New Visions
New Visions
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New Visions is the Museum's contemporary art programme to encourage and broaden access to the arts. The Museum commissions British and international artists to explore themes that illustrate the significance of the sea, time and stars to an ever-changing audience.
Explore the current, upcoming and previous commissions below.
On display
'Given' presents a series of newly-commissioned works that take as their starting point a very particular journey.
Previous commissions
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A new commission from Renée Green which draws attention to literary, historic and sonic imaginations of islands. -
Simon Patterson’s artwork explores the sea, ships and time, concepts that are at the heart of NMM collections and research. -
A new commission by Paris-based artist Esther Shalev-Gerz responds to the rumours surrounding the Great Hall in the historic Queen's House. -
A new solo exhibition by the artist Lawrence Weiner explores concepts central to maritime navigation and questions metaphorical understandings of the... -
This exhibition of large-scale photographs focused on communicating the invisible realms of time and space. The exhibition has now closed. -
This display explored the lives of 19th-century child migrants and young sailors who sailed between Great Britain and Canada, telling the stories of... -
Starting from the Royal Observatory, a semaphore signal was passed along the Thames to Horse Guards Parade on Remembrance Sunday on the 60th... -
Shawcross, best known for his wooden, mechanical sculptures, made three new works in response to the architecture and history of the Queen's House. -
On 15 September 2004, between 19.00 and 21.30, a large glowing cloud of 1000 helium-filled balloons and mobile phones floating above Greenwich Park. -
'The Republic of Atlantis' is influenced by the writings of the philosopher Plato who described the lost city of Atlantis as a harmonious and...
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You and I is a video artwork involving a semaphore communication between signallers on the roof of Museum buildings. -
Working primarily with photography and innovative printing techniques, Abdu'Allah's work looks at black cultural identity. -
This video projection presents a contemporary approach to portraiture. Members a small coastal community are filmed against the background of the sea... -
Lucy Blakstad's short film about the sea is a personal response to the BBC's radio shipping forecast. -
Tacita Dean produced three art works, collectively entitled 'Disappearance at Sea', inspired by remarkable stories of personal encounters with the... -
Bill Fontana created a unique installation for the Museum consisting of the sounds of the sea from Chesil Beach on the south-west coast of Dorset. -
Inspired by historic navigational charts, Gec researched nautical technologies that further navigation and exploration of the world's seas and ocean... -
Rosie Leventon's sculpture pays tribute to the history of HMS 'Implacable' - a ghostly re-creation of the ship made from over 100 pieces of glass... -
Kasia Morawska created a sculpture that takes its inspiration from the epaulette design, a significant if controversial innovation in naval uniform... -
The 'First of England' is a large-scale oil painting based on sketches and photographs taken during various ferry trips around Britain.
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