The Arts Council Collection acquires work by Martyn Cross

Hales is thrilled to announce that the Arts Council Collection, London, UK has acquired Martyn Cross' 2024 work Changeless Mirror.

Martyn Cross (b. 1975, Yate, UK) holds a BA in Fine Art from Bath Spa University. Cross is primarily a painter engaged with 'world making.' The act of painting for him is a means to explore the inner life and strangeness of the ordinary. Each work begins in reality, with recognizable limbs and elements of landscape, which transform into uncanny scenes.

 

The Arts Council Collection is the most widely circulated national loan collection of modern and contemporary British art. Founded in 1946, the Collection reaches the broadest possible audience through long loans to public institutions, exhibition loans, touring exhibitions, as well as digital and print publications. The Collection supports artists in the UK through the purchase and display of their work, and safeguards it for future generations, using the highest possible standards of collection care.