Location

Country: Singapore
City: Singapore
Place: British High Commission

Foreign Policy is an interpretation of a similarly titled 2016 large-scale work drawn in chalk on blackboard. A self-declared collector of clouds, Dean began this body of work in 2014 following her move from Berlin to Los Angeles. Foreign Policy shifts the subject of a cloud, whose ‘identity’ is challenging to capture, to a thought-provoking reflection on global relations.

Tacita Dean is the second artist to be awarded The Robson Orr TenTen Award by the Government Art Collection. Produced jointly with Outset Contemporary Art Fund, the project is sponsored by leading philanthropists Sybil Robson Orr and Matthew Orr. Every year over the course of a decade, a British artist will be commissioned to create a unique, limited edition print, which will be shown in diplomatic buildings across the world.

Tacita Dean CBE, RA (b. 1965) is a British visual artist who works primarily in film within a multidisciplinary practice encompassing drawing, painting and photography. She was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998, won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006, and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2008. The year 2018 cemented Dean’s reputation as one of the UK’s foremost artists to have emerged in the 1990s, as the National Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy and The National Gallery collaborated u2028to present LANDSCAPE, PORTRAIT, STILL LIFE, three separate exhibitions dedicated to the different genres in her oeuvre. She was artist-in-residence at the Getty Research Institute in 2014-2015, and lives and works between Los Angeles, Berlin and the UK.

Places

Subjects

weather & elements, cloud, storm, international relations, foreign policy

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), print (as object name), screenprint

Artist

Tacita Dean (1965 - )

Title

Foreign Policy (screenprint edition)

Series Title

TenTen

Edition

Number 6 in an edition of 32 plus 6 artist’s proofs

Date

2019

Medium

screenprint on paper

Dimensions

height: 80 cm; width: 80 cm

Acquisition

Commissioned by the Government Art Collection for The Robson Orr TenTen Award 2019, a GAC/Outset Annual Commission

GAC number

18824/5