Celebrated for large-scale, everyday objects covered in man-made fabrics, Eric Bainbridge has spent the past three decades investigating a variety of materials and styles. This exhibition will combine selected works from the 1970s to the present, newly commissioned sculpture and a collection of works on paper. Together they will allow the viewer to take a closer look at an artist who has continued to play an influential role in post-war sculpture.

A graduate from the Royal College of Art in 1981, Eric Bainbridge has exhibited extensively on both sides of the Atlantic throughout the 1980s and 1990s including several highly acclaimed exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

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The Naked and the Nude brings together sixteen works from Tate's collection. The exhibition traces some of the ways in which twentieth century artists have approached this loaded genre, from the impressionist style of Philip Wilson Steer to Euan Uglow's more anatomically exacting approach.

Although it is acknowledged as one of the classic genres of painting and sculpture, the nude has become more problematic over the course of the twentieth century. Many artists have turned their backs on classical approaches to beauty and rejected the stultifying conventions associated with it. Central to the exhibition is Lucian Freud's Girl with White Dog, which is one of his most important works, and has helped to establish him as among the foremost living exponents of nude portraiture.

This exhibition has been organised through Tate Connects, which is Tate's programme to broaden and deepen UK-wide participation in the visual arts through local, national and international collaboration and exchange.

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A project exploring spaces, sounds and views in and around mima, with children aged 5 and 6 years old from Ayresome Primary School in Middlesborough.

Developed in collaboration with MA Art Museum and Gallery Education students from Newcastle University.