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Tate Britain's show of British folk art features objects that range from the pleasing to the mundane and the grotesque, says Zoe Pilger.

While the current exhibition of British folk art at Tate Britain politely avoids the issue of class conflict and appears more like a jolly country fête, this exhibition shows with force and clarity how subversive folk art can be.

«For many people, folk is a four - letter word,» writes Jeff McMillan, co-curator of a new exhibition, British Folk Art, which opens today at Tate Britain.

There will also be exhibitions across the Tate dedicated to the work of abstract artist Kazimir Malevich, Germany's Sigmar Polke and a survey of British Folk Art.

10 June: Tate Britain presents the first major exhibition about British Folk Art, celebrating self - taught artists and artisans.

My husband, artist Jeff McMillan, is collaborating with curators Martin Myrone and Ruth Kenny on the exhibition of British folk art at Tate Britain.

This summer, Tate Britain will celebrate the diversity of British folk art, with an unprecedented display of objects that will deliberately do away traditional artistic categories.

Not many exhibitions first confront the visitor with a giant gold teapot and an equally large pair of boots, but then «British Folk Art» is distinctly different from most exhibitions.

To celebrate the opening of British Folk Art at Tate Britain, we choose the best folk art collections to see in the UK, from quilts to weathervanes.

I agreed with some reluctance to review British Folk Art, since I anticipated an overdose of quaint charm, naive whimsy and endearing eccentricity.

British Folk Art: The House That Jack Built is the first significant exhibition of British folk art at a national gallery, and includes nearly 200 paintings, sculptures, textiles and other objects, spanning the 17th to 20th centuries.

British Folk Art: The House that Jack Built is at Tate Britain till 31 August 2014.

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Over the many years, she has had the privilege of serving a host of luminaries including British Royalty, local and international celebrities and everyday folks that have come to love the art of having tea.

The Anthology of American Folk Music is a six - album compilation released in 1952 by Folkways Records (catalogue FP 251, FP 252, and FP 253), comprising Offers news, comment and features about the British arts scene with sections on books, films, music, theatre, art and architecture.

Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane's «Folk Archive» [2000 — 07], a collection of recent and contemporary British vernacular art, would be another.

Tate Britain's exhibition brings together examples by a number of prominent folk artists, such as George Smart the tailor of Frant, embroiderer Mary Linwood and Cornish painter Alfred Wallis, in order to reevaluate the important role folk art has played in shaping British culture.

It's storytelling in the tradition of folk art, patching security blankets for healing and nurture» (P. Ellis in C. Saatchi and P. Ellis, 100: The Work that Changed British Art, London 2003, p. 20art, patching security blankets for healing and nurture» (P. Ellis in C. Saatchi and P. Ellis, 100: The Work that Changed British Art, London 2003, p. 20Art, London 2003, p. 209).

Previously, she worked in the Visual Arts Department at the British Council on international touring exhibitions including Tracey Emin at the British Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2007; Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane's Folk Archive, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2009 and Flicker, Damascus, 2009.

Recent group exhibitions include: Voyage, Berjamin & Gomide, São Paulo (2017); Nuit Américaine, Office Baroque, Brussels (2014); Folk Devil, David Zwirner New York (2013); British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, Hayward Gallery, London and touring (2010 - 11); Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, Tate Britain, London (2010).

Imagining the Political Subject», Secession, Wien 2013 «I knOw yoU», IMMA — Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 2013 «The Butterfly Image», Mudam, Luxembourg 2013 «Only here», Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn 2012 «Reactivation», 9th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai 2012 «CARA DOMANI opere dalla Collezione Ernesto Esposito», MAMbo, Bologna 2012 «Storytelling as Craft», Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville 2012 «Ephemeropterae», TBA21 Augarten, Vienna (performance) 2012 «Swans, Amputees», Fondation Cartier, Paris (performance) 2012 «Searching for the fountain», Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2012 «Soundworks», ICA, London 2012 «Setting the Scene», Tate Modern, London 2012 «OEI / Letterism», Moderna Museet, Stockholm (performance) 2012 «Descriptive Acts», San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco 2012 «enfolds: books I & II», Mount Analogue, Stockholm 2012 «Never odd or even», Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (performance) 2011 «Balustrade: endless tapes», Milliken Gallery, Stockholm 2011 Fotofestival 4, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg 2011 «Folk Variations», Radar, Loughborough (performance) 2011 «The Other Tradition», Wiels, Brussels 2011 «La Casa Encendida», Madrid (performance) 2011 «Subtext Part II», Un Projects, Melbourne 2011 «British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet», touring; Nottingham Contemporary, Hayward Gallery, London, Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art, and Plymouth Arts Centre 2010 «New Frankfurt Internationals», Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt 2010 FRAC Champagne - Ardenne, Troyes 2010 «Fun Palace», Centre Pompidou, Paris 2010 «Manifesta 8», Murcia, Spain 2010 «Exhibition, Exhibition», Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli 2010 «Performance», Museo Marino Marini, Florence (performance) 2010 «Balustrade», Julia Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf (performance) 2010 «Haunted: Contemporary Photography / Video / Performance», Guggenheim Museum, New York (performance) 2010 «Finding Chopin», performance Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (performance) 2010 «NineteenEightyFour», Austrian Cultural Forum, New York 2010 «ACT VII: Of Facts and Fables», Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam 2010 «Leipzig Calendar Works», Project Kaufhaus Joske, Leipzig (performance) 2010 «A Performance Cycle», Nomas Foundation, Rome (performance) 2009 «Lecture Performance», Cologne Kunstverein, Cologne (performance) 2009 «Accecare l'ascolto / Aveugler l'ecoute / Blinding the ears», Artissima, Turin (performance) 2009 «5 × 5 Castello 09», Espai d'art contemporani de Castello EACC, Valencia 2009 «This World & Nearer Ones», Creative Time, New York (performance) 2009 «Ars viva 08/09.

Born in 1958, Chicago, IL Recent locations include Los Angeles; New Orleans; Baja California, Mexico; San Juan Islands, British Columbia and Portland SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011 Loose Lips Do Sink Ships, Laurel Gitlen, New York Sorry We're Closed, Brussels, Belgium (forthcoming) 2010 Timothy Taylor Gallery, London 2009 Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris Laurel Gitlen, New York Sorry We're Closed, Brussels, Belgium 2008 State of the Union, Small A Projects, Portland, OR 2007 White Columns, New York SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2011 Sex Drive, Haverford College, Haverford, PA (curated by Stuart Horodner) 2010 Bienniale de Belleville, Paris 2009 Sign of the Times, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago Diabolique, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; Galerie de L'UQAM, Montreal, Canada; Military Museums, Calgary, Canada (curated by Amanda Cachia) Salvador Diaz Gallery, Madrid (curated by Rikrit Tiravanija) 2008 Say Goodbye To..., Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 2008 Altoids Award, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Ambivalent Figuration, Samson Projects, Boston, MA 2007 Memorial to the Iraq War, ICA London (with Harrell Fletcher) BIBLIOGRAPHY Free Speech Zone: Michael Patterson - Carver, monograph edited by Harrell Fletcher, with contributions by Fletcher, Matthew Higgs, and an introduction by Michael Patterson - Carver, (London: Four Corners Books, 2010) Cachia, Amanda, Diabolique, exhibition catalogue, (Dunlop Art Gallery, 2009) Dexter, Emma, «Michael Patterson - Carver» in 60: Innovators Shaping Our Creative Future, edited by Lucas Dietrich, (London: Thames and Hudson, 2009) «Michael Patterson - Carver,» (review) The New Yorker, October 19, 2009 Anne Doran, «Michael Patterson - Carver,» (review) Time Out New York issue 732, October 8 - 14, 2009 Sanders, Gabriel, «Trader Joe's Treasure,» The Forward, July 2008 Yim, Su - jin, «Political Artist Moves in Higher Circles» (Michael Patterson - Carver), The Oregonian, April 2008 Vogel, Carol, «Inside Art: Altoids Award» (Michael Patterson - Carver), New York Times, March 2008 Yim, Su - jin, «An Artist, Discovered» (Michael Patterson - Carver), The Oregonian, August 2007 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS American Folk Art Museum, New York City of Paris Permanent Collection FRAC Bretagne, Châteaugiron, France Museum of Everything, London

With different expressive media, references and semiotics, they create artworks in full dialogue between them, negotiating this trend that has emerged in recent years in the international art scene, in which handicraft, folklore, history, the folk, and the local culture, stand shoulder to shoulder and coexist, from the 90s in New British Scene, but also later through individual cases of artists who originated form the periphery of the Globe.

American Folk Art Museum... 10Jan > British Art Show 8.

Imagining the Political Subject», Secession, Vienna 2013 «I knOw yoU», IMMA — Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublino 2013 «The Butterfly Image», Mudam, Luxembourg 2013 «Only here», Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn 2012 «Reactivation», 9th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai 2012 «CARA DOMANI opere dalla Collezione Ernesto Esposito», MAMbo, Bologna 2012 «Storytelling as Craft», Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville 2012 «Ephemeropterae ~», TBA21 Augarten, Vienna (performance) 2012 «Swans, Amputees», Fondation Cartier, Parigi (performance) 2012 «Searching for the fountain», Moderna Museet, Stoccolma 2012 «Soundworks», ICA, Londra 2012 «Setting the Scene», Tate Modern, Londra 2012 «OEI / Letterism», Moderna Museet, Stoccolma (performance) 2012 «Descriptive Acts», San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco 2012 «enfolds: books I & II», Mount Analogue, Stoccolma 2012 «Never odd or even», Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (performance) 2011 «Balustrade: endless tapes», Milliken Gallery, Stoccolma 2011 Fotofestival 4, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg 2011 «Folk Variations», Radar, Loughborough (performance) 2011 «The Other Tradition», Wiels, Bruxelles 2011 La Casa Encendida, Madrid (performance) 2011 «Subtext Part II», Un Projects, Melbourne 2011 «British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet», touring; Nottingham Contemporary, Hayward Gallery, London, Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art, and Plymouth Arts Centre 2010 «New Frankfurt Internationals», Frankfurter Kunstverein, Francoforte 2010 FRAC Champagne - Ardenne, Troyes 2010 «Fun Palace», Centre Pompidou, Parigi 2010 «Manifesta 8», Murcia, Spagna 2010 «Exhibition, Exhibition», Catello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli 2010 «Performance», Museo Marino Marini, Firenze (performance) 2010 «Balustrade», Julia Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf (performance) 2010 «Haunted: Contemporary Photography / Video / Performance», Guggenheim Museum, New York (performance) 2010 «Finding Chopin», performance Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (performance) 2010 «NineteenEightyFour», Austrian Cultural Forum, New York 2010 «ACT VII: Of Facts and Fables», Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam 2010 «Leipzig Calendar Works», Project Kaufhaus Joske, Leipzig (performance) 2010 «A Performance Cycle», Nomas Foundation, Roma (performance) 2009 «Lecture Performance», Cologne Kunstverein, Colonia (performance) 2009 «Accecare l'ascolto / Aveugler l'ecoute / Blinding the ears», Artissima, Torino (performance) 2009 «5 × 5 Castello 09», Espai d'art contemporani de Castello EACC, Valencia 2009 «This World & Nearer Ones», Creative Time, New York (performance) 2009 «Ars viva 08/09.

The museum also features items of folk art by Mississippians, as well as British 19th - century portraits, Pre-Columbian ceramics and Mississippi quilts are also on display.