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An 'emotional' #OnlineArtExchange! Thanks everybody 🙂☹️

Next week's theme is #MuseumShopSunday – share the love and show your favourite museum and art gallery shop products 🛍️🎨

'Christine Sumner' by Bohuslav Barlow (b.1947) © the artist. 📷 Brontë Parsonage Museum
A woman wearing a green hat and brown coat holds a wooden walking stick beside a small white and brown dog standing on a rock in a natural outdoor setting.
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize opens at #NationalPortraitGallery so it's #PhotographicPortraiture for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social 📸

We love the spontaneous snap of friends gossiping taken from the Leeds Russian Archive and the more refined, planned portrait of Olivia 👩‍🎨
A woman rests upon an armchair, dressed in a tuxedo with a fur coat draped on her shoulder. She has a full face of makeup, red lips and wears a long silver earring. A black and white photo of four ladies in period wear sitting on a bench. The each wear a fancy hat and hold a cane and basket of flowers. The ladies sit in pairs, chatting to each other.
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Today's #OnlineArtExchange is most dramatic artworks ⚡🌟

We're starting with some theatrical portraits 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/hamming-it-up-a-closer-look-at-the-genre-of-theatrical-portraits

🧑‍🎨 Reginald Grenville Eves (1876–1941) 📷 Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
Woman in an elaborate green medieval-style gown with long flowing sleeves holds a jeweled crown above her head.
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social
Today’s #OnlineArtExchange is all about Autumn 🍂 William Ibbitt captured the moment the trees began to change colour, with orange foliage shining out against the fading green leaves. @artukdotorg.bsky.social

🖼️Dam House, Crookesmoor, Sheffield
👨‍🎨William Ibbitt (1804–1869)
📸Sheffield Museums
October 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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This week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'autumn' 🍂

'Field Workers' by William Wells is a painting of workers in a field on a breezy effervescent autumn day, masterly in execution and full of atmosphere.

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🎨: 'Field Workers', William Wells. BELUM.U2038
A painting of two workers in a field, bent over to gather from the earth. They hold baskets, while a horse and cart awaits in the near background. The sky looms overhead, grey and white, while a wind blows around the field - birds flocking, a thin green tree bending.
October 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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✨ Thanks for a very glamorous #OnlineArtExchange 💋

Next week's theme is ‘ghosts and ethereal art’ for Ghost Objects: Summoning Leighton’s Lost Collection at Leighton House

🧑‍🎨 John Collier (1850–1934) 📷 Royal Academy of Music
October 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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We're getting glamorous for the #OnlineArtExchange this week 💃

🎨 Julia Neilson-Terry (1868–1957), FRAM, as Drusilla Ives in 'The Dancing Girl' by John Collier from Royal Academy of Music

@artukdotorg.bsky.social #Art #BlueskyArt
Julia Neilson-Terry (1868–1957) is depicted full-length as Drusilla Ives in 'The Dancing Girl', shown in a private moment peering out from behind the grand red velvet theatre curtain before going onstage. She wears a long pink dress and her head is held high
October 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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We’re sharing one of visitor favourites for #OnlineArtExchange this week, the impressive Basilica of San Marco!

🖼️Western Façade of the Basilica of San Marco, Venice
👨‍🎨John Wharlton Bunney (1828–1882)
📸Sheffield Museums
September 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is impressive buildings with Liverpool Cathedral ⛪

The cathedral is filled with amazing artworks, view some of the collection on Art UK 👉 buff.ly/ERZOkmF

🧑‍🎨 James Alphege Brewer (1881–1946) 📷 Rob Battersby / Liverpool Cathedral
Interior view of a grand cathedral with towering gothic arches and a large stained glass window illuminating the altar area.
September 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Today's #OnlineArtExchange is ‘Victorian’ for Victorian Treasures from Cecil French and Scott Thomas Buckle at Leighton House.

🎨 A Victorian Debutante by Robert Hope by Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums

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A Victorian debutante in a white, off-the-shoulder, 19th-century dress with blue trim sits gracefully, holding a fan. With a pink flower in her hair and mauve shawl, she gazes thoughtfully to the side. From the Aberdeen Archives.
September 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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There’s a Victorian theme for #OnlineArtExchange today. We’re sharing a slightly different view of a Victorian school than expected; the children playing while their teacher is away!

🖼️When the Cat’s Away the Mice Will Play
👨‍🎨Théophile Emmanuel Duverger (1821–1901)
📸Sheffield Museums
September 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Dan Allen’s ceramics explore the human figure, from fragility and pride to temptation, masculinity, doubt, and more. This work will feature in our upcoming exhibition, 'Subversive Forms: Revolutionary Approaches to Clay', opening Saturday 15 November.

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September 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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The theme for #OnlineArtExchange is ceramics this week, so we’re sharing a cuppa with these dainty tea cups ☕ @artukdotorg.bsky.social

🖼️Still Life with Tea Cups
👨‍🎨Pieter Gerritsz. van Roestraten (1629/1630–1700)
📸Sheffield Museums
September 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is ceramics, so we're sharing this beautiful bird (one of a pair!) by Alan Caiger-Smith - internationally renowned potter with an expertise in lustreware and close ties to Reading.
Learn more here: www.readingmuseum.org.uk/alan-caiger-... 🎨
Stylized ceramic rooster sculpture with brown, white, and blue feather patterns, fan-shaped tail, and painted facial details. Object 2007.2020.1 from Reading Museum's collection
September 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Ceramics is the #OnlineArtExchange theme this week in celebration of the Mella Shaw:Sounding Line exhibition at The McManus

🎨 Charmology Head by
Karen Thompson from
Scarborough Art Gallery
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#ceramics #BlueskyArt

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Ceramic bust sculpture of a man with a painted pink complexion and black mustache, designed in the style of a phrenology head. The head is sectioned into labeled brain areas with added three-dimensional objects attached, including a yellow cone, orange cone, brown object, seashells, and a small golden hand. The rectangular base is inscribed with “CHARMOLOGY BY K. M. THOMPSON,” Ceramic bust sculpture of a man with a painted pink complexion and black mustache, designed in the style of a phrenology head. The head is sectioned into labeled brain areas with added three-dimensional objects attached, including a yellow cone, orange cone, brown object, seashells, and a small golden hand. The rectangular base is inscribed with “CHARMOLOGY BY K. M. THOMPSON,”
September 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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The theme for this week’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is Time, so we’ve chosen this study depicting the ripening of a cherry

🖼️Three States of Fruit (from 'Bud to Fruit: The Life History of a Cherry')
👨‍🎨William H. Gill (1839–1923)
📸Sheffield Museums
August 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is portraits of artists and patrons for ‘Turner 250: The Artist and his early Patron’ at Tabley House

🎨 William De Morgan by his wife Evelyn De Morgan from @demorganfoundation.bsky.social

You can see more work by William & Evelyn at Cannon Hall Museum
In the painting, William is depicted in his blue artist’s robes against a tiled wall. He stares solemnly at the viewer, through piercing blue eyes. It is a formal portrait and shows little of his personality, particularly the humour and charm with which he imbued much of his own work.
August 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Like many of you, we’re heading to the Wales for the summer holidays with this beautiful painting for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social in celebration of Oriel Môn's exhibition 'From the Collection' 🖼️

🖼️A Sketch in Wales
👨‍🎨William James Müller (1812–1845)
📸Sheffield Museums
August 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is Welsh art, in celebration of Oriel Môn's exhibition 'From the Collection' 🖼️

🎨 We've selected: A Coastal View Porth y Nant, Lleyn by
Christopher Williams from The National Library Wales

#art #BlueskyArt #Wales #Coast
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A serene coastal landscape featuring a winding beach, rolling hills, and distant mountains under a cloudy sky.
August 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Tomorrow's #OnlineArtExchange theme is Welsh art, in celebration of Oriel Môn's exhibition 'From the Collection' 🖼️

There's around 60 artworks in the show, here's one!

🧑‍🎨 Joan Connell (b.1925) 📷 Oriel Môn
Abstract landscape painting showing blue and white swirling shapes over reddish-brown fields with green trees under a soft peach sky.
August 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is religious art 🎨

We've taken an askance approach to our choice, selecting Liverpool Biennial artist Cevdet Erek’s depictions of football stadia. Football, a secular, universal religion, is treated with due consideration and reverence by Erek ⚽
August 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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@artukdotorg.bluesky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is #abstract.

Here’s ‘Summer Garden’ by Martin Froy, on display now! Inspired by the huge Abstract paintings of the American artworld in the 1960s, his work remains rooted in nature and reality.
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Reading Foundation for Art Collection
large colourful abstract painting on display in a gallery at Reading Museum
August 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is abstract and non-figurative art 🎨

We've chosen Mary Hoad's (1908-68) 'Areas of Colour', whose abstract forms our Curator loves!

However, we know little about this artist. Can you shed any light on Mary Hoad and her practice? Let us know! 🔍✏️
July 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is abstract & non-figurative art! 🎨 'Corsham Evening' by Henry Cliffe captures the landscape around Corsham, with the scene dominated by two large figures.

📲 Follow the link to learn more: bit.ly/CorshamEvening
July 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is abstract and non-figurative art 🎨

Our editor @doublenegativem.bsky.social favourite artist is Piet Mondrian. But, let's go instead with pioneer of Indian modernism, Nasreen Mohamedi.

Nasreen Mohamedi, Untitled © Courtesy Chatterjee & Lal
July 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM