has been designed to explore questions of identity, memory and materiality using innovative materials and processes.

Featuring drawings from up-and-coming artists, the pieces sit alongside older works dating as far back as the early 1500s.

The exhibition opens on 10 February at Wolverhampton Art Gallery.

"Working with the British Museum is incredible and means that both their collection and the city's collection can be brought to life in a new way and tell a historical story as well as a modern day one with emerging artists that have taken part in the exhibition," said City of Wolverhampton Council cabinet member for visitors, Bhupinder Gakhal.