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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'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 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) 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
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' 2004
Bridget Riley (b.1931)
Watercolour on paper
H 39 x W 48 cm
York Museums Trust