'Commonwealth Vision' The Commonwealth Institute, London, 1961

Catalogue of a group exhibition organised by the New Vision Centre Gallery at the Commonwealth Institute in 1961. "Between 1956 and 1966 the New Vision Centre Gallery (NVCG) was at the forefront in promoting experimental abstract art in Britain. […] Co-founded in 1956 by Denis Bowen (1921-2006) and Frank Avray Wilson (1914-2009) […] the group’s first collective venture was Commonwealth Vision (1961): an exhibition of the work of twenty-five abstract painters organised by Sri Lankan artist Leslie Candappa at the Imperial Institute [later the Commonwealth Institute and now the Design Museum] in South Kensington. The exhibition was unusual in projecting the work of Commonwealth artists in terms of a unifying pictorial language and led to further exhibitions of abstract art at the Commonwealth Institute (1963 & 1965)."

Text from ‘The Valid Image: Frank Avray Wilson and the Biennial Salon of Commonwealth Abstract Art’ Dr Simon Pierse (Aberystwyth University) a paper delivered at Generation Painting: Abstraction and British Art, 1955–65 Saturday 5 March 2016, Howard Lecture Theatre, Downing College, Cambridge.

Title:  ‘Commonwealth Vision: An Exhibition of Paintings by Artists from the Commonwealth and Guests'
Author: Leslie Candappa (Curator)
Publisher: New Vision Centre Gallery in association with the Commonwealth Institute
Publication date: 1961
Binding: Staple-bound softcover
Size: 
Pages:  18pp
Condition: Very Good to Near Fine
Provenance: From the library of Dr Simon Pierse