A DISPLAY featuring contemporary paintings and photographs from a Swindon collection is set to get under way next month.

From January 14, the Swindon Museum and Art Gallery in Bath Road, Old Town, will host Present Tense: Contemporary British Painting And Photography From The Swindon Collection.

The exhibition will include works by the likes of Lisa Milroy, Steven Pippin, Magnus Quaife, Jefferey Camp and Robert Priseman.

“The exhibition challenges the idea that contemporary art is elitist or incomprehensible,” said a spokesman.

“Starting with the fall of the Berlin Wall and looking at history and society, the exhibition investigates the way artists continue to react to the world around them and create new realities.

“The exhibition features Steven Pippin’s Turner Prize nominated series ‘Walking Naked (Laundromat Locomotion). Robert Priseman’s Home series, a group of six small and elaborately framed paintings showing houses where notorious crimes have taken place, will be exhibited for the first time in the gallery.

Entry is free and for more information and opening times call 01793 466556.

“We will also be displaying Magnus Quaife’s “1969 and Other Myths”, recently presented to Swindon by the Contemporary Art Society.”

The exhibition showcases painting and photography produced since 1990s and in the collection of Swindon Museum and Art Gallery.