Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain (16 September - 4 December 2011)
The second display of the Government Art Collection at Whitechapel Gallery, the first 'At Work' was reviewed on this site on 2nd September, is curated by artist Cornelia Parker. The title of the show 'Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain' is a mnemonic used to recall the key colours of the spectrum (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) and Parker has arranged the works by colour which I thought worked beatifically. The exhibition is in only one room but there are over 70 works included, I liked many of them very much e.g Patrick Caulfield, Gillian Wearing, Graham Crowley (all pictured) but it is as a whole that this exhibition really hit me, just standing in the middle of the room looking at the walls of colour. 
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