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<p>The Lord Speaker’s Advisory Panel on Works of Art and the Speaker’s Advisory Committee
on Works of Art, with the support of the staff in the Heritage Collections team, develop
and manage the Parliamentary Art Collection including its care, display and interpretation.
The current concerns around public art are being taken very seriously and both the
Panel and the Committee will consider these issues at their next meetings.</p><p>In
advance of this the Heritage Collections team are reviewing the works in the Collection
and will be presenting the Panel and Committee with information and proposals for
further interpretation. The Parliamentary Art Collection website is currently the
main platform for providing context to the artworks in the Collection and further
supporting information is provided to visitors by the Visit Parliament team, who deliver
guided and audio tours. As a listed building and a busy working parliament, there
is a limit on the amount of printed information that can be added next to artworks
on display in the building but the possibilities for leaflets and other forms of information
being made available are being considered. The Heritage Collections team continue
to work with colleagues across Parliament to ensure that the context provided about
works in the Collection are appropriate.</p><p>The Parliamentary Art Collection documents
the history of Parliament and in recent years efforts to make the Collection more
diverse and inclusive have been pursued by both the Panel and Committee. In 2019 the
Panel secured the loan of a bust of Lord Constantine, the first black Life Peer, from
the National Portrait Gallery to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his taking
his seat in the House of Lords. The bust is now on long term display in Millbank House.</p><p>
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