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Award-winning Yorkshire indie rock band the Kaiser Chiefs are famous for their unique blend of musical genres and chart-topping hits. In 2018, the band collaborated with York Art Gallery to co-curate an innovative exhibition, which explored the liminal spaces between art and sound, sensation and perception, and creation and performance. As part of the display, they hand-picked 11 paintings from the Gallery's collection to show alongside a selection of songs by contemporary musicians and sound artists which have directly influenced their practice.


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11 artworks

Red Plot 1966

Peter Donnelly (b.1935)

Oil on hardboard

H 122 x W 172.5 cm

York Museums Trust

Under Mars
© estate of Bryan Wynter. All rights reserved, DACS 2023. Image credit: York Museums Trust

Under Mars 1950s

Bryan Wynter (1915–1975)

Oil on canvas

H 91.4 x W 213.4 cm

York Museums Trust

Pact
© estate of John Hoyland. All rights reserved, DACS 2023. Image credit: York Museums Trust

Pact 1978

John Hoyland (1934–2011)

Acrylic on canvas

H 151.9 x W 126.9 cm

York Museums Trust

'That we may never meet again'
© estate of Jack B. Yeats. All rights reserved, DACS 2023. Image credit: York Museums Trust

'That we may never meet again' 1952–1958

Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957)

Oil on canvas

H 45.7 x W 60.9 cm

York Museums Trust

Study No. 3
© the artist's estate. Image credit: York Museums Trust

Study No. 3 1983

Malcolm Edward Hughes (1920–1997)

Oil on canvas

H 50.4 x W 50.4 cm

York Museums Trust

Flickering Grid II 1965

Oliver Bevan (b.1941)

Emulsion on hardboard

H 122 x W 92 cm

York Museums Trust

H.19 (Canticle)
© the artist's estate. Image credit: York Museums Trust

H.19 (Canticle) 1983–1984

John Golding (1929–2012)

Mixed media on cotton

H 152.5 x W 213.5 cm

York Museums Trust

The Bandstand, Peel Park, Salford
© The Estate of L.S. Lowry. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023. Image credit: York Museums Trust

The Bandstand, Peel Park, Salford

Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976)

Oil on canvas

H 43.2 x W 62.2 cm

York Museums Trust

The Dormitory and Transept of Fountains Abbey – Evening 1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)

Watercolour & gum arabic on paper

H 48.5 x W 62.5 cm

York Museums Trust

Sketch for 'Disrupted Expectation' 2013

Rebecca Appleby (b.1979)

Oil on canvas

H 59.4 x W 84.1 cm

York Museums Trust

Study No. 4 for 'Painting with Two Verticals'
© courtesy the artist and Karsten Schubert, London. Image credit: York Museums Trust

Study No. 4 for 'Painting with Two Verticals' 2004

Bridget Riley (b.1931)

Watercolour on paper

H 39 x W 48 cm

York Museums Trust