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Thomas J. Price at the V&A

21 July 2023

Thomas J. Price’s large-than-life sculptures put everyday people on a pedestal, quite literally, to challenge how we think about power and value. This exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London places eight of the British sculptor’s best-known works in dialogue with historical sculptures from the collection (22 July–27 May 2024). Highlights include Price’s head of a woman titled Lay It Down (On the Edge of Beauty) from 2018, which goes on show alongside a selection of Victorian busts. Elsewhere, Signals (2020), which depicts a young man with hand aloft in search of mobile phone signal, is juxtaposed against Samson and the Philistines (1749), a similarly-posed sculpture group by Vincenzo Foggini. Find out more on the Victoria and Albert Museum’s website.

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Lay It Down (On the Edge of Beauty) (2018), Thomas J. Price. Photo: Ken Adlard

Numen (Shifting Votive One) (2016), Thomas J. Price. Photo: Ken Adlard

Untitled (Head 24) (2021), Thomas J. Price. Photo: Ken Adlard

Signals (2021), Thomas J. Price. Photo: Damian Griffiths