{"id":497984,"date":"2026-03-27T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497984\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:04:13","slug":"sir-frank-bowlings-art-on-show-in-new-cambridge-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497984\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Frank Bowling&#8217;s art on show in new Cambridge exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Cambridge has long been a place of inquiry and reflection, and I am delighted to be part of that tradition,&#8221; Sir Frank said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The artist, who was knighted in the Queen&#8217;s Birthday Honours in 2020, was born in Guyana in 1934 and arrived in London in 1953 at the age of 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By the early 1960s he was recognised as an original force in London&#8217;s art scene, with a style combining figurative, symbolic and collaged elements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rashid said: &#8220;These are kind of masterpieces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is work that really signifies his practice as well, and is beautifully abstracted but has meaning,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think there are a really beautiful addition that can make art more broader and add really interesting and different views on what painting can do,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cambridge has long been a place of inquiry and reflection, and I am delighted to be part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-497984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}